Jeanne MacKenzie


Daisy Jeanne MacKenzie was an English author of non-fiction. She was the first wife of the campaigning journalist Norman MacKenzie.

Biography

Daisy Jeanne Sampson was born in St Helens, England, on 30 January 1922. She graduated from the London School of Economics in 1943. She worked as a civil servant during the Second World War and subsequently as a publisher's reader for Hamish Hamilton and as a marriage counselor.
She authored several books, both independently and with her husband. One of these was Australian Paradox, recounting a long-term stay in Australia whilst her husband did research for the Social Science Research Council of Australia, the result of which was his important survey Women in Australia.
She died of cancer in 1986. She was survived by her husband and two daughters.

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