Josephine Cox (15 July 1938 – 17 July 2020)[1][2] also known as Jo Cox,[3] was an English author.[4] Her books were frequently best sellers and the UK Public Lending Rights figures often listed her in the top three borrowed authors.[5]
Born in a millworker's house in Blackburn, Lancashire, Cox was one of the ten children of an alcoholic father.[6] At the age of sixteen, she met and married her husband Ken, and had two sons. When her children started school, she went to college, eventually being offered a place at the University of Cambridge. She was unable to accept the Cambridge place because it would have meant living away from home and went on to become a teacher.
Cox won the "Superwoman of Great Britain Award", for which her family had secretly entered her when her first full-length novel was accepted for publication.[3]
Cox also wrote under the name Jane Brindle, her mother's name. Altogether she wrote over 50 books.[7]
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