1530) Ann Barr

Isabel Ann Barr (1929 – 2015). British journalist and writer involved in coining the terms Sloane Rangers and Foodies, in the early 1980s.

She began working in journalism working for John Anstey at the Telegraph Magazine and for Robert Harling at House & Garden, as well as helping Hugh Johnson, her cousin's husband, with his World Atlas Of Wine. She worked as a secretary at The Times and as a sub-editor at House and Garden magazine and the Weekend Telegraph magazine. She was features editor of Queen, then Harpers & Queen for which she was the deputy editor from 1971 to 1985. With Peter York, she co-wrote The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook which sold over a million copies. She followed up with The Official Foodie Handbook in 1984, co-written with Paul Levy. She was then Features editor of The Observer.

 

- "... had a pale face and red hair as a child..." https://thisquirkylife.com/tag/the-invisible-woman/

 

- "A pale-faced, red-haired child, widely known as Pannie, Ann Barr spent the whole of the Second World War in Canada." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/.../Ann-Barr-journalist...