Wendy Trewin

Wendy Trewin, who also wrote under her maiden name Wendy Monk, was the drama critic of The Lady, succeeding her husband, J.C. Trewin, in 1990. Born in Plymouth, she was a reporter on the city's Sunday newspaper, the Western Independent, where she met her husband. As an author her first book was a privately published biography of her Wesleyan great grandfather, John Gill. Later she edited the journals of the Victorian Quaker diarist Caroline Fox (1972). Under her own name she collaborated with...See more

Wendy Trewin, who also wrote under her maiden name Wendy Monk, was the drama critic of The Lady, succeeding her husband, J.C. Trewin, in 1990. Born in Plymouth, she was a reporter on the city's Sunday newspaper, the Western Independent, where she met her husband. As an author her first book was a privately published biography of her Wesleyan great grandfather, John Gill. Later she edited the journals of the Victorian Quaker diarist Caroline Fox (1972). Under her own name she collaborated with her husband on a history of London's foremost avant garde theatre of the post war, the Arts Theatre, and in 1980 she wrote a much-praised life of the actor Charles Wyndham and the Albery family, All on Stage. See less