Caitlin Thomas (1913–1994)
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- Macnamara, Caitlin
- Fødselsdato
- 1913-12-08
- Dødsdag
- 1994-07-31
- Begravelsessted
- Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Land (til kort)
- UK
- Fødested
- Hammersmith, London, England, UK
- Dødssted
- Catania, Sicily, Italy
- Bopæl
- London, England, UK
Rome, Italy
Catania, Sicily, Italy
Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
Ringwood, Hampshire, England, UK
County Clare, Ireland - Erhverv
- memoirist
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- Thomas, Dylan (husband)
Devas, Nicolette (sister) - Kort biografi
- Caitlin Thomas, née Macnamara, was born in London to a decayed Anglo-Irish landowning family from County Clare. Her sister Nicolette Macnamara Devas grew up to became a painter and writer. When Caitlin was a small child, her parents separated, and she moved with her mother and siblings to a house near Ringwood, Hampshire, on the edge of the New Forest, where they were close friends of the painter Augustus John and his family. In 1930, at age 16, she returned to London and entered dancing school; by 18, she was dancing in a London chorus line. After studying the Isadora Duncan style of dancing, she lived for a brief time in Paris before going to County Clare with her father. In 1936, she met Dylan Thomas in a pub in London; they began a relationship through correspondence and married the following year. The couple lived a peripatetic and bohemian lifestyle, moving from Chelsea to Wales, Oxford, Ireland, and Italy. They eventually settled in a cottage in the village of Laugharne, Wales, in 1938 and had three children. The marriage was famously tempestuous, fuelled by alcohol and infidelity. She became more and more frustrated at being left behind to raise the children and deal with the bills while her husband spent his time traveling for poetry readings and carousing. Following his premature death in 1953, she published a frank memoir, Leftover Life to Kill (1957). She had been spending an increasing amount of time in Italy, and finally decided to move there. She never married again, but had a long-term relationship with Giuseppe Fazio, with whom she had a son when she was 49. In 1963, she published her second book, Not Quite Posthumous Letters to My Daughter. In 1986, she published her autobiography, Caitlin: Life with Dylan Thomas.
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This book is divided into three sections; the first, a rambling apology for the Thomas' drunken lifestyle, the second covering Caitlin's troubled childhood, and only the third really giving an insight into life with Dylan. The first book was written with a ghost writer, George Tremlett, who at least provides an invisible line in authorship. In this tome, Caitlin writes her own story and one is forced to the opinion that she wanted to prove her writing ability stood alongside that of Dylan: it didn't. The text appears stilted: this is not someone writing in their natural manner.
So, having complained about the style, what of the content? Were this to be the only book that I had read about Dylan Thomas, I would be much more complimentary, but there are many professional biographies of the poet and even, as previously mentioned, another book giving Caitlin's perspective. In that light, this offering is somewhat surplus to requirements and a cynic might suggest that it was written to cash in. Even the pictures therein, have all been included in other works so, there is little to recommend this book over others upon the subject.… (mere)