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The Powys Family
Marian, Albert, Charles Francis (father), John Cowper, Theodore, Philippa (Katie), Littleton, Mary Cowper (mother), Margaret*, Gertrude, Llewelyn, Littleton, William, Lucy. (*Margaret Lyon, wife of JCP) 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. Book images
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 (author of The Blackthorn Winter and Driftwood), as was Mary Casey, daughter of Lucy, the youngest Powys. Littleton Powys, a much admired headmaster, published two volumes of autobiography (The Joy Of It and Still The Joy Of It) and edited the Letters of his second wife, the novelist Elizabeth Myers. Llewelyn Powys was married to the American writer and novelist Alyse Gregory (author of Hester Craddock, King Log and Lady Lea and She Shall Have Music). "For when we talk of the Powyses, either individually or as a group, we do not speak of personalities merely, for their various works and characters interact with those of their readers and create new realms of experience. To adapt Auden’s poem ‘Edward Lear’, they have become a land, and those who explore it can appropriate to themselves what they find there. To that extent they themselves are witness to the Powys mystique and may justifiably feel grateful for their citizenship of this complex and endlessly accommodating province of the corporate literary imagination." From That Goblin Race: The Powys Family Mystique by Glen Cavaliero (The Powys Journal Vol. XIX 2009) |
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