Carole Seymour-Jones
Carole Seymour-Jones | |
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| Born | March 3, 1943 Towyn, Wales |
| Died | May 23, 2015 (aged 72) |
| Nationality | Welsh |
| Occupation | Writer |
Carole Veronica Gillian Seymour-Jones (3 March 1943 – 23 May 2015) was a Welsh writer. She taught history at
Surrey University. She wrote biographies of Beatrice Webb and Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot
.
Biography
Seymour-Jones was born in
sixth formers.[2]
Although she had been writing educational books for some years, Seymour-Jones' career as a biographer began after the breakup of her first marriage after 26 years in the early 1990s.PEN, the writers' association, from 1997 to 2001, sat on its Books to Prisoners Committee, and chaired its Writers in Prison Committee.[2]
Marriage
Seymour-Jones met the probation officer and radio playwright Geoffrey Parkinson in 1992; the couple married in 2012. Parkinson died in 2014;[1][4] Seymour-Jones died on 23 May 2015.[3]
References
- ^ a b c d "Carole Seymour-Jones, biographer - obituary", Daily Telegraph, 24 June 2015
- ^ a b Committee Chairs Archived 13 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine, PEN, accessed 11 November 2009.
- ^ a b "Carole Seymour-Jones", The Times, 30 May 2015, reprinted on Seymour Jones website Archived 1 August 2015 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Kate Parkinson "Geoffrey Parkinson obituary", The Guardian, 7 October 2014
Further reading
- Seymour-Jones, Carole (2001). Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T. S. Eliot, Knopf Publishing Group.
- Seymour-Jones, Carole (14 October 2001). Tom and Viv... and Bertie, The Observer.
- Seymour-Jones, Carole (26 October 2001). Not crazy after all these years, Times Higher Education.
- Mulley, Clare (13 July 2013). She Landed by Moonlight (book review), The Spectator.
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