![]() ![]() ![]() They had a daughter, Catherine Ingrid Buffonge MBE, in 1940 and a son, Robert Elton, in 1943. "I mean religious faith – if indeed I ever had it." Īfter a period spent working as a secretary and journalist, Scovell married in 1937 the ecologist Charles Sutherland Elton, who had established the Bureau of Animal Population in Oxford. ĭespite her background, Scovell ceased to be a religious believer: "I lost religion fairly early on," she told interviewer Jem Poster. She studied at Casterton School, Westmorland, and at Somerville College, Oxford, graduating in English literature. Scovell, was Anglican rector of the village. ![]() Among those who admired her work were the fellow-writers Vita Sackville-West and Philip Larkin.Įdith Joy Scovell was born in Eccleshall Bierlow, near Sheffield. Edith Joy Scovell (9 April 1907 – 19 October 1999) was an English poet and translator. ![]()
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