File B2/3. - Lucy Penny letters to Mary Casey (3)

Lucy Amelia Powys (1890-1986) was the youngest of the eleven children of the Rev. C. F. Powys, vicar of Montacute, Somerset, and Mary Cowper Johnson; her siblings included the writers John Cowper Powys, Theodore Francis Powys, and Llewelyn Powys. She married Hounsell Penny, a miller, in 1911 and they had one daughter, Mary (b. 1915). The family lived at Horsebridge, Hampshire, before moving to Shootash, Hampshire, in 1938. Hounsell Penny died in 1945 and later that year Mary married Gerard Casey. In 1950 Lucy moved to Mappowder, Dorset, to be near her brother Theodore. She was joined there in the nineteen seventies by Mary and Gerard, who lived in the cottage next door until Mary's death in 1980. Lucy Penny died in November 1986.