Literary
POWELL
(Dilys, 1901-1995, Writer and Film Critic)
Autograph Postcard Signed to George M. Richards of Poole, Dorset,
saying ... My father had asthma, so did my first husband, so I really know how awful it can be... No, we were fairly sober at the end of that programme, but sad. How on earth am I to face myself, without emolument, to keep up with Caro & Portnoy??, and that she is enthusiastic about Norfolk, where we spent a holiday a few years ago, on the recto is a photograph by Nick Stournaras of the Youth of Volomandra (550 B.C.), 6 x 4¼, postmarked Paddington, 29th April
Item Date: 1969
Background
Dilys Powell's first husband, H.G.G. Payne, 1902-1936, was Director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens, and she had a life-long love of Greece. She was film critic for the Sunday Times, 1939-1976, and president of the Classical Association, 1966-1967.
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