Joan Hunter Dunn beauty, he fell in love, and composed a 44-line poem fantasising about them being engaged and playing tennis together in Aldershot: The poem was published in Cyril Connolly's "Horizon" magazine in February 1941. Betjeman invited her to lunch, and presented her with a copy of the magazine containing the poem, begging her forgiveness. In an interview in "The Sunday Times" magazine in 1965, illustrated with photographs by Lord Snowdon, she said: "It was such a marvellous break from the monotony of the war. It really was remarkable the way he imagined it all. Actually, all that about the subaltern, and
Blanche Dunn a place not a place, without Blanche." She lived for a time in 1940 at Whale Cay in the Bahamas with speed boat racer Joe Carstairs. Dunn posed several times for photographer Carl Van Vechten between 1924 and 1941, notably in 1941 for his series "Portrait Photographs of Celebrities". She eventually married and moved to Capri. Her date of death is unknown. Blanche Dunn Blanche Dunn (born April 1911—unknown) was a socialite and actress of the Harlem Renaissance era. Photographs of her taken by Carl Van Vechten are numerous, and the writer and painter Richard Bruce Nugent wrote about her.