Anne Dunhill

Who is Anne Dunhill?

Anne Dunhill M.A. is a novelist and Italian translator. She is also a former debutante and model. Anne is the granddaughter of Alfred Dunhill. Her parents were John Dunhill and Marjorie Brown. She was educated at Francis Holland School, Clarence Gate and La Sorbonne. After a Lucie Clayton modelling course and a much publicised debutante season in 1964, she became one of the few former debutantes to make it as a model, appearing in numerous fashion magazines, advertisements and TV commercials in London, Milan and Paris between 1965 and 1969 when she went to live in Venice for six years. For the next fifteen years she was a full-time mother before doing a BA in English and Italian at Royal Holloway, University of London between 1986 and 1989. This led to two new careers as a novelist and translator. From 1996 to 2001 she was Arts Editor of Epicurean Life Magazine. In 2002 she earned an MA in Representations of Italy at Royal Holloway and converted to Roman Catholicism. She now writes for the Independent Catholic News. She has been a vegetarian since 1970.