Dorothea Bennett

Dorothea "Dosia" Alice Bennett ( May 1985) was a novelist and screenwriter married to Terence Young.

Early life Bennett was daughter of Colonel William Bennett, DSO, OBE, MBChM, of Belbins, Romsey, Hampshire, who served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and his wife Kate Eileen, dau. of Rev. James Johnston Stoney, of Tipperary, from a minor landed gentry family of Oakley Park, County Offaly, a branch of the Stoney family of Borrisokane from which also came Andrew Robinson Stoney. The Bennetts were from Clonakilty, County Cork, where her grandfather had been a doctor. Her brother, William Johnstone Stoney, was an Army Major.

Career She is largely known for her 1977 novel The Jigsaw Man on which the 1983 film of the same name, directed by her husband, Terence Young, was based, as well as for other film work.

Personal life She was married to the artist Francis Cook from 1933 to their divorce in 1935, Bennett and Nissen had a daughter, Juliet, together before separating in 1937. Bennett had also had a relationship with Sam Spiegel whilst married to Cook, with Spiegel making off with her signed first editions of works by George Bernard Shaw and a new car during their relationship.

In June 1942 the Norwegian government-in-exile issued a dissolution of Bennett's marriage to Nissen. Five days later, she married the director Terence Young.

Their son, Sean Terence Bowes Young (1943-2021), married the politician Diana Warwick, Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe.