Anna Jacobs

Anna Jacobs is an English novelist. She graduated from the University of Leeds in 1962, before emigrating to Australia in 1973. She has written 109 novels, the majority of which are historical sagas or familial or relationship stories published under her own name. She has also written fantasy novels, published under the name Shannah Jay. In 2006, her novel Pride of Lancashire won the Australian Romantic Novel of the Year Award.