Lyndon Rose was a teacher from 1941 to 1949, and a lecturer in Communication and Study Skills at Australian National University from 1959 to 1974. She was awarded a B.A. from the University of Queensland. Her non-fiction books include
People in the Sun (1961), which includes photographs by her husband
Ronald Rose (q.v.), and
Richard Siddons of Port Jackson (1984). Rose lived for many years at Bateman's Bay in New South Wales.
