Cecily Mackworth
Born | Cecily Joan Mackworth 15 August 1911 Llantilio Pertholey, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK |
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Died | 22 July 2006 Paris, France | (aged 94)
Pen name | Cecily Mackworth |
Occupation | Writer, explorer |
Nationality | British |
Spouse | Leon Donckier de Donceel (1935-1938), Marquis de Chabannes La Palice (1956-1980) |
Children | Pascale Léonie Juliette Donckier de Donceel |
Cecily Joan Mackworth (15 August 1911 – 22 July 2006) was a Welsh writer, journalist, poet and explorer.
Early life
Cecily Joan Mackworth was born on 15 August 1911 in
After being widowed her mother, moved to Sidmouth, Devon, with she and her younger sister Helen Margaret Mackworth (1914–1938). When her mother remarried to Charles Edward Gatehouse, Mackworth moved to Sidmouth and she subsequently studied at the London School of Economics, where her aunt Margaret was later a governor. She successfully undertook a two-year course in journalism. A close friend there was the economist Nicholas Kaldor.[1]
Marriages
After leaving LSE, Mackworth spent much of the next two decades traveling. She married Leon Donckier de Donceel, a Belgian lawyer, at the age of 22 after meeting him in a Swiss sanitarium. The couple had one daughter before he died three years into their marriage.[1] The same year her younger sister committed suicide at age 24.
She spent time in Hungary and Germany, witnessing the
In 1956 she married again, to the French aristocrat Marquis de Chabannes La Palice. The two were married until his death in 1980.[2]
Work
Mackworth's first book, Eleven Poems, was published by
She died at 94, on 22 July 22 in Paris.