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Derek Patmore
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Name
Derek Patmore
Role
Writer
Died
1972
Books
I Decorate My Home, The life and times of Covent, A Traveller in Venice and in Cit, Decoration for the Small Ho, D H Lawrence and the D
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.
