Francesca Allinson

Francesca Allinson (born Enid Ellen Pulvermacher Allinson; 20 August 1902 - 7 April 1945) was an English author and musician.[1] She was the youngest child of the pioneering physician and wholemeal bread entrepreneur Dr Thomas Allinson, and sister of the artist Adrian Allinson.[2]

Biography

Allinson wrote the semi-autobiographical book A Childhood which was published by Hogarth Press in 1937.[3]

She was also a musician, and was a conductor with the London Labour Choral Union,[4] and wrote extensively on the origins of English folk song, clashing with the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams on the subject.[5] She published editions of Henry Purcell and Orlando Gibbons and her unpublished manuscript on the Irish origins of English folksong is held at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.[1] Allinson's circle of friends and collaborators included the composer Alan Bush, artists Enid Marx and Wilfred Franks, music critic John Amis and poet Douglas Newton.[6] She was a close friend of the composer Michael Tippett who dedicated two of his compositions to her, Piano Sonata no.1 (1936-38) and The Heart's Assurance (1950-51); the latter was written in response to Allinson's death.[7][8] Through much of the 1930s Allinson was involved in a same-sex relationship with Judith Wogan,[9] a producer of plays and owner of the Grafton Theatre on London's Tottenham Court Road.[10]

Allinson was a pacifist and established a community farm in Grinstead where conscientious objectors worked during World War II.[11]

Allinson died in 1945 by suicide by drowning in the River Stour in Clare, Suffolk.[1][12]

References
  1. "Francesca Allinson | Modernist Archives Publishing Project". www.modernistarchives.com. Retrieved 2020-06-21.
  2. Southworth, Helen (2017). Fresca A Life in the Making. A Biographer's Quest for a Forgotten Bloomsbury Polymath. Eastbourne: SUSSEX ACADEMIC PRESS. p. 13. ISBN 9781845198213.
  3. See The Library of Leonard and Virginia Woolf: A Short-title Catalog Compiled and edited by Julia King and Laila Miletic-Vejzovic ; foreword by Laila Miletic-Vejzovic; introduction by Diane F. Gillespie. Washington State University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-87422-270-2.
  4. Southworth, Helen (2017). Fresca A Life in the Making. A Biographer's Quest for a Forgotten Bloomsbury Polymath. Eastbourne: SUSSEX ACADEMIC PRESS. p. 84. ISBN 9781845198213.
  5. Southworth, Helen (2017). Fresca A Life in the Making. A Biographer's Quest for a Forgotten Bloomsbury Polymath. Eastbourne: SUSSEX ACADEMIC PRESS. pp. 267–278. ISBN 9781845198213.
  6. Southworth, Helen (2017). Fresca A Life in the Making. A Biographer's Quest for a Forgotten Bloomsbury Polymath. Eastbourne: SUSSEX ACADEMIC PRESS. pp. 126–130. ISBN 9781845198213.
  7. Kemp, Ian (1984). Tippett The Composer and His Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 499–500. ISBN 0 19 282017 6.
  8. Berkeley, Michael (2005-08-25). "Joyful oblivion". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-06-21.
  9. Soden, Oliver (2019). Michael Tippett The Biography. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 227. ISBN 978 1 4746 0602 8.
  10. Southworth, Helen (2017). Fresca A Life in the Making. A Biographer's Quest for a Forgotten Bloomsbury Polymath. Eastbourne: SUSSEX ACADEMIC PRESS. pp. 124–126. ISBN 9781845198213.
  11. Southworth, Helen (2017). Fresca A Life in the Making. A Biographer's Quest for a Forgotten Bloomsbury Polymath. Eastbourne: SUSSEX ACADEMIC PRESS. p. 178. ISBN 9781845198213.
  12. "Fresca". www.sussex-academic.com. Retrieved 2020-06-21.
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