Mirabel Osler is an English

English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

 writer

Author

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 and garden designer. Her book A Gentle Plea for Chaos is based on her experiences in her garden in Shropshire

Shropshire

Shropshire is a county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. It borders Wales to the west...

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Biography

Mirabel was born Mirabel E E Birnstingl in 1925 in London. She was the daughter of Charles Avigdor Birnstingl and Phyllis Taylor Reid. Her stepfather was the author and journalist Aylmer Vallance

Aylmer Vallance

Gerald Aylmer Vallance , born George Alexander Gerald Vallance, was a Scottish newspaper editor.Born in Partick, Vallance studied at Fettes College in Edinburgh and Balliol College, Oxford, before serving with the Somerset Light Infantry and the General Staff of the 2nd Indian Division during World...

. She married Michael Julian Osler on 5th April 1951 and they lived in Thailand and Corfu before returning to live in Shropshire. Michael died on 26th April 1989. They had two daughters.

She writes regularly for the garden magazine Hortus and won the Sinclair Consumer Press Garden Writer of the Year Award in 1988.

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A Twice-Told Tale