John Osborne provincial touring company. Osborne tried his hand at writing plays, co-writing his first, "The Devil Inside Him", with his mentor Stella Linden, who then directed it at the Theatre Royal in Huddersfield in 1950. In June 1951 he also married Pamela Lane. His second play "Personal Enemy" was written with Anthony Creighton (with whom he later wrote "Epitaph for George Dillon" staged at the Royal Court in 1958). "Personal Enemy" was staged in regional theatres before he submitted "Look Back in Anger". Written in 17 days in a deck chair on Morecambe pier where Osborne was performing in a creaky
John Osborne (barrister) Governor of Guernsey during the English Civil War, was Francis's elder brother. Francis Osborne married Anna Draper, sister of the prominent Parliamentarian Colonel William Draper: John was the only boy among their four surviving children. Francis shared his brother-in-law's political beliefs, although he played little part in public life. His celebrated book "Advice to a Son", which he intended for John's education, was published in two volumes in 1656 and 1658. He moved to Oxford to be closer to his son, and died there in 1659. John Osborne was at Magdalen College from 1648 to 1651 and became a fellow