Editing Joan Littlewood (section)

==Later life and death==
[[File:Joan Littlewood at Theatre Royal Stratford.jpg|thumb|Philip Jackson's sculpture of Joan Littlewood at Theatre Royal Stratford]]
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Plaque on the wall of the Theatre Royal Stratford, commemorating Joan Littlewood and the erection of the sculpture of her on 4 October 2015]]
After Raffles's death in 1975, Littlewood left Theatre Workshop and stopped directing. After a time of drifting she settled in France and became the companion of Baron [[Philippe de Rothschild]], the vintner and poet, and wrote his memoirs ''Milady Vine''. In the mid-1980s, she commenced work on her 1994 autobiography, ''Joan's Book''.<ref>{{cite news | first=Alan |last=Strachan | title=Joan Littlewood: Bold and innovative director celebrated for her work at the Theatre Royal, Stratford  | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/joan-littlewood-643497.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220609/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/joan-littlewood-643497.html |archive-date=9 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | work=The Independent | date=23 September 2002 | access-date=2009-02-16}}</ref>

Littlewood died in 2002 of natural causes at the age of 87 in the London flat of [[Peter Rankin]].<ref>{{Cite web | title = My friend Joan, the director who hated 'acting' | last = Rankin | first = Peter | work = The Telegraph|location=London | date = 23 September 2002 | access-date = 2 June 2018 | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/3583060/My-friend-Joan-the-director-who-hated-acting.html }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | title = Obituary: Joan Littlewood | work = The Scotsman | access-date = 2 June 2018 | url = https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/joan-littlewood-1-622258 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328115936/https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/joan-littlewood-1-622258 |archive-date=28 March 2019}}</ref>