Phoebe Pool

Phoebe Pool (1913–1971) was a British art historian and spy for the Soviet Union.

Life Pool was born in London in 1913, the daughter of Gordon Desmond Pool and Agatha Eleanor Burrows. She suffered from depression at an early age, something which affected her education and output.

In 1931 Pool won a scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford, entering in 1932 to study history. John Costello pointed out in his Mask of Treachery (1988) that "his suggested that the Cambridge ring had spread its tentacles to Oxford."

Phoebe Pool died by suicide in December 1971 by throwing herself under a train.

Selected bibliography Pool, Phoebe and Stephenson, Flora. Plan for Town and Country. London: Pilot Press, 1944. Pool, Phoebe (ed.). Poems of Death. London: Frederick Mueller, 1945. Pool, Phoebe and Blunt, Anthony. Picasso: The Formative Years: a Study of his Sources. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1962. Pool, Phoebe. Degas. London: Spring Books, 1963. Pool, Phoebe. John Constable. Blandford, 1964. Pool, Phoebe. Impressionism. New York: Praeger, 1967. Pool, Phoebe. Delacroix. London: Hamlyn, 1969. Pool, Phoebe. Paul Gauguin. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1978.