Susan Barnes Crosland was a British-American journalist who lived and worked primarily in London.
13 Facts About Susan Crosland
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Susan Crosland was the widow of the Labour Party politician Anthony Crosland.
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Susan Crosland graduated from Vassar College and taught at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
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Labour politician Tony Benn though, one of her subjects and a friend of her husband, persuaded Susan Crosland not publish an article dedicated to himself which Benn considered unflattering.
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Susan Crosland strongly supported her husband throughout his political career, culminating in his appointment as foreign secretary in 1976.
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Anthony Susan Crosland died from a cerebral haemorrhage the following year.
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Susan Crosland was asked to stand as the Labour candidate for his Grimsby constituency in the subsequent by-election, but declined.
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Susan Crosland subsequently wrote a well-received biography of him, which was published in 1982.
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One friend she acquired in this period via the biography, Therese Lawson, second wife of the Conservative politician Nigel Lawson, once spoke of the impression Susan Crosland made on her:.
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Susan Crosland isn't like that but she does have a definite presence.
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Susan Crosland's voice has a slow, gentle, appealing laugh to it.
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Susan Crosland has a particular American sense of humour which I appreciate.
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Susan Crosland died at her flat in West London on 26 February 2011, aged 84.