JM
went on her first-ever long, public journey as a woman: with her partner Elizabeth
she explored the Cascade Mountains in the western USA, for a book which in the event was never written...
Dedications
Jan Morris
This is dedicated to the two ever-present guardians of the house: Elizabeth
who shares it with me, and Wales which is its patron and its inspiration.
Morris, Jan. A Writer’s House in Wales. National Geographic, 2002.
prelims
Family and Intimate relationships
Jan Morris
JM
, before her transition, and Margaret Elizabeth Tuckniss
, who had met while lodging in the same house in London, were married at Paignton in Devon—after JM told Elizabeth about her identity as...
Family and Intimate relationships
Jan Morris
At the council offices in Pwllheli, JM
and her former wife Elizabeth
legally became civil partners, a right accorded to same-sex couples by the UK's Civil Partnerships Act which came into force in December...
Literary responses
Jan Morris
Germaine Greer
wrote a review for the Evening Standard which opens politely: You cannot help liking Jan Morris and she poses her Conundrum in great style. Greer uses the feminine pronoun but asserts that Morris...