Occupation Novelist Children 2 and 2 stepsons Relatives Anthony Trollope Genre 1978–present Spouse Ian Curteis (m. 1985) | Nationality British Role Writer Language English Name Joanna Trollope Movies A Village Affair | |
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Born Joanna Trollope
9 December 1943 (age 80)
Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, England ( 1943-12-09 ) Pen name Joanna Trollope,
Caroline Harvey Education University of Oxford, St Hugh's College, Oxford Books Daughters‑in‑Law, Marrying the mistress, The rector's wife, A Village Affair, A passionate man Similar People Ian Curteis, Laurie Lee, Kate Hamill, Walter Tevis, Anthony Trollope | ||
Joanna trollope answers questions from readers part 1
Joanna Trollope OBE (; born 9 December 1943) is an English writer. She also wrote under the pseudonym of Caroline Harvey. Her novel Parson Harding's Daughter won in 1980 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Contents
- Joanna trollope answers questions from readers part 1
- Joanna trollope talks about sense and sensibility
- Personal life
- Career
- Television adaptations
- Reviews
- References
Joanna trollope talks about sense and sensibility
Personal life
Trollope was born on 9 December 1943 in her grandfather's rectory in Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, England, daughter of Rosemary Hodson and Arthur George Cecil Trollope. She is the eldest of three siblings.
Trollope is of the same family as the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope although not a direct descendant, and is a cousin of the writer and broadcaster James Trollope:
"Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference... I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception".
On 14 May 1966, Trollope married the banker David Roger William Potter, they had two daughters, Antonia and Louise, and, in 1983, they divorced. In 1985, she remarried to the television dramatist Ian Curteis, and became the stepmother of two stepsons; they divorced in 2001. Today, she is a grandmother and lives on her own in London.
Career
Trollope was educated at Reigate County School for Girls followed by St Hugh's College, Oxford. From 1965 to 1967, she worked at the Foreign Office. From 1967 to 1979, she was employed in a number of teaching posts before she became a writer full-time in 1980.
In 2008, she wrote a letter in support of J. K. Rowling's copyright infringement case in America.
In 2009, she donated the short story The Piano Man to Oxfam's 'Ox-Tales' project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Trollope's story was published in the 'Water' collection. She has written the first novel in Harper Collins updating of the Jane Austen canon, The Austen Project. Her version of "Sense and Sensibility" was published in October 2013.
Television adaptations
The Choir was made into a five-episode television miniseries in 1995 by the BBC. It starred Jane Asher and James Fox.
Reviews
A Spanish Lover: In The New York Times Betsy Groban wrote, ″Her story is filled with lively, astute and always affectionate insights into the abiding issues of marriage, motherhood and materialism, not to mention the destructive power of envy and the importance of living one's own life. ″
Marrying the Mistress: ″With its sharp eye, light tone and sly, witty pace, Joanna Trollope's ninth novel delivers all the ingredients of romantic comedy, yet ends with a subtle, dark twist.″
Friday Nights: Heather Thompson of The Guardian called Friday Nights "a light but insightful look at a rather conventional cast of characters."
Charlie Lee-Potter of The Independent wrote that Brother & Sister:
[Brother & Sister] wades through the anguish of adoption, scooping up the pain of the adopted child, the agony of the birth mother and the insecurity of the adoptive parent along the way. If I was any one of the characters imprisoned in the murky jelly of this novel, I'd be straight on to the Adoption Agency, demanding to be re-settled with another creator. Joanna Trollope has a subject capable of making us weep at the tragedy and the loss, and yet what does she achieve? She so resolutely makes her characters emote to each other in a ghastly brand of unisex mush that I actually found myself blushing.