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          In her autobiography, Killing My Own Snakes, she wrote how during her early life in India and Pakistan she survived a riot, experienced a.!

          When Ann Leslie got her first job in journalism it didn't take her long to realise she'd probably made a ghastly mistake, writes SIMON SHAW.

        1. When Ann Leslie got her first job in journalism it didn't take her long to realise she'd probably made a ghastly mistake, writes SIMON SHAW.
        2. And that autobiography I'd hoped to ghost?
        3. In her autobiography, Killing My Own Snakes, she wrote how during her early life in India and Pakistan she survived a riot, experienced a.
        4. Helping to grow the careers of established and debut writers has always been Ann Leslie's passion.
        5. I might write my autobiography as I have been asked to do so for many years.

          6. The first lady of Fleet Street

          Killing My Own Snakes by Ann Leslie (Macmillan, £20)

          By SIMON SHAW FOR MAILONLINE
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          When Ann Leslie got her first job in journalism it didn't take her long to realise she'd probably made a ghastly mistake.

          Dispatched to Manchester to write for the Northern edition of a then thriving Fleet Street daily, she was left in no doubt by her dour boss that she was as welcome as the bubonic plague.

          Ann Leslie working on her new computer at home

          Not only was she young, expensively educated and Southern, she was also, to his disgust, a woman.

          'You're keeping a good man out of a job,' he snarled at her, a theme taken up by his sidekick who declared that he didn't object to women working in newspapers - just so long as it was other newspapers.

          Sexism, whether of the casual or institutional variety, is just one of the many 'snakes' Dame Ann Leslie has had to contend with during a glittering career in which she has been feted as one of the finest jou