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Jacqueline Baird

British writer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ9010499 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jacqueline Baird (born 1 April in Northumberland, England) is popular English writer of over 30 romance novels since 1988.

Awards

Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award 1998. Best Harlequin Presents

Romantic Times Wishes

Numerous Waldenbooks Series Best-seller List

Numerous British Best-seller List

USA Today Best -seller List. April 2010

Bibliography

Single novels

Dark Desiring (1988)

Shattered Trust (1990) Romano2(Kristine Series) by Martha Cecilia Tagalog version.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Jacqueline Baird” as british writer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988, 1998, 2010, 1990—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1953-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Jacqueline, Baird and British can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as british writer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q9010499. VIAF identifies the subject as 68897852. The Library of Congress control number is no91014082. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1988, 1998, 2010 and 1990.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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This entry incorporates text from “Jacqueline Baird” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.