Literary Birthday – 29 June – Charlotte Bingham
Charlotte Bingham was born on 29 June 1942 and died on 16 November 2025.
Charlotte Bingham Quotes
- My study is above the kitchen at the far end of the house overlooking the garden. I write six days a week: I like to be at my desk by 9am every morning and will write till around 1.30. Then I may go back to do some reading, researching or rewriting till around 4.30.
- Some people are very unfulfilled. In consequence, they write passionately good romance because they believe that they could still find happiness. Emily Brontë was not a fulfilled woman but the passion she felt went into Wuthering Heights.
- You can’t write any form of fiction unless you enjoy reading it. You must be sincere in your approach. It’s no good despising the form. So many people think they could earn some money from writing something for which they have no affection. It won’t work. The first thing you have to have is belief.
Charlotte Bingham was an English novelist who wrote more than 30 historical romance novels. She was the daughter of crime novelist and former MI5 spy John Bingham (the 7th Baron Clanmorris), later revealed to have inspired John le Carré‘s famous character George Smiley. Her mother was the playwright, novelist, and biographer Madeleine Mary Bingham. In 1996, she won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists’ Association. She also wrote many television programmes including Upstairs, Downstairs. Her memoir, MI5 and Me: A Coronet Among the Spooks, was published in March 2018.
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