Sylvia Morris (other)
Sylvia Morris may refer to: * Sylvia Jukes Morris, British biographer * Dame Sylvia Morris (headteacher), Sylvia Morris, British headteacher (see the list of dames commander of the Order of the British Empire) {{hndis, Morris, Sylvia ...
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Sylvia Jukes Morris
Sylvia Jukes Morris (May 24, 1935 – January 5, 2020) was a British-born biographer, based in the United States. She was married to writer Edmund Morris. Education and early career Morris was born in Worcestershire, England and educated at Dudley Girl's Grammar School and London University. She taught history and English literature in London before marrying Edmund Morris in 1966 and emigrating to the U.S. two years later. After a period of freelance travel and food writing, she published ''Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady'', the first-book-length biography of Theodore Roosevelt's second wife, in 1980; the book was based on hitherto private family documents. Reviews were positive; Annalyn Swan in ''Newsweek'' called it "marvelously full-blooded ndengagingly written." ''The Christian Science Monitor'' said the book represented "craftsmanship of the highest order," and R. W. B. Lewis in ''The Washington Post Book World'', called it "an endlessly engrossing boo ...
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