Charlotte Raven, ‘exhilarating’, trail-blazing journalist, dies aged 55

Raven came to prominence on Modern Review in 1990s and later developed degenerative illness Huntington's disease

Charlotte Raven, the exhilarating" journalist who blazed a trail through the 1990s media scene, later writing powerfully about assisted dying after she developed a degenerative illness, has died aged 55.

Raven was a columnist, author and editor who wrote extensively for the Guardian and New Statesman, later becoming editor-in-chief of the Feminist Times.