Children
Robert Graves had eight children. With his first wife Nancy Nicholson he had Jennie (who married journalist Alexander Clifford), David (who was killed in the Second World War), Catherine (who married nuclear scientist Clifford Dalton), and Sam. With his second wife, Beryl Graves (1915–2003), he had William, Lucia (also a translator), Juan and Tomás (a writer and musician).
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That’s what for reasons I should like to know
If you can comfort me by any answer.”
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