About Rosalind Baker (nee Nevile)
Biography of Rosalind Baker (nee Neville and formerly Smith)
NEVILLE Rosalind Irene, Australian, born 16th June, Brisbane, Queensland.
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Rosalind was born late in the Second World War. Her father, who can trace his ancestry back to William the Conqueror (the first Neville to land on English shores), was a flying officer in the RAAF at the time. When she was eight-years-old her parents moved to Thursday Island at the tip of Cape York where her father had purchased a fleet of pearling luggers. Her Mother was the ABC correspondent on the island; perhaps it was from her that she inherited her passion for writing.
On her mother's side, she is related to highly acclaimed Australian author, David Malouf. Rosalind's parents, after eighteen months on Thursday Island, moved to the picturesque city of Cairns.From Cairns, she was packed off to boarding school at St. Mary's Herberton, an old gold mining town on the Atherton Tablelands. At the age of fourteen, she was transferred to Clayfield College in Brisbane.
When Rosalind's parents divorced, her father joined Mary Kathleen Uranium Ltd, at the township of Mary Kathleen in North Queensland, as the Chief Civil Engineer; supervising the construction of the road from Cloncurry to Mount Isa, via Mary Kathleen. Rosalind left school at sixteen to join him there. Always precocious - at not-quite-seventeen - she married the Chief Mechanical Engineer who was twelve years her senior; the first wedding in the Anglican Church at Mary Kathleen. Her husband was a Victorian and it was not long before they moved to Melbourne. They had two children and also adopted two boys. The first child is also keen on writing. Although it was a successful marriage for nineteen years it ended in divorce twenty years later.
Although Rosalind's background was commercial, entrepreneurial - she has set up three successful businesses and is the principal of Entre Nous - she began writing for a suburban newspaper as Social Writer and Women's Issues columnist at the age of forty-five. Her first book, Dial A Woman published October 1989, offers advice to Australian males: How to choose the correct woman for a successful relationship. The sequel for women, Dial A Man: How to recognise and lure the man of your dreams until he captures you forever, was released April 1990. Both were best-sellers and made a comeback with the release of Dial A Personality. Dial A Personality: The seven personalities within each woman. How to recognise them within yourself and others: inspires one to draw on the strengths of the - not normally active - personality types and to avoid the weaknesses of those not conducive to a harmonious inner-self.
A keen photographer, Rosalind has had several photographs published in magazines. Rosalind studied theology at Ridley College, University of Melbourne for 4 years, her Bachelor of Theology is incomplete.
Like everything that interests her, she is passionate about opera, the Arts and reading; is a keen backgammon player and swims, walks or cycles regularly.
Appointments:
Proprietor - Rosalind Children' Wear 1964-79
Marketing Manager - Shipping Industry 1979-85
Managing Director - Rosalind's Shopping Tours 1985-1988
Guest Speaker - Australian Management College 1986-1988
Columnist - Toorak Times 1987-1989
Women's Editor - Toorak Times 1989-1990
Principal, Entre Nous Introduction Service 1991 -
Features Writer - Single Life Magazine 1991 - 1993
Features Writer - H B & B Magazine 1992 -
Features Writer & Columnist - Singles Magazine 1993 - 1994
Columnist - Melbourne Secretary 1993
Relationships Columnist - Chinese Daily 2003/04
Relationships Columnist - Toorak Metropolitan News 2003/04
Television Appearances:
1985 Good Morning Australia
1985 The Today Show
1989 Eye On Australia
1989 Good Morning Australia
1989 A Current Affair
1989 Coast to Coast
1989/90 Sky Channel
1989/90 Adelaide Today
1989/90 Lady for a Day - Adelaide
1990 Ray Martin Midday Show
1990 Pick of the Week - Ray Martin
1990 Steve Vizard Show
1990 Eye on Australia (Channel 9 Brisbane 6.30 pm)
1991 Robbo's World
1991 Good Morning Australia
1992 Real Life - Australia's 10 Worst Dressed Women
1992 Today Show - Channel 9
1992 The Morning Show - Channel 10
1992 Adelaide Today - Channel 9
1994 Real Life - Channel 7
2003 Sunrise - Channel 7Author of Dial a Woman, Dial a Man and Dial a Personality
