Vivienne de Watteville

Vivienne De Watteville

Vivienne Florence Beatrice de Watteville (1900-1957) was a British writer and adventurer, the only child of the Swiss-French naturalist Bernard Perceval de Watteville (Bernhard Perceval von Wattenwyl) and his English wife Florence Emily Beddoes. Her mother died when she was nine, and she spent her childhood holidays from her English boarding-school tomboyishly alone with her father (whom she called 'Brovie' ) in remote parts of Norway and in the Alps. She had wanted to go to Oxford University and earn her own living, but her father, possessive to a fault, had brushed aside both ideas.

Read more about Vivienne De Watteville:  Out in The Blue (1927), Speak To The Earth (1935), Seeds That The Wind May Bring (1965), Later Life