Penelope Vincenzi (née Hannaford; 10 April 1939 – 25 February 2018) was a British novelist, who wrote 17 novels and two collections of stories.
[2] She was educated at Notting Hill and Ealing High School.
[4] In 1962, she started to work for the Daily Mirror as a secretary and, after a year, was working for the women's editor Marjorie Proops, who, knowing of her journalistic ambitions, let her help with research and small tasks.
[5][6] Vincenzi was also a fashion journalist who worked for various publications, including the Daily Mirror and Vogue.
[2] She met her future husband Paul Robert Vincenzi, an advertising executive, the son of Dr Julius Vincenzi of Earls Colne, Essex, when she was 19.