Phyllis Digby Morton

[3] Panting was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, and her early career was in the BBC drama department where she wrote scripts and acted.

[2] Their overlapping interests allowed plenty of scope for co-operation and Phyllis helped run Digby's business and compared fashion shows.

[7] Digby-Morton's editorship of Woman and Beauty was noted for breaking new ground in the women's magazine market, not always to the comfort of the board of Fleetway Publications, the owners.

Previously dominated by subjects such as needlework and cookery, Digby-Morton introduced "virginity, frigidity, fertility and infidelity".

"[2] Phyllis Digby-Morton was one of the first people to write a modern advice column, for which she used the pen name Anne Seymour.

At about 7:30 PM on 18 September 1940 eight people in Lifeboat 2 (out of 38 who originally boarded), including the Digby-Mortons, Margaret Hodgson, and Pat Bulmer, were rescued by HMS Hurricane.

[8] Back in England, Phyllis advised the Ministry of Labour and the Board of Trade regarding the employment of women in the work force[2] while continuing to edit Woman and Beauty.

[10] Away from magazines, Digby Morton worked as a consultant for cosmetics companies and the high street chemists Boots.