Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Poetic Obituaries: Known universally as the omnicompetent wife

of one of the 20th century's most famous poets, Natasha Spender, who has died aged 91, achieved much more than partnership in her life. A concert pianist, she became a lecturer at the Royal College of Art after illness curtailed her performing career. Her first book, An English Garden in Provence, published when she was 80, was part memoir, part history of the garden she had created at Mas St Jerome, the home in France she shared with her husband, Sir Stephen Spender, whose legacy she strove to protect after his death in 1995.

from The Guardian: Natasha Spender obituary
then The Daily Telegraph: Lady Spender

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