Patricia Margaret Kitchen (23 May 1934 – 23 November 2005) was an English novelist, biographer and art critic.[1]
Born in Battersea to middle-class parents, she grew up in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire. After rejecting an offer from Cambridge University she moved to London in 1954, working in a Mayfair advertising agency while moonlighting as a hat-check girl in the night club Le Club Contemporain. While working at the Royal College of Art she met the painter Frank Bowling when he was still a student there. They married in 1960 and had one son.[1] Kitchen was one of the women interviewed by Nell Dunn in Talking to Women (1965).[2]
After divorcing Bowling in the late 1960s, Kitchen went on to live with, and later marry, the writer Dulan Barber. Continuing to write novels, she also began writing non-fiction with biographies of Patrick Geddes and Gerard Manley Hopkins. In later life she bought a house in Barnwell, Northamptonshire, which became the subject of her book of the same name. She died on 23 November 2005.[1][3]
The novelist Bessie Head was a close friend. The pair corresponded from 1969 until Head's death in 1986[4][5] on a range of subjects, including Head's novel A Question of Power.[6]
^Elizabeth Venditti, Biography of Bessie Emery, South African History Online, 2017. Accessed 8 May 2019.
^M. J. Daymond, ed., Everyday Matters: Selected Letters of Dora Taylor, Bessie Head and Lilian Ngoyi, 2015. ISBN9781431409488.
^M. J. Daymond, "I want to feel that I saw and thought all those things for a purpose": Bessie Head's letters to Paddy Kitchen about writing A Question of Power, Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, Vol. 26, Issue 2 (2014).
April 18, 2024
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