Eva Larkin
Eva Larkin was Philip Larkin's mother. Born in 1886 she lived until 1977, dying 29 years after her domineering husband.
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“Of Eva first, that for hir wikkednesse
Was al mankinde brought to wrecchednesse,
For which that Jesu Crist himself was slain
That boughte us with his herte blood again—
Lo, heer expres of wommen may ye finde
That womman was the los of al mankinde.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)
“Giant whispering and coughing from
Vast Sunday-full and organ-frowned-on spaces
Precede a sudden scuttle on the drum....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)