Jill Balcon

EJH met Arthur Koestler at a party and was bowled over by his whirlwind energy, but when he proposed marriage she had enough sense to counter-suggest living together for some months instead to see how...

RL was finally abandoned by Cecil Day-Lewis , who left her to marry the actress Jill Balcon , a woman twenty-one years younger than himself.

Her friends during the 1950s included Stephen and Natasha Spender , Alec Waugh , Margaret Lane , Malcolm Sargent , and Joyce Grenfell . She also met Cyril Connolly , Olivia Manning , Stevie Smith

When EJH 's old friend and one time lover Cecil Day-Lewis fell terminally ill with pancreatic cancer, he and his wife Jill Balcon both came to stay at Lemmons. Day-Lewis died there.

Individual poems for this collection appeared in the TLS, Poetry Ireland Review, and the New Statesman and Society.CAD said it took so long to write because each poem had to...

Correspondences by AS was published both by Wesleyan University Press and Oxford University Press . She worked on it from 1970, researching (while her husband, Mark Elvin , held an appointment at Harvard between...

During the 1970s EJH several times went on holiday without Kingsley Amis. In summer 1972 she went to Provence with Jill Balcon , and the next summer to France again and to Tuscany. In...