Daphne Phelps
Daphne Phelps was a British writer who spent most of her life in Taormina, Sicily at Casa Cuseni, an elegant villa designed and built in 1905 by her uncle, the artist Robert Hawthorn Kitson. There she entertained numerous writer and artist friends including Bertrand Russell, Henry Faulkner, Roald Dahl and Tennessee Williams. She was the author of A House in Sicily, published by Virago.
Phelps attended St Felix School, Southwold, Suffolk, and subsequently trained in psychiatric social work at St Anne's College, Oxford, and at the London School of Economics.Obituaries
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- History of Kitson/Phelps families
