Renée Haynes

Renée Oriana Haynes (23 July 1906 – 12 October 1992) was an English writer, historian, and psychical researcher. She was the author of an influential novel about her experience of Oxford University during the 1920s, and later coined the parapsychology term "boggle-threshold", to indicate the point at which tolerance of a claim turns to disbelief.

Personal life Renée Oriana Haynes was born in London on 23 July 1906, the eldest daughter of lawyer and writer E. S. P. Haynes. While there, Haynes was editor of the college's magazine, The Fritillary. followed Neapolitan Ice with Immortal John (1932), The Holy Hunger (1935), and Pan, Caesar and God: Who Spake by the Prophets (1938). She published widely on psychical subjects, including for the press and in essay collections.

Death Renée Haynes died on 12 October 1992 at the age of 86. The Times praised her as having had:an original and wide-ranging mind, a lively way of writing (with phrases which linger in the memory) and a deep sense of humanity and historical continuity.