Ursula Owen

Ursula Margaret Owen (born 21 January 1937) is an English publisher, editor and campaigner for free expression.

She was born Ursula Margaret Sachs in Oxford, England, to Emma Boehm and Werner Sachs, a chemical engineer who became managing director of a multinational company dealing with non-ferrous metals. Her parents were German Jews, and Owen spent the first 18 months of her life in Berlin, after which the family was forced to leave Nazi Germany and came to London.

Owen was educated at Putney High School and from there went to St Hugh's College, where she studied medicine and took a B.A. in Physiology. She then moved into the social sciences, taking a Graduate Diploma at Bedford College in London, and working for some years as a social worker and researcher into mental health issues.

She entered the publishing profession as an editor at Frank Cass in the early 1970s. She then worked briefly at Barrie & Jenkins. In 1974, Owen became a founder director of Virago Press. As editorial director and later managing director she oversaw the creation of the Virago list. She remained on Virago's board until the company was sold to Little, Brown and Company in 1996.

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