Rosemary Bailey (1953 – 20 March 2019) was a British writer.Living France, Aug 2009 Paper Tales. Profile of Rosemary Bailey by Deborah Curtis 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.
Early life and education Bailey was born in Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire Bailey 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.Rosemary Bailey, Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund at Queen Mary University of London 2010-12 and 2014/15
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.The Independent, 15 January 1995 A Parish Learns.., by Rosemary Bailey A new edition of Scarlet Ribbons was published in 2017 to considerable acclaim, including the BBC Radio 4 broadcast A priest with AIDS. on 23 July 2017. Between 1997 and 2005 Bailey was based mainly in Southern France,Article about Rosemary Bailey in Southern France, Histoire de Mosset as described in her second book, Life in a Postcard.Rosemary Bailey: Random House, Publisher profile
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-winningBritish Guild of Travel Writers' award for best narrative travel book 2008 Love and War in the PyreneesLove and War in the Pyrenees by Rosemary Bailey, Review by P-O Life about World War II in the region, Camp de Rivesaltes, described by The Jewish Chronicle as "a quiet triumph of historical reconstruction."
Later career Bailey was a writing tutor for the Arvon Foundation,The Arvon Book of Literary Non-fiction, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012. . Contributor a contributor to Jewish Book WeekRosemary Bailey, Jewish Book Week Contributor and between 2010-2012 and 2014-2015 a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund at Queen Mary University of London.
Personal life and death Bailey was married to author Barry Miles, and they had one son. She died in London on 20 March 2019. She had been suffering from leukaemia for several years prior to her death.
Publications Books AIDS BOOK REVIEW JOURNALThe Observer, 9 November 1997 Review of Scarlet Ribbons by Emily Ormond Kirkus Reviews, 15 February 2003 Review of Life in a Postcard The Times, 2005 Review of The Man who Married a Mountain by Celia Brayfield The Times, 6 September 2008 Review of Love and War in the Pyrenees by Michèle Roberts
Travel guides Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Guide to France. (Editor and contributor) Insight Guides to Tuscany, the Loire Valley, Burgundy, the Côte d'Azur and Southwest France (Editor and contributor) National Geographic Traveler Guide to France. (Author) Time Out (magazine) Guide to South of France. (contributor)
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
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