Career
She started out on stage and her first breakthrough role was in the first production of The Prime of Mission Jean Brodie opposite Vanessa Redgrave. Her television work began with Ken Loach"s once controversial Up The Junction (1965) for the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Wednesday play series. She acted in many of the more famous British plays of the 1960s.
The plays she wrote for the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Thirty-Minute Theatre series were "Keep on Running" and "Magnolia Summer" and for The Wednesday Play "Kippers & Curtains".
Her film career included roles in Prudence and the Pill (1968), Crooks and Coronets (1969), The Mind of Mr. Soames (1970), Chandler (1971), Ruby and Oswald (1978), The Good Soldier (1981), and The Return of the Soldier (1982).
She was also a successful novelist and her published novels included Focussing, Lovers of Africa (Love & Hunger in the United States of America), The Testimony of Daniel Pagels and Delicate Matters. Vickery"s fifth novel - Lost Heir - was scheduled to be published around the time of her death.
