Nina Consuelo Epton (1913 – 29 October 2010) was a British
radio producer
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travel writer
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, particularly active in the 1950s and 1960s. 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
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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 Books
Penguin Books is a British publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year.Hampstead to a Scottish father and a Spanish mother. She was educated partly in England and partly in France, graduated from the
University of Paris
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Sunday Herald
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'' (Sydney), 5 July 1953.
Career
During the 1950s she was the producer of the BBC's French-Canadian department, with particular responsibility for BBC contributions to the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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's French-language newsreel, ''Revue de l'actualité''. Between 1953 and 1969 she was also an occasional contributor to the BBC Home Service and the
BBC Light Programme
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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.
Epton died on 29 October 2010.
The Tablet
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*''Journey under the Crescent Moon'' (London: V. Gollancz, 1949).
*''Oasis Kingdom: The Libyan Story'' (London: Jarrolds, 1952).
*''Islands of the Sunbird: Travels in Indonesia'' (London and New York: Jarrolds, 1954).
*''The Islands of Indonesia'', 4 volumes (London: Pitman, 1955)
*''The Valley of Pyrene'' (London: Cassell, 1955).
*''Grapes and Granite'' (London: Cassell, 1956)
*''The Palace and the Jungle'' (London: Oldbourne Press, 1957)
*''Navarre: The Flea between Two Monkeys'' (London: Cassell, 1957)
*''The Golden Sword: Being the dramatized story of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, 1781–1826'' (London: Oldbourne, 1957)
*''Saints and Sorcerers: A Moroccan Journey'' (London: Cassell, 1958).
*''Love and the French'' (London: Cassell, 1959)
*''Love and the English'' (London: Cassell, 1960)
*''Love and the Spanish'' (London, 1961)
*''Milord and Milady'' (London: Oldbourne, 1962)
*''Seaweed for Breakfast: A Picture of Japanese Life Today'' (London: Cassell, 1963)
*''Madrid'' (London: Cassell, 1964)
*''Spain's Magic Coast, from the Miño to the Bidassoa: A personal guidebook'' (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1966)
* Stewart Wavell, Audrey Butt, Nina Epton, ''Trances'' (London: Allen & Unwin, 1966)
*''Spanish Fiestas: including romerías, excluding bull-fights'' (London: Cassell, 1968)
*''Andalusia'' (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968)
*''Victoria and Her Daughters'' (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971).Review by Paul Foster OP in ''
The Tablet
''The Tablet'' is a Catholic international weekly review published in London. Brendan Walsh, previously literary editor and then acting editor, was appointed editor in July 2017.
History
''The Tablet'' was launched in 1840 by a Quaker convert ...
'', 16 Oct. 1971.
*''The Spanish Mousetrap: Napoleon and the Court of Spain'' (London: Macdonald and Co, 1973)
*''Cat Manners and Mysteries'' (London: Michael Joseph, 1973)
*''The Burning Heart: A novel based on the life of Jane Digby, Lady Ellenborough'' (London: Macdonald and Jane's, 1974)
*''Magic and Mystics of Java'' (London: Octagon Press, 1974)
*''Josephine: The Empress and Her Children'' (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975)
*''Dora Bell's Village Cats'' (London: Joseph, 1977)
Royal Institute of International Affairs
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