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Hilary Kilmarnock

January 01, 1970

Hilary Kilmarnock, Lady Kilmarnock (21 July 1928 – 24 June 2010), known as Hilly, was the first wife of Kingsley Amis and the mother of Martin Amis. When her third husband, Alistair Boyd, became Chief of Clan Boyd and 7th Baron Kilmarnock, she became Lady Kilmarnock.[1]

Hilary Kilmarnock
Born
Hilary Ann Bardwell

(1928-07-21)21 July 1928
Kingston-upon-Thames, London, England
Died24 June 2010(2010-06-24) (aged 81)
Other namesHilary Bardwell
Hilary Amis
Lady Kilmarnock
Hilly
EducationBedales
Spouses
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    (m. 1948; div. 1965)​
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    (m. 1967; div. 1975)​
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    (m. 1977; death 2009)​
Children4, including Martin Amis, Sally Amis
FamilyLucy Partington (niece)
Isabel Fonseca (daughter-in-law)

Early life and education edit

Hilary Ann Bardwell was the youngest child of Leonard Sidney Bardwell, a Ministry of Agriculture civil servant, and Margery M. Bradley-Clark. She had three older brothers and a sister. She grew up in Kingston-upon-Thames, moving to Harwell, Oxfordshire when her father retired after WWII. She attended Bedales School and Beltane School for one year. To avoid wartime bombing she was sent to Dr Williams’ School for Young Ladies in North Wales but was expelled after running away. She returned to Bedales, from which she also ran away several times,[2][3] leaving school permanently when she was 15.[4] She was described in one school report as “unteachable”. Her sister suspected she may have been dyslexic.[5]

After leaving school she worked as a trainee kennel maid, a stable hand and assisted at wartime day nurseries.[6] She enrolled as an art student at Ruskin College, Oxford, but “abandoned the course”, working as a ‘head model’ (one who modelled from the neck up) at the college instead.[7]

Relationship with Kingsley Amis edit

Hilly and Amis met at Elliston and Cavell’s tearoom in Oxford in 1946, with Amis passing her a note to her ask if she would like to go for a drink.[8] She replied positively a few days later. One early connection of theirs was a shared a love of jazz.[9]

When Hilly became pregnant at the end of the year, the couple tried an unsuccessful ‘DIY abortion’. After seeking an (illegal) surgical procedure, and upon the advice of several doctors about the risk to Hilly's health, they chose to keep the baby. They married at the Oxford registry office on 21 January 1948 and moved into a small flat in north Oxford the following month.[10] In the May they moved to Eynsham, with Hilly giving birth to Philip (named after Kingsley's best friend, Philip Larkin) on 15 August 1948.[11] Their second son, Martin was born in 1949, after which the family moved in briefly with Hilly's parents.[12]

In 1950 the family moved to Swansea so that Amis could teach at the university. Money was tight and Hilly took work cleaning the local cinema.[13] In January 1951 she received a legacy of £2,400, which meant they could buy a house in the Uplands area of Swansea.[14] After the publication of Amis's first novel Lucky Jim in 1954, the family's fortunes improved significantly.[15] In the same year, Hilly gave birth to their third child, a daughter, Sally,[16] at home. As a parent, Hilly “set no rules and had a refreshing disregard for health and safety.”[17]

Hilly discovered that her husband had been serially unfaithful to her when she found a private diary and letters. These detailed a number of affairs, many of which involved women known to Hilly. Amis’ infidelities had begun before the birth of Martin, their second son.[18] Hilly was also occasionally unfaithful, beginning when they were living in Swansea.[19][20] In 1956 she “announced she was in love with the married journalist Henry Fairlie”[21] but “Kingsley saw him off with a blistering letter.”[22]

In autumn 1958 the family moved to Princeton, New Jersey, for a year, where Amis had been invited to take up the position of Visiting Fellow in Creative Writing at the university. Amis's infidelities continued there.[23] In 1961 the family moved to Cambridge, England, where Amis took the position of fellow in English at Peterhouse.[24] The role did not last long and in Easter 1962 the couple travelled to Majorca and found a house near local resident Robert Graves, whose writing Amis “much admired”.[25][26]

It was around this time that Amis met the author Jane Howard at the Cheltenham Literary Festival, who would become his second wife. When Hilly found out about their relationship, unlike previous infidelities, “there were to be no promises of better behaviour” from Amis. Soon after this meeting, while on holiday in Yugoslavia and “overwhelmed with misery at the latest evidence of his infidelity”, she wrote “1 FAT ENGLISHMAN [the title of his current book]. I FUCK ANYTHING” on Amis's back in lipstick while he was asleep on the beach.[27]

Soon after, Amis left for a holiday with Howard, with a plan to return to the family in time to relocate to Majorca for the start of the school year. However, when he got back to Cambridge, Hilly had already left for Sóller in Majorca, taking the children with her. In response, Amis headed to Howards's flat. From this moment, “Hilly and Amis were never to live together as husband and wife.”[28]

Hilly lived with her three children in Sóller until they returned to England in 1964, moving briefly into Ovington Gardens, then Fulham Road in London. By this point Hilly was “profoundly depressed… drinking heavily”, taking amphetamines and barbiturates.[29] Around this time she destroyed all the letters Amis had ever sent her.[30]

Hilly took in paying boarders and began work at Battersea Park zoo, “which she liked very much, animals being her chief enthusiasm and joy through life.”[31] Hilly and Amis's divorce was finalised in June 1965. The following month Hilly and the children moved to Wivenhoe, Essex.[32]

Marriage to Bailey edit

It was in Wivenhoe that she began a relationship with David Roy Shackleton Bailey, known as “Shack”, a fellow and bursar at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. They married on 21 November 1967. The following year Bailey obtained a position as professor of Latin at the University of Michigan. They moved with Sally to Ann Arbour where Hilly opened a fish and chip shop called “Lucky Jim’s”. Bailey was “parsimonious to her" and she ran the shop to generate spending money. The relationship was ultimately unsuccessful, and Hilly began a brief affair with Milton Cohen, another academic, who retired soon after the affair began, moving to Crete without Hilly.[33]

In summer 1970 Cohen booked Hilly, Bailey and Sally a holiday apartment in Andalusia but wanted Hilly to join him in Crete. However, she wanted to stay in Spain for the entire season, while Bailey wanted to return to America. At this point Hilly made it clear “she was not going back with him, then or ever.”[34]

Marriage to Boyd edit

Sally found a language school in Ronda run by Alastair “Ali” Boyd, who was to become Hilly's third husband. She helped Boyd run the school for a few months and the pair tried, unsuccessfully, to launch in Seville. While in Seville, Hilly found a job as a matron at an international school for a year, after which she and Boyd returned to Ronda. On their return, the couple ran art courses, managed a bar and took in paying guests at Casa de Mondragon, the house where Boyd had lived with his previous wife for twenty years.[35]

In 1972 Hilly returned to Swansea to give birth to their son, Jaime. The following year, Bailey finally granted her a divorce. Hilly and Boyd married in 1977 and they returned to England the same year. The family lived in Thornborough, Buckinghamshire and Boyd (his father having died in 1975) took his seat in the House of Lords. Money was tight; at one point “Hilly and a friend set up a hot-dog stand on the motorway to make a little extra.”[36][37]

Caring for Amis edit

In 1980 Howard left Amis, and his long-standing phobia of being alone became a problem. Initially his sons provided company, but a long-term solution was needed. Philip suggested Hilly, Boyd and Amis create an unlikely “ménage” – “Amis had money, Hilly had the necessary household skills and… Ali did his bit around the house too.”[38]

Initially, Hilly and Boyd lived with Amis in his house on Jeffrey's Place, London. However, they soon found the house too small for “a child, a writer, a politician and a housewife” in residence. In 1982 they moved to Kentish Town and three years later in July 1985 they moved to an even larger house on Primrose Hill. The arrangement included Amis’ paying Hilly £50 a week to keep the house.[39] In a letter from 1993, Amis wrote “Three houses and 13 years later… it certainly seems to work.”[40] The arrangement lasted until Amis's death in 1995.[41]

In Martin Amis's memoirs he “reminds his mother that she rescued Kingsley, bought him “back to life and love” and that Amis could never have written his last six novels, his memoirs and last poems, without her.”[42] Zachary Leader, Kingsley’s biographer, wrote that after Howard left Amis, he “became clearer (or at least more public) about Hilly’s importance to him: leaving her, he claimed, was the single biggest mistake of his life.”[43]

After Amis’s death edit

In 1998 Hilly and Boyd moved permanently to Ronda. Boyd died in 2009. Hilly, suffering from emphysema and having trouble walking following an accident with one of her horses, died in 2010.[44][45]

In literature edit

Amis dedicated his 1984 novel Stanley and the Women to Hilly. He also dedicated the poem For H to her, which appeared “instead of an epilogue” in his memoirs. Zachary Leader identified that Amis’ characters Rhiannon Weaver (The Old Devils, 1986) and Jenny Standish (Difficulties with Girls, 1988) took inspiration from Hilly. He also cites the plots of That Uncertain Feeling (1955) and Take A Girl Like You (1960) as being influenced by Amis’ marriage to Hilly.[46]

Gavin Ewart’s 1991 poem Relicts, as It Were, cites Hilly (née Bardwell) and Monica Jones (Philip Larkin's partner) as witnesses to the normal lives of poets. It begins:

All ordinary life goes on.
Hilary Bardwell, Monica Jones
have heard the poets bursting out
in very unbardic tones

— Gavin Ewart[47], Relicts, as It Were

See also edit

  • Jacobs, Eric Kingsley Amis: A Biography (1995) Pub. Hodder and Stoughton. Including a selection of photographs

References edit

  1. ^ "Much-married muse could swear and drink". Sydney Morning Herald. 23 July 2010. from the original on 28 March 2024. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  2. ^ Jacobs, Eric (1995). Kingsley Amis: A Biography. London: Hodder and Stoughton. p. 109. ISBN 0340590726.
  3. ^ Zachary Leader (8 July 2010). "Hilly Kilmarnock obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  4. ^ Bradford, Richard (2012). The Odd Couple: The Curious Friendship between Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin. London: Robson Press. p. 62. ISBN 9781849543750.
  5. ^ Cooper, Artemis (2016). Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous innocence. London: John Murray. p. 168. ISBN 9781848549272.
  6. ^ Zachary Leader (8 July 2010). "Hilly Kilmarnock obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  7. ^ Jacobs, Eric (1995). Kingsley Amis: A Biography. London: Hodder and Stoughton. p. 109. ISBN 0340590726.
  8. ^ Love, Andrea (1998). Secret set lives of the rich and famous. London: Carlton. p. 119. ISBN 9781858682969.
  9. ^ Boler, Kelly (2004). A Drinking Companion: Alcohol and the lives of writers. New York: Union Square Publishing. p. 288. ISBN 1580421458.
  10. ^ Amis, Kingsley; Leader, Zachary (2001). The letters of Kingsley Amis. New York: Hyperion. p. xxvii. ISBN 9780786867578.
  11. ^ Bradford, Richard (2012). The Odd Couple: The Curious Friendship between Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin. London: Robson Press. p. 64. ISBN 9781849543750.
  12. ^ Amis, Kingsley; Leader, Zachary (2001). The letters of Kingsley Amis. New York: Hyperion. p. xxvii. ISBN 9780786867578.
  13. ^ Boler, Kelly (2004). A Drinking Companion: Alcohol and the lives of writers. New York: Union Square Publishing. p. 289. ISBN 1580421458.
  14. ^ Jacobs, Eric (1995). Kingsley Amis: A Biography. London: Hodder and Stoughton. p. 143. ISBN 0340590726.
  15. ^ Zachary Leader (8 July 2010). "Hilly Kilmarnock obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  16. ^ Jacobs, Eric (1995). Kingsley Amis: A Biography. London: Hodder and Stoughton. p. 158. ISBN 0340590726.
  17. ^ Cooper, Artemis (2016). Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence. London: John Murray. p. 170. ISBN 9781848549272.
  18. ^ Jacobs, Eric (1995). Kingsley Amis: A Biography. London: Hodder and Stoughton. p. 120. ISBN 0340590726.
  19. ^ Jacobs, Eric (1995). Kingsley Amis: A Biography. London: Hodder and Stoughton. p. 179. ISBN 0340590726.
  20. ^ Jacobs, Eric (1995). Kingsley Amis: A Biography. London: Hodder and Stoughton. p. 261. ISBN 0340590726.
  21. ^ "Hilly Kilmarnock, Abu Daoud and Alf Carretta". The Times. 11 July 2010. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  22. ^ Cooper, Artemis (2016). Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence. London: John Murray. p. 169. ISBN 9781848549272.
  23. ^ Jacobs, Eric (1995). Kingsley Amis: A Biography. London: Hodder and Stoughton. p. 218. ISBN 0340590726.
  24. ^ Jacobs, Eric (1995). Kingsley Amis: A Biography. London: Hodder and Stoughton. p. 237. ISBN 0340590726.
  25. ^ Jacobs, Eric (1995). Kingsley Amis: A Biography. London: Hodder and Stoughton. p. 199. ISBN 0340590726.
  26. ^ Jacobs, Eric (1995). Kingsley Amis: A Biography. London: Hodder and Stoughton. p. 251. ISBN 0340590726.
  27. ^ Jacobs, Eric (1995). Kingsley Amis: A Biography. London: Hodder and Stoughton. p. 258. ISBN 0340590726.
  28. ^ Jacobs, Eric (1995). Kingsley Amis: A Biography. London: Hodder and Stoughton. p. 260. ISBN 0340590726.
  29. ^ Cooper, Artemis (2016). Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous innocence. London: John Murray. p. 186. ISBN 9781848549272.
  30. ^ Amis, Kingsley; Leader, Zachary (2001). The letters of Kingsley Amis. New York: Hyperion. p. xviii. ISBN 9780786867578.
  31. ^ Jacobs, Eric (1995). Kingsley Amis: A Biography. London: Hodder and Stoughton. p. 276. ISBN 0340590726.
  32. ^ Zachary Leader (8 July 2010). "Hilly Kilmarnock obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  33. ^ Jacobs, Eric (1995). Kingsley Amis: A Biography. London: Hodder and Stoughton. p. 276. ISBN 0340590726.
  34. ^ Jacobs, Eric (1995). Kingsley Amis: A Biography. London: Hodder and Stoughton. p. 333. ISBN 0340590726.
  35. ^ Cooper, Artemis (2016). Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence. London: John Murray. p. 220. ISBN 9781848549272.
  36. ^ Cooper, Artemis (2016). Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence. London: John Murray. p. 255. ISBN 9781848549272.
  37. ^ Jacobs, Eric (1995). Kingsley Amis: A Biography. London: Hodder and Stoughton. p. 333. ISBN 0340590726.
  38. ^ Jacobs, Eric (1995). Kingsley Amis: A Biography. London: Hodder and Stoughton. p. 334. ISBN 0340590726.
  39. ^ Cooper, Artemis (2016). Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence. London: John Murray. p. 255. ISBN 9781848549272.
  40. ^ Amis, Kingsley; Leader, Zachary (2001). The letters of Kingsley Amis. New York: Hyperion. p. 1123. ISBN 9780786867578.
  41. ^ Jacobs, Eric (23 October 1995). "Sir Kingsley Amis obituary: From angry young man to old devil". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
  42. ^ "Hilly Kilmarnock". The Times. 7 July 2010. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  43. ^ Amis, Kingsley; Leader, Zachary (2001). The letters of Kingsley Amis. New York: Hyperion. p. xviii. ISBN 9780786867578.
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  47. ^ Ewart, Gavin (1993). 85 Poems. London: Hutchinson. p. 33. ISBN 0091775418.

January 01, 1970
hilary, kilmarnock, lady, kilmarnock, july, 1928, june, 2010, known, hilly, first, wife, kingsley, amis, mother, martin, amis, when, third, husband, alistair, boyd, became, chief, clan, boyd, baron, kilmarnock, became, lady, kilmarnock, bornhilary, bardwell, 1. Hilary Kilmarnock Lady Kilmarnock 21 July 1928 24 June 2010 known as Hilly was the first wife of Kingsley Amis and the mother of Martin Amis When her third husband Alistair Boyd became Chief of Clan Boyd and 7th Baron Kilmarnock she became Lady Kilmarnock 1 Hilary KilmarnockBornHilary Ann Bardwell 1928 07 21 21 July 1928Kingston upon Thames London EnglandDied24 June 2010 2010 06 24 aged 81 Other namesHilary BardwellHilary Amis Lady KilmarnockHillyEducationBedalesSpousesKingsley Amis m 1948 div 1965 wbr D R Shackleton Bailey m 1967 div 1975 wbr Alastair Boyd 7th Baron Kilmarnock m 1977 death 2009 wbr Children4 including Martin Amis Sally AmisFamilyLucy Partington niece Isabel Fonseca daughter in law Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Relationship with Kingsley Amis 3 Marriage to Bailey 4 Marriage to Boyd 5 Caring for Amis 6 After Amis s death 7 In literature 8 See also 9 ReferencesEarly life and education editHilary Ann Bardwell was the youngest child of Leonard Sidney Bardwell a Ministry of Agriculture civil servant and Margery M Bradley Clark She had three older brothers and a sister She grew up in Kingston upon Thames moving to Harwell Oxfordshire when her father retired after WWII She attended Bedales School and Beltane School for one year To avoid wartime bombing she was sent to Dr Williams School for Young Ladies in North Wales but was expelled after running away She returned to Bedales from which she also ran away several times 2 3 leaving school permanently when she was 15 4 She was described in one school report as unteachable Her sister suspected she may have been dyslexic 5 After leaving school she worked as a trainee kennel maid a stable hand and assisted at wartime day nurseries 6 She enrolled as an art student at Ruskin College Oxford but abandoned the course working as a head model one who modelled from the neck up at the college instead 7 Relationship with Kingsley Amis editHilly and Amis met at Elliston and Cavell s tearoom in Oxford in 1946 with Amis passing her a note to her ask if she would like to go for a drink 8 She replied positively a few days later One early connection of theirs was a shared a love of jazz 9 When Hilly became pregnant at the end of the year the couple tried an unsuccessful DIY abortion After seeking an illegal surgical procedure and upon the advice of several doctors about the risk to Hilly s health they chose to keep the baby They married at the Oxford registry office on 21 January 1948 and moved into a small flat in north Oxford the following month 10 In the May they moved to Eynsham with Hilly giving birth to Philip named after Kingsley s best friend Philip Larkin on 15 August 1948 11 Their second son Martin was born in 1949 after which the family moved in briefly with Hilly s parents 12 In 1950 the family moved to Swansea so that Amis could teach at the university Money was tight and Hilly took work cleaning the local cinema 13 In January 1951 she received a legacy of 2 400 which meant they could buy a house in the Uplands area of Swansea 14 After the publication of Amis s first novel Lucky Jim in 1954 the family s fortunes improved significantly 15 In the same year Hilly gave birth to their third child a daughter Sally 16 at home As a parent Hilly set no rules and had a refreshing disregard for health and safety 17 Hilly discovered that her husband had been serially unfaithful to her when she found a private diary and letters These detailed a number of affairs many of which involved women known to Hilly Amis infidelities had begun before the birth of Martin their second son 18 Hilly was also occasionally unfaithful beginning when they were living in Swansea 19 20 In 1956 she announced she was in love with the married journalist Henry Fairlie 21 but Kingsley saw him off with a blistering letter 22 In autumn 1958 the family moved to Princeton New Jersey for a year where Amis had been invited to take up the position of Visiting Fellow in Creative Writing at the university Amis s infidelities continued there 23 In 1961 the family moved to Cambridge England where Amis took the position of fellow in English at Peterhouse 24 The role did not last long and in Easter 1962 the couple travelled to Majorca and found a house near local resident Robert Graves whose writing Amis much admired 25 26 It was around this time that Amis met the author Jane Howard at the Cheltenham Literary Festival who would become his second wife When Hilly found out about their relationship unlike previous infidelities there were to be no promises of better behaviour from Amis Soon after this meeting while on holiday in Yugoslavia and overwhelmed with misery at the latest evidence of his infidelity she wrote 1 FAT ENGLISHMAN the title of his current book I FUCK ANYTHING on Amis s back in lipstick while he was asleep on the beach 27 Soon after Amis left for a holiday with Howard with a plan to return to the family in time to relocate to Majorca for the start of the school year However when he got back to Cambridge Hilly had already left for Soller in Majorca taking the children with her In response Amis headed to Howards s flat From this moment Hilly and Amis were never to live together as husband and wife 28 Hilly lived with her three children in Soller until they returned to England in 1964 moving briefly into Ovington Gardens then Fulham Road in London By this point Hilly was profoundly depressed drinking heavily taking amphetamines and barbiturates 29 Around this time she destroyed all the letters Amis had ever sent her 30 Hilly took in paying boarders and began work at Battersea Park zoo which she liked very much animals being her chief enthusiasm and joy through life 31 Hilly and Amis s divorce was finalised in June 1965 The following month Hilly and the children moved to Wivenhoe Essex 32 Marriage to Bailey editIt was in Wivenhoe that she began a relationship with David Roy Shackleton Bailey known as Shack a fellow and bursar at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge They married on 21 November 1967 The following year Bailey obtained a position as professor of Latin at the University of Michigan They moved with Sally to Ann Arbour where Hilly opened a fish and chip shop called Lucky Jim s Bailey was parsimonious to her and she ran the shop to generate spending money The relationship was ultimately unsuccessful and Hilly began a brief affair with Milton Cohen another academic who retired soon after the affair began moving to Crete without Hilly 33 In summer 1970 Cohen booked Hilly Bailey and Sally a holiday apartment in Andalusia but wanted Hilly to join him in Crete However she wanted to stay in Spain for the entire season while Bailey wanted to return to America At this point Hilly made it clear she was not going back with him then or ever 34 Marriage to Boyd editSally found a language school in Ronda run by Alastair Ali Boyd who was to become Hilly s third husband She helped Boyd run the school for a few months and the pair tried unsuccessfully to launch in Seville While in Seville Hilly found a job as a matron at an international school for a year after which she and Boyd returned to Ronda On their return the couple ran art courses managed a bar and took in paying guests at Casa de Mondragon the house where Boyd had lived with his previous wife for twenty years 35 In 1972 Hilly returned to Swansea to give birth to their son Jaime The following year Bailey finally granted her a divorce Hilly and Boyd married in 1977 and they returned to England the same year The family lived in Thornborough Buckinghamshire and Boyd his father having died in 1975 took his seat in the House of Lords Money was tight at one point Hilly and a friend set up a hot dog stand on the motorway to make a little extra 36 37 Caring for Amis editIn 1980 Howard left Amis and his long standing phobia of being alone became a problem Initially his sons provided company but a long term solution was needed Philip suggested Hilly Boyd and Amis create an unlikely menage Amis had money Hilly had the necessary household skills and Ali did his bit around the house too 38 Initially Hilly and Boyd lived with Amis in his house on Jeffrey s Place London However they soon found the house too small for a child a writer a politician and a housewife in residence In 1982 they moved to Kentish Town and three years later in July 1985 they moved to an even larger house on Primrose Hill The arrangement included Amis paying Hilly 50 a week to keep the house 39 In a letter from 1993 Amis wrote Three houses and 13 years later it certainly seems to work 40 The arrangement lasted until Amis s death in 1995 41 In Martin Amis s memoirs he reminds his mother that she rescued Kingsley bought him back to life and love and that Amis could never have written his last six novels his memoirs and last poems without her 42 Zachary Leader Kingsley s biographer wrote that after Howard left Amis he became clearer or at least more public about Hilly s importance to him leaving her he claimed was the single biggest mistake of his life 43 After Amis s death editIn 1998 Hilly and Boyd moved permanently to Ronda Boyd died in 2009 Hilly suffering from emphysema and having trouble walking following an accident with one of her horses died in 2010 44 45 In literature editAmis dedicated his 1984 novel Stanley and the Women to Hilly He also dedicated the poem For H to her which appeared instead of an epilogue in his memoirs Zachary Leader identified that Amis characters Rhiannon Weaver The Old Devils 1986 and Jenny Standish Difficulties with Girls 1988 took inspiration from Hilly He also cites the plots of That Uncertain Feeling 1955 and Take A Girl Like You 1960 as being influenced by Amis marriage to Hilly 46 Gavin Ewart s 1991 poem Relicts as It Were cites Hilly nee Bardwell and Monica Jones Philip Larkin s partner as witnesses to the normal lives of poets It begins All ordinary life goes on Hilary Bardwell Monica Jones have heard the poets bursting out in very unbardic tones Gavin Ewart 47 Relicts as It WereSee also edit nbsp Biography portal Jacobs Eric Kingsley Amis A Biography 1995 Pub Hodder and Stoughton Including a selection of photographsReferences edit Much married muse could swear and drink Sydney Morning Herald 23 July 2010 Archived from the original on 28 March 2024 Retrieved 3 February 2024 Jacobs Eric 1995 Kingsley Amis A Biography London Hodder and Stoughton p 109 ISBN 0340590726 Zachary Leader 8 July 2010 Hilly Kilmarnock obituary The Guardian Retrieved 3 January 2024 Bradford Richard 2012 The Odd Couple The Curious Friendship between Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin London Robson Press p 62 ISBN 9781849543750 Cooper Artemis 2016 Elizabeth Jane Howard A Dangerous innocence London John Murray p 168 ISBN 9781848549272 Zachary Leader 8 July 2010 Hilly Kilmarnock obituary The Guardian Retrieved 3 January 2024 Jacobs Eric 1995 Kingsley Amis A Biography London Hodder and Stoughton p 109 ISBN 0340590726 Love Andrea 1998 Secret set lives of the rich and famous London Carlton p 119 ISBN 9781858682969 Boler Kelly 2004 A Drinking Companion Alcohol and the lives of writers New York Union Square Publishing p 288 ISBN 1580421458 Amis Kingsley Leader Zachary 2001 The letters of Kingsley Amis New York Hyperion p xxvii ISBN 9780786867578 Bradford Richard 2012 The Odd Couple The Curious Friendship between Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin London Robson Press p 64 ISBN 9781849543750 Amis Kingsley Leader Zachary 2001 The letters of Kingsley Amis New York Hyperion p xxvii ISBN 9780786867578 Boler Kelly 2004 A Drinking Companion Alcohol and the lives of writers New York Union Square Publishing p 289 ISBN 1580421458 Jacobs Eric 1995 Kingsley Amis A Biography London Hodder and Stoughton p 143 ISBN 0340590726 Zachary Leader 8 July 2010 Hilly Kilmarnock obituary The Guardian Retrieved 3 January 2024 Jacobs Eric 1995 Kingsley Amis A Biography London Hodder and Stoughton p 158 ISBN 0340590726 Cooper Artemis 2016 Elizabeth Jane Howard A Dangerous Innocence London John Murray p 170 ISBN 9781848549272 Jacobs Eric 1995 Kingsley Amis A Biography London Hodder and Stoughton p 120 ISBN 0340590726 Jacobs Eric 1995 Kingsley Amis A Biography London Hodder and Stoughton p 179 ISBN 0340590726 Jacobs Eric 1995 Kingsley Amis A Biography London Hodder and Stoughton p 261 ISBN 0340590726 Hilly Kilmarnock Abu Daoud and Alf Carretta The Times 11 July 2010 Retrieved 3 January 2024 Cooper Artemis 2016 Elizabeth Jane Howard A Dangerous Innocence London John Murray p 169 ISBN 9781848549272 Jacobs Eric 1995 Kingsley Amis A Biography London Hodder and Stoughton p 218 ISBN 0340590726 Jacobs Eric 1995 Kingsley Amis A Biography London Hodder and Stoughton p 237 ISBN 0340590726 Jacobs Eric 1995 Kingsley Amis A Biography London Hodder and Stoughton p 199 ISBN 0340590726 Jacobs Eric 1995 Kingsley Amis A Biography London Hodder and Stoughton p 251 ISBN 0340590726 Jacobs Eric 1995 Kingsley Amis A Biography London Hodder and 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