Laura Marcus obituary

Academic, critic and writer who focused on the works of Virginia Woolf, autobiography and the history of cinema

Betty Wood obituary

Other lives: Historian of slavery, gender and religion in America

Other lives: Welsh-language publisher and author who founded the Welsh publishing house Dref Wen

Crime writer who drew on his experience as a Fleet Street journalist to colour his thrillers

Other lives: Lifelong worker for the Moral Re-Armament movement with a calling to care for others

Writer on art who undertook interviews for the Artists’ Lives oral history project at the British Library

Other lives: Poet who drew on her experiences as a child refugee from the Holocaust

Pioneering psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who specialised in studying the effects of stillbirth on women’s mental health

Other lives: Children’s librarian and storyteller who was part of an ancient tradition that stretches from the Caribbean to Connemara

Other lives: Journalist specialising in classic cars who became a theatre director in later life

Other lives: Poet who was a member of the British Poetry Revival of the 1960s and 70s

Scholar of opera who translated librettos into English, wrote ones of her own and edited guides to encourage new listeners

Journalist and historian of China who went from admiring the regime to being one of its sternest critics

Girls Aloud singer who later wrote a memoir about her rackety life as a pop star and her cancer diagnosis