![]() ![]() Six years later, when that marriage broke up, Rosemary was left with four children to support on her $4,200 salary as a typist for the Solano County Parks Department. They moved with her family to California, where she had two sons. "He was the first man," she recalls, "who made me feel like a real woman." After getting a divorce from her first husband, she married Rogers in his home town, St. In Europe she met her future second husband, Leroy Rogers, an african-american. Disappointed with her husband, in 1960, she moved with her two daughters and took off for London. Unhappily, he often sprinted after other women. She horrified her family by taking a job as a reporter, and two years later marrying with Summa Navaratnam, a Ceylonese track star known as "the fastest man in Asia." The marriage had two daughters. A dreamy child, she wrote her first novel at eight, and all through her teens scribbled madly romantic epics in imitation of her favorite writers: Sir Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas and Rafael Sabatini.Īt 17, Rosemary rebelled against a feudal upbringing and went to the University of Ceylon, where she studied three years. She was raised in colonial splendor: dozens of servants, no work, summers at European spas, a chaperone everywhere she went. ![]() Her father was a wealthy educator who owned three posh private schools. Rosemary Jansz was born on 7 December 1932 in Panadura, British Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka), she was the oldest child of Dutch-Portuguese settlers, Barbara "Allan" and Cyril Jansz. There is more than one author with this name ![]()
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