Given Names: Margaret Gordon Surname: Geddes Married Name: Margaret Gordon Tucker Married Name: Margaret Gordon Marshall Married Name: Margaret Gordon Auden Married Name: Margaret Gordon McDonell
Gender: Female
Birth:3 October 18993522 India Death:19 November 1976 (Age 77) Motion Picture and Television Hospital, Woodlands Hills, California
Day Lewis was born April 10, 1904. Margaret Marshall was "four years older than Cecil" (SDL 38)
CDL met MM "just before going up to Oxford" PS 52 (quoting SDL who interviewed or corresponded with her in old age)
CDL: she was "agnostic, unconventional, a bit raffish, deliciously disrespectful about so many of the social values and observances I myself had begun to detest." BD 151; cited in SDL 38
In Transitional Poem (1929) (poem 8) he describes MM as: " sorrow's familiar, who turned | Her darkness to our light; that 'brazen leech' | Alleviating the vain cosmic itch | With fact coated in formulae lest it burned | Our tongue. She shall have a portion of my praise, | And live in me, not memory, for always." (SDL 57)
"At Greenlanes (An Epistle)" in Country Comets (1928): -- "Do you remember, Margaret, how we came | Out on the heath our first evening | Together? How the pines rose like a name | Cried once by a dying man ; and whirring | Nearby the nightbar's bell | Rang down reluctant curtain on the day? | Do you remember the brute smell | Of bracken that heaved at the darkness where we lay? | I could hear my heart like a lupin pod | Ratttle its wizened dreams." cited in PS 54
CDL: MM was "trained as a psychiatrist" (BD 149)
"she had no tabus; her language could be, on occasion, as foul as mine; her somewhat intense and dominating personality was relieved by that touch of the clown which I have always found so endearing in a woman" (BD 151)
For affair of some kind, see Gowing on remarks during 1946 portrait sittings cited in SDL 159, as well as BD 150
1923
she was by described by Day Lewis as someone 'trained as a psychiatrist'
Marriage
ODNB states that they 'went to India' after the marriage; however there is no BMD entry for their marriage in the year 1930 in UK -- AA
Marriage
ODNB states that they 'went to India' after the marriage; however there is no BMD entry for their marriage in the year 1930 in UK -- AA
1931
RDH 72
1931
RDH 72
Divorce
See RDH 72
Divorce
See RDH 72
Occupation
RDH 72
Marriage
AA. See also CDL, BD152.
Marriage
AA. See also CDL, BD152.
Occupation
dating very tentative. Story editor for David O. Selznick. Mainly known now for her work in the Selznick/Hitchcock partnership
Death
after a long and most painful illness
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Media
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Margaret Marshall, nr Calcutta, 1931 (M99) Type: Photo
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