A women’s editor who went on to a career in academia has died aged 89.

Tributes have been paid to Mona Clark, who worked for DC Thomson as a journalist before going on to become a lecturer.

Mona, pictured, began her career as a trainee journalist at the publisher’s headquarters in Dundee, initially working on magazines before switching to edit the Sunday Post’s women’s page.

She then moved to London with her future husband Stewart to work on She magazine.

The couple married in 1957 and returned to Dundee after the birth of their first son Andrew, going on to have three further children – Peter, Michael and Kate.

Mona, who died on 16 February, studied politics as a mature student at the University of Dundee and then taught psychology at the institution until her retirement in 1999.

Andrew told the Dundee Courier: “She was a keen cook, an early adopter of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cooking and may have been responsible for the creation of artisan deli culture in the West End of Dundee, supplying homemade Pate de Campagne to George Irving butchers for the more adventurous palate in the early 1970s.

“In retirement she reprised her artistic talent for fashion, fabrics and ceramics; she had been a part-time student at Dundee College of art in fabric, fashion and pottery after leaving school.”