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Friends, Associates | Ruth Pitter | Despite her singularly unleisured lifestyle, RP
had a remarkable talent for friendship, which extended to people with whom she might be expected to have little in common. Her friendship with Lord David Cecil
brought her... |
Friends, Associates | Kathleen Raine | In later years, KR
had a circle of friends at Cambridge which included C. S. Lewis
, Edwin Muir
and his wife Willa
, Elizabeth Jennings
, Owen Barfield
, A. C. Harwood
, Tom Henn |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ruth Pitter | RP
had a lifelong companion in Kathleen, or K, O'Hara
, with whom she both worked and, from soon after the start of their business partnership, lived. It does not appear that this was an... |
Education | Zadie Smith | ZS
went to Malorees Junior School and then to Hampstead Comprehensive
. Tew, Philip. Zadie Smith. Palgrave Macmillan. 27 |
Education | J. K. Rowling | Formative early reading included Richard Scarry
and Kenneth Grahame
's The Wind in the Willows. Joanne Rowling did not care for Enid Blyton
as a young child but acquired a taste for her later... |
Education | Malorie Blackman | MB
was shaped by her reading outside school. She never entered a bookshop until she was fourteen, but relied on libraries. Early favourites were C. S. Lewis
's Narnia books, Johanna Spyri
's Heidi books... |
Cultural formation | Ruth Pitter | RP
was baptised an Anglican as a baby by parents who had trained at Church of England colleges but were not churchgoers. Russell, Arthur et al. “Faithful to Delight: A Portrait Sketch”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, pp. 19-40. 29 |
Cultural formation | Ruth Pitter | RP
became a Christian and was confirmed as an Anglican during the second world war. She wrote, There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking—well—I must find... |
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