Rosemary Dinnage obituary

Rosemary Dinnage, who has died aged 87, was a writer of exemplary lucidity and independence of mind. Her essays and books ranged over literature – especially the work of modern women writers – studies of death and dreaming, and the convolutions of psychoanalysis, with which she was long engaged both as a patient and as a chronicler.

In the 1970s and 80s she came into her own as a writer, producing a stream of reviews and essays for the Times Literary Supplement, the New Statesman and the New York Review of Books. Robert Silvers, editor of the New York Review, described her as “one of the paper’s stars, crucial in making the Review what it is”.