She's good - or rather the film was - but no. The woman I'm thinking of started as a writer for children, older children. Good stuff that. She lived in India as a child and wrote an auto biography. Terribly English upperish middle class, but then all the Penelopes are that.
Penelope Mortimer was married to John Mortimer QC, the champagne socialist, novelist and playwright whose greatest literaray creation was Rumpole of the Bailey, a wine-soaked barrister undfer the thumbof his wife 'She who must be obeyed'. He defended small time criminals and always got them off. Short stories of a very middlebrow kind. Worth looking for if you are an American. If you are English you will know them. The character was brought to life by the excellent Leo McKern.
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