Sybil Irene Eleanor Taylor Cookson (1890-1963) was a journalist and writer of romantic novels. She wrote under the pen-name Sydney Tremayne.
Biography
Sybil Irene Eleanor Taylor was born in 1890 the first child of John Taylor, Squire of Carshalton.<ref name="etsy" /> She was the granddaughter of Sir
James Crichton-Browne and was educated at
Wycombe Abbey and Paris.<ref name="philsp">
cite web|title=Cookson, Sybil Irene Eleanor Taylor (1890-1963)|url=https://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/z13.htm|website=The General Fiction Magazine Index|accessdate=9 January 2018</ref>
In 1913, Sybil Taylor married Roger Cookson, a racing driver with the Bentley team.<ref name="Souhami">
cite book|last1=Souhami|first1=Diana|title=Gluck: Her Biography|date=2013|publisher=Hachette UK|page=63|url=https://books.google.it/books?id=mgFhBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT63|accessdate=9 January 2018</ref> After they separated in 1938, Cookson moved with her two young daughters (one of whom was the actress
Georgina Cookson (1918–2011)) into Bolton House, a red-brick Georgian building on three floors in
Hampstead, London, with the painter
Gluck (1895–1978), who she had met through her friend
Arthur Watts.<ref name="Souhami" />
[1] Later in life Cookson was reconciled with her husband and stayed with him until her death in 1963.<ref name="Souhami" /><ref name="etsy" />
Sybil Cookson published three novels under the name of Sydney Tremayne: ''Eve'', ''The Broken Signpost'' and ''The Auction Mart''. The first two were best sellers, the third not so successful.<ref name="etsy" /> She was a journalist for the ''
Tatler'' and later she edited and wrote for a womens' weekly magazine, ''Eve: The Lady's Pictorial'' (later ''
Britannia & Eve''), even as she continued to write the monthly column for the ''Tatler'', ''Nights Out''.<ref name="etsy" /><ref name="Souhami" /> As Sybil Cookson, in 1919 she co-edited ''The boy with the guns'' and in 1923 she published ''Echo...''
[2]
In 1979, after her death,
David and Charles re-released ''Tatlings, Epigrams'' by Sydney Tremayne, 1922, and illustrated by Fish (
Anne Hariet Fish).<ref name="etsy">
cite web|title=Tatlings Epigrams by Sydney Tremayne Illustrated by Fish|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t13n29p00;view=thumb;seq=49|website=etsy|accessdate=9 January 2018</ref>
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