Cressida Anne Lindsay (1930 - 13 November 2010) was an English poet and novelist.
Cressida Lindsay was born in London in 1930, the daughter of the writer Philip Lindsay (and a granddaughter of the Australian artist and writer Norman Lindsay) and the artist's model Jeanne Ellis.[1] She was educated in London convents.[2]
Lindsay had poems published in Michael Horovitz's New Departures.
She wrote four novels, all published in the 1960s.
After her death, her son Dylan Hyatt published a further novel, The Mole in the Mountain, as an e-book on Amazon (2016).[3]
In the mid-1960s, Lindsay moved to the Old Rectory in Scoulton in Norfolk, to establish a commune for artists, one of whom was Joanna Carrington. The commune was a haven for painters, writers, sculptors, and even pop groups. This alternative lifestyle setup was documented in 1970 by John Swinfield for Anglia Television.[4]
She married twice, to Michael Millett in 1955[5] and Peter Hammerton in 1988.[6] She had a son with the poet and novelist Mark Hyatt, whom she had taught to read and write.[7] She had another son with her publisher Anthony Blond, who bought the Old Rectory in Scoulton for her. She also had three other children.
She died in 2010, aged 80.