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Irene Amy Byers (nee Cookson)

30/12/2020

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On This Day 30th December 1906, the Author Irene Amy Byers (nee Cookson) was born. 

A resident of 69 Baldry Gardens, Streatham

In her early career Byers worked as a freelance journalist specialising in interviews with famous people such as John Gielgud and Dame Sybil Thorndike Byers gave up her career on marriage, around 1930, to Cyril Byers, but took up writing again after her children were at school. She also wrote poems for her children during the war.

She was a regular contributor to the BBC's Woman's Hour and two of her books were serialised onChildren's Hour 

(Thanks to Tudor JL Jones)
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