Virginia Ironside
Virginia Ironside is most well-known as an agony aunt, and has worked, over the past thirty years, at Woman, Today, the Sunday Mirror and the Sunday Post. For the last ten years she has written a weekly column, Dilemmas, for the Independent. These days she contributes regularly to the Times and the Daily Mail, but in her time she has contributed to nearly every mainstream publication in England in the course of her career. She was born in 1944, and spent her childhood at her great-aunt's day school in London. She has written about her childhood in her latest book, Janey and Me (4th Estate), about herself and her mother, Janey, who was professor of Fashion at the Royal College of Art during the 'sixties. It was shortlisted in 2004 for the JR Ackerley Award. After a year at art school, Virginia wrote her first book, Chelsea Bird, at 19. She then joined the Sunday Telegraph and later the Daily Mail as rock correspondent, interviewing people like Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, and Janis Joplin. She then became a television reviewer on the paper, a job shared with Peter Black. She has broadcast frequently on radio and television, and written fifteen books, many children's books, including The Huge Bag of Worries and books on bereavement - one on pet bereavement and one on human bereavement. She is also knowledgeable about the history of the problem page and her website features over 70 helpful leaflets on different subjects from Loneliness, to Sex and Baldness. She is divorced, spends a couple of hours a week helping children to read at her local primary school, lives in London and is a grandmother.
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