Penelope Mortimer
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Writer Penelope Mortimer had a difficult childhood, including attending seven different schools. She attended a secretarial course in London, England, at the age of 17, and then studied on a degree course for a year. She became a successful freelance journalist, and her first novel, 'Johanna,' was published in 1947. She published several novels between 1958 and 1972, when she divorced her second husband, barrister John Mortimer. Her writing career took a new direction in 1986, when she published a biography of the Queen Mother.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1999
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Chelsea: a green-fingered guide
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The displays at the 1999 Chelsea Flower Show are extremely diverse. Visitors can easily become overwhelmed, and may prefer to focus on a small number of displays, rather than trying to see everything. The best displays include the Portmeirion Garden, designed by Bunny Guinness and Peter Eustace, the Floating Garden, which has planters containing phormiums, fatsias, bamboos and ligularias, the Garden of the Book of Gold, a recreation of an Arab courtyard garden, and the Cascades Garden, designed and built by Myles Challis.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1999
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