Daisy Jeanne MacKenzie (known as Jeanne, pronounced ''Jean'', 30 January 1922 – 16 October 1986) was an English author of non-fiction. She was the first wife of the journalist and academic Norman MacKenzie.

Biography

Daisy Jeanne Sampson was born in St Helens, England, on 30 January 1922, the daughter of Leonard Sampson (1894–1977), a leather factor, and his wife, Emily, née Middlehurst (1894–1984). Her elder brother was the academic and peace activist Ronald V. Sampson (1918–1999). She was brought up in the Moss Bank area of St Helens and attended Cowley Girls’ School, the local Grammar School. After graduating from the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

in 1943, she worked as a civil servant during the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

and subsequently as a

publisher's reader A publisher's reader or first reader is a person paid by a publisher or book sales club A book sales club is a subscription-based method of selling and purchasing books. It is more often called simply a book club, a term that is also used to descri ...

for

Hamish Hamilton Hamish Hamilton Limited was a British book publishing house, founded in 1931 eponymously by the half-Scot half-American Jamie Hamilton (''Hamish'' is the vocative form of the Gaelic Seumas eaning James ''James'' the English form – which was ...

and in the 1960s as a counsellor with the Marriage Guidance Council. She authored several books, both independently and with her husband. One of these was ''Australian Paradox'', recounting a year-long stay in Australia whilst her husband did research for the Social Science Research Council of Australia, the result of which was his important survey ''Women in Australia'' (1962). She was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1978, together with her husband Norman. She died of ovarian cancer in 1986. She was survived by her husband and two daughters.

Books

* ''An Authentic and Faithful History of the Mysterious Murder of Maria Marten'' (1948) with Norman MacKenzie * ''Australian Paradox'' (1961) * ''The Time Traveller: The Life of H.G. Wells'' (1973) with Norman MacKenzie * ''The Diary of Beatrice Webb'', 4 vols, edited with Norman MacKenzie: (1982) ; (1983) ; (1984) ; (1985) * ''The First

Fabians The Fabian Society is a British socialist organisation whose purpose is to advance the principles of social democracy and democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist effort in democracies, rather than by revolutionary overthrow. The Fab ...

'' (1977) with Norman MacKenzie * ''

Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian er ...

: A Life'' (1979) with Norman MacKenzie * ''A Victorian Courtship: The Story of

Beatrice Potter Martha Beatrice Webb, Baroness Passfield, (née Potter; 22 January 1858 – 30 April 1943) was an English sociologist, economist, socialist, labour historian and social reformer. It was Webb who coined the term ''collective bargaining''. She ...

and

Sidney Webb Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, (13 July 1859 – 13 October 1947) was a British socialist, economist and reformer, who co-founded the London School of Economics. He was an early member of the Fabian Society in 1884, joining, like Geo ...

'' (1979) * ''Cycling'' (1981) as editor * ''The Children of the Souls: A Tragedy of the First World War'' (1986)

References

External links

Norman Ian and Jeanne MacKenzie papers
at the

Sophia Smith Collection The Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College is an internationally recognized repository of manuscripts, photographs, periodicals and other primary sources in women's history. General One of the largest recognized repositories of manuscripts, ar ...

, Smith College Special Collections {{DEFAULTSORT:MacKenzie, Jeanne 1922 births 1986 deaths 20th-century English writers English biographers Alumni of the London School of Economics People from St Helens, Merseyside