Robin Ann DaltonAM (néeEakin; 22 December 1920 – 8 July 2022)[1][2] was an Australian literary agent, film producer, and memoirist who lived in London for most of her adult life. She was also a journalist, television performer, and intelligence agent.[3]
Robin Ann Eakin was born in 1920 in Sydney, an only child, and grew up in Kings Cross, New South Wales. Her father was a doctor whose clientele included elements of the Sydney underworld as well as more respectable members of society.[4][5] She was frequently in the social pages of Sydney newspapers in her late teens.[6] A 1940 marriage to a barrister named John Spencer[5] did not last more than a few months, as he divorced her on the grounds of adultery.[7]
She then met an Irish doctor named Emmet Dalton, whom she married in 1953. They had two children, Lisa and Seamus,[7][5] but Emmet died suddenly at age 33 during heart surgery. In 1963 she started a life with William Fairchild, who became her third husband in 1992[7] and died in 2000.[4]
She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2013, "for significant service to the film industry as a producer, literary agent and author, and as a mentor to emerging actors and writers".[4][10]
Bibliographyedit
Memoirsedit
Aunts Up the Cross (1965)
An Incidental Memoir (1998)
One Leg Over (2017)
Fictionedit
My Relations (written at age 8, published in 2015, aged 94)
Referencesedit
Notesedit
^John Nieuwenhuizen; Peter Spearrit (1995). Arnold, John (ed.). Who's who of Australian Writers. Thorpe. p. 159. ISBN9781875589203.
^Robin Dalton, fun-loving memoirist, theatrical agent, spy and early girlfriend of the Marquess of Milford Haven – obituary
^"How Sydney socialite and film producer Robin Dalton stole the headlines from WWII". amp.smh.com.au. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
^ abcdefText Publishing. Retrieved 7 December 2018
^ abcdeFormer spy Robin Dalton: "I feel sorry for young women today. There's very little romance", Elizabeth Grice, The Telegraph, 14 May 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2018
^ abcdeHelen Trinca, "Author, literary agent, filmmaker Robin Dalton has lived life to full", Weekend Australian, 20-21 May 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2018
^ abcdJane Wheatley, "How Sydney socialite and film producer Robin Dalton stole the headlines from WWII", Sydney Morning Herald, 3 March 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2018
^"Author Interview: The Loves and Passions of Robin Dalton". The Australian Women's Weekly. 1 March 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
^"Chartell Clients Shift Over to IFA" (PDF). Cashbox. 14 August 1971. p. 7.
McGinness, Mark (21 December 2020). . The Oldie. Archived from the original on 18 April 2021.
May 01, 2024
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