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Lillian Beckwith

“... when irritated her vocabulary would, according to an admiring Hector, 'take the feathers off a hoody crow.'”
- Lillian Beckwith,
- Lightly Poached
- (1973)
“The sea makes no promises and breaks none.”
- Lillian Beckwith,
- Lightly Poached
- (1973)

Lillian Beckwith, English writer

(1916 - 2004)

Full name: Lillian Comber Beckwith.