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Joan Wyndham
Joan Olivia Wyndham (11 October 1921, in East Knoyle, Wiltshire – 8 April 2007, in London) was a British writer and memoirist who rose to literary prominence late in life through the diaries she had kept more than 40 years earlier, which were an account of her romantic adventures during the Second World War, when she was an attractive teenager who had strayed into London's Bohemianism, Bohemian set. Her literary reputation rests on ''Love Lessons'' (1985) and ''Love Is Blue'' (1986), two selections from her diaries which led one critic to call her ''"a latterday Samuel Pepys, Pepys in camiknickers."'' Life Wyndham's mother, Iris Bennett, was the daughter of British diplomat Andrew Percy Bennett and his Romanian wife Winifred. Winifred was later connected to senior Army officer Sir John French; Iris married Guy Richard Charles Wyndham (1896–1948), son of Guy Wyndham, was from the aristocratic Wyndham family of Petworth House, West Sussex. Her early years were spent in the Wilts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Knoyle
East Knoyle is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in Wiltshire, in the south-west of England, just west of the A350 road, A350 and about south of Warminster and north of Shaftesbury, Dorset. It was the birthplace of the architect Christopher Wren, Sir Christopher Wren. The parish includes the hamlets of Holloway, Milton, The Green, Underhill and Upton. History East Knoyle was part of the ancient Hundred (country subdivision), Hundred of Downton, Wiltshire, Downton. Unusually for England, parish registers survive from 1538 and are kept in the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre.East Knoyle, Wiltshire, England at genuki.org.uk John Marius Wilson's ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' (1870–1872) notes two Tithing (country subdivision), tythings in East Knoyle: Milton and Upton. East ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
