Cressida Lindsay

Cressida Lindsay with her youngest child, Sophie
The Old Rectory
The Old Rectory

Cressida Anne Lindsay (1930 – 13 November 2010) was an English poet and novelist.

Early life

Cressida Lindsay was born in London in 1930, the daughter of the writer Philip Lindsay (and a granddaughter of the Australian artist and writer Norman Lindsay) and the artist's model Jeanne Ellis.[1] She was educated in London convents.[1][2]

Works

Lindsay had poems published in Michael Horovitz's New Departures.[1]

She wrote four novels, all published in the 1960s.[1]

  • Father's Gone to War and Mother's Gone to Pieces (Anthony Blond: 1963)
  • No Wonderland (New English Library: 1965)
  • No, John, No (Anthony Blond: 1966)
  • Lovers and Fathers (Anthony Blond: 1969)

After her death, her son Dylan Hyatt published a further novel, The Mole in the Mountain, as an e-book on Amazon (2016).[3]

Personal life

In the mid-1960s, Lindsay moved to the Old Rectory in Scoulton in Norfolk, to establish a commune for artists, one of whom was Joanna Carrington.[1] The commune was a haven for painters, writers, sculptors, and even pop groups. This alternative lifestyle setup was documented in 1970 by John Swinfield for Anglia Television.[4]

She married twice, to Michael Millett in 1955[5] and Peter Hammerton in 1988.[6][1] She had a son with the poet and novelist Mark Hyatt, whom she had taught to read and write.[7] She had another son with her publisher Anthony Blond, who bought the Old Rectory in Scoulton for her.[7] She also had three other children.[1]

She died in 2010, aged 80.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Cressida Lindsay Obituary". The Guardian. 25 November 2010. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
  2. ^ "Wellcome Collection: When you don't belong, you drink". 11 March 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
  3. ^ "ITV: Norfolk Writer's Manuscript found in Attic by son". Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  4. ^ "Writers and Artists Commune At Old Rectory Farm, Scoulton, Norfolk". 1970. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  5. ^ Fulham District Registry, Vol 5c, page 1370, September 1955 quarter.
  6. ^ Newmarket District Registry, Vol 10, page 4029, 1988.
  7. ^ a b Blond, Anthony (2004). Jew Made in England. Timewell Press. pp. 203–. ISBN 978-1-85725-200-2. OCLC 233545472.
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