Rebecca Swift (1) (1964–2017)

Rebecca Margaret Swift was born in London, England on January 10, 1964. She read English at New College, Oxford University. Her first job in publishing was at Lokamaya Press, which published translations from Urdu and Hindi. She was a junior editor at Virago Press from 1989 to 1995. In 1996, she mehr anzeigen and Hannah Griffiths founded The Literary Consultancy (TLC), a manuscript assessment agency offering detailed editorial feedback to anyone writing in English anywhere in the world. Swift received a master's degree in psychoanalytic studies at the Tavistock Clinic in 1999. She wrote and edited several books including Letters from Margaret: The Fascinating Story of Margaret Wheeler and Two Babies Swapped at Birth, Imagining Characters, and Poetic Lives: Dickinson. She also wrote poetry, which was published in numerous anthologies. She died of cancer on April 18, 2017 at the age of 53. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen