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Mary Yonge

Birth Date: 1908
Death Date: 2010

Mary Yonge (married name O'Donovan) worked for many years as a textile designer for Courtaulds before becoming the Head of Studio. While she was working at Courtaulds, Yonge taught one day a week at Central School of Art and Design, where she had been a student. Yonge retired from Courtaulds and began working freelance in the 1960s. During this period she sold her designs to major companies like Liberty & Co and Edinburgh Weavers.