"Trollope's breakthrough came with novels including The Rector's Wife, which in 1991 knocked leading authors off the top of the charts, and later works including A Village Affair and Mum & Dad, which tackled issues ranging from infidelity, remarriage, parenthood and adoption to the strains on the so-called sandwich generation caring for both their children and their parents. Though sometimes dismissed by critics as middlebrow or cosy Terence Blacker famously labelled her novels Aga sagas Trollope long rejected such categorisations."
"Born in 1943 in Gloucestershire, Trollope is a distant descendant of Anthony Trollope, the celebrated 19th-century novelist known for The Chronicles of Barsetshire and The Palliser novels. She studied English at St Hugh's College, Oxford, before joining the Foreign Office. She subsequently turned to teaching. It was during this period, while balancing work with raising two daughters, that she began writing in earnest."
Joanna Trollope, born in 1943 in Gloucestershire, published more than 30 novels after beginning her career as a novelist in 1980. She initially wrote historical romances under the pseudonym Caroline Harvey before shifting to contemporary fiction in the mid-1980s. Breakthrough titles such as The Rector's Wife, A Village Affair and Mum & Dad explored infidelity, remarriage, parenthood, adoption and strains on the sandwich generation caring for both children and ageing parents. Critics sometimes dismissed the work as middlebrow or labelled it 'Aga sagas', a categorisation she rejected and described as patronising. She studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford, worked in the Foreign Office, later taught while raising two daughters, and produced a succession of bestsellers through the 1990s and 2000s. She died peacefully at home at age 82.
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