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executive and Alice Eileen née Traill, an Irish-Argentinian teacher who ran a school for the children of other British-born residents. By the age of twelve she had lived on every continent in the world, except Antarctica. After a spell at a
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and the pleasures of festoon blinds. It went on to sell over a million copies around the world. At a time when DIY meant rawlplugs and melamine kitchen units, Innes introduced middle England to a world of
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which dealt with old-fashioned rural British cookery and crafts – Damson Cheese, curing hams in saltpetre and parsnip wine.
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in 1979, where she renovated a derelict house, and was a passionate campaigner for the regeneration of the area.
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the novelist. Goodwin and Innes had a daughter, Daisy, born in 1961. The relationship with Potts ended in 1979.
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Innes was survived by her partner who died in 2014, and her four children,
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in 1976 which took the same democratic approach to interiors and
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For the last thirty years her partner was the architect Sir
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the film producer (the relationship ended in 1967) and
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People educated at Bedford High School, Bedfordshire
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lead section
summarize
provide an accessible overview

Nanjing
Shell Oil
Coptic
Cairo
Bedford High School
Girton College, Cambridge
Evening Standard
debutante
Elizabeth David
stencilling
stippling
pelmets
passementerie
Cosmopolitan
Paint Magic
Spitalfields
Richard B. Goodwin
Joe Potts
Richard MacCormac
Royal Institute of British Architects
St Mary's, Laverton
Somerset
Daisy Goodwin
Jason Goodwin
"Innes, Jocasta Claire Traill (1934-2013)"

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