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Open letter to British tourists from Balearic President Francina Armengol Dear British friends, In Majorca, there is a bridge named Pont dels Anglesos – the English Bridge. It takes its name from the engineers – Bateman,…
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Robert Graves —his full name was Robert von Ranke Graves— was born in Wimbledon, London, on July 24th 1895. His father, Alfred Perceval Graves, of Anglo-Irish descent, was the son of the Bishop of Limerick….
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Robert attended various preparatory schools, and from the last of these, Copthorne, he won a scholarship to Charterhouse, where he was to spend the remaining five years (1909-1914) of his schooling. Charterhouse provided Robert with…
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Robert Graves had just left Charterhouse and joined his family in Wales, when England declared war on Germany. He immediately decided to enlist, partly because he dreaded the thought of going to Oxford in the…
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Robert met seventeen-year-old Nancy Nicholson, in May 1916 when on leave. She was the daughter of the painters William and Mabel Nicholson, sister of the painter Ben Nicholson and herself an artist and an ardent…
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Despite the fact that he was well connected with the literary establishment of the time, both in London and in Oxford, Graves felt alienated, and found few friends with whom he could share his obsessive,…
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When Graves and Riding left England in October 1929, they visited their friend Gertrude Stein in France who recommended Majorca as a good place to live. Once in Palma they went up to the village…
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On August 2nd 1935, after two weeks of uncertainly about the seriousness of the Franco uprising, the British ex-consul told them that their last chance to leave was on a British destroyer, the H.M.S. Grenville,…
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Back in England after the break-up with Laura, Graves was close to a nervous breakdown. But then Beryl, who had been in America with them, came to see him, and remained with him until his…
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In May 1946, after having obtained visas to travel to Spain, Graves took his new family to Majorca. The journey was made by air-taxi, and theirs was the first civil aeroplane from abroad to land…
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The White Goddess had provided Graves with a coherent framework for his particular views on poetry and the history of western civilization. It brought together the many aspects of his work, from scholarly studies of…
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Robert Graves House
The poet and writer Robert Graves lived in Deia, Mallorca from 1929 until his death. His house in Deia, acquired by the Fundació Robert Graves, has been adapted and it is now open for visiting.
