Margaret Francesca Ramsay was an Australian-born British theatrical agent.
10 Facts About Peggy Ramsay
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Peggy Ramsay was born to English parents in Molong, New South Wales, Australia.
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Peggy Ramsay's father's name was originally Vilenski, but her mother believed this Jewish name was a social drawback so had it changed to Venniker.
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Peggy Ramsay's family had settled in South Africa by the end of the Great War, in which her father served in the South African Medical Corps.
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Peggy Ramsay was able to buy out her partners in 1963, after the success of her first "discovery'", Robert Bolt.
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Peggy Ramsay represented many of the leading dramatists to emerge from the 1950s onwards, including Alan Ayckbourn, Eugene Ionesco, J B Priestley, Stephen Poliakoff and David Hare.
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Peggy Ramsay represented the dramatist, and then his estate, for the rest of her life.
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Peggy Ramsay died on 4September 1991 in London from the effects of a heart condition and circulation problems.
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The Peggy Ramsay Foundation has been established by her estate and makes grants and awards to help writers and writing for the stage.
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Peggy Ramsay's archive has been donated to the British Library.