Derek Patmore
Derek Coventry Patmore (1908, London - 1972) was a British writer. He was the great grandson of the poet Coventry Patmore.
Patmore was educated at Uppingham School. He worked as a war correspondent in the Balkans and the Middle East, writing for the News Chronicle and the Daily Mail.[1]
Works
- Selected Poems of Coventry Patmore, London: Chatto and Windus, 1931.
- Portrait of My Family, London: Cassell, 1935.
- I Decorate My Home, London: Putnam, 1936.
- Decoration for the Small Home, London: Putnam, 1938.
- Invitation to Roumania, London: Macmillan, 1939.
- French for Love, London, 1940.
- Balkan Correspondent, New York: Harper, 1941.
- Images of Greece, London: Country Life, 1944.
- Colour Schemes and Modern Furnishing, London: The Studio, 1945.
- Life and Times of Coventry Patmore, Oxford University Press, 1949.
- Italian Pageant, London: Evans Bros, 1949.
- A Traveller in Venice, London: Methuen, 1951.
- A Decorator's Notebook, London: Falcon Press, 1952.
- Dark Places of the Heart: A Novel, London: Falcon Press, 1953.
- Private History: An Autobiography, 1960.
- Canada, London: Studio Vista, 1967.
- D. H. Lawrence and the Dominant Male, London: Covent Garden Press, 1970.
- Homage to Marcel Proust, London: Covent Garden Press, 1971.
References
- ↑ L. G. Pine, ed., The Author's and Writer's Who's Who, 4th ed., 1960.
- Mitchell, Owens, "Room to Improve", The New York Times, January 26, 2006
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