Kinta Beevor
Carinthia "Kinta" Jane Beevor , née Waterfield (born December 22, 1911 in Northbourne , Kent , † August 29, 1995 in Canterbury ), was an English author .
Life
Kinta Beevors father was the painter Aubrey Waterfield , her mother the historian and observer journalist Caroline Lucie Isabella Jane Duff Gordon, called Lina Duff Gordon (1874–1964). As a child, she moved with her parents to Tuscany , where the parents moved into the Fortezza della Brunella in Aulla in 1920 and then into the Villa di Poggio Gherardo in Florence in the late 1920s . From 1933 to 1956 she was married to John Grosvenor Beevor . With him she had three sons, including the historian Antony Beevor .
Her autobiographical book The Garden in Heaven - A Childhood in Tuscany (1993) became a bestseller and has been translated into several languages.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ James Fergusson: Obituary: Kinta Beevor , The Independent , September 4, 1995.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beevor, Kinta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beevor, Carinthia Jane (full name); Waterfield, Carinthia Jane (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Northbourne , Kent |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 29, 1995 |
| Place of death | Canterbury |