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Eliza Stanhope
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224 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1978
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Joanna Trollope
136 books615 followersJoanna Trollope Potter Curteis (aka Caroline Harvey)
Joanna 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. She is a fifth-generation niece of the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope and is a cousin of the writer and broadcaster James Trollope. She was educated at Reigate County School for Girls followed by St Hugh's College, Oxford. On 14 May 1966, she married the banker David Roger William Potter, they had two daughters, Antonia and Louise, and on 1983 they divorced. In 1985, she remarried to the television dramatist Ian Curteis, and became the stepmother of two stepsons; they divorced in 2001.
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. Her novel Parson Harding's Daughter won in 1980 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Joanna 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. She is a fifth-generation niece of the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope and is a cousin of the writer and broadcaster James Trollope. She was educated at Reigate County School for Girls followed by St Hugh's College, Oxford. On 14 May 1966, she married the banker David Roger William Potter, they had two daughters, Antonia and Louise, and on 1983 they divorced. In 1985, she remarried to the television dramatist Ian Curteis, and became the stepmother of two stepsons; they divorced in 2001.
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. Her novel Parson Harding's Daughter won in 1980 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
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December 14, 2016
By page 25 I was groaning at the attempt to mimic Jane Austen. I made a bet with myself that if the author got the wedding dress correct, I would forgive her and read on. By page 50 I was cursing myself. She provided a not impossible but quite implausible wedding dress - so few writers get Regency wedding dresses right. I might have forgiven her if she had provided a brief explanation as to why the bride had chosen what was not popular until some decades later. However, by this stage I was quite engaged by the main protagonist, who was well drawn and interesting, and did finish the book. The Waterloo scenes were actually very good.
Three essentials for a really good historical novel are (a) period details of dress, furnishings, etc. Especially when you date a book precisely, as this one was (1814-15). Even before the Internet age there were plenty of good resources for this; (b) insight into social mores (the author did have this, but left some things barely touched upon that needed more detail); sense of place and time, which was quite well done in this book.
Thank goodness she gave up historical fiction and went on to write Aga Sagas.
Three essentials for a really good historical novel are (a) period details of dress, furnishings, etc. Especially when you date a book precisely, as this one was (1814-15). Even before the Internet age there were plenty of good resources for this; (b) insight into social mores (the author did have this, but left some things barely touched upon that needed more detail); sense of place and time, which was quite well done in this book.
Thank goodness she gave up historical fiction and went on to write Aga Sagas.
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