Philip Larkin and the Third Woman

Oh dear, my biographer Sir Andrew Motion discovers a poem I did for Betty Mackereth. I was hoping it would be kept private. Bum.

[@nobbynoris]

It's fascinating to see Jean Hartley on screen. She was the wife of his second publisher (The Less Deceived) and was a friend of Larkin's for 30 years. It seems to me she often gets left out of Larkin's story, perhaps because she wasn't one of his 'women'. She published an autobiography, Philip Larkin, The Marvell Press and Me, in 1989. It's an engaging read, very well written, by a working-class Northern girl who had to grasp the chances of education and self-improvement where she found them because she was born too early to benefit from the post-war expansion and democratisation of the universities. It has a great deal of insights regarding growing up in the real era of austerity, class, male chauvanism, and, of course, poetry and jazz.

[@HaFannyHa]

Thank you for uploading this! Fascinating and touching.

[@peterphoto7732]

l'd like to know what happened to Mr Larkin's bike?

[@tracythomas132]

I knew a lady whom worked under Larkin at the Brynmor Jones Library. Never would talk about him in detail, so goodness knows what happened in those stack rooms.

[@nobbynoris]

He certainly used the jam-jar glasses, receding chin, dour pessimism, low self-esteem and general misanthropy to good effect, didn't he? The randy old goat. I say this purely out of pure jealousy. Self certainly was the man.

[@sockmonkey22]

I await this video’s sequels, “The. Fourth Woman”, “The Fifth Woman”, etc.🥰

[@esmeephillips5888]

Ruth Bowman and Patsy Strang. Winifred Arnott eluded him.

[@simonpearce5039]

Larkin what a dark horse, still amazes us

[@kaybeckett5582]

Tomatoes on a Christmas tree. Thanks

[@nobbynoris]

From what is gradually unfolding about Larkin, you might feel mildly surprised that it isn't two plums and a pig in a blanket.

[@SuperBagshot]

Bloody jazz music is doing my head in

[@nobbynoris]

So this lady was the loaf-haired secretary.

[@_PoeticJustice_]

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[@HarpurheyPaul]

It's none of our business : Motion was nothing more than an underpants sniffer.

[@Andrea_fishbowl]

Can you turn on the subtitles, please?

[@philiplarkin1625]

There are no foreign subtitles to fit to this sorry.

[@QHarefield]

@@philiplarkin1625 How about some English ones, then?

[@philiplarkin1625]

@@QHarefield I'm sorry but I don't have the file to add on the subtitles.

[@QHarefield]

@@philiplarkin1625 No worries. Thank you.

[@jonharrison9222]

Don’t be lazy.