13 Facts About Marsha Rowe

Marsha Rowe was born on 1944 and is an Australian-born journalist, writer and editor now living in the United Kingdom.

Marsha Rowe was a secretary for Oz magazine from 1964 when it was based in Sydney, its original location.

Marsha Rowe then worked for the Australian edition of Vogue, but found fashion journalism a restrictive area in which to work.

Marsha Rowe settled in London in 1969, but at first disliked the city because of the pervading attitude to expatriate Australians.

Marsha Rowe was employed on the London edition of OZ, and one of the magazine's London editors, Felix Dennis, later described her as the publication's "anchor" during this period.

However, when the three male editors were away, Marsha Rowe was not left in charge.

When Neville co-founded the short-lived Ink in 1971, Marsha Rowe joined him, but resigned over the male domination of the venture after a few months.

Marsha Rowe was aware of what some of the women had given up to work for Ink; it had no trade union representation.

At the third meeting, Marsha Rowe has said she suggested women should establish their own magazine.

Boycott and Marsha Rowe founded Spare Rib, the feminist monthly magazine, the first edition appearing in June 1972.

Boycott and Marsha Rowe had significant differences and the formation of a collective to run the magazine, at Marsha Rowe's suggestion, led to Boycott being marginalised, and she resigned not much more than a year later after the launch.

Marsha Rowe was fiction editor at independent publishing firm Serpent's Tail and ran a life-writing course.

Marsha Rowe collaborated with Felix Dennis and Mike Pentelow, on The Characters of Fitzrovia, which was published in November 2001.