Paddy Kitchen

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Paddy Kitchen


Born
in Battersea, London, England
May 23, 1934

Died
November 23, 2005

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Patricia Margaret Kitchen (1934 - 2005) was an English novelist, biographer and art critic.

Born in Battersea to middle-class parents, she grew up in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire. After rejecting an offer from Cambridge University she moved to London in 1954, working in a Mayfair advertising agency while moonlighting as a hat-check girl in the night club Le Club Contemporain. While working at the Royal College of Art she met the painter Frank Bowling when he was still a student there. They married in 1960 and had one son. Kitchen was one of the women interviewed by Nell Dunn in Talking to Women (1965).

After divorcing Bowling in the late 1960s, Kitchen went on to live with, and later marry, the writer Dulan Barber. Continuing to write no
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Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life

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A Most Unsettling Person: A...

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The Golden Veil

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Way To Write Novels

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Four Days

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Blue shoe

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Paradise

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Poets' London (Longman trav...

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