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'''Aemilia Laraçuen''' (Emilia MacKinley) (1925 – 2007) was an American artist and [[muse]] of poet [[Robert Graves]]. She was also known variously as Cindy Lee and Emile Laraçuen.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cabinet 16: Literature for Children, Forging a Magical Landscape, University of Otago, New Zealand |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/library/exhibitions/magical-landscape/cabinet16-1.html |access-date=2022-10-19 |website=www.otago.ac.nz}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Burrow |first=Colin |date=2018-10-11 |title=Adjusting the Mechanism |language=en |volume=40 |work=London Review of Books |issue=19 |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v40/n19/colin-burrow/adjusting-the-mechanism |access-date=2022-10-19 |issn=0260-9592}}</ref> |
'''Aemilia Laraçuen''' (Emilia MacKinley) (1925 – 2007) was an American artist and [[muse]] of poet [[Robert Graves]]. She was also known variously as Cindy Lee and Emile Laraçuen.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cabinet 16: Literature for Children, Forging a Magical Landscape, University of Otago, New Zealand |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/library/exhibitions/magical-landscape/cabinet16-1.html |access-date=2022-10-19 |website=www.otago.ac.nz}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Burrow |first=Colin |date=2018-10-11 |title=Adjusting the Mechanism |language=en |volume=40 |work=London Review of Books |issue=19 |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v40/n19/colin-burrow/adjusting-the-mechanism |access-date=2022-10-19 |issn=0260-9592}}</ref> |
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Aemilia Laracuen inspired many of Graves’s [[love poems]] and was also the illustrator of one of his best-known poetry |
Aemilia Laracuen inspired many of Graves’s [[love poems]] and was also the illustrator of one of his best-known poetry collections, ''Love Respelt''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brooks |first=Richard |date=January 1, 2006 |title='Goddess' reveals bizarre affair with Robert Graves |pages=7 |work=The Sunday Times (London, England)}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.nypl.org/research/manuscripts/berg/brggrave.xml |title=archives.nypl.org |publisher=Nypl.org |date=1999-02-22 |accessdate=2015-03-10}}</ref> |
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Graves was Oxford’s professor of poetry between 1961 and 1966, He met and became involved with the American Mexican when she was thirty and he was in his mid-sixties. After meeting in New York, Graves persuaded her to come to live near him in [[Deià]] on [[Majorca]]. His wife seemingly tolerated this affair. The 37-year age gap between Aemilia and Graves did not bother her, she said. "Robert was great-looking and in good shape. He had a brilliant mind, was very funny and charming."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article775009.ece |title=Life | The Times |publisher=Timesonline.co.uk |date=2015-01-16 |accessdate=2015-03-10}} {{subscription required|date=March 2015}}</ref> |
Graves was Oxford’s professor of poetry between 1961 and 1966, He met and became involved with the American Mexican when she was thirty and he was in his mid-sixties. After meeting in New York, Graves persuaded her to come to live near him in [[Deià]] on [[Majorca]]. His wife seemingly tolerated this affair. The 37-year age gap between Aemilia and Graves did not bother her, she said. "Robert was great-looking and in good shape. He had a brilliant mind, was very funny and charming."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article775009.ece |title=Life | The Times |publisher=Timesonline.co.uk |date=2015-01-16 |accessdate=2015-03-10}} {{subscription required|date=March 2015}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 00:26, 8 December 2022
Aemilia Laraçuen (Emilia MacKinley) (1925 – 2007) was an American artist and muse of poet Robert Graves. She was also known variously as Cindy Lee and Emile Laraçuen.[1][2]
Aemilia Laracuen inspired many of Graves’s love poems and was also the illustrator of one of his best-known poetry collections, Love Respelt.[3][4]
Graves was Oxford’s professor of poetry between 1961 and 1966, He met and became involved with the American Mexican when she was thirty and he was in his mid-sixties. After meeting in New York, Graves persuaded her to come to live near him in Deià on Majorca. His wife seemingly tolerated this affair. The 37-year age gap between Aemilia and Graves did not bother her, she said. "Robert was great-looking and in good shape. He had a brilliant mind, was very funny and charming."[5]
Graves became so besotted with Aemilia that he bought her a house in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. And yet she took a lover, the beat poet Howard Hart, to live there.[6] Their letters are documented and stored at the University of Victoria.[7] Under an agreement with the Graves family, they were not to be read until his widow Beryl had died. Beryl died in late 2003.
Aemelia married for the third time and for the last years of her life, after her third divorce, retained her married name Emilia MacKinley. She lived her later years travelling between Puerto Vallarta and New York City.
References
- ^ "Cabinet 16: Literature for Children, Forging a Magical Landscape, University of Otago, New Zealand". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
- ^ Burrow, Colin (2018-10-11). "Adjusting the Mechanism". London Review of Books. Vol. 40, no. 19. ISSN 0260-9592. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
- ^ Brooks, Richard (January 1, 2006). "'Goddess' reveals bizarre affair with Robert Graves". The Sunday Times (London, England). p. 7.
- ^ "archives.nypl.org". Nypl.org. 1999-02-22. Retrieved 2015-03-10.
- ^ "Life | The Times". Timesonline.co.uk. 2015-01-16. Retrieved 2015-03-10. (subscription required)
- ^ "Life | The Times". Timesonline.co.uk. 2015-01-16. Retrieved 2015-03-10. (subscription required)
- ^ "WebVoyáge Holdings Information". Voyager.library.uvic.ca. Retrieved 2015-03-10.
External links
- Robert Graves fonds at University of Victoria, Special Collections