She pased away at the beginning of 1989 after a long battle with cancer. She also inspired her nephew Jonathan to write. She was chosen to be a launch author because she, along with Anne Mather and Anne Hampson were the most popular and prolific of Mills & Boon's British authors.Ĭonsidered a legend in the romance community and influenced many authors, including Muriel Jensen, Jane Porter, Trish Morey and Sandra Marton. Mills & Boon/Harlequin Presents books were more sensual than the previous line, Romance, under which she had been published. In 1973, she became a launch author for the new Presents line of category romance novels. They must be the sort of men who are capable of rape: men it's dangerous to be alone in the room with.' The comment, that they were 'capable of rape' caused a big controversy, uproar and lead to her receiving hate mail. Most of my heroes, well all of them really, are like that. In need of love but, when roused, capable of breathtaking passion and potency. But underneath they're well, you know, sort of lost and lonely. Oh and they've got to be rich and then I make it that they're only cynical and smooth on the surface. Maisie Dobbs is a mysterious series of novels. Violet said: 'The real aim of romance is to provide escape and entertainment', but when in 1970 she commented: 'I get my heroes so that they're lean and hard muscled and mocking and sardonic and tough and tigerish and single, of course. Written by Winspear this book was published in the year 2003. It won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel. She inspired her nephew Jonathan Winspear to write. Jacqueline Winspear’s first novel was entitled Maisie Dobbs and was released in 2003.

She wrote from her home in the south-east England, that she never left, but she meticulously researched her far-flung settings at the local library. She worked in a factory since 1942, when in 1961 she sold her first romance novels to Mills & Boon. Violet Winspear was born on 28 April 1928 in England.

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