Cressida Lindsay

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Cressida Lindsay with her youngest child, Sophie
The Old Rectory
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Cressida Anne Lindsay (1930  13 November 2010) was an English poet and novelist.

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

References

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