Rogers, Jane,
Rogers, Jane, ( 1952 – ),novelist, born in London. She read English at Cambridge and took a postgraduate teaching certificate at Leicester University. She has worked in secondary education and in the tertiary sector at Cambridge and Sheffield. Her novels include Her Living Image ( 1984 ), an account of Carolyn, a wife and mother, and her feminist alter ego Caro, ‘transparent but unpredictable’, who lives in a women's refuge with her friend Clare. Clare enables Carolyn to escape from the tedium and pettiness of her home; their relationship becomes the forum for a humane and thoughtful engagement with feminist arguments and concerns. Rogers's other publications include Separate Tracks ( 1983 ), The Ice is Singing ( 1987 ), and Mr Wroe's Virgins ( 1991 ) which has been adapted for television. Her 1995 novel Promised Lands interweaves contemporary lives and the first year of settlement...
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