Shirley Darbyshire Shirley Darbyshire i(A46778 works by) (birth name: Shirley Ruth Darbyshire) (a.k.a. Shirley Meynell; Mrs Laurence Meynell; Ruth Meynell)
Born: Established: 2 Feb 1903 St Leonards, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales, ; Died: Ceased: 1955 Buckinghamshire,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
Gender: Female
Expatriate assertion Departed from Australia: 1924
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BiographyHistory

Shirley Darbyshire was the daughter of Australian journalist and author Taylor Darbyshire. Educated in Australia, she moved to England in the early 1920s, where she was London correspondent for The Australasian. In 1932 she married Laurence Meynell, a well known and prolific English author. She died from cancer in 1955.

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  • The December 1933 issue of The Home contains the following reference (which includes the apparent erroneous spelling of 'Darbeyshire'): 'Mrs Laurence Meynell (Shirley Darbeyshire) 'has had her first novel published by Grayson and Grayson. The title is Something Human. It is a quiet story with romantic flavour, full of clever character delineations. Her publishers are so impressed with the young writer's work that they have contracted for another book, which Miss Shirley Darbeyshire will write during the coming English winter. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Taylor Darbeyshire, so well known in Australian journalistic circles.'

    Source: Home (December 1933), appears in the topical column, 'This, That and Them' by London correspondent T. H. Cochran.
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