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Joan Ursula Penton Vaughan Williams (née Lock, formerly Wood; 15 March 1911 – 23 October 2007) was an English poet and author, and biographer of her second husband, the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Ursula became the composer's muse, helper and London companion, and later helped him care for his ailing wife. Whether Adeline knew, or suspected, that Ursula and Vaughan Williams were lovers is uncertain, but the relations between the two women were of warm friendship throughout the years they knew each other.
29 de mai. de 2018 · See index for SATA sketch: Born March 15, 1911, in Valletta, Malta; died October 23, 2007, in London, England. Philanthropist, biographer, lyricist, poet, and novelist. Vaughan Williams encountered serious music later in life than most, having spent her childhood in a nomadic military family.
4 de mai. de 2002 · Reproduced with thanks from The Telegraph, 4 May 2002. “Widows,” says Ursula Vaughan Williams, “are members of the dreariest club in the world.”. And having been a famous widow for 44 years – her composer-husband died in 1958 – she speaks with some authority on the subject.
4 de jul. de 2008 · The purpose here is to record some little-known facts about Ralph Vaughan Williams's life that I learned in conversations with Ursula Vaughan Williams between 1986 and 1994, when a stroke impaired her ability to communicate.
- Oliver Neighbour
- 2008
15 images. See the full gallery: Vaughan Williams: 15 facts about the great composer. Vaughan Williams was married first to Adeline Fisher. After her death in 1951, he married poet Ursula Wood, pictured, who worked on the libretti for his choral work The Sons of Light as well as the opera The Pilgrim's Process and a Christmas cantata, Hodie.
Ursula's poetry speaks of love, nature and memory. Her masterpiece, The Dictated Theme, was written in the days after Vaughan Williams died and she described the feeling that he was with her ...
