![]() ![]() She added that her detractors - civic leaders the world over - were too blinded by the publicity to see that her book was not nearly as lurid as they attested. ![]() Winsor said she did extensive historical research to re-create 17th-century England with its plague outbreaks and raging fire in London, the setting of her 972-page opus. She was a strikingly different kind of protagonist and prompted later novelists such as Barbara Taylor Bradford to call "Forever Amber" an early literary inspiration. Along the way, she has abortions and very few regrets. In the book and the 1947 film version with Linda Darnell as Amber, the heroine unabashedly samples sexual pleasures from men of all social classes and rises to monarchal mistress. No cause of death was reported.īanned in Boston, ridiculed by critics and adored by the book-buying public, "Forever Amber" (1944) made a household name of the first-time novelist and created a sensation of her title character, Amber St. ![]() Kathleen Winsor, 83, whose novel "Forever Amber" told of the sprawling, lusty splendor of its English Restoration Era heroine and brought naughty delight to millions of readers, died May 26 at her home in New York. ![]()
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