Janie Hampton

Janie Hampton (born as Anderson, 14 March 1952) is a British author, best known for her biography of Joyce Grenfell and social history books The Austerity Olympics and How the Girl Guides Won the War.

Janie Hampton is the penultimate daughter of the author Verily Anderson and the playwright Donald Clive Anderson. Her siblings include the author Rachel Anderson and the television producer Eddie Anderson. She has been married since 1971 and has four children.

While living on a small-holding in Shropshire in the 1970s Hampton designed and made clothes that she sold in London, Los Angeles and Rome. Her customers included musician Robert Plant and author Louisa Young.

In 1980 the Hamptons moved to Zimbabwe, where she studied for a BA in Human Sciences, wrote books and articles on health issues, and was the Women's Editor of the Manica Post. After her return to Britain in 1985, she produced The Medical Programme and Focus on Africa for the BBC World Service. In 1988 she gained an MSc in International Health from the Institute of Child Health, London. Her thesis was on the health and development of pre-school children, researched while living in the remote Honde Valley, Zimbabwe

In 1991, the British Overseas Development Administration (now the Department for International Development) commissioned Hampton to help develop its policy on international women's health. She then planned health projects in Africa, South America and Asia.

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