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Violet Winspear | |
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| Born | 28 April 1928 London, England |
| Died | 1989 (aged 60–61) |
| Pen name | Violet Winspear |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | British |
| Period | 1961–1987 |
| Genre | Romance |
Violet Winspear (28 April 1928 – January 1989) was a British writer of 70 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1961 to 1987.
In 1973, she became a launch author for the new Mills & Boon-Harlequin Presents line of category romance novels. Presents line books were more sexually explicit than the previous line, Romance, under which Winspear had been published. She was chosen to be a launch author because she, along with Anne Mather and Anne Hampson were the most popular and prolific British authors of Mills and Boon.[1]
In 1970, Winspear commented that she wrote her leading males as if they were 'capable of rape'. This comment caused uproar and led to her receiving hate mail.[2]
- ^ Hemmungs Wirten, Eva (1998), "Global Infatuation: Explorations in Transnational Publishing and Texts. The Case of Harlequin Enterprises and Sweden" (PDF), Section for Sociology of Literature at the Department of Literature, Number 38, Uppsala University, ISBN 91-85178-28-4, retrieved 25 October 2012
- ^ "BBC - (none) - Arts and Drama - A Hundred Years of Mills and Boon". www.bbc.co.uk.