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Arline Usden

1937 – 2013

British journalist

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Lived 1937 – 2013 (aged 75). Arline Usden was a British journalist and editor.

Arline Usden (14 October 1937 – 3 August 2013) was a British journalist. She rose to be editor of The Lady.

Life Usden was born in Crumpsall in Manchester in 1937. She learnt to type when she left the Manchester High School for Girls when she was 16. She worked as reporter on newspapers in the north of England until she moved to London in 1960.

In 1991 she became the editor of The Lady magazine. This was an important magazine that had been published since 1885 and it was known as a place where people could advertise for domestic staff - in fact the adverts appeared at the start of the magazine. The Lady was owned by the Bowles family and Thomas Bowles ran it and lived at their offices. Usden gradually introduced change but Thomas Bowles resisted. Budworth later appointed Rachel Johnson as the magazine's ninth editor in September 2009 she took over from Usden who became an editor at large. A Channel 4 TV programme, The Lady and the Revamp followed Johnson in her quest to raise circulation further.

Usden died in London in 2013.

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Who was Arline Usden?

British journalist (1937–2013)

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Arline Usden was born on 14 October 1937 in Crumpsall.

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Arline Usden died on 3 August 2013 in London.

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Arline Usden was a journalist and editor.

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Arline Usden was British.

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