Katharine Whitehorn

Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn (born 1928, Hendon) is a British journalist, writer, and columnist who was known for her wit and humour and as a keen observer of the changing role of women. She was educated at the private Roedean School in Brighton, Glasgow High School for Girls (closed in the 1970s), and Newnham College, Cambridge. She was a sub-editor for a women's magazine in 1956, when Picture Post photographer Bert Hardy asked her to model for him. She caught a big break, then, when he photographed her for a story on loneliness in London, and one Hardy photo of her sitting by a fire with a cigarette, as if thinking to write an article instead of being lonely, became an advertisement for the energy drink Lucozade. She wrote for...