Shirley du Boulay

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Shirley du Boulay (4 March 1933 - 7 March 2023) was a British author and biographer, resident in Oxford. [1] [2]

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Educated at Downe House School and the Royal College of Music, she embarked on a career with the BBC in 1954, initially as a studio manager, then becoming a programme producer of Radio 4's 'Woman's Hour'. She moved to television and specialized in religious programming.

She resigned from the BBC in 1978, and started to work as an author. Her biographical subjects tend to be individuals who have taken a spiritual journey of their own, and whose subsequent influence has been important.

She was married to the former Jesuit priest and columnist for The Tablet, John Harriott, until his death at the end of 1990.

Her interests included psychology, music, walking, gardening and meditation. [3] [4] She was a patron of the Prison Phoenix Trust and a Trustee of the Oxford Zendo.

Her books have been translated into French, Japanese, German, Italian, Dutch and Polish.

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  2. BnF notice d'autorité personne (in French) and similar sources
  3. Paul Goodman (23 August 1991). "Seven Ages of Shirley". Catholic Herald. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
  4. Margaret Howard. "Surviving my days in wilderness". Universe 119.94.
  5. Derek Doyle (31 March 1984). "Review". The Lancet .
  6. Alan Webster (23 November 1984). "A life for the dying". Times Literary Supplement .
  7. Richard John Neuhaus (29 July – 4 August 1988). "Leader in extremis". Times Literary Supplement .
  8. Brian Lapping (3 July 1988). "A good share of holy guile". Sunday Times .
  9. "No cheap grace: Archbishop Tutu". The Economist . 23 April 1988.
  10. Peter Stanford (24 September 1991). "Trials and transverbations across Spain". The Independent .
  11. Frank Longford (11 April 1992). "Mystic for all ages". The Tablet .
  12. David Hall (4 November 1994). "A pilgrim's progress". Oxford Times .
  13. Sue Gaisford (1 December 1994). "Book Review: Where the veil of heaven grows thin". The Independent .
  14. Laurence Freeman (21 January 1995). "Interior pilgrimage". The Tablet .
  15. Bruno Barnhart (1999). "Book Review: "Beyond the Darkness: A Biography of Bede Griffiths"". Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies . Retrieved 26 August 2012.
  16. Michael Barnes SJ (October 1999). "Review". Journal of Contemporary Religion Vol 14 no 3 .
  17. Kurt Hoffman (July–August 1999). "Review". Resurgence No 195.
  18. Laurence Freeman (22 April 2006). "A Benedictines' reckless leap Eastwards". The Tablet .
  19. Edward T Ulrich (January 2006). "Book Review: "The Cave of the Heart: The Life of Swami Abhishiktananda"". Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies. Retrieved 26 August 2012.