After attending the Friends School Saffron Walden, she studied English at St Anne's College in Oxford, where she attended lectures by both C.
There, Jones and her two younger sisters Isobel (later Professor Isobel Armstrong, the literary critic) and Ursula (later an actress and a children's writer) spent a childhood left chiefly to their own devices. In 1943 her family finally settled in Thaxted, Essex, where her parents worked running an educational conference centre. When war was announced, shortly after her fifth birthday, she was evacuated to Wales, and thereafter moved several times, including periods in Coniston Water, in York, and back in London. Diana was born in London, the daughter of Marjorie (née Jackson) and Richard Aneurin Jones, both of whom were teachers.
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