Cressida Anne Lindsay (1930 - 13 November 2010) was an English poet and novelist in the 1960s.
Early life
Cressida Lindsay was born in London in 1930, the daughter of the writer
Philip Lindsay
Philip Lindsay (30 April 1906 – 4 January 1958) was an Australian writer, who mostly wrote historical novels.
Life and writing
He was the son of Norman Lindsay, an Australian artist and a younger brother of writer Jack Lindsay. He was ...
(and a granddaughter of the Australian artist and writer
Norman Lindsay
Norman Alfred William Lindsay (22 February 1879 – 21 November 1969) was an Australian artist, etcher, sculptor, writer, art critic, novelist, cartoonist and amateur boxer. One of the most prolific and popular Australian artists of his genera ...
) and the artist's model Jeanne Ellis.
She was educated in London convents.
Works
Lindsay had poems published in
Michael Horovitz's ''
New Departures
Michael Yechiel Ha-Levi Horovitz (4 April 1935 – 7 July 2021) was a German-born British poet, editor, visual artist and translator who was a leading part of the Beat Poetry scene in the UK. In 1959, while still a student, he founded the "tr ...
''.
She wrote four novels, all published in the 1960s.
*''Father's Gone to War and Mother's Gone to Pieces'' (Anthony Blond: 1963)
*''No Wonderland'' (
New English Library
The New English Library was a United Kingdom book publishing company, which became an imprint of Hodder Headline.
History
New English Library (NEL) was created in 1961 by the Times Mirror Company of Los Angeles, with the takeover of two small B ...
: 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).
Personal life
In the mid-1960s, Lindsay moved to the Old Rectory in
Scoulton
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The villages name means 'Skuli's farm/settlement'
Scoulton lies on the main road between ...
in Norfolk, to establish a commune for artists, one of whom was
Joanna Carrington
Joanna Carrington (6 November 1931-13 November 2003) was a British artist.
Biography
Carrington was born at Hampstead in north London into an artistic family, her father being the publisher and designer Noel Carrington while the artist Dora Ca ...
.
She married twice, to Michael Millett in 1955 and Peter Hammerton in 1988.
[Newmarket District Registry, Vol 10, page 4029, 1988.] She had a son with the poet and novelist
Mark Hyatt
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, whom she had taught to read and write.
She had another son with her publisher
Anthony Blond, who bought the Old Rectory in Scoulton for her.
She also had three other children.
She died in 2010, aged 80.
References
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1930 births
2010 deaths
English writers
English poets
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