Charlotte Raven (born 1969) is a British author and journalist. She studied English at the University of Manchester. As a Labour Club activist there in the late 1980s and early 1990s, she was part of a successful campaign to oust then student union communications officer Derek Draper, though she subsequently had a four-year relationship with him.[1] She was University of Manchester Students' Union Women's Officer in 1990-91 and presided over an election in which future Labour MP Liam Byrne failed to be elected as the Union's Welfare Officer. She later studied at the University of Sussex.
Raven was a contributor to the Modern Review, and the editor of the relaunched version in 1997. There she met Julie Burchill, with whom she had an affair in 1995: the two are pictured in the National Portrait Gallery. Her columns have appeared frequently in The Guardian and New Statesman.
In 2001 Raven was accused of regional 'racism' after launching an attack on Denise Fergus, the mother of child murder victim James Bulger, and the people of Liverpool in general, in a Guardian article on the James Bulger case.[2][3] The article generated a high level of complaints. In response, Guardian readers' editor Ian Mayes concluded that the article should not have been published.[4]
In April 2013, it was announced that the feminist magazine Spare Rib would relaunch with Raven as the editor.[5] It was subsequently announced that while a magazine and website were to be launched, it would now have a different name.[6]
^Derek Draper, Charlotte Raven & Joanne Mallabar (4 October 1998). "How we met". The Independent. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2008.
^Raven, Charlotte (26 June 2001). "Why the Bulger mourning marathon sickens me". The Guardian. London.
^"Organization of News Ombudsmen: City limits…". Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 16 March 2010.
^"City limits". TheGuardian.com. 30 June 2001.
^Ben Dowell (25 April 2013). "Spare Rib magazine to be relaunched by Charlotte Raven". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
^Raven, Charlotte (24 June 2013). "My 'wounding' battle with Spare Rib founders over feminism 2.0". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
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