Anne Hampson (28 November 1928 – 25 September 2014[1]) was a British writer of over 125 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1969 to 1998.
Hampson dreamed of teaching and writing when she was six, but due to the depression after World War II, she had to leave her studies at fourteen and begin making blouses for Marks & Spencer's.
[citation needed] Later, when her marriage broke up, she had to return to work and lived in a mobile home in the village of Cuddington in Mid Cheshire.
This manuscript sat on a shelf in her mobile home until she showed it to Brice Burgum, a neighbour who said she should seek out an agent to get it published.
[citation needed] In 1973, she became a launch author for the new Harlequin Presents line of category romance novels.