Ingaret Giffard, Lady Van der Post (1902 – 5 May 1997), was a British actress and writer, and the second wife of Sir Laurens Van der Post (CBE).
Playwright
editBorn in England, she lived with her family for four years in India, after which, back in London, she began acting and writing plays.[1] One of her plays, "Because We Must," with Vivien Leigh, Alan Napier, Howard Wyndham, and Bronson Albery, was staged at Wyndham's Theater in 1937.[2]
Marriage
editGiffard also travelled to the Sudan and to South Africa. She met Van der Post in London in 1936, where he was working as a journalist. He had been born, raised, and started his career in South Africa. They were both married to others when they met. It was only in 1949 that they were free to marry each other.
Relationship with Carl Jung
editGiffard introduced her husband to Carl G. Jung, whose analytic techniques had helped her troubled mother. The Van der Posts moved to Switzerland, where Jung lived, and became part of his circle of friends. Giffard herself trained as a lay Jungian analyst.[3]
Memoir
editGiffard wrote a memoir entitled The Way Things Happen, which was published in 1990 by William Morrow & Co.[4]
Death
editShe died five months after her husband, in 1997.
Surviving papers
editGiffard's papers are held at Durham University Library.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Kirkus Review: The Way Things Happen". Retrieved 30 December 2018.
- ^ Sayers, Dorothy (1998). The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers Vol II: 1937–1943: From Novelist to Playwright. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press. pp. 5–6. ISBN 978-0312181277.
- ^ THE WAY THINGS HAPPEN: A Memoir by Ingaret Giffard.
- ^ "Publishers Weekly: The Way Things Happen". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
- ^ "Ingaret Giffard Papers". Durham University Library. Retrieved 16 April 2020.