Publisher, she and her then partner, John Calder, employed lawyer John Mortimer (also author of 'Rumpole of the Bailey') for the appeal of the obscenity ban in UK of ''Last Exit to Brooklyn'' by Hubert Selby Jr. They won. Mr Clader and her later parted ways and became both successful publishers on their own. John Calder born Montréal, 25 January 1927 died in Edinburgh, 13 August 2018.