Honor Tracy
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Honor Tracy pseud. of Lilbush Wingfield, 1913–89, British writer, b. Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk.
A long-time foreign correspondent, Tracy is best known as a travel writer. Her novels satirize British-Irish relations and Ireland itself with wit and occasionally bitterness. Her best-known novels are The Straight and Narrow Path (1956), The Quiet End of Evening (1972), and The Ballad of Castle Reef (1979). Her best-known travel book is Winter in Castille (1974).
She settled in Achill Island, Co. Mayo, and died in 1989.
[edit] Betjeman hoax
A N Wilson's biography of Sir John Betjeman, published August 2006, included a letter to Tracy which purported to be by Betjeman detailing a previously unknown love affair. They had worked together at the Admiralty during the war. The letter turned out to be a hoax on Wilson, containing an acrostic spelling out an insulting message to him.[1]
[edit] Novels
Her novels include
- The Straight and Narrow Path (London, Methuen / New York, Random House 1956);
- A Number of Things (Methuen / Random House, 1960);
- A Season of Mists (Methuen / Random House, 1961);
- The First Day of Friday (Methuen / Random House, 1963);
- Men at Work (Methuen / Random House, 1967);
- The Beauty of the World (Methuen / Random House, 1967);
- Settled in Chambers (Methuen / Random House 1968);
- Butterflies of the Province (New York, Random House /London, Eyre Methuen, 1970);
- The Quiet End of Evening ( Random House / Eyre Methuen, 1972).
