Janet Teissier du Cros

[3] Teissier du Cros’ book Divided Loyalties (1962) tells the story of her experiences as a British woman in occupied France, in the Cevennes where the Resistance was active.

[2] She lived in a small rural cottage with her young children, and struggled to get enough food for the family, while estranged from her in-laws because of disagreements about their support for Marshal Pétain.

[5] In 1992, after her death, there was another edition of Divided Loyalties, with a foreword by Richard Cobb who said the author succeeded in relating "dramatic public events" to "everyday existence".

[6] A memoir of Teissier du Cros’ early life in Aberdeen and Edinburgh, Cross currents: a childhood in Scotland, was published in 1997.

Teissier du Cros’ translation work included Maouno by Robert Crottet (1941), the story of a friendship between a boy and a reindeer, and commissions for the journal, Revue France-Asie.

In the 1950s she broadcast on BBC radio, notably in a regular slot on Woman's Hour where she contributed “lively vignettes of life in Paris and the Cevennes”.