Editing Llewelyn Powys (section)

==Life==
He was educated at [[Sherborne School]] (1899–1903) and [[Corpus Christi College, Cambridge]] (1903–1906). While lecturing in the [[United States]] he contracted [[tuberculosis]]. After his return in 1909, he travelled again, living for a while in [[Switzerland]]. He spent time in [[Africa]], farming with his brother William near [[Gilgil]] in [[British East Africa]] (now in [[Kenya]]) from 1914 to 1919.
 
In 1920 he went again to America to work as a [[journalist]]. While living in [[New York City]] he met and married, in 1924, the novelist [[Alyse Gregory]] (1884–1967), editor of the journal ''[[The Dial]]''. In 1925 the couple moved to Dorset: firstly to the Coastguard Cottages on White Nothe and then to nearby farmhouse Chydyok, where his two sisters, the poet and novelist, Philippa Powys, and the artist, Gertrude Powys, occupied the adjacent cottage. This was close to the village of [[East Chaldon]] where his brother, the author Theodore Powys, lived from 1904 until 1940. Various other writers and artists lived in the village at different times, such as [[Sylvia Townsend Warner]] and [[David Garnett]], the poets [[Valentine Ackland]] and [[Gamel Woolsey]], and the sculptors [[Elizabeth Muntz]] and Stephen Tomlin.

[[Gamel Woolsey]] met [[John Cowper Powys]] when she lived in [[Patchin Place]], [[Greenwich Village]], and, through him, his brother Llewelyn and his wife, [[Alyse Gregory]]. She and Alyse became friends for life, while with Llewelyn she had a passionate and painful love affair.<ref name="bert">{{cite journal |author= Kenneth Hopkins |title= Bertrand Russell and Gamel Woolsey |pages= 50–58 |date= Summer 1985 |journal= Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies |publisher= [[McMaster University]] |url= http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1488&context=russelljournal }}</ref> Woolsey left New York for England in 1929, settling in [[Dorset]] to be near Llewelyn, where she came to know the whole Powys family and their circle. Parting from Llewelyn in 1930, she married the [[historian]] and writer [[Gerald Brenan]] in a private ceremony, and they lived together, mainly in Spain, until her death.<ref>[http://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2007/10/15/the-queen-of-spains-literary-past/ The Queen of Spain's Literary Past] The Olive Press, October 15, 2007. Retrieved February 11, 2013.</ref>

Powys traveled with his wife, paying visits to [[Mandatory Palestine]] (1928), the West Indies (1930) and Switzerland (1937). He died in Clavadel, Switzerland from complications related to an ulcer.<ref name="Elwin1953">{{cite book|author=Malcolm Elwin|title=The Life of Llewelyn Powys|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=25MIAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=18 July 2013|year=1953|publisher=Macdonald}}</ref>

His writings include a novel, ''Apples Be Ripe'' (1930), and a biography of [[Henry Hudson]] (1927). He was very friendly with Hamilton Rivers Pollock, Barrister, owner from 1928, of [[Urchfont Manor]].