About Mirabel Osler
Lived 1925 – 1989 (aged 63–64). Mirabel Osler was a British writer and author.
Biography Mirabel was born Mirabel E E Birnstingl in 1925 in London. She was the daughter of Harry Joseph Birnstingl and Phyllis Taylor Reid. Her stepfather was the author and journalist Aylmer Vallance. She married Michael Julian Osler on 5 April 1951 and they lived in Thailand and Corfu before returning to England to live in Shropshire. Michael died on 26 April 1989. They had one son and two daughters (the youngest, Sureen, was adopted).
She wrote regularly for the garden magazine Hortus.
She died in Hereford County Hospital on 20 October 2016 aged 91.
Awards Mirabel won the Sinclair Consumer Press Garden Writer of the Year Award in 1988. Mirabel won the Journalist of the Year Award from the Garden Writers Guild in 2003
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