Literary
POWELL
(Dilys, 1901-1995, Writer and Film Critic)
Autograph Postcard Signed to George M. Richards of Poole, Dorset,
saying You have been in marvellous form & I am ashamed of not having responded so long. This brings a plea for forgiveness & very best wishes for Christmas & the New Year, on the recto in colour is Toulouse-Lautrec's striking portrait of Mademoiselle Marcelle Lender, 6 x 4¼, no place, no date, circa
Item Date: 1970
Background
Dilys Powell was film critic for the Sunday Times, 1939-1976, where her second husband, Leonard Russell, 1906-1974, was chief literary editor. Her 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.
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