
Schooling
Robert attended various preparatory schools, and from the last of these, Copthorne, he won a scholarship…

War
Robert Graves had just left Charterhouse and joined his family in Wales, when England declared war on Germany.

Oxford
Robert met seventeen-year-old Nancy Nicholson, in May 1916 when on leave. She was the daughter of the painters William and Mabel Nicholson…

The Arrival of Laura Riding
Despite the fact that he was well connected with the literary establishment of the time, both in London...

St. Peters Square, London
Despite the fact that he was well connected with the literary establishment of the time, both in London...

Deià
When Graves and Riding left England in October 1929, they visited their friend Gertrude Stein in France...

Life on the Move
On August 2nd 1935, after two weeks of uncertainly about the seriousness of the Franco uprising, the...

Galmpton
Back in England after the break-up with Laura, Graves was close to a nervous breakdown. But then Beryl...

Return to Deià
In May 1946, after having obtained visas to travel to Spain, Graves took his new family to Majorca. The...

International Recognition
The White Goddess had provided Graves with a coherent framework for his particular views on poetry and...

Last Years
Graves refused most honours and Honoris Causa doctorates, but he did accept the Gold Medal for Poetry...