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Dame Shirley Ida Conran DBE (née Pearce; 21 September 1932 – 9 May 2024) was a British author, designer, journalist and social entrepreneur. After her marriage to Terence Conran with whom she worked as a designer and sales director at Conran Fabrics, she became women's editor of The Observer and the Daily Mail , launching its Femail section.
May 9, 2024 · 9 May 2024. Thomas Mackintosh,BBC News. PA Media. British author and journalist Dame Shirley Conran has died aged 91, days after receiving her damehood. Writing on Instagram, her designer son...
May 22, 2024 · May 22, 2024. Shirley Conran, the industrious and proliferous British author whose 1982 novel, “Lace,” was a tale of female autonomy disguised as a bonkbuster (to use the British term for a...
In 2001 I was the founder and President of The Work-Life Balance Trust, a charity which lobbied for flexi-hours for men and women. By 2004, over 3 million people participated in Work-Life Balance Week. In 2004, I was awarded the O.B.E. for services to Equality. From 2004 to 2014, I developed a new concept for learning maths.
May 9, 2024 · British author and journalist Dame Shirley Conran has died aged 91 just one week after receiving a damehood in hospital. The Lace author’s son, designer Jasper Conran, announced the news on...
Journalist turned novelist who escaped an unhappy marriage to Sir Terence and memorably coined the phrase ‘life is too short to stuff a mushroom’. The Times. Thursday May 09 2024, 10.30pm, The ...
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May 10, 2024 · May 10, 2024 · 8 min read. Shirley Conran (2005): a one-off - David Cairns/Rex Features. Dame Shirley Conran, the designer, journalist, novelist and campaigner, who has died aged 91, in her...
