Anna Jacobs (born 1941 in Rochdale, Lancashire) is an English novelist. She graduated from the University of Leeds in 1962, before emigrating to Australia in 1973. She has written more than 80 novels, the majority of which are historical sagas (published by Hodder & Stoughton) or familial or relationship stories (published by Allison & Busby) 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.