The site - www.annehepple.com - gives a unique insight into the woman who in her time wrote 27 romantic novels and became the first editor of the Fleet Street-based 'Woman's Magazine' in the 1930s.

The site has been set up by Iain Black, of Helensburgh, who is a friend of the family.

As well as the home page, which features some of Anne Hepple's best known quotations, there are links to her books and Berwick Writers Workshop, which recently published a book entitled 'Anne of The Borders,' to coincide with the 50th anniversary of her death last November.

There are also sections showing examples of her work on 'The Woman's Magazine.'

Anne Hepple was born in Widdrington in 1877 and spent most of her life in and around Berwick and Berwickshire.

Her parents were married at Scremerston Parish Church as her mother had grown up at Heatherytops Farm, Scremerston.

Her father was a road contractor who later became a Sheriff of Berwick.
After marrying William Bain Dickinson at Berwick Parish Church in 1903, Anne brought up her son and daughter in and around Berwick.

William ran his family's boot-making business in Marygate, and later became a town councillor.

He was also the secretary of the Berwick Choral Union.

It was after her children grew up and all her older relations had died, that Anne began to publish her novels, which often drew on incidents from her own experience.

Between 1931 and 1934 she worked as editor of 'The Woman's Magazine.'
On the website Iain writes: "Anne Hepple decided to be the Poet Laureate as a girl growing up on her grandparents farm just south of Berwick in the 1890s.

"This youthful ambition was not realised, but she did find fame through her imaginative pen writing 27 novels of romantic fiction, most set in The Borders she loved.

"At the age of 54, she moved from the relative obscurity of family life in Berwick-on-Tweed to an executive desk in Fleet Street and a platform on the international stage.

"Each monthly issue had three or four pages of her replies to readers' letters. These covered a wide range of topics of interest to the women of the day and expressed the fundamental values of Anne Hepple.

"She answered readers' questions in her column 'Letters Grave and Gay' on a wide range of subjects from the profound to the mundane; from 'War and Peace' to 'How to remove stains from a favourite blouse'."

Iain says the website is still a 'work in progress' and more content will be added in due course.