{{Short description|British literary journalist (1901–1973)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}} {{Use British English|date=August 2012}} {{Infobox person | name = Lyn Lloyd Newman | birth_name = Lyn Lloyd Irvine | birth_date = {{Birth date|1901|05|3|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Berwick-upon-Tweed]], [[Northumberland]], England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1973|05|19|1902|05|03|df=y}} }} '''Lyn Lloyd Newman''' (née '''Irvine'''; 3 May 1901 – 19 May 1973) was a literary journalist and writer.
==Biography== She was born in [[Berwick-upon-Tweed]], the daughter of John A. Irvine, a [[Presbyterian]] minister, and his Irish wife Lilian; [[Andrew Irvine (mountaineer)|Andrew Irvine]], who died on [[Mount Everest]] in 1924, was her first cousin. After studying at the [[University of Aberdeen]] and [[Girton College, Cambridge]], she moved to London and published poems and reviews.<ref name="evolution">{{cite magazine | magazine= The Nation and Athenaeum | date = 18 Sep 1926 | volume = 39 | issue=24 | page= 702 | last = Irvine | first = Lyn Lloyd | title = Evolution: poem }} </ref><ref name="old">{{cite magazine | magazine= The Nation and Athenaeum | date = 1 May 1926 | volume = 39 | issue=5| page= 129 | last = Irvine | first = Lyn Lloyd | title = Lines on growing old | edition = Reprinted in The Best Poems of 1926, Dodd Mead & Company, New York, 1926. | url = https://archive.org/stream/bestpoemsof1926012239mbp#page/n141/mode/2up/search/irvine }} </ref><ref name="dull">{{cite magazine | magazine= The Nation and Athenaeum | date = 5 Jan 1929| volume = 44 | issue=14 | page= 493 | last = Irvine | first = Lyn Lloyd | title = Epitaph upon a Dull Woman. Verse }} </ref> Some of these were published by [[Leonard Woolf]], then literary editor of the ''[[New Statesman|Nation and Athenaeum]]'', with whom Lyn formed a long friendship.<ref name="wiliam">{{cite journal|last1=Newman|first1=William|year=2002|title=Married to a Mathematician: Lyn Newman's Life in Letters|journal=The Eagle|publisher=[[St John's College, Cambridge]]|volume=48|page=47{{Ndash}}55|location=Cambridge|language=en|oclc=17524145|url=https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Eagle/Eagle%20Volumes/2000s/Eagle_2002.pdf|access-date=20 August 2021|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819130043/https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Eagle/Eagle%20Volumes/2000s/Eagle_2002.pdf|archive-date=19 August 2021}}</ref>
In 1931, the [[Hogarth Press]] published her first book, ''Ten Letter Writers'', increasing her recognition within the [[Bloomsbury Group]] and beyond. In 1934, she started a literary subscription journal, ''The Monologue'', which she very largely wrote, printed and published herself.<ref name="mono"/> Subscribers included [[Clive Bell|Clive]] and [[Julian Bell]], [[Elizabeth Bowen]], [[Graham Greene]], [[John Maynard Keynes|Maynard Keynes]], [[Vita Sackville-West]], and Leonard and [[Virginia Woolf]], Irvine ended the journal in February 1935.<ref name="mono"/>
In 1934, Irvine married the Cambridge mathematician [[Max Newman]]; they had two sons, Edward (born 1935) and [[William Newman (computer scientist)|William]], later a computer scientist (1939).<ref name="wiliam"/> They bought Cross Farm, in the village of [[Comberton]] five miles from the city, as a family house, and Lyn considered this home for the rest of her life.<ref name="wiliam"/> When Max visited [[Princeton University]] in 1937, Lyn and the infant Edward accompanied him there for six months; in 1940, she evacuated with both sons to the US while Max remained in Cambridge.<ref name="wiliam"/> After Max had started working at [[Bletchley Park]], they returned to live with him, and then moved with Max when he became Professor of Mathematics at the [[University of Manchester]] in 1945.<ref name="wiliam"/> It was Max who was instrumental in bringing [[Alan Turing]] to Manchester. Turing at first lived near to the Newmans and Max and Lyn both became close friends; only Lyn joined Turing's mother and brother at his funeral.<ref name="hodges">{{cite book |title=[[Alan Turing: The Enigma]] |authorlink=Andrew Hodges |last=Hodges |first=Andrew |isbn=978-0-691-15564-7 | publisher=Princeton University Press | year=2012 }}</ref> She never enjoyed Manchester and returned permanently to Cross Farm in 1952 while Max remained in Manchester during term-times.<ref name="wiliam"/>
Lyn published three more books under her maiden name. The first was a memoir of her childhood,<ref name="sml"/> followed by a piece of [[nature writing]] based on her life at Cross Farm. She formed Monologue Books to market these and to self-publish a memoir of her friend Alison Cairns.<ref name="cairns"/> She also wrote a foreword to Sara Turing's biography of her son Alan. The dovecote of Cross Farm was converted for her and from there she maintained prolific correspondences with friends and family.<ref name="wiliam"/>
==Works==
*''Ten Letter Writers'' (1931)<ref name="xlr">{{cite book |last= Irvine|first= Lyn Ll.|date= 1932|title= Ten Letter-writers |url=http://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/31530407?style=html&title=Ten%20letter-writers|location= London|publisher= The Hogarth Press}}</ref> *''The Monologue'' (1934–1935)<ref name="mono">{{cite book|last= Irvine|first= Lyn|date= 1934|title= The Monologue|url= http://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/11379608?style=html|location= London|publisher= Lyn Irvine|access-date= 2 December 2016|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161202235128/http://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/11379608?style=html|archive-date= 2 December 2016|url-status= dead}}</ref> *''So Much Love So Little Money'' (1957)<ref name="sml">{{cite book |last= Irvine|first= Lyn Lloyd|date= 1932|title= So Much Love So Little Money|url=http://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/24697473?style=html|location= London|publisher= Faber & Faber}}</ref> autobiography *''Field With Geese'' (1960)<ref name="geese">{{cite book |last= Irvine|first= Lyn|date= 1960|title= Field with geese : a book about the domestic goose |location= London|publisher= Hamish Hamilton|oclc= 1435302}}</ref> *''Alison Cairns and Her Family'' (1967)<ref name="cairns">{{cite book |last= Irvine|first= Lyn|date= 1967|title= Alison Cairns and Her Family|url= http://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/34315943?style=html|location= Comberton, Cambridge|publisher= Monologue Books}}</ref>
==Archives== St. John's College, Cambridge has an archive of Lyn Newman's papers.<ref name="stjl">{{cite web | title = Papers of Lyn Newman | url = https://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0275%2FNewmanL | access-date = 2 December 2016 }}</ref><ref name="stjm">{{cite web | title = Papers of Max Newman | url = https://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0275%2FNewmanM | access-date = 2 December 2016 }}</ref>
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