Rosemary Bailey (author)

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]

Bailey was born in Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire ^[4] in 1953, daughter of the Baptist minister Rev Walter Bailey. In 1959 the family moved to Birkenhead, near Liverpool, and then to Newcastle-under-Lyme where she attended Clayton Hall Grammar School. She then attended the University of Bristol, taking a degree in English and Philosophy. Rosemary Bailey is a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers, the Society of Authors and a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund.^[5]

After a year on a farm in Somerset Bailey moved to London as a researcher with The Daily Telegraph Information Service, then spent three years training as journalist with Haymarket Publications on Engineering Today. She followed that by several years as a freelance journalist in London and New York City, writing about travel, women's issues, food, fashion and literary matters for The Guardian , The Sunday Times , The Independent , Elle , Vogue and others. She has edited and written travel guides to New York, Italy, but mainly France, for Time Out , Insight Guides, Dorling Kindersley and National Geographic Traveler.^{[citation needed ]}

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 Pyrenees further, The Man who Married a Mountain (2005) about a 19th-century mountaineer, Sir Henry Russell-Killough, and the award-winning^[13] Love and War in the Pyrenees^{[11] [14]} about World War II in the region, Camp de Rivesaltes , described by The Jewish Chronicle as "a quiet triumph of historical reconstruction."^[15]

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]

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]}

• Scarlet Ribbons: A Priest with Aids . Serpent's Tail. 1997. ISBN 1-85242-521-0.^{[21] [22] [23]}
• Life in a Postcard: Escape to the French Pyrenees . Transworld Publishers. 2002. ISBN 0553813412.^[24]
• The Man Who Married a Mountain . Transworld Publishers. 2005. ISBN 0-553-81523-7.^{[25] [26]}
• Love and War in the Pyrenees . Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2008. ISBN 978-0753825914.^[27]
• The Arvon Book of Literary Non-fiction (contributor). Bloomsbury Publishing. 2012. ISBN 978-1408131237.
• Scarlet Ribbons: A Priest with Aids . Jorvik Press. 2017. ISBN 978-0-9863770-3-7.^{[28] [29] [30] [31]}

• 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)

• 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

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• 1953 births
• 2019 deaths
• British women travel writers
• British travel writers
• Writers from Halifax, West Yorkshire
• Alumni of the University of Bristol
• 20th-century British writers
• 20th-century British women writers
• 21st-century British writers
• 21st-century British women writers

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