Nell
Dunn
Nell Dunn was born in London in 1936, the daughter of Sir Philip
Dunn. Her mother was the daughter of the 5th Earl of Rosslyn,
who was the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo, which made
her a descendant of Charles II and Nell Gwynn. She was educated
at a convent school which she left at the age of 14, although
while there she wrote her first play when she was only 13. Nell
married old Etonian, writer Jeremy Sandford in 1957 when she was
20 and they moved into fashionable Cheyne Walk in Chelsea, although
Nell didn’t like living there.
In 1959, when she was 23, the couple crossed the bridge from Chelsea
and bought a small house in Battersea for £700. She became enchanted
with the people and began to work in a sweet factory, later commenting,
“I felt immediately at home. I wasn’t lonely any more.”
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