Rosemary Dinnage ( née Allen; 17 January 1928 – 10 July 2015) was a British author and critic. She was listed by The Observer as one of Britain's top 300 intellectuals in 2011.
Rosemary Dinnage was born in Oxford [1] and grew up in Rhodes House where her father, Sir Carleton Kemp Allen was Warden. After wartime evacuation to Canada, she studied English at Somerville College, Oxford. [2]
Besides books, she published regular reviews [3] [4] in The New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books.
In 2011, she featured in John Naughton's list of Britain's top 300 intellectuals, [5] published in The Observer.
She died on 10 July 2015, aged 87. [6]