Esther Freud maintains homes in London and Walberswick near Southwold in Suffolk. Esther Freud Esther Freud (born 2 May 1963) is a British novelist. Born in London, Freud is the daughter of painter Lucian Freud and Bernardine Coverley. She is also a great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud and niece of Clement Freud. She travelled extensively with her mother as a child, and returned to London at the age of 16 to train as an actress at The Drama Centre. She has worked in television and theatre as both actress and writer. Her first credited television appearance, though inauspicious, was as a terrified diner
The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud Jones." Psychologist Hans Eysenck, writing in "Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire" (1985), described Jones' biography of Freud as the "most famous", but saw it as "more a mythology than a history", charging Jones with suppressing data which might reflect unfavourably on Freud. Historian Roy Porter described Jones' work as "hagiographical and bowdlerized". Philosopher Jerome Neu called "The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud" the most useful biography of Freud, alongside Gay's "Freud: A Life for Our Time". Philosopher Richard Wollheim called "The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud" a "great" biography, but observed that while Jones had "lived