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'''Catharine Edith Philippa Powys''' ({{IPAc-en|icon|ˈ|p|oʊ|.|ɪ|s}}; 8 May 1886 &ndash; 11 January 1963)<ref>[http://www.red1st.com/axholme/getperson.php?personID=I1750055578&tree=Axholme Red1st genealogy website]</ref> was a British novelist and poet, and a member of one of the most distinguished families in modern literature.▼
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[[File:Montacute.jpg|alt=View of the roofs of houses with a prominent square church tower, interspersed with trees.|240px|thumb| Village of [[Montacute]], [[Somersetshire]], where Philippa Powys was born]]
 
▲'''Catharine Edith Philippa Powys''' ({{IPAc-en|icon|ˈ|p|oʊ|.|ɪ|s}}; 8 May 1886 &ndash;– 11 January 1963)<ref>[http://www.red1st.com/axholme/getperson.php?personID=I1750055578&tree=Axholme Red1st genealogy website]</ref> was a British novelist and poet, and a member of one of the most distinguished families in modern literature.
 
==Family==
She was born at [[Montacute]] in [[Somerset]], where her father Reverend Charles Francis Powys (1843–1923) was the [[vicar]] between 1885 and 1918.<ref name="powys">{{cite web|url=http://www.thedorsetpage.com/people/Powys_Family.htm|title=The Powys Family|publisher=Dorset Pages|accessdate=6 November 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100411070433/http://www.thedorsetpage.com/people/Powys_Family.htm|archive-date=11 April 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> She received no formal education, and much of the knowledge she acquired in youth was self-discovered.
Among her brothers were the novelists [[John Cowper Powys]] and [[Theodore Francis Powys]] (1875-1953) and the essayist [[Llewelyn Powys]] as well as [[Littleton Charles Powys]] (1874-1955) <ref>[http://www.powys-society.org/pdf/Acompanion.pdf John Cowper Powys' Autobiography- A Reader's Companion]</ref>, headmaster of Sherborne Prep School, and the architect A. R. Powys who was Secretary of the [[Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings]] and published several books on architecture. Of her sisters, Gertrude Powys was a painter of striking portraits and powerful landscapes, Marian Powys an authority on lace and lace-making. Philippa Powys was the ninth of eleven children in the Powys family's largest and most talented generation and was known to relatives and friends as ‘Katie’.▼
 
▲Among her brothers were the novelists [[John Cowper Powys]] and [[Theodore Francis Powys]] (1875-19531875–1953), and the novelist and essayist [[Llewelyn Powys]], as well as [[Littleton Charles Powys]] (1874-19551874–1955) ,<ref>[http://www.powys-societylannion.orgnet/pdfPowys/Keith/Acompanion.pdf W. J. Keith, ''John Cowper Powys': Autobiography- A Reader'sReader’s Companion'']</ref>, headmaster of Sherborne Prep School, and the architect [[Albert Powys|A. R. Powys]] who was Secretary of the [[Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings]] and published several books on architecture.<ref>[https://www.spab.org.uk/publications/repair-of-ancient-buildings/ Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings]</ref> Of her sisters, Gertrude Powys was a painter of striking portraits and powerful landscapes,<ref>{{Art UK bio|wikidata=Q21464399|name=Gertrude Mary Powys|ref=1}}</ref> Marian Powys an authority on lace and lace-making in the United States, where she emigrated.<ref>[http://www.powys-lannion.net/Powys/America/MarianP.htm "Marian Powys]</ref> Philippa Powys was the ninth of eleven children in the Powys family's largest and most talented generation and was known to relatives and friends as ‘Katie’.
She was born at [[Montacute]] in [[Somerset]], and received no formal education. Much of the knowledge she acquired in youth was self-discovered. Her early adult life was spent farming, but in a family of prodigious writers – notably John Cowper Powys, T. F. Powys and Llewelyn Powys – it was no surprise that her own creative energies were channelled into literature from an early age.▼
 
▲She was born at [[Montacute]] in [[Somerset]], and received no formal education. Much of the knowledge she acquired in youth was self-discovered. Her early adult life was spent farming, but in a family of prodigious writers – notably John Cowper Powys, T. F. Powys and Llewelyn Powys – it was no surprise that her own creative energies were channelled into literature from an early age.
Her brother John's letters to her have been published: ''Powys to Sea Eagle: Letters of John Cowper Powys to Philippa Powys'', ed. Anthony Head. London: Cecil Woolf, 1996.
 
==Kindred spirits==
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==Work==
Despite never achieving the success of her literary brothers she wrote at least two novels at Chydyok that were never published&nbsp;–, ''The Tragedy of Budvale'' and '' Joan Callais''&nbsp;–, as well as a play, ''The Quick and the Dead'', but only the first of these has been published. Subsequent novels included ''The Path of the Gale'' and ''Further West'', but these too never saw the light of day. In 1930, she had a collection of poems published titled ''Driftwood'', and three short pamphlets of poems appeared thereafter (many of them republished in 1992 in ''Driftwood and Other Poems''). That year also saw her only success as a novelist with ''The Blackthorn Winter'', published by Constable in London and by Richard R. Smith in New York, and to be reissued for the first time in late January 2007 by The Sundial Press .<ref>[http://www.sundialpress.co.uk/ Sundial Press: Home Page<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>. She also kept a journal over several decades which is being edited. In 1957 Philippa Powys moved to the village of [[Buckland Newton]] in Dorset where she died six years later. Two previously unpublished novellas, ''Sorrel Barn'' and ''The Tragedy of Budvale'', were published by Sundial Press in 2011.
 
Several published articles on Philippa Powys have appearedbeen published in ''The Powys Journal''.
 
==References==
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==External links==
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*Philippa Powys: The Powys Society [http://www.powys-society.org/The%20Powys%20Society%20Philippa%20Powys.htm]
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*"Powys Women" by Jacqueline Peltier [http://www.powys-lannion.net/PowysWomen.pdf]
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*[[Dorset Museum]]: Portrait of her as a young girl by her sister Gertrude [http://artuk.org/discover/artworks/philippa-powys-18831963-as-a-young-girl-60031]
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| DATE OF BIRTH = 1886
 
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| DATE OF DEATH = 1963
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[[Category:1886 births]]
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[[Category:English women novelists]]
[[Category:English women poets]]
[[Category:People from South Somerset (district)]]
[[Category:Women20th-century English poets]]
[[Category:Women20th-century English novelists]]
[[Category:20th-century English women writers]]
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