Author Joanna Trollope dies aged 82
Steven McIntoshentertainment reporter
Getty ImagesBestselling author Joanna Trollope has died at the age of 82, her family announced.
The author was affectionately known as the “queen of the Aga saga” because her novels often focused on the romance and intrigue of middle England.
Daughters Louise and Antonia said in a statement that their “loving and inspiring mother” died “peacefully at home in Oxfordshire” on Thursday.
Trollope’s novels include The Rector’s Wife, Marrying His Mistress, and Daughters in Law.
Trollope’s literary agent, James Gill, said in a statement: It is with great sadness that we learn of the death of Joanna Trollope, one of our most cherished, admired and widely acclaimed novelists.
“Joanna will be mourned by her children, grandchildren, family, countless friends and, of course, her readers.”
Trollope’s books have been translated into more than 25 languages, and many have been adapted for television.
Getty ImagesTrollope was a writer for over fifty years and one of the United Kingdom’s best-known novelists.
She is the author of 22 contemporary novels, including 2013’s Sense & Sensibility, the lead book of HarperCollins’ Austen Project, as well as 10 historical novels published under the pseudonym Caroline Harvey.
Trollope also occasionally wrote short stories and features for magazines, chaired book awards, co-authored a study of women in the British Empire called Britannia’s Daughters in 2006, and edited an anthology of rural life called The Country Habit in 1993.
He received an OBE in 1996 for services to charity and was awarded a CBE in 2019 for services to literature.
