Robert Graves in uniform, 1915.
Robert Graves and Nancy Nicholson, his first wife, at Maesyneuardd, near Harlech, June 1918.
A New Zealand Connection: artist Len Lye and Robert Graves, Deyá, c.1960.
Beryl Graves née Pritchard, 1938. Graves and Beryl married in 1950.
Laura Riding, American poet, and Graves’s companion and collaborator for 13 years.
Judith Bledsoe met Graves in November 1950 and became his inspirational Muse.
When Graves met Margot Callas in June 1960, he recognized her as a fresh incarnation of the White Goddess. This photograph was taken about 1961-62.
In the summer of 1958, Graves met for the first time Cindy Lee, whose real name was Emile Laraçuen (later adding an A to her first name). Aemilia would become another of Graves’s ‘Muse-Goddesses’, inspiring his poetic outputs.
In October 1966, while recovering in a London hospital ward from a gall bladder operation, Graves was visited by Julia (Juli) Simon, a 17 year old ballet school student. On her second visit to Graves she said: ‘I have fallen in love with you’. Juli Simons would be his longest-serving Muse. This photograph was taken in 1968.
Thanks to William Graves, and the St John’s College Robert Graves Trust, Oxford