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Endpoint: Georgina Boosey



created on: 10/02/2021
by: Lo55o (12474)
 
 

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Georgina Boosey (born Georgina Harden on January 3, 1936 - died February 5, 2003 (aged 67)) was a member of the editorial staff of British Vogue for 34 years.
She had been at British Vogue since the mid 50s and knew everything there was to know about production, printing and budgets.

The glamorous, even tempestuous, world of high fashion did not excite this conservative, country-loving Englishwoman. Her professional passion was for something more practical — assembling potent mixtures of words and pictures - and she enjoyed that, whether the topics were haute couture and shopping (not really her scene), health (an interest) or food, wine and the environment (her favourite subjects in Vogue).

In 1956, at the age of 20 and after brief stints with Penguin Books and a PR company, she at last penetrated Vogue House - the right building for the fashion magazine, but not the right floor because she was starting as editorial assistant on the now defunct Vogue Pattern and Knitting Books.
Two or three years later, however, and with an honourable mention in a Vogue talent contest under her belt, Boosey became a sub-editor on Vogue itself. She was regularly promoted until she became managing editor in 1978, and she remained on the magazine's Hanover Square staff until 1993, apart from a few months' break in 1960 when she worked on American Vogue in New York.

As copy editor and assistant editor, she had a reputation for dependability, resourcefulness and diplomacy. She exhibited a remarkable capacity for soldiering on serenely while storms raged around her.

In 1960 she married Anthony Boosey, of the music publishers Boosey & Hawkes, whose great love of ornithology awoke her consciousness of environmental issues.

Inspired by a major feature in Vogue, Boosey became an ardent supporter of Friends of the Earth, rounding up members of her wide circle of friends and associates to help to organise fundraising events, including an arts auction at Bonhams and a fashion show at the Natural History Museum; at her behest, Vogue colleagues persuaded top fashion names to design ballet costumes for a gala evening at the Royal Opera House. In 1984 she was invited to become a Friends of the Earth trustee.

After her retirement from Vogue, she moved with her husband to Somerset, where, with two other partners, they set up a small publishing imprint, Tiercel, bringing out limited editions of books, mostly on wildlife subjects.

Georgina Boosey was the only child of the archaeologist Donald Harden and his wife Cecil.
She died of a brain haemorrhage on February 5, 2003, aged 67. Her husband survived her. There were no children.
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Married to [m. 1960] : Anthony Boosey
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Submitted by : Lo55o (12474)
on : 10/02/2021
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Last updated on: 10/02/2021