Later Life
| “ | Nothing short of bearing and rearing children myself, coming down with humility into the struggling world, could have taught me the greatness of women. | ” |
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—Vivienne de Watteville |
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On 23 July 1930 Vivienne de Watteville married George Gerard Goschen (1887-1953) and they moved to King's Farm, Binsted, Hampshire. They had two children, David Bernard (b.1931), and Tana (b.1932), named after the river Tana in Kenya. "Nothing short of bearing and rearing children myself," de Watteville wrote, "coming down with humility into the struggling world, could have taught me the greatness of women."
Vivienne Goschen died in hospital on 27 June 1957, of cancer. "When told that she had no more than a fortnight to live," J. Alan White wrote, "she received the news with relief, and even a kind of exaltation, that the pain and uncertainty from which she had suffered for a number of years were about to end. She saw no reason for deep grief; she was 56 and had had a satisfying life. The few pain-free hours in the last two weeks of her life were devoted to the clearing up of her affairs." She left her eyes to the Eye Bank, and the manuscript of her third book to a friend, J. Alan White, asking him to oversee its publication.
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