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joanna trollopePopular author of many successful novels including Rector’s wife, Died at the age of 82.
In a statement, her daughters Louise and Antonia said: “Our loving and inspirational mother joanna trollope He died peacefully at his Oxfordshire home on 11 December at the age of 82.
Born in Gloucestershire, the fifth-generation niece of the English novelist and civil servant Anthony Trollope, she studied English at Oxford University before finding work in the Foreign Office and as a teacher, and then later became a full-time writer.
When Trollope was born at the family’s Cotswolds rectory in 1943, his father, Arthur, was in India for war service, while his mother, Rosemary, was an artist and writer.
By the age of 14, Trollope could recite Jane Austen by heart and had already written her first novel, which was never published, but which she allowed her children to read.
She was later dubbed the “Queen of Aga Sagas” for her tales of romance and mystery set in rural central England. Independent in 2020 That he got “protection”.
“Needless to say, it was coined by a man,” he said, referring to English author Terence Blacker, who coined the term in 1992.
In fact, his books cover a myriad of serious issues.From divorce to bereavement, sibling rivalry, affairs, motherhood, betrayal and depression. She published more than 30 novels over four decades, initially writing under the pseudonym Caroline Harvey.
His success came in the early nineties with novels like Rector’s wife, Like it’s being followed up with bestsellers A village affair, nearest kin, other people’s children And Marry the mistress.
Trollope drew some comparisons to his hero Austen, Due to which she became uncomfortable. He once said, “Comparisons with Jane Austen make me uneasy.” “There is a huge difference between being great and being good.
“I know exactly which category I fall into and which category she falls into. They’re not the same. On a good day, I can be good. I think of my writing as contemporary accessible fiction and it’s not really for me to add qualifying adjectives.”
However, he was commissioned by the publisher HarperCollins to write a contemporary retelling of Austen’s 1811 novel. sense and Sensibility in 2013 as part of its “Austen Project”, which re-imagined six of Austen’s complete novels for modern readers.
She was married twice: first in 1966 to City banker David Potter, with whom she had two daughters. She married playwright and screenwriter Ian Curtis in 1985; They divorced in 2001.
Trollope told Independent Following her second divorce she suffered a “mini-breakdown” and felt “forced to flee” the Cotswolds for London: “The girls were at school and I put the dogs and the toothbrush in the car and drove away. I just needed to get out.”
She claimed she was told she was “imagining” the problems in her second marriage and that it was her fault: “I mean, a lot of professionals were telling me this, as well as ex-husbands.
“And really, I think it’s about this subject that fascinates me forever, the way some people try to control others. It’s usually because of their own inadequacies that they try to control someone they think is stronger and can survive them.”
He was awarded a CBE for services to literature in 2019 and has served as a judge for several prestigious literary awards. In later life, he spent much of his time volunteering in prisons and young offender institutions.
Her literary agent, James Gill, said: “It is with great sadness that we learn of the passing of Joanna Trollope, one of our most beloved, admired and widely enjoyed novelists.
“Joanna will be mourned by her children, grandchildren, family, her countless friends and, of course, her readers.”
She is survived by her two daughters, Louise and Antonia, and her grandchildren.