(Mary) Rosalie Glynn Grylls (13 April 1905 – 2 November 1988), was a British biographer, lecturer and

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politician. In 1945 she became known as Lady Mander. She was the daughter of Archibald Campbell Glynn Grylls of

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; the family had been established in the county for centuries. She was educated at

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, and

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, where she graduated with a

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. In 1929 she was employed as Secretary to the Liberal MP Edgar Granville. In July 1930 she was selected as Liberal prospective parliamentary candidate for the

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Division of Berkshire for the General Election that was to occur in 1931. In November 1930 she married Liberal MP

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at a ceremony at the House of Commons, where Granville was Mander's best man. She was Mander’s second wife. They had one son and one daughter:‘MANDER, Lady (Rosalie); (R. Glynn Grylls)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 201
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/ref> John Geoffrey Grylls Mander and Anthea Loveday Veronica Mander. By the time the General Election came, a National Government had been formed and the Reading Liberals did not contest the constituency. Although she remained interested in politics, she did not attempt to stand again for public office and instead concentrated on her writing. She was a noted biographer with a special interest in the writers and artists of the Romantic period and an early connoisseur of the

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. Her biographical subjects included

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(1938),

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(1939),

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(1950),

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(1953),

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(1965),

Ivy Compton-Burnett Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, (; 5 June 188427 August 1969) was an English novelist, published in the original editions as I. Compton-Burnett. She was awarded the 1955 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her novel ''Mother and Son''. Her works co ...

(1971) and

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime. Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Elizabet ...

(1980). She was influential in the overdue reassessment of the artists and writers of the Victorian period. She lectured frequently in the USA.

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*1930 Portrait at the National Portrait Gallery: http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw53363/Rosalie-Glynn-ne-Grylls-Lady-Le-Mesurier?LinkID=mp54208&role=sit&rNo=0 *Family article: http://www.historywebsite.co.uk/genealogy/SirGeoffreyMander/Mander.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Grylls, Rosalie Glynn 1905 births 1988 deaths Liberal Party (UK) parliamentary candidates Alumni of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford