Frances Edmonds

{{short description|British writer|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2014}} {{Use British English|date=July 2014}}

{{Infobox writer | name = Frances Eileen Edmonds | occupation = Writer | education = | alma_mater = New Hall, Cambridge | period = | genre = Travel writing, sports writing | subject = Cricket, travel | movement = | notable_works = Another Bloody Tour: England in the West Indies<br>Cricket XXXX Cricket | spouse = Phil Edmonds | partner = | children = 1 | relatives = Kieran Moriarty (brother) }} '''Frances Eileen Edmonds''' is a British writer known for her books ''Another Bloody Tour: England in the West Indies'' (1986) and ''Cricket XXXX Cricket'' (1987), which detail her experiences touring with her husband, former England cricketer Phil Edmonds.<ref name="Rayner">{{cite web|work=The Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9379857/Former-England-cricketer-Phil-Edmonds-colluded-with-solicitor-to-deprive-rival-of-mining-shares-court-told.html |title=Former England cricketer Phil Edmonds 'colluded with solicitor to deprive rival of mining shares', court told |first=Gordon |last=Rayner |date=6 July 2012}}</ref>

She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme ''Desert Island Discs'' on 9 August 1987, in conversation with Michael Parkinson.<ref name="DID">{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009mlh3 |title= Castaway: Frances Edmonds |work=Desert Island Discs |publisher=BBC Online|access-date=18 August 2014}}</ref>

== Education ==

Edmonds matriculated at New Hall, Cambridge, in 1970 and graduated with a master's degree in Modern and Medieval Languages.

She is a fellow at the Distinguished Careers Institute, Stanford University.<ref name="Cocoa1912">{{cite web |url=https://dci.stanford.edu/frances-edmonds/ |title= Frances Edmonds |work=Distinguished Careers Institute |publisher=Stanford University|accessdate=21 May 2019}}</ref>

== Personal life ==

Edmonds has two younger brothers, both of whom are ophthalmologists. Her older brother is the physician Kieran Moriarty CBE, FRCP, FRCPI.

Edmonds married the former England cricketer Phil Edmonds towards the end of 1976.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=XuMbZjdxJRW5BYSTM2tm8A&scan=1|title=Index entry|accessdate=24 August 2020|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}}</ref> They have a daughter. <ref name="Rayner" />

== Bibliography ==

*{{cite book |last=Edmonds |first=Frances |author-mask=2 |title=Another Bloody Tour: England in the West Indies, 1986 |year=1986 |publisher=The Kingswood Press |isbn=978-0434980932 }} (with the English cricket team in the West Indies in 1985–86) *{{cite book |last=Edmonds |first=Frances |author-mask=2 |title=Cricket XXXX Cricket |year=1987 |publisher=The Kingswood Press |isbn=978-0434981137 }} *{{cite book |last=Edmonds|first=Frances |author-mask=2|title=Members only|year=1989 |publisher=William Heinemann Ltd |isbn=0434221848 }}

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== External links ==

* {{Official website|http://www.francesedmonds.co.uk/}}

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