1. Joanna Trollope has written under the pseudonym of Caroline Harvey.
11 Facts About Joanna Trollope
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Joanna Trollope's father was an Oxford University classics graduate who became head of a small building society.
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Joanna Trollope's father was away for war service in India when she was born; he returned when she was three.
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Joanna Trollope was educated at Reigate County School for Girls, gaining a scholarship to St Hugh's College, Oxford in 1961.
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Joanna Trollope's father was of the same family as the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope; she is his fifth-generation niece, and is a cousin of the writer and broadcaster James Trollope.
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Joanna Trollope began writing historical romances under the pseudonym of Caroline Harvey, the first names of her father's parents.
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Joanna Trollope told Bedell in 1993 that her fiction does "the things the traditional novel has always done" by mirroring reality and exploring "people's emotional lives".
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Joanna Trollope has written the first novel in Harper Collins updating of the Jane Austen canon, The Austen Project.
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On 14 May 1966, Joanna Trollope married a city banker, David Roger William Potter; the couple had two daughters, Louise and Antonia, divorcing in 1983.
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Joanna Trollope appeared on a 1994 edition of Desert Island Discs.
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Joanna Trollope remarked that men often suggested her books were trivial, to which she liked to respond: "It is a grave mistake to think there is more significance in great things than in little things", paraphrasing Virginia Woolf.