About Susan Elspeth Chitty
Lived 1929 – 2021 (aged 91–92). Susan Elspeth Chitty was a writer.
Susan, Lady Chitty (née Hopkinson; 18 August 1929 – 13 July 2021) was an English novelist and a writer of biographies. Her memoir on her mother, which was viewed as a "literary assassination", DNA tests taken years later show that she and Lyndall had the same father, Rudolph Glossop.
Susan was educated at Godolphin School. This was the start of her writing biographies, mostly on Victorian era figures including Charles Kingsley, Sir Henry Newbolt, and Gwen John.
Later life She published her last book in 1997 on Sir Henry Newbolt. Her husband Thomas died in 2014. She died after a short illness in July 2021. Lear (1986) Playing the Game (1997)
Memoirs Now to My Mother: A Very Personal Memoir of Antonia White (1985)
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Who was Susan Elspeth Chitty?
English writer of novels and biographies
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Susan Elspeth Chitty was born in 1929.
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Susan Elspeth Chitty died in 2021.
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Susan Elspeth Chitty was a writer.
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