Biografia

Married author and critic Derek Monsey in 1952, the couple would later divorce, only to be reconciled. They would remarry in late 1978, just months before Monsey died of a heart attack on 13 February 1979, with Mitchell dying of cancer just over a month later.

Daughter Cordelia Monsey, born in 1956, was named after the part Yvonne played to Michael Redgrave's King Lear at Stratford. Cordelia has gone on to become a successful stage director.

Changed her name legally in 1946 from Yvonne Frances Joseph to Yvonne Mitchell (Mitchell was her mother's maiden name). She also deducted a decade from her age, which is why many sources have listed 1925 as her birth year.

The first thing she wrote was the play "The Same Sky" which was first produced at Nottingham Playhouse and which she thought was the best of all it's versions. Upto 1978 it was the only play she wrote although she did translate two French plays - "A Measure of Cruelty" in which Wendy Hiller starred in Birmingham in 1965, and "Beware of the Dog" in which John Neville starred in Nottingham and London in 1977.

Lived for many years in the south of France, before returning to England.