Daphne Phelps
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British writer (b. 1911 - d. 2005) who spent most of her life in Taormina, Sicily. She lived in Casa Cuseni, an elegant villa designed and built by her uncle, the industrialist Robert Kitson in 1905 and, over the years she entertained numerous writer and artist friends including Bertrand Russell, Roald Dahl and Tennessee Williams. Author of A House in Sicily (1999) ed. Virago.