But throughout her trials and escapades, she remains, in her heart, true to the one man she really loves, the one man she can never have. From whores and highwaymen to courtiers and noblemen, from the Great Plague and the Fire of London to the intimate passions of ordinary - and extraordinary - men and women, Amber experiences it. The novel, racy for its time, became a runaway bestseller even as it drew criticism from some authorities for its depictions of sexuality. One of the first of the modern bodice-ripping romance novels.
She is best known for her first work, the 1944 historical novel Forever Amber. (Winsor is) Americas most notorious novel. Clare uses her wits, beauty and courage to climb to the highest position a woman could achieve in Restoration England - that of favourite mistress of the Merry Monarch himself, Charles II. Kathleen Winsor (Octo May 26, 2003) was an American author. Abandoned pregnant and penniless on the teeming streets of London, sixteen-year-old Amber St. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear A book to read and reread, this reissue brings back to print an unforgettable romance and a timeless masterpiece.
Abandoned pregnant and penniless on the teeming streets of London, sixteen-year-old Amber St Clare uses her wits, beauty and courage to climb to the highest position a woman could achieve in Restoration England - that of favorite mistress of the Merry Monarch himself, Charles II. Kathleen Winsor continued to write but never recaptured the popularity of her first novel.Description for Forever Amber Paperback. She went on to divorce and remarry twice. She left Herwig and married big-band leader Artie Shaw. The runaway bestseller made Kathleen Winsor a wealthy celebrity. Forever Amber was made into a film directed by Otto Preminger. It eventually sold more than 3 million copies and was translated into 16 languages. It was an immediate hit with the public and sold 100,000 copies in the first week.
Clare and her romantic adventures in the world of Restoration-era London was nearly 1,000 pages long when it was finally published in 1944. She began writing Forever Amber, her first book, in 1940, at the age of 20, and went through numerous drafts of the manuscript. Her heart still beating heavily, Amber crossed back to where she had left her basket lying in the grass. Here and there a star had come out the air was full of the magic of twilight. His senior thesis on King Charles II of England inspired her to read hundreds of books on the subject. The sun had set, leaving the sky bright red along the horizon but turning to delicate blue above. She attended the University of California at Berkeley where, at age 17, she married Robert Herwig, a college football star. Kathleen Winsor was born in Olivia, Minnesota and raised in Berkeley, California.
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