Polly Devlin remembers her friend, legendary feminist publisher, Carmen Callil:
Vogue, Virago and The Legendary Carmen Callil …
We went on holiday together, either just the two of us or with my family . Wherever I went – forever in-flight mode – in France, Ireland, Camber, Somerset, Paris, she came and stayed. Her stories! Oh, her stories! Her grandmother, a stern mountain matriarch, came from one of the most warlike of the seven clans of Bsharri and her force of personality erupted from the kitchen where Carmen would see her pounding kibbe and creating eternal family feasts. Carmen’s mother – Lorraine Allen – was a voracious reader and inspiration to Carmen; her father was a barrister and lecturer in French at Melbourne University.
All her family were gamblers, and her father’s addiction to horses, cards, backgammon, and his passion for books, meant he would often stay in bed till the afternoon, and if he had a tutorial in the morning, would turn up in his pyjamas. When he died, he left her mother racehorses, an overflowing library and a good part of the greyhound coursing club in Melbourne and deep grief all round.
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