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Joan Ursula Penton Vaughan Williams (née Lock, formerly Wood; 15 March 1911 – 23 October 2007) was an English poet and author, and biographer of her second husband, the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
This is the first biography of Ursula Vaughan Williams (1911 – 2007), a distinguished poet, novelist and librettist and second wife of the internationally-acclaimed composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
As a writer, Ursula Vaughan Williams is now perhaps best known for her authoritative biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964), which is still the major source of information on the composer’s life, even after fifty-three years.
29 de may. de 2018 · Vaughan Williams, Ursula Wood 1911–2007 (Joan Ursula Penton Lock, Ursula Wood Vaughan Williams, Ursula Wood) OBITUARY NOTICE—See index for SATA sketch: Born March 15, 1911, in Valletta, Malta; died October 23, 2007, in London, England. Philanthropist, biographer, lyricist, poet, and novelist.
4 de may. de 2002 · “Widows,” says Ursula Vaughan Williams, “are members of the dreariest club in the world.” And having been a famous widow for 44 years – her composer-husband died in 1958 – she speaks with some authority on the subject.
Vaughan Williams was married first to Adeline Fisher. After her death in 1951, he married poet Ursula Wood, pictured, who worked on the libretti for his choral work The Sons of Light as well as the opera The Pilgrim's Process and a Christmas cantata, Hodie.
Ursula Vaughan Williams. (1911—2007) Quick Reference. ( b. Valletta, 1911; d. London, 2007). Eng. poet and librettist. Married composer Ralph Vaughan Williams 1953. For him wrote many texts incl. that for The Bridal Day (1938), verses for The Pilgrim's Progress (1951), and Four Last Songs (1954–8). Wrote RVW: a Biography (1964).
