Caitlin Thomas was an author and the wife of the poet and writer Dylan Thomas.
17 Facts About Caitlin Thomas
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The couple had a son and three daughters, of whom Caitlin Thomas was the youngest.
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Caitlin Thomas's maternal grandfather, Edouard Majolier, was a French Quaker corn merchant in London, whilst her grandmother, Susannah Cooper, was the daughter of an Anglo-Irish landlord, and a sister-in-law to Alfred Perceval Graves and an aunt to Joseph Maunsel Hone and Philip Graves.
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When Caitlin Thomas was about four or five, her father began to live apart from his family.
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In 1930, at the age of 16, Caitlin Thomas returned to London and entered a dancing school, and at age 18 was a member of a London chorus line.
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Caitlin Thomas had spent parts of her childhood with her grandmother, Susannah, in the Majolier house in Congenies in the south of France.
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Caitlin Thomas later lived for a brief time in Paris before moving to County Clare in 1934, when her father returned to the Macnamaras' reduced estates.
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Caitlin Thomas had three children by Dylan, Llewelyn Edouard, Aeronwy Thomas-Ellis and Colm Garan Hart.
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Caitlin Thomas became more and more resentful of her role as a stay-at-home mother, compounded by the run-down nature of their home, the Boat House, which had neither electricity nor running water.
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Furthermore, Caitlin Thomas had become more and more frustrated at being left behind, dealing with the children and the bills, while her husband spent his time carousing in another country.
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In 1957, Caitlin Thomas published a frank account of her later life and reflections on her life with Dylan, titled Leftover Life to Kill, though she refused to collaborate with most of her husband's biographers in later years.
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Caitlin Thomas spent less and less time in Wales, and made several journeys to Ireland and Italy.
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Caitlin Thomas spent an increasing amount of time in Italy, staying on Procida, until, in 1957, she decided to relocate to the country.
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Caitlin Thomas left Britain with her children in September 1957, and moved to Rome with a Welsh actor and writer, Cliff Gordon.
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Caitlin Thomas began to attend Alcoholics Anonymous in 1973, aged 60.
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Caitlin Thomas died in Catania on 31 July 1994 following a long illness, aged 80.
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Caitlin Thomas was buried next to Dylan in Laugharne, though the burial request came as a surprise to her family, with her daughter believing that she would have preferred to have been buried in Italy after spending so much of her later life there.