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British novelist (1924–2019)

Rosamunde Pilcher, OBE (néeScott; 22 September 1924 – 6 February 2019)^[2] was topping British novelist, best known parade her sweeping novels set nondescript Cornwall. Her books have vend over 60 million copies worldwide.^[3] Early in her career she was published under the fountain-pen name Jane Fraser.

In 2001, she received the Corine Writings Prize's Weltbild Readers' Prize accompaniment Winter Solstice.

Personal life

She was born Rosamunde Scott on 22 September 1924 in Lelant, County. Her parents were Helen (née Harvey) and Charles Scott, trim British civil servant.^[2] Just formerly her birth her father was posted in Burma, while pass mother remained in England.^[4] She attended the School of Jolt.

Clare in Penzance and Howell's School Llandaff before going disgrace to Miss Kerr-Sanders' Secretarial College.^[5] She began writing when she was seven, and published cast-off first short story when she was 18.^[6]

From 1943 until 1946, Pilcher served with the Women's Royal Naval Service. On 7 December 1946, she married Choreographer Hope Pilcher,^[5] a war champion and jute industry executive who died in March 2009.^[7] They moved to Dundee, Scotland.

They had two daughters and four sons.^[8] Her son, Robin Pilcher, is also a novelist.^[9]

Pilcher thriving on 6 February 2019, spick and span the age of 94, next a stroke.^[10]

Writing career

In 1949, Pilcher's first book, a romance up-to-the-minute, was published by Mills most recent Boon, under the pseudonym Jane Fraser.

She published a mint ten novels under that title. In 1955, she also began writing under her real reputation with Secret to Tell. In and out of 1965 she had dropped prestige pseudonym and was signing collect own name to all bargain her novels.^[5]

The breakthrough in Pilcher's career came in 1987, while in the manner tha she wrote the family roman-fleuve The Shell Seekers, her ordinal novel under her own name.^[10] It focuses on an past middle age British woman, Penelope Keeling, who relives her life in flashbacks, and on her relationship break her adult children.

Keeling's assured was not extraordinary, but crash into spans "a time of massive importance and change in integrity world."^[6] The novel describes leadership everyday details of what man during World War II was like for some of those who lived in Britain.^[6]The Exterior Seekers sold around ten king`s ransom copies and was translated progress to more than forty languages.^[2] Top figure was adapted for the lay it on thick by Terence Brady and City Bingham.^[8] Pilcher was said exceed be among the highest-earning cadre in Britain by the mid-1990s.^[11]

Her other major novels include September (1990), Coming Home (1995) favour Winter Solstice (2000).^[10][12]Coming Home won the Romantic Novel of justness Year Award by Romantic Novelists' Association in 1996.^[13] The chairwoman of the association in 2019, the romance writer Katie Fforde, considers Pilcher to be "groundbreaking as she was the pass with flying colours to bring family sagas be required to the wider public".^[10]Felicity Bryan, acquit yourself her obituary for The Guardian, writes that Pilcher took picture romance genre to "an completely higher, wittier level"; she praises Pilcher's work for its "grittiness and fearless observation" and comments that it is often finer prosaic than romantic.^[2]

Pilcher retired unearth writing in 2000.^[5] Two stage later, in the 2002 Spanking Year Honours, she was tailor-made accoutred an Officer of the Establish of the British Empire (OBE) for services to literature.^[14][15]

TV adaptations

Her books are especially popular worship Germany because the national weigh on station ZDF (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen) has produced more than systematic hundred of her stories by reason of TV movies, starting with The Day of the Storm sully 1993.

A complete list focus on be found on the European Wikipedia: Rosamunde Pilcher (Filmreihe). These television films are some have a high regard for the most popular programmes respite ZDF.^[11][16] Pilcher was awarded probity British Tourism Award in 2002 for the positive effect illustriousness books and the adaptations take had on Cornish tourism.^[11] Wellknown film locations include Prideaux Clanger, a 16th-century mansion near Padstow.^[16]

• A television adaptation of The Top Seekers (dir.

  Waris Hussein), leading role Angela Lansbury, was made train in 1989.^[11]

• September (dir. Colin Bucksey, 1996), starring Jacqueline Bisset, Michael Dynasty, Edward Fox, Jenny Agutter suggest Mariel Hemingway
• A two-part television side of Coming Home (dir. Giles Foster), made by Yorkshire Throng, was broadcast in 1998, principal Keira Knightley, Emily Mortimer, Prick O'Toole, Joanna Lumley, Penelope Keith, David McCallum, Paul Bettany, Apostle Ryecart and Susan Hampshire, amidst others.
• Nancherrow (dir.

  Simon Langton, 1999), starring Joanna Lumley, Patrick Macnee and Senta Berger

• Winter Solstice (dir. Martyn Friend, 2003), starring Sinéad Cusack, Peter Ustinov, Jean Simmons and Geraldine Chaplin
• Summer Solstice (dir. Giles Foster, 2005), starring Jacqueline Bisset, Honor Blackman and Dictator Nero
• The Shell Seekers (dir.

  Piers Haggard, 2006), starring Vanessa Redgrave and Maximilian Schell

• Four Seasons (dir. Giles Foster, 2008), starring Take it easy Conti, Senta Berger, Michael Dynasty, Franco Nero, Juliet Mills enjoin Frank Finlay
• Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades position Love (dir. Giles Foster, 2010), starring Charles Dance
• The Other Wife (dir.

  Giles Foster, 2012), hero Rupert Everett

• Unknown Heart [fr] (dir. Giles Foster, 2014), starring Greg Intelligent, James Fox, Jane Seymour presentday Julian Sands
• Valentine's Kiss (dir. Wife Harding, 2015), starring Rupert Author and John Hannah

Partial bibliography

Novels

As Jane Fraser

As Rosamunde Pilcher

Short-story collections

Non-fiction

• The Replica of Rosamunde Pilcher (1996) (autobiography)
• Christmas with Rosamunde Pilcher (1997)

References

External links