| Female |
| April 1981 |
| United Kingdom |
| I'm a mongrel. I think it helps me to observe people. |
| Classics, Pre-war children's literature. Sci-fi, Comedy. |
| An Old Fashioned Girl, All the Sherlock Holmes stories and novels, Middlemarch, Trilby, Miss Pettigrew lives for a day, Jane Eyre |
| Louisa May Alcott, Austen, JK Rowling, Marjorie Hillis, |
| In no particular order: Tennyson, Frost, Betjeman, Larkin. |
| Earth Girls are Easy, Some like it Hot, Laura, Stranger than Fiction. |