Background
Ida Affleck Graves was born as Ida Florence Graves on March 29, 1902, in India, to Colonel Douglas H. McDonnel Graves, IMS Surgeon to HM Forces in India, and of Mabel Alice Petley.
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Gallery of Ida Graves
Gower St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 6BT, UK
When she was 19, Graves went to University College London, to study English Literature.
Gallery of Ida Graves
16 John Islip St, Westminster, London SW1P 4JU, UK
When she was 19, Graves did an evening course in sculpture at Chelsea Art School.
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Gower St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 6BT, UK
When she was 19, Graves went to University College London, to study English Literature.
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16 John Islip St, Westminster, London SW1P 4JU, UK
When she was 19, Graves did an evening course in sculpture at Chelsea Art School.
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Samphire New Poetry 6
https://www.amazon.com/Samphire-New-Poetry-No-6-Six/dp/B002JK1U7G/?tag=2022091-20
1969
Samphire New Poetry 8
https://www.amazon.com/Samphire-New-Poetry-No-8-Eight/dp/B002JJY28Q/?tag=2022091-20
1970
The Calfbearer
(Ida Affleck Graves was first published as Ida Graves by L...)
Ida Affleck Graves was first published as Ida Graves by Lenoard Woolf and the Hogarth Press; later (post-war) novels came from Faber. Then a long silence, during which she wrote but stuffed poems into a drawer, was broken by OUP's book of poems, A Kind Husband, published in 1994.
https://www.amazon.com/Calfbearer-Oxford-Poets-Affleck-Graves/dp/0192881108/?tag=2022091-20
1999
- Samphire New Poetry 7 1969
- Samphire New Poetry 10 1970
- A Kind Husband 1994
Ida Affleck Graves
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At the age of six, Ida was sent away to boarding school in England. It wasn't until she was about 13 that she was moved to Croham Hurst, a Quaker school in Surrey where at last she found a kindred spirit in Theodora Clark, the Headmistress, who loved and encouraged this unhappy child, and nurtured her talent.
When she was 19, Graves went to University College London, to study English Literature, and at the same time did an evening course in sculpture at Chelsea Art School.
Career
In 1946 the Fortune Press published Graves's long poem, Mother and Child; then, during the Fifties, under the pen-name Affleck Graves, she published with Faber and Faber three children's books and two autobiographical novels: Willa, You're Wanted (1952), with a jacket designed by Ronald Searle that captured the spirit of Willa, or Ida, and Elarna Cane (1956).
Silence fell for nearly 40 years, as Ida Affleck Graves continued to write poems, but stuffed them, untyped, into a bottom drawer, until a teacher from Norwich read some of her work in the periodical Rialto. Peter Wallis became her friend and a sort of informal agent, and it was he who, having typed up her poems, sent them to the Oxford University Press in 1993.
In her last poetry collection, The Calfbearer, Graves addressed childhood, the natural world surrounding her sixteenth-century Suffolk-Tudor-weaver’s home, and death. Graves wrote the vast majority of the pieces in the collection during the final six years of her life.
Achievements
Works
book
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The Calfbearer
(Ida Affleck Graves was first published as Ida Graves by L...)
1999 - Samphire New Poetry 6 1969
- Samphire New Poetry 7 1969
- Samphire New Poetry 8 1970
- Samphire New Poetry 10 1970
- A Kind Husband 1994
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The Calfbearer
Connections
Graves married Herbert Marks, but their marriage ended soon. She then had a long-time companion Blair Hughes-Stanton. Later she married Don Nevard (a jazz pianist). She had four children: a son and a daughter from the first marriage, and a son and a daughter from other relationships.
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British