Rosemary Bailey (author)

Rosemary Bailey is a British writer. 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.[1]

Rosemary Bailey
Born1953 (age 66–67)
Yorkshire, England
Notable work
Books about France. Life in a Postcard, The Man who Married a Mountain and Love and War in the Pyrenees
Spouse(s)Barry Miles
Websitewww.rosemarybailey.com

Early life and education

Bailey was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire[2] 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.[3]

Career

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.

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. A new edition of Scarlet Ribbons was published in 2017 to considerable acclaim, including the BBC Radio 4 broadcast A priest with AIDS.[4] on 23 July 2017. Between 1997 and 2005 Bailey was based mainly in Southern France,[5] as described in her second book, Life in a Postcard.[6][7]

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[8] Love and War in the Pyrenees[6][9] about World War II in the region, Camp de Rivesaltes, described by The Jewish Chronicle as "a quiet triumph of historical reconstruction."[10]

Later career

Bailey is a writing tutor for the Arvon Foundation,[11] a contributor to Jewish Book Week [12] and between 2010-2012 and 2014-2015 a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund at Queen Mary University of London.[3]

Personal life

Bailey is married to author Barry Miles,[13] and they have one son.

Books
  • Scarlet Ribbons: A Priest with Aids. Serpent's Tail. 1997. ISBN 1-85242-521-0.[14]
  • Life in a Postcard: Escape to the French Pyrenees. Transworld Publishers. 2002. ISBN 0553813412.
  • The Man Who Married a Mountain. Transworld Publishers. 2005. ISBN 0 553 81523 7.[15]
  • Love and War in the Pyrenees. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2008. ISBN 0753825910.
  • The Arvon Book of Literary Non-fiction (contributor). Bloomsbury Publishing. 2012. ISBN 1408131234.
  • Scarlet Ribbons: A Priest with Aids. Jorvik Press. 2017. ISBN 978-0-9863770-3-7.[16][17][18][19]

Travel guides

Awards
  • 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

Reviews

References
  1. "Rosemary Bailey's LOVE AND WAR IN THE PYRENEES - La Paloma". lapaloma.info. April 2012. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  2. Bailey
  3. Rosemary Bailey, Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund at Queen Mary University of London 2010-12 and 2014/15
  4. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08ylr4n#play
  5. Article about Rosemary Bailey in Southern France, Histoire de Mosset
  6. Karen O'Reilly, "Life in a Postcard - Escape to the french Pyrénées", Get Real France (blog)
  7. Rosemary Bailey: Random House, Publisher profile
  8. British Guild of Travel Writers’ award for best narrative travel book 2008
  9. Love and War in the Pyrenees by Rosemary Bailey, Review by P-O Life
  10. Abrams, Rebecca (12 September 2008), "Love and War In The Pyrenees by Rosemary Bailey", The Jewish Chronicle
  11. The Arvon Book of Literary Non-fiction, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012. . Contributor
  12. Rosemary Bailey, Jewish Book Week Contributor
  13. The Guardian, Books A life in … Barry Miles, 20 March 2010
  14. AIDS BOOK REVIEW JOURNAL
  15. "Rosemary Bailey offers a cheat's guide to the Pyrenees". the Guardian. 6 July 2008. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  16. INDEPENDENT
  17. "My brother was the 'priest with Aids' - here's how he turned a whole community around". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  18. "Life of gay Sheffield priest who died from AIDS chronicled as moving book is re-published". Sheffield Star. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
  19. "Incredible story of priest who died of AIDs and the tough pit village who provided him comfort". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
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