Joanna Trollope

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Joanna Trollope (2011)

Joanna Trollope CBE (born December 9, 1943 in Minchinhampton , Gloucestershire ) is a British writer and romantic novelist.

Life

Joanna Trollope is broadly related to the English writer Anthony Trollope . She attended a school in Reigate and studied at St Hugh's College of Oxford University .

From 1966 to 1983 she was married to the banker David Roger William Potter. They have two daughters. From 1985 to 2001 she was married to the screenwriter Ian Curteis, both marriages were divorced. She lives in London.

Trollope did various teaching jobs and became a freelance writer in 1980. She has written a large number of novels, some of which have been turned into television films. She has published four more novels under the pseudonym Caroline Harvey. The writer and literary critic Terence Blacker referred to her in 1992 as the "Queen of the Aga Saga" for her novels, which are set in the middle-class rural environment. The warmth of the AGA stove creates a cozy atmosphere there.

Works (selection)

  • Eliza Stanhope . Historical novel. (1978)
    • In the shadow of Waterloo: novel . Translation Monika Hahn. Munich: Schneekluth, 1981
  • Parson Harding's Daughter . Historical novel. (1979)
  • Leaves from the Valley . Historical novel. (1980)
  • The City of Gems . Historical novel. (1981)
  • The Steps of the Sun . Historical novel. (1983)
  • Britannia's Daughters: Women of the British Empire . (1983)
  • The Taverner's Place . Historical novel. (1986)
  • The Choir . Novel. (1988)
  • A village affair . Novel. (1989)
    • Affair in the summer: Roman . Translation Alexandra v. Reinhardt. Munich: Heyne, 1993
  • A Passionate Man . Novel. (1990)
    • Vortex of Life: Roman . Translation Alexandra v. Reinhardt. Munich: Heyne, 1994
  • The Rector's Wife . Novel. (1991)
  • The Men and the Girls . Novel. (1992)
    • Two couples: Roman . Translation of Gisela Stege. Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe, 1994
  • A Spanish lover . Novel. (1993)
    • The twin sisters . Translation of Karin Kersten . Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe, 1993
  • The best of friends . Novel. (1998)
    • Among friends: Roman . Translation of Gisela Stege. Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe, 1995
  • Next of Kin . Novel. (1996)
    • The closest relatives: Roman . Translation of Christel Wiemken. Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe, 1997
  • Other People's Children . Novel. (1998)
    • Other people's children: Roman . Translation by Annette Meyer-Prien. Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe, 1999
  • Marrying the Mistress . Novel. (2000)
    • A perfectly normal affair: a novel . Translation by Ulrike Thiesmeyer. Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe, 2001
  • Girl from the South . Novel. (2002)
    • The girl from the south: Roman . Translation of Gisela Stege. Munich: Ullstein, 2002
  • Brother and Sister . Novel. (2004)
    • Brother & Sister: Roman . Translation Angelika Kaps. Berlin: Bloomsbury Berlin, 2005
  • Second honeymoon . Novel. (2006)
    • Second spring: novel . Translation Angelika Kaps. Berlin: Bloomsbury Berlin, 2006
  • Friday nights . Novel. (2007)
    • Every Friday evening: Roman . Translation Angelika Kaps. Berlin: Bloomsbury Berlin, 2008
  • The Other Family . Novel. (2010)
    • The other family: Roman . Translation Angelika Kaps. Berlin: Bloomsbury Berlin, 2010
  • Daughters-in-Law . Novel. (2011)
    • Daughters-in-Law: Roman . Translation Angelika Kaps. Berlin: Bloomsbury Berlin, 2011
  • The Soldier's Wife . Novel. (2012)
    • When you're back: Roman . Translation Angelika Kaps. Berlin: Berlin-Verl. Paperback, 2014
  • Sense & Sensibility (2013)
  • Balancing Act . Novel. (2014)
    • The porcelain house: Roman . Translation Angelika Kaps. Berlin: Berlin-Verl. Paperback, 2015
  • City of Friends . Novel. (2017)
Assignment of the translation is missing
  • Vortex of Life: Roman . Translation Rudolf Hermstein. Munich: Heyne, 1994
  • Autumn lights: novel . Translation Rudolf Hermstein. Munich: Heyne, 1994
  • Secret relationship: Roman . Translation Rudolf Hermstein . Munich: Heyne, 1994
  • Legacy of Love: Roman . Translation by Gunther Seipel. Munich: Heyne, 1998
Caroline Harvey
  • Legacy of Love (1983)
    • Legacy of Love: Roman . Translation by Gunther Seipel. Gütersloh, 1999
  • A Second Legacy (1993)
    • The second legacy: Roman . Translation Michélle Pyka. Munich: Heyne, 1999
  • A Castle in Italy . Historical novel. (1993)
  • The Brass Dolphin . Historical novel. (1997)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Aga saga , in: Margaret Drabble (Ed.): The Oxford Companion to English Literature . Oxford University Press, 2009, p. 43
  2. ↑ a b c d e also published under the pseudonym Caroline Harvey


personal data
SURNAME Trollope, Joanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Minchinhampton