Caroline Harvey

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  • Bibliography:
    5 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1981
  • Latest Book:
    March 1997
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About the Author

Joanna Trollope was born on 9 December 1943 in her grandfather's rectory in Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, England, daughter of Rosemary Hodson and Arthur George Cecil Trollope. She is the eldest of three siblings. She is a fifth-generation niece of the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope and is a cousin of the writer and broadcaster James Trollope. She was educated at Reigate County School for Girls followed by St Hugh's College, Oxford. On 14 May 1966, she married the banker David Roger William Potter, they had two daughters, Antonia and Louise, and on 1983 they divorced. In 1985, she remarried to the television dramatist Ian Curteis, and became the stepmother of two stepsons; they divorced in 2001. Today, she is a grandmother and lives on her own in London.

From 1965 to 1967, she worked at the Foreign Office. From 1967 to 1979, she was employed in a number of teaching posts before she became a writer full-time in 1980. Her novel Parson Harding's Daughter won in 1980 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Full Series List in Order

Legacy Saga

1 - Legacy of Love (Aug-1983)
2 - A Second Legacy (Mar-1993)

Book List in Order: 5 titles

  • City of Gems

    On the day that Maria Beresford celebrated her eighteenth birthday in Bombay, in faraway Burma the formidable and unpredictable Queen had ordered eighty members of the royal family to be clubbed to death. On that day in 1879 Maria knew nothing of Man...

  • Legacy of Love

    Legacy Saga - 1

    This powerful saga of three generations of women-spanning the decades from Victorian England to World War II-reminds us once again of the futility of our best-laid plans-and the absolute necessity of our dreams. Each of the women finds herself in ...

  • A Second Legacy

    Legacy Saga - 2

    Now, the author takes us to the swinging London of the 1960s, where shy, unglamorous Alexia Langley feels out of place even in her own family -- and marries an ambitious young medical student in an attempt to find an identity. To a dilapidated Scotti...

  • A Castle In Italy

    A romantic saga set in Florence at the turn of the century, telling the story of a young English girl growing up, falling in love and trying to escape her fortune-hunting husband. Caroline Harvey is a pseudonyn of Joanna Trollope, author of "A Legacy...

  • The Brass Dolphin

    Lila Cunningham, motherless since babyhood, was almost twenty-one when her familiar life in a small town on the Suffolk coast came abruptly to an end. It was 1938, and she learned with a shock that her endearing but feckless artist father faced fina...



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Caroline Harvey has published 5 books.

Caroline Harvey does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Brass Dolphin, was published in March 1997.

The first book by Caroline Harvey, City of Gems, was published in January 1981.

Yes. Caroline Harvey has 1 series.
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