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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Shirley_ConranShirley Conran - Wikipedia

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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.

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4. www.nytimes.com › 2024/05/22 › booksShirley Conran, Author Best Known for the Steamy ‘Lace,’ Dies ...

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   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...

5. www.bbc.com › news › articlesNovelist and campaigner Dame Shirley Conran dies aged 91 - BBC

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   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...

6. metro.co.uk › 2024/05/09 › dame-shirley-conran-diesDame Shirley Conran dead aged 91 as son pays ... - Metro

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   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...

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   That look is why best-selling author, journalist and world-class communicator Shirley Conran, aged 85, has dedicated the last fourteen years to maths education. This year she founded The Maths Anxiety Trust. She is sure of the importance of the Trust’s efforts.

8. www.thetimes.co.uk › article › 8780a299-b416/4432/8dDame Shirley Conran obituary: Bestselling author of ...

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   Dame Shirley Conran obituary: Bestselling author of Superwoman and Lace. Journalist turned novelist who escaped an unhappy marriage to Sir Terence and memorably coined the phrase ‘life is too...

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   Who was Dame Shirley Conran?

   • 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 social media this evening. ‘Shirl girl has flown away, a lark ascending,’ he began.

   Dame Shirley Conran dead aged 91 as son pays heartbreaking ... - Metro

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   What did Shirley Conran do for a living?

   • Conran was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the Truss resignation honours list for services to mathematics education as the founder of the Maths Anxiety Trust. The Magic Garden was adapted as a computer program and published by Acornsoft for the BBC Micro as Shirley Conran's Magic Garden in 1983.

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   Does Shirley Conran really know her characters?

   • The Switzerland of private boarding schools, chateaus, chalets and the jet-set, worlds away from my own hometown, and yet the book still held its exotic appeal. Shirley Conran really knows her characters and, boy, does she have the vocabulary and artistic flair to realize them.

   Book Review: 'Lace' By Shirley Conran : NPR

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   How did Shirley Conran become a millionaire?

   • A divorced single mother, she started out to write a sex guide for schoolgirls and ended up with a tale of female autonomy that became a best-selling novel. Shirley Conran in 1982, the year her novel “Lace” was published. It became a best seller and made her a millionaire. Carole Latimer/Camera Press, via Redux

   Shirley Conran, Author Best Known for the Steamy ‘Lace,’ Dies at 91

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10. www.npr.org › 2014/07/23 › 334439912Book Review: 'Lace' By Shirley Conran : NPR

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    Aug 17, 2014 · August 17, 20145:23 AM ET. By. Irene Sabatini. Lace. A Novel. By Shirley Conran. Purchase. I first read Lace as a 16-year-old schoolgirl at Dominican Convent High School in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe,...