Dea Birkett

Dea Birkett (born 1958) is a British writer, journalist, broadcaster and a former circus performer.[1] She has written on social issues for The Guardian and broadcasts for BBC Radio 4.

She is creative director of the charity Kids in Museums and Ringmaster of Circus 250. She is the mother of disabled actress Storme Toolis.

She was awarded the Somerset Maugham Award in 1993 for Jella.

Bibliography
  • Spinsters Abroad (1989)
  • Jella: A Woman at Sea (1992)
  • Mary Kingsley: Imperial Adventuress (1992)
  • Serpent in Paradise (1997)
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gollark: I have an giant set of config files spread across all my systems with almost no backups!
gollark: I would ++delete macron but I don't have to as it's not real.
gollark: Idea for making osmarksßsystemd more like regular systemd and thus better: control entirely through UDP using a proprietary binary protocol.
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References
  1. Dea Birkett "Down to the wire", The Guardian, 20 June 2007


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