Mary Rose Alpers (née Coulton; 1 June 1906 – 22 July 2002) was a novelist, reviewer, journalist, teacher, radio broadcaster and social activist who wrote under the pseudonym Sarah Campion.
[1] Campion was born in England in 1906, the daughter of a prominent Cambridge academic George Gordon Coulton and Rose Dorothy Ilbert.
After being ousted from Germany when she refused to identify her Jewish students,[2] she travelled and lived in South Africa, Canada, Scotland, USA, New Zealand and Australia.
"Campion's satire blazes away, not just at the hard economic targets of colonisation, capitalism, patriarchy, legal processes and war, but also at the softer idealism of Utopian socialism, religion and romantic love.
"[5] Most of Campion's writing was done under difficult circumstances including the Blitz period of World War II, caring for her parents and while holding several jobs.
While all her novels were published by 1951, Campion continued to write reviews, history, diaries, letters to the editor, and autobiography into her later years.