Rosemary Bailey (author)
Rosemary Bailey | |
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Born | 1953 |
Died | 20 March 2019 (aged 65–66) London, England |
Notable work | Books about France. Life in a Postcard, The Man who Married a Mountain and Love and War in the Pyrenees |
Spouse | Barry Miles |
Website | www |
Rosemary Bailey (1953 – 20 March 2019) was a British writer.[1][2] She writes travel memoirs about France. In 2008 Bailey won the British Guild of Travel Writers' award for best narrative travel book, Love and War in the Pyrenees.[3]
Early life and education
Bailey was born in
Career
After a year on a farm in
In 1997 Bailey published Scarlet Ribbons: A Priest with Aids, the story of her brother, Rev Simon Bailey, an Anglican priest, who remained supported in his Yorkshire parish of Dinnington until he died in 1995.[6][7][8] A new edition of Scarlet Ribbons was published in 2017 to considerable acclaim, including the BBC Radio 4 broadcast A priest with AIDS.[9] on 23 July 2017. Between 1997 and 2005 Bailey was based mainly in Southern France,[10] as described in her second book, Life in a Postcard.[11][12]
Subsequent books explored the
Later career
Bailey was a writing tutor for the Arvon Foundation,[16] a contributor to Jewish Book Week[17] and between 2010-2012 and 2014-2015 a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund at Queen Mary University of London.[5]
Personal life and death
Bailey was married to author Barry Miles, and they had one son.[18] She died in London on 20 March 2019. She had been suffering from leukaemia for several years prior to her death.[19][20]
Publications
Books
- Life in a Postcard: Escape to the French Pyrenees. ISBN 0553813412.[24]
- ISBN 978-0753825914.[27]
- The Arvon Book of Literary Non-fiction (contributor). ISBN 978-1408131237.
Travel guides
- Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Guide to France. (Editor and contributor)
- Insight Guides to Tuscany, the Loire Valley, Burgundy, the Côte d'Azur and Southwest France (Editor and contributor)
- National Geographic Traveler Guide to France. (Author)
- Time Out (magazine) Guide to South of France. (contributor)
Awards
- British Guild of Travel Writers' award for best narrative travel book 2008. (Love and War in the Pyrenees)
- British Guild of Travel Writers award for best European travel article 2006.
- ABTOF (Association of Tour Operators to France) award for best travel article 2008.
- Awarded grant from Francis Head Bequest 2006
References
- ^ Living France, Aug 2009 Paper Tales. Profile of Rosemary Bailey by Deborah Curtis
- ^ Miles. "Rosemary Bailey | Miles". Retrieved 6 February 2024.
- ^ "Rosemary Bailey's LOVE AND WAR IN THE PYRENEES - La Paloma". lapaloma.info. April 2012. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
- ^ Bailey
- ^ a b Rosemary Bailey, Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund at Queen Mary University of London 2010-12 and 2014/15
- ^ "HOW A YORKSHIRE MINING COMMUNITY SUPPORTED THEIR GAY REVEREND WITH AIDS IN THE 1990S", The Independent, 26 July 2017
- ^ "Sister's moving account of her brother's battle with Aids republished", Halifax Courier, 4 August 2017
- ^ The Independent, 15 January 1995 A Parish Learns.., by Rosemary Bailey
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Sunday, A priest with AIDS; the churches and mosques supporting Grenfell; Canterbury's medieval glass".
- ^ Article about Rosemary Bailey in Southern France, Histoire de Mosset
- ^ a b Karen O'Reilly (21 May 2012), "Life in a Postcard - Escape to the french Pyrénées", Get Real France (blog)
- ^ Rosemary Bailey: Random House, Publisher profile
- ^ British Guild of Travel Writers' award for best narrative travel book 2008
- ^ Love and War in the Pyrenees by Rosemary Bailey, Review by P-O Life
- ^ Abrams, Rebecca (12 September 2008), "Love and War In The Pyrenees by Rosemary Bailey", The Jewish Chronicle
- ^ The Arvon Book of Literary Non-fiction, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012. . Contributor
- ^ Rosemary Bailey, Jewish Book Week Contributor
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
- ^ "Rosemary Bailey 1953–2019". RLF. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
- ^ "Rosemary Bailey". Barry Miles. 9 April 2019. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
- ^ AIDS BOOK REVIEW JOURNAL
- ^ "Review of Scarlet Ribbons by Rosemary Bailey", Kirkus Reviews, 10 May 2010
- ^ The Observer, 9 November 1997 Review of Scarlet Ribbons by Emily Ormond
- ^ Kirkus Reviews, 15 February 2003 Review of Life in a Postcard
- ^ "Rosemary Bailey offers a cheat's guide to the Pyrenees". The Guardian. 6 July 2008. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
- ^ The Times, 2005 Review of The Man who Married a Mountain by Celia Brayfield
- ^ The Times, 6 September 2008 Review of Love and War in the Pyrenees by Michèle Roberts
- ^ "The incredible story of Rev Simon Bailey, a gay priest with Aids who won the support of a mining community in the early '90s". The Independent. 26 July 2017. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ^ "My brother was the 'priest with Aids' - here's how he turned a whole community around". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
- ^ "Life of gay Sheffield priest who died from AIDS chronicled as moving book is re-published". Sheffield Star. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
- ^ "Incredible story of priest who died of AIDs and the tough pit village who provided him comfort". Daily Mirror. 22 July 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2017.