{"id":3960,"date":"2020-08-29T19:59:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T18:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=3960"},"modified":"2020-08-29T19:59:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T18:59:24","slug":"sally-anne-wagstaff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/29\/sally-anne-wagstaff\/","title":{"rendered":"Sally Anne Wagstaff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Sally Anne Wagstaff was born\u00a0in a dour northern town<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The third of six children<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Her mother worked in the local supermarket and her father at the steelworks<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>From a young age she knew that she would not be attractive as she was pear shaped and very small<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>How she envied her step-sister Matilda who was tall and very pretty<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At the age of eighteen she went to Oxford University<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The first girl from her school to do so since 1949.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Matilda failed all her exams and ended up working in a pet shop<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She married the owner the year after his wife died and in the year that her step sister graduated<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Found herself to be the proud\u00a0owner of\u00a0<i>Norman&#8217;s Pets<\/i>\u00a0after her husband died of a stroke whilst out running<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The step-sisters grew close as both had an interest in dogs and when Sally Anne Wagstaff returned to the town<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They started a poodle parlour together which proved just as successful as the pet shop<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In her spare time Sally Anne Wagstaff began writing a book about Henry Miller and Anais Nin<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When it was published it too was very successful and Sally Anne Wagstaff found herself in demand on the literary circuit<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But although she had a double first and was a noted biographer she never forgot her step sister and her roots<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And always travelled with Matilda and two stunning dalmations when attending literary festivals<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At the age of thirty-two Sally Anne Wagstaff looked in her mirror and for the first time in her life<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0And found that she had matured into a beautiful woman who was both kind and gay<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sally Anne Wagstaff was born\u00a0in a dour northern town The third of six children Her mother worked in the local supermarket and her father at the steelworks From a young age she knew that she would not be attractive as she was pear shaped and very small How she envied her step-sister Matilda who was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}