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The brothers John Cowper Powys, Theodore Francis Powys and Llewelyn Powys were members of a family of eleven children born to the Reverend C F Powys, vicar of Montacute for thirty-two years, and his wife Mary Cowper Johnson. All the children were formidable individualists but Louis Wilkinson once wrote that when they were together they became "one huge many-headed Powys". It was their strong sense of family and their passionate love of nature that united them; it was their sometimes anguished quests for separate identity that drew them into a remarkable variety of careers: from schoolmaster to farmer, from poet to architect.

Philippa Powys Elizabeth Myers Marian Powys A. R. Powys Alyse Gregory Mary Casey

Among them, Gertrude Powys was a painter of power and insight, Marian Powys an authority on lace and lace-making; A R Powys, Secretary of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, published a number of books on architectural subjects. Philippa Powys was a novelist and poet, as was Lucy Powys's daugher, Mary Casey. Littleton Powys published two volumes of autobiography and edited the Letters of his second wife, the novelist Elizabeth Myers. Llewelyn Powys was married to the American writer Alyse Gregory.