Joanna Trollope, CBE, the bestselling author, died at her home in Oxfordshire, 11 December, 2025. She was 82.
She was best known for her novels set in rural middle England and focused on domestic life and relationships, including The Rector’s Wife, Marrying The Mistress, Other People’s Children and Second Honeymoon. Her literary agent James Gill said: “It is with great sadness that we learn of the passing of Joanna Trollope, one of our most cherished, acclaimed and widely enjoyed novelists. “Joanna will be mourned by her children, grandchildren, family, her countless friends and – of course – her readers.” Her writing was once dubbed Aga Sagas, a term which the author strongly disliked and described as “patronising”.
Joanna Trollope was born 9 December, 1943, a scion of the Trollope baronets, daughter of Arthur George Cecil Trollope (1914-2003), and his wife the former Rosemary Hodson (1919-2014).
She married 1stly, 17 May, 1966 (div. 1983), as the first of his three wives, David Roger William Potter (born 1944, died 20 August, 2025, aged 81), son of William Edward Potter (1917-1997), by his wife the former Joan Louise Frost (1919-2008), by whom she had issue, two daughters, Louise (born 1969), and Antonia (born 1971. Trollope married 2ndly, 1985 (div. 2001), as his second wife, Ian Bayley Curteis (1935-2021), the dramatist and television director.
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