{{Short description|English author and playwright}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2015}} {{Use British English|date=December 2015}} :''not to be confused with Winifred S Carter, an American celebrity chef and cookery author also active from the 1920s–40s''. {{more citations needed|date=August 2017}} '''Winifred Carter''' (c. 1883–1949) was an English author and playwright, who was particularly active from the 1920s–40s.
==Life== Carter was the mother of the mystery and detective novel author Emery Bonett and the wife<ref>1911 Sheffield census</ref> of novelist John L. Carter and actress and playwright Edith Carter.
Winifred Carter's most successful work was probably her 1945 novel ''Princess Fitz'', which was made into a 1947 film ''Mrs. Fitzherbert''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3vZkAAAAMAAJ&q=Princess+Fitz+winifred+carter|title=The Allied Artists Checklist: The Feature Films and Short Subjects of Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, 1947-1978|last=Martin|first=Len D.|date=1993|publisher=McFarland & Company|page=98|isbn=978-0-89950-782-8|language=en}}</ref> It is a romance set in 1783, which chronicles the convoluted, yet ultimately doomed, relationship between a prince regent and a Catholic widow (Mrs Fitzherbert).
==Bibliography of novels and short stories (with first UK/US publishing dates)==
*''Ashes of Eden'' 1915/— *''Lass o’ Laughter... The Novel of the Play by '''Edith Carter''' and Nan Marriott-Watson'' 1922/1922 *''Sylvia Revolts'' 1922/— *''Miss Mischief'' (Ivy Stories no. 7) 1922/— (short story) *''Ashes of Eden'' 1922/— *''Celia Bound'' 1923/— *''A Lovable Imp'' (Ivy Stories no. 78) 1925/— (short story) *''Marriage by Mistake'' 1925/— *''The Strange Case of Lorna Tallis'' 1925/— (novella) *''Rosemary the Rebel'' (Ivy Stories no. 92) 1926/— (short story) *''Jealous Gwen'' (Ivy Stories no. 110) 1927/— (short story) *''Rose-the Dancer'' 1928/1929 *''The Dead Return'' 1929/— *''Elizabeth Plays With Fire'' 1929/— *''The Pretty Governess'' (Red Letter Novels no. 229) 1929/— (novella) *''A Lost Paradise'' (Red Letter Novels no. 233) 1929/— (novella) *''Just a Butterfly'' (Ivy Stories no. 169) 1929/— (short story) *''A Rejected Girl'' (Red Letter Novels no. 244) 1930/— (novella) *''The Marriage Bargain!'' 1930/— (short story) *''Whose Sin?'' 1930/— (short story) *''His Difficult Daughter'' 1930/— *''The Money Maid'' 1931/— *''Why Didn’t She Tell Him?'' 1931/— (short story) *''The Dashing Rebel'' (Ivy Stories no. 239) 1932/— (short story) *''My Year of Love'' (Red Letter Novels no. 301) 1932/— (novella) *''Sometime-Never'' (Ivy Stories no. 252) 1932/— (short story) *''Out of the Shadows'' 1933/— (novella) *''She Thought Herself Loved'' (Red Letter Novels no. 318) 1933/— (novella) *''Rich Girl Rival'' 1936/— (novella) *''Golden Bait'' 1937/— (novella) *''Probationer Pat'' 1937/— *''Judy-Be Careful!'' 1939/— (novella) *''The Love Call'' 1939/— (possibly originally published 1930) *''The Wrong Prince Charming'' 1939/— *''This Love Business'' 1941/— *''Sarah. A Novel'' 1943/— *''Princess Fitz'' (US title: ''Princess Fury'') 1945/— *''In Scarlet Dress'' 1946/— *''Tudor Triangle'' 1947/— *''Enchanted Cup'' 1948/— *''Dr. Johnson’s Dear Mistress'' 1949/1950 *''Troubadour of Love'' 1950/— *''Son of Arlotte'' 1951/—
==Plays== *''A Man’s Enemies'' – Richmond Theatre, London *''High Fever'' – Arts Theatre, London and repertory *''Sarah-Duchess of Marlborough'' – Adelphi Theatre, London 1932 *''Marriage Harvest'' – Q Theatre, London 1932 *''Moloch. A play in Three Acts'' aka ''Escape From Glory'' (US title: ''Every Mother’s Son'') – Players' and Strand Theatres, London and Bard Theater, US; published 1935/— *''The Two Mrs. Camerons. A Play in Three Acts'' (cowritten with '''Edith Carter''') – Q Theatre, London and Townley Street Sunday School by the [http://www.madstheatre.org.uk/ourHistory.asp CS Players] January 1945; published 1936/1937 *''Wanted-a Wife. A Play in Three Acts'' (cowritten with '''Edith Carter''') – Q Theatre, London and repertory; published 1936/1937 (possibly originally published 1922 or 1926) *''The Work-a-Day World. A Comedy in One Act for Eleven Women'' – published 1936 *''Doctor Johnson’s Mrs. Thrale'' – Adelphi, Strand, Little and Kingsway Theatres, London; published 1938/— (possibly originally published 1936) *''The Queen Who Kept Her Head'' aka ''The Intriguing Queen'' – Kingsway and Adelphi Theatres, London and repertory; published 1934/—
==Film== *''Princess Fitz'' (US title: ''Mrs. Fitzherbert'') UK 1947/1950 – based on eponymous novel
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