Rosemary Dinnage Explained

Rosemary Dinnage (née Allen; 17 January 1928 – 10 July 2015) was a British author and critic. She was listed by The Observer as one of Britain's top 300 intellectuals in 2011.

Biography

Rosemary Dinnage was born in Oxford^[1] and grew up in Rhodes House where her father, Sir Carleton Kemp Allen was Warden. After wartime evacuation to Canada, she studied English at Somerville College, Oxford.^[2]

Besides books, she published regular reviews^{[3] [4]} in The New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books.

In 2011, she featured in John Naughton's list of Britain's top 300 intellectuals,^[5] published in The Observer.

She died on 10 July 2015, aged 87.^[6]

Bibliography

• Annie Besant (Lives of Modern Women), 1986, Penguin
• One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, 1988, Viking
• The Ruffian on the Stair, 1990, Viking
• Alone! Alone!: Lives of Some Outsider Women, 2004, Granta
• The Long Vacation, 2012, Lulu

External links

• Amazon author page

Notes and References

1. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n20/rosemary-dinnage/diary London Review of Books, Diary - Rosemary Dinnage
2. News: Rosemary Dinnage obituary. 5 August 2015. The Guardian. John Ryle.
3. http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/rosemary-dinnage/ The New York Review of Books Contributors - Rosemary Dinnage
4. http://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/rosemary-dinnage London Review of Books Contributors - Rosemary Dinnage
5. https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011/may/08/top-300-british-intellectuals Britain's top 300 intellectuals
6. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obituaries/article4514377.ece Rosemary Dinnage obituary