Rosamond Lehmann
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Rosamond Nina Lehmann was an English novelist and translator. Her first novel, Dusty Answer, was a succès de scandale; she subsequently became established in the literary world, and intimate with memb
In the 1920s with (L–R) her brother John and Lytton Strachey
Cecil Day-Lewis
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Cecil Day-Lewis, often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym Nicholas Bl
Rosamond Lehmann
…by reading about the engagement in the newspaper. Afterward, Lehmann entered a "very public affair" for nine years (1941–1950) with the married poet Cecil Day-Lewis. The two went on holidays and lived together, and Lehmann tried to convince him to leave his wife for her. In the end, however, Day-Lewis left both his…
Day-Lewis in 1968
Headstone of Cecil Day-Lewis in the Stinsford churchyard
English Heritage blue plaque of Cecil Day-Lewis in Greenwich, London