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...
Friends, Associates
Lilian Bowes Lyon
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...
