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词条 Jeanne MacKenzie
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  1. Biography

  2. Books

  3. References

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Daisy Jeanne MacKenzie (known as Jeanne, pronounced Jean, 30 January 1922 – 16 October 1986) was an English author of non-fiction. She was the first wife of the campaigning journalist Norman MacKenzie.

Biography

Daisy Jeanne Sampson was born in St Helens, Merseyside on 30 January 1922. She graduated from the London School of Economics in 1943. She worked as a civil servant during the Second World War and subsequently as a publisher's reader for Hamish Hamilton and as a marriage counselor.[1]

She authored several books, both independently and with her husband. One of these was Australian Paradox,[2] recounting a long-term stay in Australia whilst her husband did research for the Social Science Research Council of Australia, the result of which was his important survey Women in Australia (1962).

She died of cancer in 1986. She was survived by her husband and two daughters.

Books

  • An Authentic and Faithful History of the Mysterious Murder of Maria Marten (1948) with Norman Ian MacKenzie
  • Australian Paradox (1961)
  • The Time Traveller: The Life of H.G. Wells (1973) with Norman Ian MacKenzie
  • The First Fabians (1977) with Norman Ian MacKenzie
  • Dickens: A Life (1979) with Norman Ian MacKenzie
  • A Victorian Courtship: The Story of Beatrice Potter and Sidney Webb (1979) {{isbn|978-0195201666}}
  • Cycling (1981) as editor
  • The Children of the Souls: A Tragedy of the First World War (1986) {{isbn|978-0701128470}}

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=Five College Archives & Manuscript Collections|URL=https://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss266.html |accessdate=24 August 2017}}
2. ^{{cite book|last1=Bryson|first1=B|title=Down Under|date=2000|publisher=Black Swan|location=London|isbn=9780552997034|page=179}}
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6 : 1922 births|1986 deaths|20th-century English writers|English biographers|Alumni of the London School of Economics|People from St Helens, Merseyside

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