Rosemary once said of her writing: “The themes of my children’s books are mostly quite adult, and in fact the difference between writing for children and for adults is, to me at any rate, only a quite small gear change.” (Townsend, John Rowe. 1971. A Sense of Story. London: Longman p. 201)
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Rosemary on being a disabled artist
April 8, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Rosemary wrote this for the “Emotions in Focus” exhibition of erotic art by disabled people mounted as a celebration of the International Year of Disabled People 1981. Victor Lownes opened the exhibition at The Round House, London (UK).
Career-wise, I’m one of the lucky ones. My job, as a writer of books, is one of the few in which physical disability presents hardly any problems. I would claim that it presents no problems at all but my kind of book needs research, and research is more difficult for a disabled person. I am less able to see for myself or dig priceless information out of deeply hidden archives. I have to rely more on other people’s help and on libraries. And even libraries can present problems -like one which shall be nameless – which is very proud of its ramp to its entrance but keeps its entire reference department upstairs, with, of course, no lift. (more…)
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