Irene Collins

Irene Collins Fozzard; 16 September 1925 – 12 July 2015 was a British historian as well as writer, asked for her studies of Napoleon together with Jane Austen.

Early life and family

Irene Fozzard was born as a second of identical twins of James Frederick Fred Fozzard and Louisa Ratcliffe in burler and mender at the Black Dyke Mill in Queensbury. Irene's twin sister, Jean, died at the age of five.

Collins gained a scholarship to St Hilda's College, Oxford, to read modern history at the age of 17.