John cowper powys biography of albert
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The Powys Family
Back row: Marian, Albert, Charles Francis (father), John Cowper, Theodore,
Middle row: Philippa (Katie), Littleton, Mary Cowper (mother), Margaret (wife of JCP), Gertrude,
Front row: Llewelyn, William, Lucy.
John cowper powys biography of albert
‘One huge many-headed Powys’
The brothers John Cowper Powys, Theodore Francis Powys and Llewelyn Powys were members of a family of eleven children whose parents were the Reverend C F Powys, vicar of Montacute for thirty-two years, and his wife Mary Cowper Johnson.
All the children were formidable individualists but Louis Wilkinson once wrote that when they were together they became “one huge many-headed Powys”. It was their strong sense of family and their passionate love of nature that united them; it was their sometimes anguished quests for separate identity that drew them into a remarkable variety of careers: from schoolmaster to farmer, from poet to architect.