Adele Rose

Adele Rose (8 December 1933 – 28 December 2020) Her parents were Clara (née Simons) and Sydney Rose, who was a manager at Great Universal Stores, the family's mail-order business. Adele initially worked as a secretary at Granada Television in the promotions department, which prepared links for the station's continuity announcers to read. Jack Rosenthal, a former colleague in the department who had already collaborated with her, suggested she should write for Coronation Street. After noticing the programme lacked any female writers, Rose contacted Coronation Streets script editor Harry Kershaw, suggesting she should join the programme's writing team. Accepted, she debuted on episode 40, screened in May 1961. Rosenthal encouraged Rose by co-writing some episodes with her. Only Peter Whalley (601 scripts over 35 years) has written more episodes. as well as Donna Air and Jill Halfpenny. with Rose continuing to be credited throughout. Rose also originated two earlier series: Girls About Town, a feminist situation comedy which ran to three series from 1969 to 1971, and Second Chance, a drama series about divorce, partly drawn from her own experiences, which screened in 1981.

In the 1980s, she also wrote for the soap Crossroads, using the pen name

Personal life and death Rose's first marriage ended in divorce. After her retirement in 2000, she moved to the Cotswolds with her long-term partner, Peter Chadwick, a newspaper journalist. They married in around the year 2010. She had two children from an earlier marriage.