June Rose (20 June 1926 – 10 January 2018) was a British biographer whose subjects ranged from the Italian artist Modigliani to notable women such as Elizabeth Fry and Marie Stopes.
By the early 1960s she returned to London, working for The Jewish Chronicle, and contributing to The Times and BBC radio.
[4] The life of Dr. James Miranda Barry was the subject of another of her books and explored why a woman took on the identity of a man to succeed in the Victorian era.
[7] In 1978, she collaborated with Rabbi Lionel Blue on a cookbook entitled A Taste of Heaven: Adventures in Food & Faith.
[8] Rose also wrote a history of Barnardo's, a British charity caring for vulnerable children.