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Jan Morris

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Jan Morris, historian, travel writer and trans pioneer, dies aged 94

 

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Jan Morris on "Facing Death"

 

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Jan Morris on being 90 years old

 

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Jan Morris on "Telling the Truth"

 

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Jan Morris

Jan Morris, CBE, FRSL is a Welsh historian, author and travel writer. She is known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy (1968–1978), a history of the British Empire, and for portraits of cities, notably Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Hong Kong, and New York City. A trans woman, she was published under her birth name, James, until 1972, when she had sex reassignment after transitioning from living as male to living as female.
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