Cressida Lindsay

Cressida Anne Lindsay (193013November 2010) was an English poet and novelist.

Early life Cressida Lindsay was born in London in 1930, the daughter of the writer Philip Lindsay (and a granddaughter of the Australian artist and writer Norman Lindsay) and the artist's model Jeanne Ellis. She was educated in London convents.

Works Lindsay had poems published in Michael Horovitz's New Departures.

Personal life In the mid-1960s, Lindsay moved to the Old Rectory in Scoulton in Norfolk, to establish a commune for artists, one of whom was Joanna Carrington.

She married twice, to Michael Millett in 1955 and Peter Hammerton in 1988. She had another son with her publisher Anthony Blond, who bought the Old Rectory in Scoulton for her. She also had three other children.

She died in 2010, aged 80.