Documento ECJ - Memoir of Betty Jerman 1950-1956

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Part of a project by the Guardian to gather material for the archive.

Memoir of Betty Jerman. Topics covered include: joining the Manchester Guardian in 1950; travelling to various shows as part of her fashion column, which she wrote under the name Clair Wilson; her attendance at the Coronation Night Ball at the Savoy and her encounter with the Queen of Tonga.

Administrative/Biographical history: Betty Jerman was the first post-war Guardian fashion and interior design writer. She was recruited from the Foreign Office by Richard Scott and worked first with Richard Fry and Gerard Fay in the London office. Her first fashion items on hats appeared 19 July 1951. She left the paper in 1956.

OHP/40 Oral history interview with Betty Jerman