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Tom Hopkinson, editor of Picture Post

Great Lives

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Were You Raised to Admire Your Father?

You said you hardly knew your father yourself. Why was he distant? No, because he left around the time i was born. I didn't grow up with him. The impression i have from reading various books of autobiography is that it was a sort of plain living, high thinking family that he came from. But i must pick you up, or pick up on a remark you just made. You said you hardly know your father himself. why was was he distant?"No, because heleft around the timei was born. He didn't finally move out, i don't think, till i was about two," she says. "I knew remarkably little about him"

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