Jean Stubbs

Jean Stubbs (23 October 1926 – 19 October 2012) was a British writer.

She was born Jean Yvonne Higham in Denton, Lancashire the daughter of Joseph Higham, a lecturer at Manchester University and Millies Darby, and was educated at Manchester High School for Girls, the Manchester School of Art and Loreburn Secretarial College in Manchester. Stubbs worked as a copywriter for Henry Melland from 1964 to 1966 and was a reviewer for Books and Bookmen from 1965 to 1976. She died in the Helston district of Cornwall in 2012.

She received the Tom Gallon Trust Award for short story in 1964.

Selected works

Source: 100 Years Around the Lizard (Bossiney Books 1985) Great Houses of Cornwall (Bossiney Books 1987) A Lasting Spring (Macmillan 1987) (St Martin's Press 1987) Like We Used To be (Macmillan 1989) (St Martin's Press 1989) Love Stories (contribution 'Snow Storm') (St Martin's Press 1990) Summer Secrets (Macmillan 1990) Light in Summer (St Martin's Press 1991) Kelly Park (Macmillan 1992) (St Martin's Press 1992) Charades (Macmillan 1994) Family Games (St Martin's Press 1994) The Witching Time (Gollancz 1998) (St Martin's Press 1998)