Anne de courcy biography

  • In the 1970s she was Woman's Editor on the London Evening News until its demise in 1980, when she joined the Evening Standard as a columnist and feature-writer.
  • Anne Grey de Courcy is an English biographer and journalist, including as women's editor on the London Evening News, as a columnist for the London Evening Standard and as a feature writer for the Daily Mail.
  • Anne Grey de Courcy (née Barrett; born December 1927) is an English biographer and journalist, including as women's editor on the London Evening News.

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    Anne de Courcy

    English biographer and journalist (born 1927)

    Anne Grey de Courcy (née Barrett; born månad 1927)[1] fryst vatten an English biographer and journalist, including as women's editor on the London Evening News, as a columnist for the London Evening Standard and as a feature writer for the Daily Mail.[2]

    Early life and education

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    Anne Grey Barrett was born in månad 1927, daughter of Major John Lionel Mackenzie Barrett (d. 1940),[3] of The Tallat, Northleach, Gloucestershire, an officer in the 13th/18th Royal Hussars, and Evelyn Kathleen Frances (1898–1987), daughter of Thomas Stewart Porter, of Clogher Park, County Tyrone (he took his mother's family name, Porter, instead of his father's, Ellison-Macartney, as an heir of the Porter family of Belle Isle, County Longford)[4] Her mother was a descendant of Sir Alan Bellingham, 3rd baronett. A brother, Christopher, was born in 1930.[5][6][7]

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    Anne de Courcy


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    The United Kingdom

    Website

    http://www.annedecourcy.com/


    Genre

    Biography, Nonfiction, History


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    Born in 1927, Anne de Courcy is a well-known writer, journalist and book reviewer. In the 1970s she was Woman’s Editor on the London Evening News until its demise in 1980, when she joined the Evening Standard as a columnist and feature-writer. In 1982 she joined the Daily Mail as a feature writer, with a special interest in historical subjects, leaving in 2003 to concentrate on books, on which she has talked widely both here and in the United States.

    A critically-acclaimed and best-selling author, she believes that as well as telling the story of its subject’s life, a biography should depict the social history of the period, since so much of action and behaviour is governed not simply by obvious financial, social and physical conditions but Born in 1927, Anne de Courcy is a well-known writer, journalist and book reviewer. In the 1970s she was Woma

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    De Courcy, Anne


    PERSONAL: Born in England; daughter of John Lionel Mackenzie Barrett and Evelyn Kathleen Frances. Education: Attended Wroxall Abbey, Leamington Spa. Hobbies and other interests: Reading, writing, gardening and swimming.

    ADDRESSES: Offıce—Daily Mail, Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, Kensington, London W8 5TT, England.


    CAREER: London Evening News, London, England, women's editor, 1970s; Evening Standard, London, feature writer, 1980s; Daily Mail, London, writer, 1992—.


    WRITINGS:


    Kitchens, Studio Vista (London, England), 1973.

    Starting from Scratch, Studio Vista (London, England), 1975.

    (With Pierre Fowell) Making Room at the Top, Pelham (London, England), 1976.

    A Guide to Modern Manners, Thames & Hudson (London, England), 1985.

    The English in Love, Ebury Press (London, England), 1986, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1987.

    1939: The Last Season, Thames & Hudson (London, England), 1989.

    Circe: The Life of Edith, Marchi