Jancis Andrews
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At age 14 she ran away from a violent home life and, when apprehended by the police, refused to return to school because she had missed many classes. She was ordered to reform school; later this was altered to one year’s probation, which included an order that she not venture outside an area of five square miles. In 1952 she joined the Women’s Royal Naval Service and served as a radio operator on the staff of Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten. In 1965 she immigrated to Canada with her husband, son and daughter. She then took correspondence courses until she had enough credits to study at Capilano College and later at the University of British Columbia where, at the age of 53, she obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, majoring in Creative Writing.
When her marriage of forty-three years fell apart and her husband refused to pay alimony, Jancis at age 65 took a job as live-in cleaner at a boys’ school in England. She returned to Canada after one year and now makes her home in Sechelt, B.C.