My friend Caroline West Duah, who has died aged 78, was at heart a poet, although the course of her life meant she was unable to devote as much time to writing poetry as she would have liked.
She was born in Ecchinswell, Dorset, to the novelist and essayist Anthony West and the feminist painter Katharine Church. Her grandparents were the writers H G Wells and Rebecca West. Her parents divorced when she was young, and thereafter she lived in the Dorset village of Woodlands with her mother, whose home there, Sutton House, became a meeting place for many female British painters.
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