Bel mooney biography of abraham lincoln

About Bel I was born in Liverpool in , where home was a flat in a low-rise estate called The Green, on Queen's Drive, near Broadgreen Hospital, where I was born.

She currently writes a column for the Daily Mail , having previously written — mainly as a columnist — for other publications including the Daily Mirror , The Times —07 , The Sunday Times —83 and The Listener. She has written a number of fiction and non-fiction books and was instrumental in the foundation of the Stillbirth Society, now known as Sands.

At the age of fourteen Mooney moved to Wiltshire, where her parents bought their first house. She then attended school in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, at Trowbridge Girls' High School a girls' grammar school which merged with a boys' grammar school to become the comprehensive The John of Gaunt School in She applied unsuccessfully to the University of Oxford at that time nobody from her school had been admitted to Oxford , before going on to study English Language and Literature at University College London UCL , where she obtained a first in She was made a fellow of UCL in Upon graduating from university Mooney worked as a freelance journalist.

Beryl Ann "Bel" Mooney (born 8 October ) is an English journalist and broadcaster.

From —80 she was a columnist on the Daily Mirror. Mooney is the author of the Kitty and Friends series of stories for young girls. Mooney met Jonathan Dimbleby while they were both working on the student newspaper Pi. They married in February in Kensington, after knowing each other for four months. Mooney was married to Dimbleby for 38 years until their divorce in They also had a son, Tom, who was stillborn in On 8 September , Mooney married Robin Allison-Smith, formerly a freelance photographer, now a businessman, with whom she lives on the outskirts of Bath, Somerset.

Mooney is a co-founder and patron of Sands, which describes itself as "the leading stillbirth and neonatal death charity in the UK. Home People Bel Mooney Biography.