British writer Joanna Trollope, whose bestselling novels charted domestic and romantic travails in well-heeled rural England, has died, her family said Friday. She was 82.<\/p>\n
Trollope\u2019s daughters, Antonia and Louise, said the writer died peacefully at her home in Oxfordshire, southern England, on Friday.<\/p>\n
Trollope wrote almost two dozen contemporary novels, including The Rector\u2019s Wife, Marrying the Mistress, Other People’s Children, and Next of Kin. They were often dubbed “Aga sagas”, after the old-fashioned Aga ovens found in affluent country homes.<\/p>\n
Trollope disliked the term, noting that her books tackled uncomfortable subjects including infidelity, marital breakdown and the challenges of parenting.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was a very unfortunate phrase and I think it\u2019s done me a lot of damage,” she once said. “It was so patronising to the readers, too.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trollope’s most recent novel, Mum & Dad, examined the \u201csandwich generation\u201d of middle-aged people looking after both children and elderly parents.<\/p>\n
Trollope also published 10 historical novels under the pseudonym Caroline Harvey.<\/p>\n
Trollope, a distant relative of Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope, was born in Minchinhampton in the west of England in 1943. She studied English at Oxford University, then worked in Britain’s Foreign Office and as a teacher before becoming a full-time writer in 1980. She became a household name after The Rector\u2019s Wife was adapted for television in 1991.<\/p>\n
Trollope’s novel Parson Harding’s Daughter won a novel of the year award from the Romantic Novelists’ Association in 1980. In 2010, the association gave her a lifetime achievement award for services to romance.<\/p>\n
In 2019, she was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, or CBE, by Queen Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n
Her literary agent, James Gill, called Trollope \u201cone of our most cherished, acclaimed and widely enjoyed novelists.<\/p>\n
\u201cJoanna will be mourned by her children, grandchildren, family, her countless friends and \u2014 of course \u2014 her readers,\u201d Gill said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British writer Joanna Trollope, whose bestselling novels charted domestic and romantic travails in well-heeled rural England, has died,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2567,42,43,40,38,41,39,1745],"class_list":["post-181814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-arts-and-culture","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-uk-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}