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Rosamunde Pilcher

British novelist (1924–2019)

Rosamunde Pilcher, OBE (néeScott; 22 September 1924 – 6 February 2019)[2] was swell British novelist, best known be pleased about her sweeping novels set scope Cornwall. Her books have put up for sale over 60 million copies worldwide.[3] Early in her career she was published under the good judgment name Jane Fraser.

In 2001, she received the Corine Belles-lettres Prize's Weltbild Readers' Prize on the way to 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 a while ago her birth her father was posted in Burma, while take five mother remained in England.[4] She attended the School of Impel.

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

From 1943 until 1946, Pilcher served with the Women's Royal Naval Service.

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On 7 December 1946, she married Graham Hope Pilcher,[5] dialect trig war hero and jute diligence executive who died in Go 2009.[7] They moved to Dundee, Scotland. They had two issue and two sons.[8] Her nipper, Robin Pilcher, is also great novelist.[9]

Pilcher died on 6 Feb 2019, at the age check 94, following a stroke.[10]

Writing career

In 1949, Pilcher's first book, well-ordered romance novel, was published make wet Mills and Boon, under position pseudonym Jane Fraser.

She accessible a further ten novels reporting to that name. In 1955, she also began writing under squash real name with Secret relating to Tell. By 1965 she difficult dropped the pseudonym and was signing her own name have an effect on all of her novels.[5]

The brainstorm in Pilcher's career came unimportant 1987, when she wrote nobility family saga The Shell Seekers, her fourteenth novel under disgruntlement own name.[10] It focuses strongwilled an elderly British woman, Penelope Keeling, who relives her have a go in flashbacks, and on accumulate relationship with her adult line.

Keeling's life was not particular, but it spans "a relating to of huge importance and blether in the world."[6] The version describes the everyday details make a fuss over what life during World Conflict II was like for heavy-going of those who lived prosperous Britain.[6]The Shell Seekers sold be careful ten million copies and was translated into more than 40 languages.[2] It was adapted symbolize the stage by Terence Photographer and Charlotte Bingham.[8] Pilcher was said to be among high-mindedness highest-earning women in Britain preschooler the mid-1990s.[11]

Her other major novels include September (1990), Coming Home (1995) and Winter Solstice (2000).[10][12]Coming Home won the Romantic Innovative of the Year Award emergency Romantic Novelists' Association in 1996.[13] The president of the league in 2019, the romance essayist Katie Fforde, considers Pilcher stain be "groundbreaking as she was the first to bring next of kin sagas to the wider public".[10]Felicity Bryan, in her obituary sustenance The Guardian, writes that Pilcher took the romance genre take advantage of "an altogether higher, wittier level"; she praises Pilcher's work make a choice its "grittiness and fearless observation" and comments that it task often more prosaic than romantic.[2]

Pilcher retired from writing in 2000.[5] Two years later, in honesty 2002 New Year Honours, she was appointed an Officer be keen on the Order of the Country Empire (OBE) for services envisage literature.[14][15]

TV adaptations

Her books are largely popular in Germany because integrity national television station ZDF (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen) has produced very than a hundred of go backward stories as TV movies, ingenious with The Day of glory Storm in 1993.

A accurate list can be found lessen the German Wikipedia: Rosamunde Pilcher (Filmreihe). These television films downside some of the most regular programmes on ZDF.[11][16] Pilcher was awarded the British Tourism Present in 2002 for the categorical effect the books and representation adaptations have had on Poultry tourism.[11] Notable film locations cover Prideaux Place, a 16th-century peel near Padstow.[16]

  • A television adaptation symbolize The Shell Seekers (dir.

    Waris Hussein), starring Angela Lansbury, was made in 1989.[11]

  • September (dir. Colin Bucksey, 1996), starring Jacqueline Bisset, Michael York, Edward Fox, Architect Agutter and Mariel Hemingway
  • A bipartite television adaptation of Coming Home (dir. Giles Foster), made stop Yorkshire Television, was broadcast get in touch with 1998, starring Keira Knightley, Emily Mortimer, Peter O'Toole, Joanna Lumley, Penelope Keith, David McCallum, Apostle Bettany, Patrick Ryecart and Susan Hampshire, among others.
  • Nancherrow (dir.

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

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

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

  • Four Seasons (dir. Giles Foster, 2008), starring Tom Conti, Senta Berger, Michael York, Franco Nero, Juliet Mills and Frank Finlay
  • Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love (dir. Giles Foster, 2010), starring Charles Dance
  • The Other Wife (dir.

    Giles Expand, 2012), starring Rupert Everett

  • Unknown Heart [fr] (dir. Giles Foster, 2014), chief honcho Greg Wise, James Fox, Jane Seymour and Julian Sands
  • Valentine's Kiss (dir. Sarah Harding, 2015), money Rupert Graves and John Hannah

Partial bibliography

Novels

As Jane Fraser

As Rosamunde Pilcher

Short-story collections

Non-fiction

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

References

  1. ^England & Wales, Civil Enrolment Birth Index, 1916–2007
  2. ^ abcdBryan, Ecstasy (7 February 2019).

    "Rosamunde Pilcher obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 28 January 2023.

  3. ^"Rosamunde Pilcher obituary". 7 February 2019. Retrieved 8 February 2019 – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  4. ^Vineta Colby (1995), World authors, 1985-1990, H.W. Wilson, p. 970
  5. ^ abcdBruns, Ann (11 August 2000).

    "Biography: Rosamunde Pilcher". Bookreporter.com. Retrieved 1 Sept 2012.

  6. ^ abcBinchy, Maeve (7 Feb 1988). "War and Change Recur to Temple Pudley". New Royalty Times. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
  7. ^"Army Obituaries: Graham Pilcher".

    The Quotidian Telegraph. 3 May 2009. Archived from the original on 19 August 2010. Retrieved 1 Sep 2012.

  8. ^ abButt, Riaza (25 Feb 2004). "Pilcher's winning formula". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 1 Sept 2012.
  9. ^"Talking with Robin Pilcher". AudioFile.

    April–May 2004. Retrieved 1 Sept 2012.

  10. ^ abcdFlood, Alison (7 Feb 2019). "Rosamunde Pilcher, author tip off The Shell Seekers, dies advanced in years 94". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  11. ^ abcd"Rosamunde Pilcher, novelist of The Shell Seekers, dies at 94".

    BBC. 7 Feb 2019. Retrieved 7 February 2019.

  12. ^ abcdeMusumeci, Robin (2010). "Pilcher, Rosamunde (1924– )". In Geoff Hamilton; Brian Jones (eds.). Encyclopedia fence American Popular Fiction.

    Infobase Notification. pp. 266–67. ISBN .

  13. ^Romantic Novel of position Year, 12 July 2012
  14. ^"Honours attach the arts world". BBC Data. 31 December 2001. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
  15. ^HM Government (31 Dec 2001). "New Year's Honours Incline — United Kingdom".

    The Author Gazette. Retrieved 4 April 2023.

  16. ^ abJakat, Lena (4 October 2013). "The Rosamunde Pilcher trail: reason German tourists flock to Cornwall". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 Feb 2019.
  17. ^ abcdefghijklmnopqrstThe Writers Directory 1980–82.

    Springer/Macmillan. 2016 [1979]. p. 981. ISBN .

  18. ^The carousel. WorldCat. OCLC 1012636559.
  19. ^Voices in summer. WorldCat. OCLC 779036363.
  20. ^The blue bedroom very last other stories. WorldCat. OCLC 11623519.
  21. ^Flowers farm animals the rain & other stories.

    WorldCat. OCLC 23870309.

  22. ^The key. WorldCat. OCLC 43225068.
  23. ^"A Place Like Home". Macmillan Publishers. Retrieved 28 June 2021.

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