Her early novels were all written under her pseudonym until the release of her first contemporary novel, the choir, in 1987.
Several of her later novels were adapted for the screen, including A Village Affair, The Choir, Other People’s Children and The Rector’s Wife.
But the description of her books as “Aga sagas” caught on despite only two of Trollope’s novels actually feature an Aga.
She later admitted she was “fairly tired of such an inaccurate and patronising tag”.
“Actually, the novels are quite subversive, quite bleak,” she told the Guardian.
Trollope said it was “a great honour and an even bigger challenge” to rework Austen’s Sense & Sensibility in 2013.
But, she had previously said that comparisons of her own work with Austen’s “make me fidget”.
“There is a huge gulf between being great and being good. I know exactly which category I fall into and which she falls into,” she told the Independent.
“On a good day, I might be good. I think of my writing as contemporary accessible fiction and it really isn’t for me to add the qualifying adjectives.”
Trollope’s work tackled a range of topics from affairs, blended families and adoption, to parenting and marital breakdown.