By Accident or Design

<p>In this reflective autobiography Rosemary Sassoon a leading expert on handwriting and typography looks back on her long and varied career paying special attention to her unorthodox progression through a variety of fields. She details the route that took her from design to the educational and medical aspects of handwriting problems then on to research and a PhD and finally to working in the area of legibility in type design. In telling the story of an unusual and unusually successful life Sassoon takes up a number of philosophical questions about what it is that comes together to form our characters and what role chance and coincidence play in our lives.</p>