Her autobiographical writing inspired her to try her hand at fiction, and she ultimately wrote 38 novels, many of them bestsellers
Charlotte Vale-Allen wrote 38 novels, many of them bestsellers. But her darkest and most notable book was, an autobiographical account of sexual abuse by her father. Ms. Vale-Allen died on Jan. 12, in Norwalk, Conn., a week shy of her 82nd birthday.
Ms. Vale-Allen wrote her memoir in 1970 but could not find a publisher for almost 10 years, by which time she had published several successful novels. “It was a time when people didn’t talk about abuse, and there was a lot of shame around it. She was very strong and vocal,” her daughter, Kimberly Allen, said.is definitely not for the squeamish, nor is it for those who choose to look only on the bright side of life,” a reviewer wrote in The Globe and Mail.
When she married Walter Allen in 1970, she added his surname to her adopted name, and split her time between Norwalk and Toronto, where she continued acting. Ms. Vale-Allen’s memoir was well-reviewed in Canadian papers. But in general her novels received harsh reviews, asserting, in one case, that “the story line is as formulaic as infant feeding.”“Almost without exception, the Canadian reviewers are always scathing. They spend more time reviewing the fact that I live in Connecticut and that I make a lot of money than they do looking with any degree of honesty at what I’ve said.
One of her novels, which she published under her own name in 1980, dealt explicitly with sexual abuse., I have tried to illustrate one case of abuse and to show that it is possible to recover from the effects. I don’t suggest that this is a short-term goal, but I do believe that with support and caring, a woman can, in time, come to realize her own strengths and even to have successful relationships,” Ms. Vale-Allen wrote.
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