THE WARS OF ROSIE Hard Knocks, Endurance, and the ‘George Davis Is Innocent’ Campaign
by Rose Dean-Davis
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tba pages
Published:
28 Sep 2010
ISBN:
978-1-906015-62-6
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Synopsis
“To London’s East Enders Rose Dean-Davis is synonymous with one of the highest profile justice campaigns in modern history. Her stoic defence of her husband – wrongly framed in the 70s for an armed robbery – led to such a proliferation of ‘George Davis is
When Rose Dean-Davis died on 31 January 2009, an important part of modern folk history might have gone with her. THE WARS OF ROSIE is the story of a woman who maintained her optimism through all of life’s hard knocks – from her husband’s betrayal to loss of the beloved daughter who came through the dark days of the 1970s with her.
“Latterly, Rose Dean-Davis, as she had become, had been working on her memoir The Wars of Rosie . . . It chronicles her role as a vivid footnote in British social history.” – The Times