Nina Epton

1913 (age 97)

Hampstead

She travelled alone through Spain, North Africa, and Indonesia. In the 1970s she published a number of historical works about royalty, two books about cats, and a novel based on the life of Jane Digby. Her greatest commercial success was a series of literary, historical and sociological books about amorous relationships: Love and the French (1959), Love and the English (1960), Love and the Spanish (1961). In various combinations these were translated into French, German and Spanish. All three were reprinted by Penguin in 1964–1965. During the 1950s she was the producer of the British Broadcasting Corporation"s French-Canadian department, with particular responsibility for British Broadcasting Corporation contributions to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation"s French-language newsreel, Revue de l"actualité. Between 1953 and 1969 she was also an occasional contributor to the British Broadcasting Corporation Home Service and the British Broadcasting Corporation Light Programme as a presenter, interviewer, and panellist. As a travel writer she was considered something of a novelty in the early 1950s as a good-looking woman who travelled alone and engaged deeply and critically with local conditions. Nina Epton died on 29 October 2010, her last address having been 58 Vale Road, Seaford, East Sussex.

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Island of the Sunbird - Travels in Indonesia by Nina Epton

(Little wear to boards. Content lightly toned with light s...)

Oasis Kingdom: the Libyan Story

(Physical description: 160p.: 15p. of plates : 24 photo : ...)

Grapes and Granite by Nina Epton

(No DJ. Boards are clean with little wear. Content is ligh...)

Oasis Kingdom;: The Libyan story. With 24 photographs

Magic and Mystics of Java

(Book by Epton, Nina)

Magic and Mystics of Java by Nina Epton (1974-12-03)

Journey under the crescent moon

(Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-...)

Josephine: The Empress and her children

(She was born Marie-Rose Tascher de la Pagerie, daughter o...)

The Valley of Pyrene by Nina Epton

Victoria and Her Daughters

Islands of the Sunbird : Travels in Indonesia

Josephine the Empress and Her Children

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Background

Epton was born in Hampstead to a Scottish father and a Spanish mother.

Education

She was educated partly in England and partly in France, graduated from the University of Paris, and travelled widely.

Career

She travelled alone through Spain, North Africa, and Indonesia. In the 1970s she published a number of historical works about royalty, two books about cats, and a novel based on the life of Jane Digby. Her greatest commercial success was a series of literary, historical and sociological books about amorous relationships: Love and the French (1959), Love and the English (1960), Love and the Spanish (1961).

In various combinations these were translated into French, German and Spanish.

All three were reprinted by Penguin in 1964–1965. During the 1950s she was the producer of the British Broadcasting Corporation"s French-Canadian department, with particular responsibility for British Broadcasting Corporation contributions to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation"s French-language newsreel, Revue de l"actualité.

Between 1953 and 1969 she was also an occasional contributor to the British Broadcasting Corporation Home Service and the British Broadcasting Corporation Light Programme as a presenter, interviewer, and panellist. As a travel writer she was considered something of a novelty in the early 1950s as a good-looking woman who travelled alone and engaged deeply and critically with local conditions.

Nina Epton died on 29 October 2010, her last address having been 58 Vale Road, Seaford, East Sussex.