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Lorna Sage
A career in literature seemed pre-ordained from the moment Lorna Sage was named after the title character of R. D. Blackmore's Lorna Doone. As with that novel, Sage’s life was full of incident.
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Janet Morgan
Janet Morgan was born in 1945 in Canada to English parents while her father, an atomic research expert, was working on a top-secret British project in Montreal.
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Frank Delaney
Frank Delaney, who died in 2017, was an Irish novelist, non-fiction writer and broadcaster who was once called – possibly with some justification – ‘the most eloquent man in the world’.
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John Carey
John Carey was one of Britain’s most distinguished academics and literary critics, who managed to combine scholarly rigour with invigorating attacks on elitist views of high culture
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Libby Purves
Libby Purves is a journalist and radio presenter of long-standing who has worked for an eclectic roster of media outlets, including the BBC, the Times, the Oldie and Yachting Monthly.
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Peter Porter
The Australian-born Peter Porter, who died in 2010, became one of Britain’s best-loved poets. Perhaps appropriately for his future career, he was sacked from his first job in journalism for his ‘unworldliness’.
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Terence Kilmartin
Terence Kilmartin was a literary editor and translator best known for his revision (almost retranslation) of C. K. Scott-Moncrieff's version of Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu.
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Angela Carter
Angela Carter was a lauded novelist who died of lung cancer aged just 51. Despite acclaimed books such as Wise Children and Nights at the Circus, she was never nominated for the Booker Prize.
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Ted Rowlands
Ted Rowlands was a Welsh Labour Party MP for some 30 years, for Cardiff North and then Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney. He was elevated to the House of Lords in 2004.
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Polly Devlin
Polly Devlin was born in rural Northern Ireland and started her journalistic career at 21 when she won a talent competition, with the prize being a job at Vogue magazine in London.