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Best-selling author Joanna Trollope has died aged 82, her family has announced.<\/p>\n
The writer was affectionately known as the “queen of the Aga saga” because her novels often focused on romance and intrigue in middle England.<\/p>\n
In a statement, her daughters Louise and Antonia said their “beloved and inspirational mother” had died “peacefully at her Oxfordshire home” on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Trollope’s novels include The Rector’s Wife, Marrying The Mistress and Daughters in Law.<\/p>\n
Trollope’s literary agent James Gill said in a statement: It is with great sadness that we learn of the passing of Joanna Trollope, one of our most cherished, acclaimed and widely enjoyed novelists. <\/p>\n
“Joanna will be mourned by her children, grandchildren, family, her countless friends and – of course – her readers.”<\/p>\n
Trollope’s books have been translated into more than 25 languages, and several have been adapted for television.<\/p>\n
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Trollope was made a CBE in 2019 for services to literature<\/p>\n
Trollope was a writer for more than five decades, and one of the best known novelists in the UK.<\/p>\n
She authored 22 contemporary novels including 2013’s Sense & Sensibility, the lead title in HarperCollins’s Austen Project, as well as 10 historical novels published under the pseudonym Caroline Harvey. <\/p>\n
Trollope also occasionally wrote short stories and pieces for magazines, chaired book prizes, authored a 2006 study of women in the British Empire called Britannia’s Daughters, and edited a 1993 anthology of rural life, The Country Habit.<\/p>\n
She received an OBE in 1996 for services to charity, and was made a CBE in 2019 for services to literature. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steven McIntoshEntertainment reporter Getty Images Best-selling author Joanna Trollope has died aged 82, her family has announced. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-312037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}