Olive Cook Papers 1930s - 2002

Newnham College

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Cook Olive Muriel 1912-2002

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Olive Muriel Cook

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Olive Muriel Cook was born in Cambridge on 20 February 1912, the daughter of Arthur Cook, a librarian at the University Library for 56 years, and his wife, a dressmaker for Robert Sayle (John Lewis Partnership). She was educated at the Perse School before gaining a scholarship to Newnham College in 1931, where she read Modern Languages. She obtained her MA in 1942. Her first job was that of art editor for Chatto and Windus, followed by supervisor of publications at the N...