Author published a number of books including 'The Rector's Wife' and 'A Village Affair'
Joanna Trollope, the popular author behind a string of romance novels, has died aged 82.
In a statement to The Times, her daughters Louise and Antonia said: "Our beloved and inspirational mother Joanna Trollope has died peacefully at her Oxfordshire home, on 11 December aged 82."
Born in Gloucestershire, a fifth-generation niece of English novelist and civil servant Anthony Trollope, she studied English at Oxford University before finding work at the Foreign Office and as a teacher, before becoming a full-time author.
Trollope's tales of romance and mystery in rural middle England later led to her at one point being dubbed the "Queen of the Aga Saga", a term she told The Independent in 2020 that she found "patronising".
"Needless to say it was created by a man," she said, referring to English author Terence Blacker, who coined the term in 1992. She called it "idle journalism" and expressed disdain for the tabloid interviews that regurgitated it for years after.