Judith Kazantzis

British poet, author, visual artist, and political, social and feminist activist from a noted family. She grew up in East Sussex, the fourth child and second daughter of the eight children born to Lord and Lady Longford, and sister of novelist Rachel Billington and historians Dame Antonia Fraser and Thomas Pakenham. She wrote textbooks on history, worked for the Chelsea Labour Party and reviewed for the Evening Standard. She avoided the usage of the title "Lady" as the daughter of an earl. During the 1970s she turned to poetry, fiction, painting and printmaking. She was a committed feminist, writing for the magazine Spare Rib and was strongly influenced by Sylvia Plaths poetry. She supported the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and joined the protestors at RAF Greenham Common air base in the 1980s. She lived in London and later in East Sussex again, and spent three months a year in Key West, Florida, where her second husband, Irving Weinman, taught. She married her first husband, lawyer Alexander John Kazantzis, on 26 February 1963 and had two children, Miranda and Arthur. The couple divorced in 1982, but she kept his surname professionally. On 22 February 1998, she married lawyer and writer Irving Weinman. Judith Kazantzis died on 18 September 2018, aged 78, from undisclosed causes. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less