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affair in 1975, when they were both in their fifties. She knew about both Monica Jones and Maeve Brennan, and also about Larkin's large collection of pornography. In 2002, a poem written to her, "We Met at the End of the Party", was publicised by her, prompted by the discovery of a notebook which contained its opening lines. As depicted in Larkin's little drawings sometimes added to letters Mackereth appeared as a whale – Monica Jones was a rabbit and Maeve Brennan a mouse.
342:, which was published in 2002. Brennan's book speaks of both the friendship and romantic relationship that existed between her and Larkin, as well as recalling the poet's 30 year tenure of office as librarian of the University of Hull. Brennan aimed for the book to show Larkin in a new light: namely, that the poet was "considerably more compassionate, generous and warmhearted than autobiographical, biographical and critical works published since his death have revealed". 409: 48:. While primarily a novelist, Amis also wrote more than six volumes of poetry. Biographer Richard Bradford contends that, over the course of Larkin's life, his relationship with Amis transformed from one of mutual appreciation and encouragement, to a much more fraught dynamic. Bradford has stated that in the later years of their relationship Larkin "was subterraneously driven by resentment and near hatred" of Amis. 130:), between 1940 and 1943, but had not met. Both had first class degrees in English. They had been born in the same year, 1922, and came from rather similar provincial middle-class backgrounds." For the first few years of the relationship, Larkin was involved with Ruth Bowman, but when Bowman broke off the engagement, "Monica quickly became central to Larkin's attention." Jones had a holiday cottage at 331:"The Dance" is about an evening spent with Brennan. "The Dance" remains unfinished. The poem "Broadcast" was also written about her. "Broadcast" sees Larkin listening to a live transmission of a concert from Hull's City Hall where Brennan was seated in the audience. Much of Larkin's writing was heavily influenced by his relationship with Brennan, including his collection 137:
Jones taught at Leicester University from 1946 until 1981 when she retired. She never published anything during her academic career; she "regarded publishing as a bit showy", though she was noted for "the panache of her lecturing, in which, for example, she would wear a Scottish tartan when talking
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Maeve Brennan (27 September 1929 – 11 June 2003) was born in Beverley, East Yorkshire and was the eldest of three children. Brennan's father was a dental surgeon from Kilkenny, Ireland. Brennan attended Saint Mary's high school for girls in Hull. She had a successful academic career there, becoming
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Eva Larkin was Philip Larkin's mother. Born in 1886, she lived until 1977, dying 29 years after her domineering husband, Sydney Larkin. Larkin is often considered to have had a tense relationship with his parents; mainly due to his famous lyric poem "This Be The Verse" beginning with the line "They
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exam, that their relationship became meaningful and romantic. This happened despite Larkin's deep and by then long-standing relationship with Monica Jones. The romance between the two lasted for eighteen years, while their friendship as a whole spanned nearly three decades. Larkin's longest poem,
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Betty Mackereth (born 1924, in Hull) was Larkin's "loaf-haired" secretary for most of his time at Hull University, joining the staff in that role in 1957. After his death, it was she who, on his wishes, destroyed his diaries, feeding them sheet by sheet into a university shredder. They began an
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Brennan died in June 2003 following a short illness, and like both Larkin and Monica Jones, she is buried in Cottingham Cemetery. Her grave is situated approximately 20 metres from that of Monica Jones and the epitaph on its red granite headstone comes from one of Larkin's best known poems,
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when Larkin moved there in 1943 to become librarian at the public library. They met the following year when she came into the library. She was 16, an academically-minded schoolgirl, and the person with whom Larkin had his first sexual encounter a year later when he visited her at
115:, when aged seven. Educated at Kidderminster High School for Girls, she won a scholarship to study English at Oxford University, a period of her life which was immensely influential to her; she acquired her distinctive accent and flamboyant dress sense whilst studying there. 189:'s creations, and of real creatures, in particular cats and rabbits, though Monica Jones had a fear of hens, and of some other birds. Larkin's letters to Jones were sometimes "embellished with skilful sketches", Jones as a rabbit ("Dearest bun"), himself as a seal. 276:(QUB). They became close friends but she soon became engaged to her boyfriend and withdrew from the friendship to a degree. Larkin wrote the poem "Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album" about her, and also "Maiden Name". Both appeared in Larkin's 1955 collection 290:
Larkin knew Patricia Avis Strang Murphy (1928–1977) during the 1950s, and wrote her his first love letters. At the time, she was married to Colin Strang, a friend of Larkin's and a lecturer in the Philosophy department at
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includes a significant collection of letters between Brennan and Larkin, despite many from the last six months of Larkin's life having been previously destroyed. Brennan also advised on the BBC2 drama,
23:, multiple women had important roles which were significant influences on his poetry. Since Larkin's death in 1985, biographers have highlighted the importance of female relationships on Larkin: when 61:. The writer Philip Pullen has described these letters as "very significant" and proof that "the relationship was deeper and more valuable to Larkin than anybody might have thought". 326:, from which she graduated with a degree in history, French and English. They first met in 1955 when he moved from Belfast to Hull, but it was in 1960, when Larkin coached her for a 122:. Jones had been appointed as an assistant lecturer in English in January 1946 and Larkin arrived in September, as an assistant librarian. "Both had been at Oxford (he at 1410: 236:. The book contains other "Larkinesque" references, including a spaceship named after the poet. She has also been suggested as the model for Viola Masefield in 1322: 782: 429: 1330: 563: 203:
In October 1982, Jones was taken to Hexham Hospital after a fall downstairs in her Haydon Bridge cottage. At Easter 1983, she was stricken with
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where she and Larkin spent many summers together. He left the bulk of his estate to her when he died in 1985. She died on 15 February 2001.
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f*** you up, your mum and dad". However, mother and son wrote to each other twice weekly for about 35 years from 1940, when Larkin went to
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he inscribed to her to thank her for making it "decent, ie literate"'. Anna Farthing, a curator of a 2017 exhibition in Hull, told
87:. Their relationship continued and in 1948 they became engaged. The engagement was broken in 1950, shortly before Larkin moved to 1160: 912: 849: 211:, Hull." Following his death, in December 1985, "Monica hardly left that house in Hull until her own death in February 2001." 1415: 959: 738: 597: 258: 295:, where Larkin was under-librarian. She became pregnant by Larkin, but miscarried. As Patricia Avis, she is the author of 508: 460: 888: 671: 1000: 976: 118:
Larkin's long and extremely close relationship with Monica Jones dated from the autumn of 1946, when they met at
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head girl, a title she shared with Ruth Bowman and Winifred Arnott, both previous companions of Larkin.
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reveals that Jones and Larkin sent each other many letters containing racist and anti-semitic opinions.
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Cemetery near Hull. Her white headstone is of identical design to the one situated at Larkin's grave.
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As with Larkin and another of his long term companions Maeve Brennan, Monica Jones was buried in
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in 1993, the second installment of extracts was dedicated to the topic. In 1999, Ben Brown's play
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dramatised Larkin's relationships with three of his lovers, and more recently writers such as
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Patsy Strang discovered and read some of Larkin's sexual diaries. She later married the poet
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and on leaving hospital this time Larkin, "offered her shelter and care in his house in
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There is evidence that Jones gave Larkin editorial advice on his writing. A copy of
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Brennan and Larkin's relationship is detailed extensively by Brennan herself in
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She is said to be the model for the character of Margaret Peel, Jim Dixon's
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Amis is the son of the British novelist, and Larkin's long-standing friend,
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and others. They shared a sympathy with animals: both of them deplored
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Monica Jones was born Margaret Monica Beale Jones on 7 May 1922 in
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Important roles which were significant influences on the poet
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First boredom, then fear: the life of Philip Larkin
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Index

Philip Larkin
Andrew Motion
The Independent
Martin Amis
Kingsley Amis
Oxford University
The Whitsun Weddings
Wellington, Shropshire
King's College London
Northern Ireland
Llanelli
South Wales
Stourport-on-Severn
Worcestershire
Leicester University College
St John's
St Hugh's
Haydon Bridge
Macbeth
Walter Scott
Jane Austen
George Crabbe
Thomas Hardy
Barbara Pym
C. P. Snow
Pamela Hansford Johnson
William Cooper
vivisection
myxomatosis
Beatrix Potter

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