Celia Dale

Both Celia Dale's parents were actors – her father was the noted stage and television actor James Dale (1887–1985), her mother Marguerite Adamson.[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0197708/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm IMDB. Retrieved 23 June 2020.] She was a cousin of the novelist Sarah Harrison.[http://www.sarah-harrison.net/about-sarah/ Sarah Harrison's site. Retrieved 23 June 2020.] She was married to the journalist and critic Guy Ramsey, until his death in 1959.[https://www.fantasticfiction.com/d/celia-dale/ Fantastic Fiction site. Retrieved 23 June 2020.]

Celia Dale's first novel, The Least Of These, was published in 1943 and she went on to write twelve more and a volume of short stories. Her later novels were psychological thrillers. She won several awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Best Short Story of the Year award for Lines of Communication and A Personal Call and other stories in 1986.{{Cite web |url=http://www.faber.co.uk/author/celia-dale/ |title=Celia Dale |publisher=Faber & Faber |access-date=20 August 2011}} She also worked as a secretary to the author Rumer Godden.{{Cite book |last1=Chisholm |first1=Anne | title=Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8GgmFqXKcQ4C |access-date=20 August 2011 |year=1999 |publisher=Pan Macmillan |isbn= 978-0-330-36747-9 |page=253}} Four of her novels were reissued as Faber Finds in 2008.{{Cite web |url=https://www.faber.co.uk/blog/celia-dale-1912-2011-quiet-clever-subtle-and-terrifying/ |title=Faber obituary. Retrieved 23 June 2020. |access-date=23 June 2020 |archive-date=24 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200624141833/https://www.faber.co.uk/blog/celia-dale-1912-2011-quiet-clever-subtle-and-terrifying/ |url-status=dead }}

Dale's sixth novel, A Spring of Love, was televised as a four-part drama, Love Story: Mr Right, which aired on BBC One in 1983.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0282699/. Retrieved 30 January 2023.]

Celia Dale died on 31 December 2011, at age 99.{{Cite web |url=http://announcements.thetimes.co.uk/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=celia-ramsey&pid=155442808 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120701122241/http://announcements.thetimes.co.uk/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=celia-ramsey&pid=155442808 |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 July 2012 |title=Obituary |work=The Times}}

• The Least of These (1944)
• To Hold the Mirror (1946)
• The Dry Land (1952)
• The Wooden O (1953)
• Trial of Strength (1955)
• A Spring of Love (1960)
• Other People (1964)
• A Helping Hand (1966)
• Act of Love (1969)
• A Dark Corner (1971)
• The Innocent Party (1973)
• Helping with Enquiries (1979, aka The Deception)
• Sheep's Clothing (1988)

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