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History of the Trust. The Trust was established in 1997 to honour Stephen Spender’s achievements as poet and translator of poetry, and as champion of the rights of creative artists and writers to free expression. Founding members included Valerie Eliot, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Czesław Miłosz, Harold Pinter and Natasha Spender.
Raymond Chandler correspondence and papers, 1955-2007, n.d. Raymond Chandler to Natasha and Stephen Spender, 1955-1979. Chandler and miscellaneous letters, 1955-1979, comprising: (fols. 1-16) Chandler letters to Stephen Spender, 1955-1957 Includes: (fol. 2) Stephen Spender carbon typescript to Chandler, 27 Feb 1956 (fol. 3) a handwritten letter ...
Natasha Spender, Lady Spender (née Litvin; 18 April 1919 – 21 October 2010) was an English pianist and author. She was the second wife of the writer Sir Stephen Spender. She was born in London. Her maternal family emigrated to Britain as Jewish refugees from Lithuania. Her mother, Rachel, learned English after the family settled in Glasgow, and later became an actress at the Old Vic. Her ...
In 1941, Spender married Natasha Litvin, a concert pianist. The marriage lasted until his death. Their daughter, Elizabeth Spender , previously an actor, was married to the Australian actor and satirist Barry Humphries until his death in April 2023, and their son, Matthew Spender , is married to the daughter of the Armenian artist Arshile Gorky .
27 gen 2020 · Stephen Spender, Sept. 1951 (per gentile concessione di Giuseppe Lorenzini). * L’estate gardesana al termine si lascia dietro una mareggiata di sogni e di ricordi. Con «questo strano amore per Torri del Benaco», gli Spender riportano a Londra immagini di memoria quasi corale: un muro assolato e una lucertola ferma, attaccata ai sassi.
The Spender archive was organised by John Byrne at the behest of Lady Natasha Spender (beginning in 1998) while the papers were held by the Spender family.The papers are, therefore, here arranged largely as deposited, in the order created by John Byrne, with numbered volumes of journals, poetry, prose, drama and fiction, and correspondence arranged by correspondent.
Natasha Spender, who died last week, was married to a great poet. After Sir Stephen's death, she became gatekeeper to his memory and his work – a burden many literary widows have shared.
