Trollope was a writer for more than five decades, and one of the best known novelists in the UK.
She authored 22 contemporary novels including 2013’s Sense & Sensibility, the lead title in HarperCollins’s Austen Project, as well as 10 historical novels published under the pseudonym Caroline Harvey.
Trollope also occasionally wrote short stories and pieces for magazines, chaired book prizes, authored a 2006 study of women in the British Empire called Britannia’s Daughters, and edited a 1993 anthology of rural life, The Country Habit.
She received an OBE in 1996 for services to charity, and was made a CBE in 2019 for services to literature.
