Winifred Carter Winifred Carter Winifred Carter (c. 1883–1949) was an English author and playwright, who was particularly active from the 1920s–40s ("not to be confused with Winifred S Carter, an American celebrity chef and cookery author also active from the 1920s–40s"). She was also the mother of the mystery and detective novel author Emery Bonett and the wife 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 of the same name. It is a romance set in 1783, which chronicles the
Carter (name) 274th in Scotland. People of European heritage bearing this surname may trace their ancestors back to Ireland, England or Scotland. Within the past 150 years, the Carter surname has been adopted widely by the African American taken from slavemasters by former slaves upon the Emancipation and 13th Amendment. This name is common among African Americans capable of tracing their roots back to the southern United States or Caribbean from the early 20th century onward, with some 35% of name holders of Carter in the United States being of African-American descent and it being the 22nd most common surname for Black