Violet Winspear

Writer, Author

1928 – 1989

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Who was Violet Winspear?

Violet Winspear 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.

In 1970 Winspear commented that she wrote her leading males as if they were 'capable of rape'. This comment caused uproar and lead to her receiving hate mail.

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Born
Apr 28, 1928
London
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Profession
Died
Jan 1, 1989

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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