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Winifred Carter

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Died
  
1949

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Dr. Johnson's "dear Mistress."

Winifred Carter (c. 1883–1949) was an English author and playwright, who was particularly active from the 1920s–40s (not to be confused with Winifred S Carter, an American celebrity chef and cookery author also active from the 1920s–40s). She was also the mother of the mystery and detective novel author Emery Bonett and the wife of novelist John L. Carter and actress and playwright Edith Carter.

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Winifred Carter's most successful work was probably her 1945 novel Princess Fitz, which was made into a 1947 film of the same name. It is a romance set in 1783, which chronicles the convoluted, yet ultimately doomed, relationship between a prince regent and a Catholic widow.

Plays

  • A Man’s Enemies – Richmond Theatre, London
  • High Fever – Arts Theatre, London and repertory
  • Sarah-Duchess of Marlborough – Adelphi Theatre, London 1932
  • Marriage Harvest – Q Theatre, London 1932
  • Moloch. A play in Three Acts aka Escape From Glory (US title: Every Mother’s Son) – Players' and Strand Theatres, London and Bard Theater, US; published 1935/—
  • The Two Mrs. Camerons. A Play in Three Acts (cowritten with Edith Carter) – Q Theatre, London and Townley Street Sunday School by the CS Players January 1945; published 1936/1937
  • Wanted-a Wife. A Play in Three Acts (cowritten with Edith Carter) – Q Theatre, London and repertory; published 1936/1937 (possibly originally published 1922 or 1926)
  • The Work-a-Day World. A Comedy in One Act for Eleven Women – published 1936
  • Doctor Johnson’s Mrs. Thrale – Adelphi, Strand, Little and Kingsway Theatres, London; published 1938/— (possibly originally published 1936)
  • The Queen Who Kept Her Head. A Play in Three Acts and an Epilogue aka The Intriguing Queen – Kingsway and Adelphi Theatres, London and repertory; published 1934/—

    • Film

  • Princess Fitz (US title: Mrs. Fitzherbert) UK 1947/1950 – based on eponymous novel

    • References

    Winifred Carter Wikipedia
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