Biography
Sybil Irene Eleanor Taylor was born in 1890 the first child of John Taylor, Squire of Carshalton.<ref name="etsy" /> She was the granddaughter of Sir James Crichton-Browne and was educated at Wycombe Abbey and Paris.<ref name="philsp">cite web|title=Cookson, Sybil Irene Eleanor Taylor (1890-1963)|url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/z13.htm|website=The General Fiction Magazine Index|accessdate=9 January 2018</ref>In 1913, Sybil Taylor married Roger Cookson, a racing driver with the Bentley team.<ref name="Souhami">cite book|last1=Souhami|first1=Diana|title=Gluck: Her Biography|date=2013|publisher=Hachette UK|page=63|url=https://books.google.it/books?id=mgFhBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT63|accessdate=9 January 2018</ref> After they separated in 1938, Cookson moved with her two young daughters (one of whom was the actress Georgina Cookson (1918–2011)) into Bolton House, a red-brick Georgian building on three floors in Hampstead, London, with the painter Gluck (1895–1978), who she had met through her friend Arthur Watts.<ref name="Souhami" />[1] Later in life Cookson was reconciled with her husband and stayed with him until her death in 1963.<ref name="Souhami" /><ref name="etsy" />
Sybil Cookson published three novels under the name of Sydney Tremayne: ''Eve'', ''The Broken Signpost'' and ''The Auction Mart''. The first two were best sellers, the third not so successful.<ref name="etsy" /> She was a journalist for the ''Tatler'' and later she edited and wrote for a womens' weekly magazine, ''Eve: The Lady's Pictorial'' (later ''Britannia & Eve''), even as she continued to write the monthly column for the ''Tatler'', ''Nights Out''.<ref name="etsy" /><ref name="Souhami" /> As Sybil Cookson, in 1919 she co-edited ''The boy with the guns'' and in 1923 she published ''Echo...''[2]
In 1979, after her death, David and Charles re-released ''Tatlings, Epigrams'' by Sydney Tremayne, 1922, and illustrated by Fish (Anne Hariet Fish).<ref name="etsy">cite web|title=Tatlings Epigrams by Sydney Tremayne Illustrated by Fish|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t13n29p00;view=thumb;seq=49|website=etsy|accessdate=9 January 2018</ref>
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- ^ cite web|title=Gluck and Modern British Women|url=http://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/gluck-modern-british-women-review-fine-art-society-london|website=studiointernational|accessdate=9 January 2018
- ^ cite book|last1=Cookson|first1=Sybil Irene Eleanor Taylor ||title=Echo...|date=1923|url=https://www.amazon.com/Sybil-Irene-Eleanor-Taylor-Cookson/dp/1279100265/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1515533878&sr=8-2&keywords=sybil+Cookson|accessdate=9 January 2018
