Janet Camden Lucey

Janet Camden Lucey was a pen name of British biographer and bookseller Margaret Joy Blunt which itself was a pen name of Jean Lucey Pratt. The diaries of Jean Lucey Pratt entitled 'A Notable Woman' was published, to much acclaim, in 2015.

Blunt is a major figure in the book Our Hidden Lives.[1] She contributed to the Mass-Observation project in the 1940s, and a selection of those contributions appear in the book. In it Garfield describes her as "a lyrical and talented writer in her mid-thirties living in a cottage by Burnham Beeches, near Slough".

References

  1. ↑ Simon Garfield, Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Postwar Britain, Ebury Press, 2005, ISBN 0091897335
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