Editing Claire Rayner (section)

==Early life==
Rayner was born to Jewish parents in [[Stepney]],<ref name="dnb">Jane Reed, "Rayner [née Berkovitch], Claire Berenice
(1931–2010)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Jan 2014 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/103171 available online]. Retrieved 26 August 2020.</ref>  London, the eldest of four children.<ref name="TelgObit"/> Her father was a [[tailor]] and her mother a housewife. Her father had adopted the surname Chetwynd, under which name she was educated at the [[City of London School for Girls]].<ref name=TelgObit/> 

Her [[autobiography]] ''How Did I Get Here from There?'' was published in 2003, and revealed details of a childhood marred by physical and mental cruelty at the hands of her parents.<ref name="talesmy">{{cite news|url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,905443,00.html|title=Tales my mother never told me|last=Rayner|first=Jay|date=2 March 2003|work=The Observer|location=London}}</ref> After the family emigrated to [[Canada]], in 1945 she was placed in a psychiatric hospital by her parents, and treated for 15 months for a [[thyroid]] defect.<ref name=TelgObit/>