1. Dame Elizabeth Audrey Withers OBE, known as Audrey Withers, was an English journalist, active as a member of the Council of Industrial Design.
13 Facts About Audrey Withers
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Audrey Withers edited the British magazine Vogue between 1940 and 1960 and was the author of The Palaces of Leningrad and an autobiography.
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The family soon moved to the Lake District, where Audrey Withers grew up with an older sister and a younger brother on the shores of Derwent Water.
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Audrey Withers went as a boarder to St Leonards School, St Andrews, then to Somerville, her mother's old college, graduating from Oxford in 1927 with a Second in philosophy, politics, and economics.
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Audrey Withers was disappointed to be given no chance of driving fire engines, despite gaining a heavy goods vehicle licence.
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Audrey Withers kept the offices of Vogue in Golden Square, Westminster, open, cycling to work.
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Audrey Withers allowed Miller to follow the Allied advance through Europe, and Miller reported the liberation of Paris and even sent a story from Buchenwald.
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Audrey Withers's photographers included Norman Parkinson, Antony Armstrong-Jones, and Irving Penn.
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Audrey Withers twice employed John Deakin as a staff photographer and twice dismissed him.
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Surprisingly, apart from hats, Audrey Withers lacked an interest in fashion, so she delegated fashion coverage to others.
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Audrey Withers resigned as editor of Vogue in 1960, sensing a wind of change.
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On 2 September 1933 Audrey Withers married Alan Hay Stewart, a salesman known as "Jock", who was the son of a musician.
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In 1954 Audrey Withers was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, and in 1962 she was appointed as a Dame.