The Evening Standard | Self-pity? I’m far too busy for that
16 May 1994 / The Evening Standard
Throughout her life Marjorie Wallace has fought for the rights of the sick. Now she herself is facing the ultimate battle for health. She talks to Pauline Peters.
Men in London and Oxford sigh for Marjorie Wallace, a dazzler at parties and High Tables. She is not just the most tremendous fun; she is dauntingly admirable. Five years ago she gave up her very successful career as an award-winning journalist and writer to become the chief executive of Sane (Schizophrenia – A National Emergency), the charity she helped to found in response to a series of articles she'd written in 1985.
