Nott, Kathleen (1909–1999)

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Nott, Kathleen (1909–1999)

British poet, novelist and philosopher. Born Kathleen Cecilia Nott, 1909, in London, England; died 1999; dau. of Phillip Nott and Ellen Nott; m. Christopher Bailey, 1927.

Wrote novels, poetry, criticism, and works of philosophy; works include Mile End (1938), The Emperor's Clothes: An Attack on the Dogmatic Orthodoxy of T.S. Eliot, Graham Greene, Dorothy Sayers, C.S. Lewis and Others (1953), Private Fires (1960), An Elderly Retired Man (1963), Philosophy and Human Nature (1970), The Good Want Power: An Essay in the Psychological Possibilities of Liberalism (1977), and Elegies and Other Poems (1981).