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Jacqueline Anne Gillott (24 September 1939 – 19 September 1980) was an English novelist and broadcaster.'Miss Jacky Gillott: Journalist, broadcaster and novelist', ''
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'', 22 September 1980 She was one of Britain's first female television reporters.


Life and career

Born in
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,
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, Gillott attended
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. She worked as a journalist for a provincial newspaper before starting a television career with
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. She later presented programmes on the
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, including early editions of the '' Film Show''. She also wrote five successful novels between 1968 and 1979.


Personal life and death

Gillott was married to the television producer
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, and they had two sons. They moved to a small farm in
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in 1972 to live as near as possible to self-sufficiency; she wrote about their experiences in a book, ''Providence Place'' (1977). After suffering from depression and marital troubles, Gillott killed herself at her cottage in
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, Somerset on 24 September 1980. She was 40 years old. After her death, Gillott and Percival's friend and neighbour
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described her as "a brittle, sexy, faintly raucous persona always", but noted that underneath there was somebody "ugly, confused, uncertain – all that she didn't sound on TV or radio".


Books

*''Salvage'' 1968 *''War Baby'' 1971 *''For Better, for Worse: Marriage and the Family'' 1971 (non-fiction) *''A True Romance'' 1976 *''Crying Out Loud'' 1976 *''Providence Place: Animals in a Landscape'' 1977 (non-fiction) *''The Head Case'' 1979 *''Intimate Relations and Other Stories'' 1980 Gillott's journalism included the posthumously published memoir "Twelfth Man", a contribution to Michael Meyer's
cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...
anthology ''Summer Days'' (1981), in which she wrote: "I have cricket to thank for the healing knowledge that nothing in this world lacks a comic profile and that it is more pleasurable to laugh in company than it is to laugh alone. Thus armoured, one can overcome the hurt and disappointment of many a thing ..." Michael Meyer (editor), ''Summer Days: Writers on Cricket'', Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1987 (first published by Methuen in 1981), pp. 64–72.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gillott, Jacky 1939 births 1980 deaths People from Bromley Alumni of University College London English women novelists 20th-century English novelists English television presenters Drug-related suicides in England 20th-century English women writers 1980 suicides