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Music and Letters Advance Access originally published online on July 4, 2008
Music and Letters 2008 89(3):337-345; doi:10.1093/ml/gcn042
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Ralph, Adeline, and Ursula Vaughan Williams: Some Facts and Speculation (with a Note about Tippett)

Oliver Neighbour


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In conversations that took place between 1986 and 1994 Ursula Vaughan Williams told the author that she and Vaughan Williams had become lovers soon after they first met, in 1938. She did not believe that Ralph's crippled wife Adeline had ever suspected this; in any case the two women became friends, despite Ursula's jealousy of Adeline who, she realized, still occupied a place in Ralph's life and affections that could not be challenged. The author attempts to sort out rumours about the effect on Adeline of the death of her cousin Stella Duckworth, to whom she was very close, which occurred at the time of her engagement in 1897. The background to an offer of marriage that Ursula said she had received from Tippett not long after Ralph's death is also explored.


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