Janet Fleming Rose was born in Surrey in the south of England. She was was educated in Epsom and studied modern languages at the University of Edinburgh. She gained her postgraduate diploma in librarianship at the Polytechnic of North London and subsequently
worked in various roles such as children’s librarian, branch librarian, information officer at a children’s charity, librarian in charge of a technical library for consulting engineers, librarian and factotum at a community centre on an island in the South Pacific, and adviser to the head librarian at the National Library of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean. In addition, she had the bounty of serving for six years in Haifa as Acquisitions Librarian at the Bahá’í World Centre Library.
Janet is the author of A Seed in Your Heart: the life of Louise Mathew Gregory, and she contributed a chapter to The Bahá’í Community of the British Isles 1844-1963 in collaboration with Moojan Momen and Earl Redman after the initial inspiration of
the late Adam Thorne. She now lives in St Albans, Hertfordshire, with her husband Andrew.
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