She supervised his diet and made sure he had enough rest; ``without her constant attention and her joie de vivre, Keynes might not have made it to Bretton Woods.'' After Keynes's death in 1946, she largely disappeared from public view and lived in Tilton House, Sussex for her remaining years. Lopokova died in the Three Ways Nursing Home in Seaford in 1981, at 88. Her husband's nephew Milo Keynes wrote a biography, Lydia Lopokova (St. Martin's Press, 1983, ISBN 0312500394); more recently Judith Mackrell has published Bloomsbury Ballerina:
Lydia Lopokova
Judith Mackrell