Dilys Powell

Dilys Powell married the late Humfry Payne, whose discoveries in connection with the archaic marbles of the Acropolis won him fame at the age of thirty-three. On their marriage they went out to Athens, Humfry Payne then being a student of the British School of Archaeology.

Every year since then she has spent her summers in Greece, travelling extensively and unconventionally - on foot and on muleback. In 1929 her husband was made Director of the British School, and from then until his death in 1936 she regularly accompanied him on archaeological expeditions. She was living in Athens at the time of the revolutions of 1933 and 1935 and the coup d'etat of August, 1936.

For the last year Dilys Powell has been on the editorial staff of the Sunday Times. She is the author of a critical study of contemporary poetry, 'Descent from Parnassus'.