Lucille Iremonger

01 January 1919 - 20 January 1989

LI published articles in periodicals, an exotic cookery book, travel and autobiographical works, novels, an anthology, and in particular historical biographies and studies of psychology. Having grown up in Jamaica, she sometimes wrote about the Caribbean, but from the time she settled in England late in the Second World War her work became more and more English in flavour.

BirthName: Lucille Parks
Both Contemporary Authors and the British Library Catalogue give her birth name as d'Oyen, but this was her mother's birth name.
Iremonger, Lucille. Yes, My Darling Daughter. Secker and Warburg, 1964.
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It was spelled d'Oyen or Doyen as the fancy took us, but originally it had been d'Ayen or D'Ayen.
Iremonger, Lucille. Yes, My Darling Daughter. Secker and Warburg, 1964.
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Contemporary Authors gives her birth-date as June 1915.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Married: Iremonger

Milestones

1919

Lucille Parks (later LI ) was born, the eldest of her family, near Port Royal in Jamaica, where her mother's family had lived for generations, originally as slave-owning planters.

Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

1984

LI 's final work, Orphans of the Heart (though described as a novel by Contemporary Authors) is actually a study of child psychology, as evidenced in the early years of celebrities.

British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

By 20 January 1989

LI died after a serious illness.

“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

Biography

Birth and Family

1919

Lucille Parks (later LI ) was born, the eldest of her family, near Port Royal in Jamaica, where her mother's family had lived for generations, originally as slave-owning planters.

Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.