Rosemary Dinnage (

née A birth name is the name of a person given upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name, or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth re ...

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

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and grew up in

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where her father, Sir Carleton Kemp Allen was Warden. After wartime evacuation to

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, she studied English at

Somerville College, Oxford Somerville College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. Among its alumnae have been Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Dorothy Hodgkin, Ir ...

. Besides books, she published regular reviews in ''

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'' and the ''

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''. In 2011, she featured in

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's list of Britain's top 300 intellectuals, published in ''

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''. She died on 10 July 2015, aged 87.Rosemary Dinnage obituary
the times.co.uk. Accessed 27 December 2022.

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

References

External links

Amazon author page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dinnage, Rosemary 1928 births 2015 deaths British writers Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford