Virginia Ironside is a British journalist, agony aunt and author. She is the daughter of painter and coin designer Christopher Ironside and fashion designer and the first-ever professor of fashion design at the Royal College of Art Janey Ironside, and the niece of the visionary painter and designer Robin Ironside. Ironside writes a column, "Dilemmas", for The Independent and a monthly column for The Oldie. Her first book, Chelsea Bird, was published at the age of nineteen. During the 1960s she wrote a rock music column for the Daily Mail newspaper.She is an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society. 

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