Barbara Wall (writer)

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Barbara Wall (born October 9, 1911 in England as Barbara Lucas ; † April 8, 2009 ) was a British writer who wrote mostly under her maiden name .

Life

Barbara Wall was born in 1911 to Perceval Drewett Lucas and his wife Madeline (nee Meynell). At the age of four she lost her father, who died in the First World War . Together with her two older sisters she attended St Paul's Girls School in London . Her two sisters then studied at the University of Oxford . Barbara Lucas, on the other hand, published Stars Were Born , which she wrote at the age of 21.

She was already active in the Catholic intellectual scene in her youth. In the 1930s she became involved in the Catholic labor movement in London. It was there that she met her future husband, Bernard Wall . Together the two founded the Catholic Worker newspaper . The two married in 1934. The marriage resulted in two daughters. Her daughter Bernardine later also became active as a writer. Until the outbreak of the Second World War , the family lived in England, France , Italy and Switzerland . In 1939 the family settled in London. For the next few years she and her husband worked as writers, translators and journalists. Among other things, they translated together Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's main work Le Phénomène Humain and his Le Milieu Divin . Using the pen name Hilary Knight , she wrote a column in The Catholic Herald . During the Second Session of the Second Vatican Council , she wrote about the event for various periodicals . She and her husband wrote Thaw At the Vatican in 1964 .

As a lifelong pacifist, she was involved in the Catholic peace movement in the 1970s. For her life's work she was awarded the Benemerenti Papal Merit Medal . After her husband's death in 1974, she moved to Sussex , near the Meynell family estate in Greatham .

Barbara Wall was the granddaughter of the journalist and publicist Wilfred Meynell and his wife, the poet and suffragette Alice Meynell .

Publications

  • Stars were Born (1936)
  • The Trembling of the Sea (1938)
  • Anna Collett (1948)
  • Growing up
  • More Ado About Nothing
  • Prelude to a wedding
  • Widows and Widowers

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernardine Bishop obituary , July 5, 2013, The Guardian
personal data
SURNAME Wall, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lucas, Barbara (maiden name); Knight, Hilary (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH England
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 2009