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Brian Alderson
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When Marilyn Edwards, who has died aged 71, took up a job at the Publishers Association in 1965, she found herself at the focal point of a book trade still retaining something of its character as a cottage industry – dozens of independent publishers, each with its own characteristics, serving bookshops up and down the country. It was full of appeal to her enthusiastic and gregarious temperament.
Marilyn was born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, eldest daughter of Gordon Edwards, a chest physician, and his wife, Helen (nee Garner). After schooling in Leeds, she went to secretarial college in Bradford. Her first job was as live-in secretary to Chad Varah, the founder of the Samaritans, after which she moved to the Publishers Association.
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