Daphne Phelps

Daphne Phelps (23 June 1911 – 30 November 2005) was a British writer who spent most of her life in Taormina, Sicily at Casa Cuseni, an elegant villa designed and built in 1905 by her uncle, the artist Robert Hawthorn Kitson. There she entertained numerous writer and artist friends including Bertrand Russell, Henry Faulkner, Roald Dahl and Tennessee Williams.[1] She was the author of A House in Sicily (1999), published by Virago.[2]

Phelps attended St Felix School, Southwold, Suffolk, and subsequently trained in psychiatric social work at St Anne's College, Oxford, and at the London School of Economics.

Obituaries

External sources
  • History of Kitson/Phelps families

References
  1. "Daphne Phelps". Retrieved 2017-10-26.
  2. "A house in Sicily by Daphne Phelps". Retrieved 2017-10-26.


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