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Jenny Joseph
Jenny Joseph (born 7 May 1932) is an English poet.
==Life and career==
She was born in Birmingham, and with a scholarship, studied English literature at St Hilda's College, Oxford (1950).〔(Poetry Archive profile )〕 Her poems were first published when she was at university in the early 1950s.〔Couzyn, Jeni. ''Contemporary Women Poets''. Bloodaxe. 1985 p166〕 She became a journalist and worked for the ''Bedfordshire Times'', the ''Oxford Mail'' and Drum Publications (Johannesburg, South Africa).
Joseph's best known poem, "Warning", was written in 1961 and is included in her 1974 collection ''Rose In the Afternoon'' and ''The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse''. "Warning" was identified as the UK's "most popular post-war poem" in a 1996 poll by the BBC. The second line was the inspiration for the Red Hat Society.〔(Redhatsociety.com )〕 Due to its popularity, an illustrated gift edition of "Warning", first published by Souvenir Press Ltd in 1997, has now been reprinted 41 times.〔http://www.souvenirpress.co.uk/product/warning-when-i-am-an-old-woman-i-shall-wear-purple-jenny-joseph/〕
Her first book of poems, ''The Unlooked-for Season'' won a Gregory Award in 1960 and she won a Cholmondeley Award for her second collection, ''Rose in the Afternoon'' in 1974.
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