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British novelist (1924–2019)

Rosamunde Pilcher, OBE (néeScott; 22 September 1924 – 6 February 2019)^[2] was a British novelist, best known for her sweeping novels set in Cornwall. Her books have sold over 60 million copies worldwide.^[3] Early in her career she was published under the pen name Jane Fraser.

In 2001, she received the Corine Literature Prize's Weltbild Readers' Prize for Winter Solstice.

Personal life

She was born Rosamunde Scott on 22 September 1924 in Lelant, Cornwall. Her parents were Helen (née Harvey) and Charles Scott, a British civil servant.^[2] Just before her birth her father was posted in Burma, while her mother remained in England.^[4] She attended the School of St.

Clare in Penzance and Howell's School Llandaff before going on to Miss Kerr-Sanders' Secretarial College.^[5] She began writing when she was seven, and published her first short story when she was 18.^{[6] Order of Rosamunde Pilcher Books - CACY}