PL
's mother, née Eva Emilie Day
, was intelligent but nervous and had led a fairly limited and restricted life before her marriage.
Motion, Andrew. Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life. Faber and Faber, 1993.
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As time went on she became resentful and self-pitying.
Motion, Andrew. Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life. Faber and Faber, 1993.
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Textual Production
Philip Larkin
PL
was also an indefatigable letter-writer. A couple of thousand of his letters to his mother
survive at Hull History Centre
, and about 1,500 to Monica Jones
. A selection of his highly personal...
