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Joan Ursula Penton Vaughan Williams (née Lock, formerly Wood; 15 March 1911 – 23 October 2007) was an English poet and author, and biographer of her second husband, the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Ursula Vaughan Williams, nota anche come Ursula Wood, è stata una poetessa, scrittrice e biografa inglese. È nota per aver pubblicato, nel 1964, la biografia del suo secondo marito, il compositore Ralph Vaughan Williams.
This is the first biography of Ursula Vaughan Williams (1911 – 2007), a distinguished poet, novelist and librettist and second wife of the internationally-acclaimed composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Vaughan Williams ebbe una relazione con Ursula Wood (poetessa già sposata, che aveva trentanove anni meno del musicista), a partire dal 1938. Dopo la morte del primo marito (avvenuta nel 1942), Ursula divenne assistente personale e consigliera letteraria di Ralph.
As a writer, Ursula Vaughan Williams is now perhaps best known for her authoritative biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964), which is still the major source of information on the composer’s life, even after fifty-three years.
- Graham Muncy
- 2018
4 mag 2002 · “Widows,” says Ursula Vaughan Williams, “are members of the dreariest club in the world.” And having been a famous widow for 44 years – her composer-husband died in 1958 – she speaks with some authority on the subject.
29 mag 2018 · See index for SATA sketch: Born March 15, 1911, in Valletta, Malta; died October 23, 2007, in London, England. Philanthropist, biographer, lyricist, poet, and novelist. Vaughan Williams encountered serious music later in life than most, having spent her childhood in a nomadic military family.
