Background
Margaret Daphne Hawthorn Phelps was born on the 23rd of June, 1911 in the United Kingdom.
Daphne Phelps
Halesworth Rd, Reydon, Southwold IP18 6SD, United Kingdom
As a child, Daphne Phelps studied at St Felix School in Southwold, Suffolk.
56 Woodstock Rd, Oxford OX2 6HS, United Kingdom
Daphne Phelps attended St Anne's College, Oxford.
Houghton St, Holborn, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom
Daphne Phelps attended the London School of Economics and Political Science where she later took the Mental Health course.
Halesworth Rd, Reydon, Southwold IP18 6SD, United Kingdom
As a child, Daphne Phelps studied at St Felix School in Southwold, Suffolk.
56 Woodstock Rd, Oxford OX2 6HS, United Kingdom
Daphne Phelps attended St Anne's College, Oxford.
Houghton St, Holborn, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom
Daphne Phelps attended the London School of Economics and Political Science where she later took the Mental Health course.
(In "A House in Sicily" described Daphne Phelps’s life at ...)
In "A House in Sicily" described Daphne Phelps’s life at Casa Cuseni and the visitors who came to stay there. There were also descriptions of Sicilian friends such as her housekeeper, Concetta Cundari, and a local mafia boss, Don Ciccio, who took it upon himself to protect the English signorina by simply placing his cap on the bonnet of her car, thereby ensuring that no harm would come to her.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/House-Sicily-Daphne-Phelps/dp/1860496482
1999
psychiatric social worker author
Margaret Daphne Hawthorn Phelps was born on the 23rd of June, 1911 in the United Kingdom.
As a child, Daphne Phelps studied at St Felix School in Southwold, Suffolk. She attended St Anne's College, Oxford where she was trained in psychiatric social work and the London School of Economics and Political Science where she later took the Mental Health course.
In 1939 Daphne Phelps traveled to America to visit Child Guidance clinics but the war blocked her return until August 1941. Back in London, she worked in Sir Solly Zuckerman's team, researching the effects of the blitz, and then at the London Hospital before joining the West Sussex child guidance service, where she remained until her departure for Sicily.
When Daphne Phelps inherited Casa Cuseni, a villa in Taormina, Sicily, in 1947, she was not sure she could maintain it and thought she might have to sell it. But instead, she decided to turn the house into a pensione or hotel.
In 1999 Phelps wrote a memoir "A House in Sicily". The work is filled with anecdotes of life in the small Italian town as well as with portraits of aristocrats and literary figures.
(In "A House in Sicily" described Daphne Phelps’s life at ...)
1999
Robert Kitson was born in 1873. The Kitson family business was locomotive engineering, but Robert chose to become an artist, painting mainly in watercolor. He exhibited regularly at the Leeds Fine Arts Club, the Royal Academy and the Society of British Artists. Kitson moved to Sicily for health reasons, where he designed his own villa, Casa Cuseni in Taormina. He was forced to abandon the villa during the Second World War but returned there shortly before his death in 1947. His sketchbooks and papers are held at Leeds University Library.
