dramatic realism and humanism; for Moneypenny, Bond was "unobtainable", freeing the characters to make outrageous sexual double entendres. Later life Maxwell's husband died in 1973, having never fully recovered from his heart attack in the 1960s. Maxwell subsequently returned to Canada, settling in Fort Erie, Ontario, where she lived on Oakes Drive. She spent her summers at a cottage outside Espanola, Ontario, where she wrote a weekly column for the Toronto Sun under the pseudonym "Miss Moneypenny" from 1979 until 1994, and became a businesswoman working in the textile industry. In 1994, she returned to the UK once again to be nearer to her daughter Melinda, retiring to a cottage in Frome, Somerset. A plaque has been placed on her home there by the Frome Society of Local Study. Death Following surgery for bowel cancer in 2001, Maxwell moved to Perth, Western Australia, to live with her son Christian's family. She remained there, working on her autobiography, until her death at Fremantle Hospital on 29 September 2007. Of his friend's death, Sir Roger Moore said to BBC Radio 5 Live, "It's rather a shock. She was always fun and she was wonderful to be with and was absolutely perfect casting [...] It was a great pity that, after I moved out of Bond, they didn't take her on to continue in the Timothy Dalton films. I think it was a great disappointment to her that she had not been promoted to play M. She would have been a wonderful M." Partial filmography A Matter of Life and Death (1946) as Actress (uncredited) Spring Song (1946) as Penelope Cobb (uncredited) That Hagen Girl (1947) as Julia Kane Corridor of Mirrors (1948) as Lois The Big Punch (1948) as Karen Long The Dark Past (1948) as Ruth Collins The Decision of Christopher Blake (1948) as Miss McIntyre (uncredited) Crime Doctor's Diary (1949) as Jane Darrin Kazan (1949) as Louise Maitlin Tomorrow Is Too Late (1950) as Signorina Anna Love and Poison (1950) as Queen Christina Brief Rapture (1951) as Erika The Woman's Angle (1952) as Enid Mansell Viva il cinema! (1952) Ha da venì... don Calogero (1952) as Maestrina Lady in the Fog (1952) as Margaret 'Peggy' Maybrick Women of Twilight (1952) as Chris Ralston, the New Mother Mantrap (1953) as Thelma Speight / Tasman Aida (1953) as Amneris La Grande Speranza (1955) as Lt. Lily Donald Passport to Treason (1956) as