Vivyan Leonora Eyles
Vivyan Leonora Eyles (born 1909 in Australia ; died November 6, 1982 ) was a British writer under the pseudonym Lydia Holland .
Life
Vivyan Leonora Eyles was the eldest daughter of the writer Leonora Eyles (1861-1905) and the doctor Alfred William Eyles. The family moved to London , where two siblings were born in 1912 and 1914. The marriage fell apart shortly afterwards and her mother raised the three children alone.
Eyles attended Cheltenham Ladies' College and studied literature. She worked as a lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool . In 1934 she married the Italian English scholar Mario Praz (1896–1982), who was teaching in Liverpool at the time, and moved to Rome with him. They had daughter Lucy Praz, born in 1938. Married life was effectively over in 1942. After the marriage was annulled in 1947, she married the German historian Wolfgang Fritz Volbach (1892–1988) in 1948 , who was persecuted in Germany for racist reasons in 1933 and who lived in the Vatican State and in Rome from 1933 to 1945 . Volbach supported British prisoners of war who had been released after the capitulation of Italy in 1943 and who were hiding from the German occupiers in Latium , while the two got to know each other. They had a son, born in 1946, who died as a child in an accident. Eyles moved with her husband and son and daughter to Mainz , where Volbach made a career as museum director after the war. Vivyan Eyles-Volbach was buried in the Wiesbaden Südfriedhof .
Under the pseudonym Lydia Holland, she translated into English and wrote several novels.
Her mother published a piece of autobiography in 1941 called For My Enemy Daughter . The daughter Lucy Praz died in Rome in 2011.
Works (selection)
- Under the name Lydia Holland
- The Evil Days come not . Novel. London: Victor Gollancz, 1947
- The stepson . London, 1952
- The initial error . London: P. Davies, 1960
- The honeyed life . London: P. Davies, 1961
- Translations
- Alberto Moravia : The Women of Rome . Translation Lydia Holland. 1949
- Carl Blümel : Greek Sculptors at work . Translation Lydia Holland. London: Phaidon Press, 1955
literature
- Wolfram Kinzig : Wolfgang Fritz Volbach . In: Gunnar Brands , Martin Maischberger (Hrsg.): Lebensbilder. Classical Archaeologists and National Socialism Volume 1. Rahden: Marie Leidorf, 2012 ISBN 978-3-86757-382-5 , pp. 141–157, here p. 153
Web links
- Literature from and about Holland, Lydia in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfram Kinzig: Wolfgang Fritz Volbach , 2012, p. 157
- ↑ Jonathan Boardman : Diary , October 19, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eyles, Vivyan Leonora |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Holland, Lydia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Australia |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 6, 1982 |