Joan Hunter Dunn the engagement is sheer fantasy, but my life was very like the poem." She married Harold Wycliffe Jackson, a civil servant in the Ministry of Information, in January 1945, at St Mark's Church in Farnborough. Betjeman was invited, but was unable to attend. The poem was republished in Betjeman's book "New Bats in Old Belfries" in 1945, and was later mentioned in Flanders and Swann's "Tried by Centre Court". Joan Jackson accompanied her husband to Malaya after the war, where he ran a radio station. They then lived in Singapore, before returning to the UK in 1957. Harold worked for
Daisy Dunn 2016, Dunn compared Catullus to a 'Hoxton hipster'. Her translation of one of Catullus' expletive words resulted in a series of letters in "The Times Literary Supplement" and an article in "The Times". Dunn reviews books for "The Times," "Evening Standard," and "Literary Review""." Her work was once long-listed for the international Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize. In an article in "The Guardian" Simon Schama included Daisy Dunn in his list of leading female historians. Dunn is the author of the following books: "Catullus' Bedspread: The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet" (HarperCollins, 2016) (UK Hardback) "Catullus' Bedspread: The Life