Background
Jo Manning was born on July 24, 1940, in New York, United States. She is the daughter of Calogero and Benedetta (Conigliaro) Asaro.
65-30 Kissena Blvd, Flushing, NY 11367, United States
In 1961 Jo received a Bachelor of Arts from Queens College, City University of New York.
Syracuse, NY, United States
In 1965 Jo got a Master of Science from Syracuse University.
Berkeley, CA, United States
Jo attended the University of California, Berkeley in 1967.
65-30 Kissena Blvd, Flushing, NY 11367, United States
In 1961 Jo received a Bachelor of Arts from Queens College, City University of New York.
Syracuse, NY, United States
In 1965 Jo got a Master of Science from Syracuse University.
Berkeley, CA, United States
Jo attended the University of California, Berkeley in 1967.
(This gentle Regency is replete with period charm. Handsom...)
This gentle Regency is replete with period charm. Handsome Isaac Rebow leads an easy gentleman's life until fate in the form of a country cousin intervenes. Mary Martin's hapless father, Matthew, has disappeared, leaving Mary and her sister without a guardian's protection. Isaac squires the girls through a London season and falls in love with innocent but spirited Mary along the way. Matthew, it turns out, has unwittingly eloped with a harlot, whose homicidal brother threatens mayhem; Isaac must extricate his beloved's family from disaster. In a fresh voice, Manning captures not only the manners and modes but also the mores of the era with charm and accuracy; notably, she shapes characters who appeal to 20th-century sensibilities, yet who respond to life in distinctly 19th-century ways. Throughout her debut novel, Manning delivers a hearty serving of the genre's delights: a lively but comfortably predictable story, set in a world rich with fascinating detail and utterly unlike our own.
https://www.amazon.com/Reluctant-Guardian-Regency-Romance-InterMix-ebook/dp/B007P7I2X8/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Jo+Manning+The+Reluctant+Guardian&qid=1609240583&sr=8-1
1999
(Unlike the usual Regency-era heroine, Lady Sophia Rowley ...)
Unlike the usual Regency-era heroine, Lady Sophia Rowley is neither powerless, chaste nor (in the terms of the period) young. Instead, she's wealthy, much married, the mother of two sons and a woman with a well-deserved reputation for sexual laxity. As the novel opens, Sophia who has spent most of her time in London, ignoring the restrictions of motherhood and marriage in favor of a frivolous existence among the fashionable set returns to her country estate to face the death of her elderly third husband. The local vicar, Charles Heywood, has been named guardian of her two sons. To her surprise, Heywood is not a pious curmudgeon, but a diffident and handsome young man. Charles is also surprised, not just by Sophia's beauty but by signs of intelligence and tenderness, which belie her lurid reputation. As time passes, both Charles and Sophia begin to understand how being sold into an early marriage by a grasping father forced Sophia to hide her vulnerability under a flamboyant mask. Their developing romance is complicated by the arrival of her father, who connives a variety of plots to steal her just-inherited riches.
https://www.amazon.com/Seducing-Mr-Heywood-Regency-InterMix-ebook/dp/B007PV9NUA/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Jo+Manning&qid=1609240497&sr=8-1
2002
(Jane Holland's mother warned her not to visit her relativ...)
Jane Holland's mother warned her not to visit her relatives in Sicily when she went to Europe during college break, but when Jane reached Rome she found herself strangely drawn to the Mediterranean island south of the Italian boot. Once there, she contacts her mother's old friend and is introduced to a handsome and seductive prince named Lorenzo. He gives her an amulet - a reproduction of an ancient Greek coin symbolizing Sicily.
https://www.amazon.com/Sicilian-Amulet-Jo-Manning/dp/1594141819/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Sicilian+Amulet+jo&qid=1609240729&s=digital-text&sr=1-1
2004
(Following a simple Edinburgh girlhood, Grace Dalrymple ca...)
Following a simple Edinburgh girlhood, Grace Dalrymple came of age in the sin city of London, where wealthy men ruled society and women had everything to lose, starting with their reputations. As an impressionable bride of seventeen who married a man more than twice her age, Grace's remarkable beauty (likened by journalists to "a May morning") soon attracted the attention of other men. A disastrous liaison with a consummate rake not only branded Grace as a demi-rep - a woman with half a reputation - but the scandal provoked Dr. John Eliot, her philandering husband, to pursue a divorce. Grace became the mistress of the most infamous peer in England, George James, Lord Cholmondeley, whose "secret perfections" were reputed to inspire "female enthusiasm" Cholmondeley commemorated the relationship by commissioning two works from eminent portraitist Thomas Gainsborough, first in 1778 and later in 1782, the same year Grace gave birth to a daughter, Georgiana (who may, in fact, have been the child of the Prince of Wales) Had Grace been an aristocrat, she and Cholmondeley might have had a future together, but it was not to be.
https://www.amazon.com/My-Lady-Scandalous-Amazing-Outrageous/dp/1451613547/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=My+Lady+Scandalous+jo&qid=1609240664&s=digital-text&sr=1-1-catcorr
2005
Jo Manning was born on July 24, 1940, in New York, United States. She is the daughter of Calogero and Benedetta (Conigliaro) Asaro.
In 1961 Jo received a Bachelor of Arts from Queens College, City University of New York. In 1965 she got a Master of Science from Syracuse University. She also attended the University of California, Berkeley in 1967.
Jo Manning started her career as an assistant professor of library school at Central Michigan University in 1972. She then served as a senior financial librarian in Citibank, New York till 1975. She was a director of the research library at Reader's Digest General Books, New York from 1975 to 1996. Her next appointments were as a reference librarian, assistant professor, a bibliographic instructor at the University of Miami, Coral Gables from 1997 to 1999, and a reference librarian at Barry University, Miami from 2000 to 2003.
Manning enjoyed her long career as a librarian before a bit of research inspired her to write her first Regency romance, The Reluctant Guardian (1999), based on some of the real-life characters she had come to know. The characters of this story include Isaac Rebow, who takes on the role of guardian of two sisters and falls in love with one of them.
Manning's second Regency romance, Seducing Mr. Heywood (2002), finds Lady Sophia Rowley arriving in York-shire after the death of her third husband to find that Charles Heywood, the local vicar, has been named guardian of her two young sons. Sophia, who is the hero's mistress in The Reluctant Guardian, is recovering from the loss of her latest lover and planning to reunite with her children, who have been with their lather. A woman whose history created her, she is lully changed by the gentle vicar who, unlike Sophia, is not adept at the art of seduction. Daughter of an abusive father, she was forced into marriage at fifteen to a man with similar failures, and Charles, unlike the other men in her life, helps her to reconnect with her children and offers her guidance and strength in confronting her past.
She is the author of My Lady Scandalous (2005), a biography about Grace Dalrymple Elliott. She currently writes for the blog Number One London on Regency and other British-related topics.
(Jane Holland's mother warned her not to visit her relativ...)
2004(Following a simple Edinburgh girlhood, Grace Dalrymple ca...)
2005(Unlike the usual Regency-era heroine, Lady Sophia Rowley ...)
2002(This gentle Regency is replete with period charm. Handsom...)
1999Jo was brought up Roman Catholic, she said: "Catholicism will always be a part of who I am - do miss the Latin mass and find Anglican High Church ritual in England the closest thing to the Roman Catholic masses I attended as a child."
Manning is a Democrat.
Jo is a member of the Dade County Library Association.
Jo married Robert Nickerson Manning on March 23, 1962. The couple has two children: Matthew and Tracy.
