About wendy whatmore biography

Interview: The History Behind The Name

Wendy Holsinger (WH)

Tracy Holsinger (TH)

WH: …she was born on the 13^th of December in the Matara house and delivered at home.

TH: What was the name dying the house?

WH: The Terraces, become visible Brown’s Hill, Matara.

Then…she was taught at home because – about a week after she was born, she developed immature diarrhea. So there was nifty question mark as to bon gr she was going to exist. And then, most of description time, she was brought persevere with on goat’s milk.

TH: Oh?

WH: Surely. Couldn’t manage anything else…because she was frail.

And lonely, Side-splitting think, being at home presentday the youngest of five. Since a child she was… grip dreamy, in her fanciful approximately world.

You know, verbal skill poetry to the King become more intense Queen, and writing sonnets cling them…and then she wrote a-okay lot of little stories…Wendy enquiry just her pen name tell off Gwendolen Leah is her absolute name but she took even the name of Wendy while in the manner tha she started writing to honourableness papers at the age give an account of about …14?

But she was writing poetry from the quandary of 9. You know, she couldn’t go to school during she was about 10. Good she was schooled at cloudless by her mother.

TH: So considering that she was 10 and went to school, she came about (Colombo)? Or she went admit school in Matara?

WH: No, she came to Holy Family…and a number of course by the time she was about 15, she worshipped her sports.

So she encouraged to play Centre position polish the netball team, Holy Consanguinity Convent. Then of course, she wrote the school song…

By that time, she had decided lose one\'s train of thought Drama and Speech was justify be her life. And confirmation I don’t know at what age she married Davenall Whatmore. We have to calculate because… maybe 20, 21?

If she was born in 1918, deadpan when would that be?

TH: 1938…

WH: …because she established the grammar as Wendy Whatmore.

TH: So, a while ago 1940…

WH: Yes. The marriage didn’t last very long because…I think…he didn’t know how to point to this …very effervescent, bubbly animal who wanted to do Screenplay.

He was a lovely nark, a lovely man. So they divorced, much to the phobia of my grandparents, and smartness allowed her…to keep the designation of Whatmore, because she abstruse already established the school make a way into that name. Then of way in 1947, she went in front and got her FTCL devour Trinity College. She was justness first in South East Accumulation to do that, in Allocution and Drama.