Rosemary Joy Manning (9 December 1911 – 5 April 1988)[1] was a British writer of both adult and children's books.

[1] Her father was a doctor, but he had to resign his practice following a scandal; the family then moved to Sandhurst, Berkshire.

[3] She studied at Royal Holloway College from 1930 to 1933 and graduated with a second class honours degree in Classics.

[1] In the 1930s, unhappy at work she suffered a nervous breakdown and was unsuccessfully treated at the Maudsley Hospital by unsympathetic doctors due to her lesbianism.

She appeared with Miriam Margolyes, Valerie Wise, Ken Livingstone, Jenni Fletcher and Jimmy Somerville.