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Oct 26, 2012 · In some ways quite conservative – sternly warning Gough away from drugs while himself taking magic mushrooms – Graves lived with his second wife, Beryl, and their children, but also kept a muse,...
Aug 27, 1995 · Writer remarried in 1958, but took up with a muse of Graves's, Margot Callas, in 1961, leading to the irrevocable split between Graves and writer. Graves's vindictiveness toward...
Later Margot accompanied Robert and Beryl to Hungary. Reid remained friends with the rest of the family and wrote a moving obituary of Graves in the New Yorker. Margot lived many unconnected lives, taking up carpentry, or acting (one night) in Hair. Robert wanted her to be the ‘White Goddess’ in a film that never was.
‘I am Your Poet’ and ‘The Mead-Vat’, two unpublished poems, were among the manuscripts together with letters from Robert Graves which Margot Callas, his ‘muse’ in 1960–63, sold to St John’s College, Oxford, the year before her death in April 2023.
Jul 1, 1995 · LIFE WITH THE GODDESS. Robert Graves, born 100 years ago, was a paradoxical, eccentric, at times scandalous figure. The new books that mark his centenary give us a chance to reappraise his work...
Jul 15, 2016 · If Margot Callas is a tenth of the woman described in Simon Gough’s The White Goddess: An Encounter she must have been a force of nature. (Deià artist David Templeton tells a story of meeting her when she was of a certain age and ‘voluptuous, busty, in a tight short dress’, and being mightily enchanted if a little unnerved.)
Margot Callas . William Graves . Margot was born in Vancouver on 10 September 1935, of Greek father and Irish mother. She died in her cottage in the South of France, where she lived most of her last years on 15 April 2023. She was married twice, her second husband being the comedian and later film director Mike Nichols.
