Sonia Markham obituary

My wife, Sonia Markham, who has died aged 77, was a loving mother and partner, peace and community activist, pioneering women’s rights worker and psychotherapist.She was the eldest of four talented daughters of the actor David Markham and the poet Olive Dehn. Sonia’s anarchist parents sent her to the progressive school Burgess Hill in Hampstead, north London, where I first met her when she was nine. Determined to become independent, Sonia left school at 16. She worked first at Chelse