Teresa Ransom trained first as an occupational therapist in Oxford, England, later travelling to Hamilton in Canada where she worked in a Rehabilitation Centre. Australia was the next destination, to Sydney where after a few years she decided to switch jobs and train as an actor at the Sydney Acting School. This led to several years working in Television mainly in Soap operas, plus stage work in various theatres with some Directing and set design. In the early 1990s, with the discovery, in some family papers, of a small booklet extolling the virtues of the Villa Trollope in Florence, a new search began for the then little known Fanny Trollope, mother of Anthony. This began a new career in writing. Fanny Trollope, A Remarkable Life, published 1995, was shortlisted for the non-fiction prize at the Adelaide Writers Festival. The book charts the astonishing life of the intrepid and feisty Mrs Trollope to America and back, and her subsequent controversial life as a acclaimed author. The Mysterious Miss Marie Corelli, 1999, explores the strange life of a woman who invented her name, her past and her age to become one of the first bestsellers of supernatural fiction in the late 1800s. Madame Tussaud, A Life and a Time, 2003, looks into the little known background of the famous wax modeller. Who survived the French revolution to become an itinerant show woman in England and Ireland before finally settling in London. Prunella, the Authorized Biography in 2005, was written in conjunction with Prunella Scales and tells the story of her journey, via repertory theatre, to become one of Britain's best loved actresses.