Four and a Half Dancing Men

Anne Stevenson was the pen name of Felicity Avery. She was born in Cardiff in 1928, and read History at St. Anne’s at the University of Oxford from 1946 to 1949. After her degree, she worked as historical archivist for the Holland-Martin banking family, before turning to journalism and fiction, which was initially published in the form of short stories and serials in magazines and journals. She was married to the economic journalist and naval historian, Ronald Avery (1915-1996) and spent the last years of her life in Oxford (from Goodreads).