Mary Daines and Edmund Blunden
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| Subject | Blunden, Edmund (1896-1974) |
|---|---|
| Title | Mary Daines and Edmund Blunden |
| Notes | Photograph of Edmund Blunden with his first wife Mary Daines. Incribed in unknown hand 'Mary Daines and Edmund Blunden / Stowlangtoft 1918 / They married in Newmarket on June 1st 1918'. Mary's brothers Jack and Bert in particular inspired some of his poetry, including 'Winter, East Anglia', 'Mole Catcher' and 'Autolycus Again'. Their marriage caused him to lose his scholarship to Oxford and to accept demobilisation from the army in mid-February 1918. The couple divorced in February 1931. |
| Item Date | April 1918 to May 1918 |
| Creation place | Stowlangtoft (Google Maps) |
| File type | Image |
| Item source | Leaf |
| Item medium | Paper |
| Writing medium | Published |
| Content | Photograph |
| Item height | 136 |
| Item width | 86 |
| Repository name | Blunden Family Private Collection |
| Cataloguer | Alisa Miller |
| Filename | EBFAM - 040.jpg |
| Copyright | The Edmund Blunden Literary Estate |
| Reference URL | http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/9036 |
