Her friends included writers Laurens van der Post
and William Plomer
(who was also a reader for her publisher, Jonathan Cape
). They also included her housekeeper, Ellen Beckwith
(with whom she put herself on...
Material Conditions of Writing
Lilian Bowes Lyon
Her housekeeper, Ellen Beckwith
, remembered her coming in late, black with smoke and dust and bloody from broken glass after helping with bomb damage, having a bath and a meal and sitting up late...
