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            The Postcard

An H.B. Series postcard that was printed in Great Britain. The card was posted in Botley, Hants. on Friday the 18th. April 1919 to:

Mr. S. Hoar Jun.,
County Police,
Bursledon Road,
Nr. Botley,
Hants.

The brief message on the divided back of the card was as follows:

"Hope to see your 
face soon.
Pip Pip".

Lady Natasha Spender

So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?

Well, the 18th. April 1919 marked the birth of Natasha Spender, Lady Spender (née Litvin).  Natasha was an English pianist and author. She was the second wife of the writer Sir Stephen Spender.

Lady Natasha Spender - The Early Years

Natasha was born in London. Her maternal family emigrated to Britain as Jewish refugees from Lithuania. 

Her mother, Rachel, learned English after the family settled in Glasgow, and later became an actress at the Old Vic. Her father, who was married to another woman, was the music critic, Edwin Evans.

At the age of 16, Natasha won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music and studied with Clifford Curzon. 

She first met Stephen Spender in 1940, marrying him in 1941, and the couple were for many years part of a literary circle which included W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, T. S. Eliot and Sir Isaiah Berlin. 

Natasha and Stephen divided their time between their homes in St John's Wood and Mas St Jerome in Provence.

After the Second World War, she gave a concert at the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to inmates who were recovering in its hospital wing. 

Natasha was the soloist for the BBC in the world's first televised concert.

Lady Natasha Spender - The Later Years

In her forties Natasha was forced to give up the piano because of breast cancer, which affected her arm muscles, but she quickly re-established herself as an academic specialising in the psychology of music, and contributed to the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 

A collection of writings, about her late husband and her passion for gardening, 'An English Garden in Provence', appeared in 2004.

Death and Legacy of Lady Natasha Spender

Lady Spender died on the 21st. October 2010 at the age of 91.

She had two children with Stephen Spender: their daughter Lizzie is married to the Australian actor/comedian Barry Humphries, and their son Matthew Spender is married to the daughter of the Armenian-born artist Arshile Gorky.

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