Derek Patmore

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Name Derek Patmore Role Writer		Died 1972

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Derek Coventry Patmore (1908, London - 1972) was a British writer. He was the great grandson of the poet Coventry Patmore.

Patmore was educated at Uppingham School. He worked as a war correspondent in the Balkans and the Middle East, writing for the News Chronicle and the Daily Mail.

Works

Selected Poems of Coventry Patmore, London: Chatto and Windus, 1931.

Portrait of My Family, London: Cassell, 1935.

I Decorate My Home, London: Putnam, 1936.

Decoration for the Small Home, London: Putnam, 1938.

Invitation to Roumania, London: Macmillan, 1939.

French for Love, London, 1940.

Balkan Correspondent, New York: Harper, 1941.

Images of Greece, London: Country Life, 1944.

Colour Schemes and Modern Furnishing, London: The Studio, 1945.

Life and Times of Coventry Patmore, Oxford University Press, 1949.

Italian Pageant, London: Evans Bros, 1949.

A Traveller in Venice, London: Methuen, 1951.

A Decorator's Notebook, London: Falcon Press, 1952.

Dark Places of the Heart: A Novel, London: Falcon Press, 1953.

Private History: An Autobiography, 1960.

Canada, London: Studio Vista, 1967.

D. H. Lawrence and the Dominant Male, London: Covent Garden Press, 1970.

Homage to Marcel Proust, London: Covent Garden Press, 1971.

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