National Trust

Nine days earlier she had written that she had still some kick in me. The cause of her death was listed as acute bronchitis, myocarditis, and carcinoma of uterus. Today the National Trust

BP died, leaving the National Trust Hill Top Farm and 5,000 acres of farmland which became the basis of the Trust's Lake District holdings.

JT came from a Scottish family that was rising socially. Her father was a greengrocer and her mother was the daughter of a joiner; each had known poverty as a child. Her two pseudonyms, one...