FAMILY ALBUM III

The Bolton and Holloway Families in Europe

196019681973

1960

My father, working at the UN’s FAO in Rome, gave to Hal and myself with baby Robin a costly honeymoon on the Amalfi coast

Robin in a Venetian Gondolier’s hat

Richard Rothwell Boltonand Maria Antonia Bandres

Rome, Protestant Cemetery, Richard Rothwell Bolton

My father writing in Rome. Seehttp://www.umilta.net/poemspennyeach.html

In Pope John XXIII’s Garden at Castelgondolfo at the Pope’s invitationwhile he was writing his biography

Richard,Jonathanand Colinin the RomanForum

1968

1968 This was a difficult visit. We were starving with no child support or alimony from Hal. I was trying to decide whether to work inEurope or return to Berkeley for the Doctorate. My aunt, with my Power of Attorney, quit-claimed our house to Hal. I decided to return so Hal would see his sons. My father did take us to Greece.

Children in Piazza Narvona, Rome,Jonathan in the blue corduroy coatlined with grey silk, with brassButtons (like the Beatrix Potterone), I had made for Richard. Itwas bitterly cold.

London at Christmas, Jon, Julia,Maria Antonia, Colin, her cousins,Richard. Taken by Uncle Richard

We fly to London, pick up a new Volkwagen, go to the Changing of the Guard atBuckingham Palace, but Richard gets lost,following a different Regiment. I amdesperate. We are to meet my Godmother,Florence Shepherd for lunch. Many hours laterfinding Richard at the police station froma note on the car, we finally meet at ‘TheGreat American Disaster’ in Chelsea forhamburgers. This is Auntie Florence at Ascot.

1973

St John the Baptist Church, Westfield, where I was baptized Auntie Joyce, Auntie Florence and Walter Lucas, my Godparents

Darbyes, Westfield, where I grew up

Dover CastleCanterbury Cathedral, Notre Dame

1972

Sardinia with myFather, Aunt,Richard and Colin,Jonathan staying in Heidelberg

Chartres Cathedral

With Richard by the Seine

Sardinia

My brother Richard

At Cousin Pauline’sin ZurichwithJonathan

Urbis et OrbisJoyce andRichard

Warwick Castle, Earl of Leicester’s Hospital, and Quaker House, where my father was born

Jonathan, Richard, Colin,Aunts Joyce, Eileen atConway Castle, Wales

Eileen Bolton& Jonathan

Colin, Jonathan and AuntieEileen in her National TrustCottage in Wales with her Irish harp. It’s like Mrs Tiggywinkle’s Cottage!

Spain with my brother andMaria Antonia

Apart from my annual visits to my father while he was dying in Rome and on shortresearch visits, I next came to Europe, 1987-1988, on a year’s Sabbatical Fellowship, Then returned for good in 1993, having taken early retirement as Professor Emerita,, my children grown and having children of their own in turn. I was able to visit them each year, except after 9/11 when I was blocked for five years because I was on a European,not American passport.

The Library in Godfrey Webster’s Powdermill House

PowdermillThe Island in the LakePowdermill LakeThe Battle of Hastingswas fought near hereI must have asked my brotherto take these in 1954 when I had gone to America

Augustus Hare’s Hospice,my hermitage.

Taizé

Julia, Sweden, 1999

Françoise Chiarini, Barbara Costello,Julia, Contessa Barbara Emo Capodilista

Julia, St Bridget,Maire Herbert

In the Library,English Cemetery,with Aurora Leigh

Julia, Boulder, March 2005

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