# Lyn Irvine

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British literary journalist (1901–1973)

Lyn Lloyd Newman Born Lyn Lloyd Irvine (1901-05-03)3 May 1901 Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England Died 19 May 1973(1973-05-19) (aged 71)

**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](/source/Berwick-upon-Tweed), the daughter of John A. Irvine, a [Presbyterian](/source/Presbyterian) minister, and his Irish wife Lilian; [Andrew Irvine](/source/Andrew_Irvine_(mountaineer)), who died on [Mount Everest](/source/Mount_Everest) in 1924, was her first cousin. After studying at the [University of Aberdeen](/source/University_of_Aberdeen) and [Girton College, Cambridge](/source/Girton_College%2C_Cambridge), she moved to London and published poems and reviews.[1][2][3] Some of these were published by [Leonard Woolf](/source/Leonard_Woolf), then literary editor of the *[Nation and Athenaeum](/source/New_Statesman)*, with whom Lyn formed a long friendship.[4]

In 1931, the [Hogarth Press](/source/Hogarth_Press) published her first book, *Ten Letter Writers*, increasing her recognition within the [Bloomsbury Group](/source/Bloomsbury_Group) and beyond. In 1934, she started a literary subscription journal, *The Monologue*, which she very largely wrote, printed and published herself.[5] Subscribers included [Clive](/source/Clive_Bell) and [Julian Bell](/source/Julian_Bell), [Elizabeth Bowen](/source/Elizabeth_Bowen), [Graham Greene](/source/Graham_Greene), [Maynard Keynes](/source/John_Maynard_Keynes), [Vita Sackville-West](/source/Vita_Sackville-West), and Leonard and [Virginia Woolf](/source/Virginia_Woolf), Irvine ended the journal in February 1935.[5]

In 1934, Irvine married the Cambridge mathematician [Max Newman](/source/Max_Newman); they had two sons, Edward (born 1935) and [William](/source/William_Newman_(computer_scientist)), later a computer scientist (1939).[4] They bought Cross Farm, in the village of [Comberton](/source/Comberton) five miles from the city, as a family house, and Lyn considered this home for the rest of her life.[4] When Max visited [Princeton University](/source/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.[4] After Max had started working at [Bletchley Park](/source/Bletchley_Park), they returned to live with him, and then moved with Max when he became Professor of Mathematics at the [University of Manchester](/source/University_of_Manchester) in 1945.[4] It was Max who was instrumental in bringing [Alan Turing](/source/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.[6] She never enjoyed Manchester and returned permanently to Cross Farm in 1952 while Max remained in Manchester during term-times.[4]

Lyn published three more books under her maiden name. The first was a memoir of her childhood,[7] followed by a piece of [nature writing](/source/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.[8] 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.[4]

## Works

- *Ten Letter Writers* (1931)[9]

- *The Monologue* (1934–1935)[5]

- *So Much Love So Little Money* (1957)[7] autobiography

- *Field With Geese* (1960)[10]

- *Alison Cairns and Her Family* (1967)[8]

## Archives

St. John's College, Cambridge has an archive of Lyn Newman's papers.[11][12]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-evolution_1-0)** Irvine, Lyn Lloyd (18 September 1926). "Evolution: poem". *The Nation and Athenaeum*. Vol. 39, no. 24. p. 702.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-old_2-0)** Irvine, Lyn Lloyd (1 May 1926). ["Lines on growing old"](https://archive.org/stream/bestpoemsof1926012239mbp#page/n141/mode/2up/search/irvine). *The Nation and Athenaeum*. Vol. 39, no. 5 (Reprinted in The Best Poems of 1926, Dodd Mead & Company, New York, 1926. ed.). p. 129.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-dull_3-0)** Irvine, Lyn Lloyd (5 January 1929). "Epitaph upon a Dull Woman. Verse". *The Nation and Athenaeum*. Vol. 44, no. 14. p. 493.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-wiliam_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-wiliam_4-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-wiliam_4-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-wiliam_4-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-wiliam_4-4) [***f***](#cite_ref-wiliam_4-5) [***g***](#cite_ref-wiliam_4-6) Newman, William (2002). ["Married to a Mathematician: Lyn Newman's Life in Letters"](https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Eagle/Eagle%20Volumes/2000s/Eagle_2002.pdf) (PDF). *The Eagle*. **48**. Cambridge: [St John's College, Cambridge](/source/St_John's_College%2C_Cambridge): 47–55. [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [17524145](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/17524145). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20210819130043/https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Eagle/Eagle%20Volumes/2000s/Eagle_2002.pdf) (PDF) from the original on 19 August 2021. Retrieved 20 August 2021.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-mono_5-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-mono_5-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-mono_5-2) Irvine, Lyn (1934). [*The Monologue*](https://web.archive.org/web/20161202235128/http://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/11379608?style=html). London: Lyn Irvine. Archived from [the original](http://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/11379608?style=html) on 2 December 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2016.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-hodges_6-0)** [Hodges, Andrew](/source/Andrew_Hodges) (2012). *[Alan Turing: The Enigma](/source/Alan_Turing%3A_The_Enigma)*. Princeton University Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-691-15564-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-691-15564-7).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-sml_7-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-sml_7-1) Irvine, Lyn Lloyd (1932). [*So Much Love So Little Money*](http://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/24697473?style=html). London: Faber & Faber.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-cairns_8-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-cairns_8-1) Irvine, Lyn (1967). [*Alison Cairns and Her Family*](http://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/34315943?style=html). Comberton, Cambridge: Monologue Books.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-xlr_9-0)** Irvine, Lyn Ll. (1932). [*Ten Letter-writers*](http://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/31530407?style=html&title=Ten%20letter-writers). London: The Hogarth Press.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-geese_10-0)** Irvine, Lyn (1960). *Field with geese : a book about the domestic goose*. London: Hamish Hamilton. [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [1435302](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1435302).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-stjl_11-0)** ["Papers of Lyn Newman"](https://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0275%2FNewmanL). Retrieved 2 December 2016.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-stjm_12-0)** ["Papers of Max Newman"](https://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0275%2FNewmanM). Retrieved 2 December 2016.

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