Ashby, Felicity

Felicity Ashby ( born Jane Felicity Ashbee ; February 22, 1913 - July 26, 2008 ) is a British memoirist, daughter of Charles Robert Ashby .

She spent her childhood in a London suburb, and then in Jerusalem , where her father worked in 1918 - 1922 . Returning to England, she studied at various private schools, then in 1936 she graduated from the Bayem Shaw School of Art. She worked as a poster artist , was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain . With the outbreak of World War II, she joined the Royal Air Force . It is alleged that it was Ashby who spotted the call signs of the plane on which Rudolf Hess flew to the UK. In the post-war years, she mainly taught fine art in London schools.

Ashby's fame is associated with two memoirs that she published at the end of her life, and a number of other publications about her family and relatives. In 2001 , she published a biography of her mother written by her ( Eng. Janet Ashbee: Love, Marriage and the Arts and Crafts Movement ) - first of all, a valuable source for studying the life of Ashby's father and the Arts and Crafts Movement founded by him, but also material for biographies some other notable figures (in particular, his mother’s brother, philologist Neville Forbes ). In 2008 , shortly before Ashby’s death, her second book, A Child in Jerusalem, was published. Ashby devoted a number of publications, including in the magazine Soviet Photo , to her cousin William Carrick . Ashby's posthumous reminiscences of her military service are published ( English For the Duration: A Lighthearted WAAF Memoir ; 2012 ).