Kinta Beevor

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Kinta Beevor


Born
in Northbourne, The United Kingdom
December 22, 1911

Died
August 29, 1995


Kinta Beevor, born Carinthia Waterfield, daughter of Aubrey Waterfield, a painter, and Lina Waterfield, writer of Castle in Italy: An Autobiograpghy. Lina was the niece and ward of Janet Ross, also a writer, and the granddaughter of translator and author Lucie Duff Gordon, who wrote the Victorian best-seller Letters from Egypt (1865).

From the age of five and until she was sent to boarding school in England five years later, Kinta was raised in the Fortezza della Brunella in northern Tuscany, an inhospitable castle on a rock with views of the Carraras.

In 1933 she married Jack Beevor, a solicitor. Consequently Italy became the place to spent her holidays.

In 1993, at the age of 82, she published her first and only book, A Tuscan Childhood, the
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