Jane White

Jane White (1934 - 1985) was an English novelist. White was born in Cambridge in 1934, where her father was a lecturer in History at Downing College. The family moved to Norfolk, where Jane was taught at home by a governess until the age of nine, thereafter attending a Convent boarding school. At eighteen she won a state scholarship to Girton College, Cambridge, graduating with an upper second degree in English. She worked in a public library, was a waitress, a general help in a maternity hospital, then for five years a News Clerk in the News Information Department at the BBC World Service. On the 10th of May 1960, her short story Boy with a Dog was read by actor David Enders as the 'Morning…