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Amis with Cannon Street Football Club (Carrow Works Magazine, Vol. XIV:2, January 1921, by kind permission of Unilever from an original in Unilever Archives); 3 KA, aged nine*; 4 KA's childhood home, 7 Ena Road, Norbury (Drawing by George Murray); 5 F.R. Dale, Headmaster, City of London School (by kind permission of the Headmaster, City of London School); 6 Rev. C.J. Ellingham, Classics Master, CLS (by kind permission of the Headmaster, City of London School); 7 CLS boys at Marlborough College during the Second World War, 1940 (by kind permission of the Headmaster, City of London School); 8 The Great Ice Storm of January 1940 (Marlborough College Natural History Society Report, by kind permission of the Master, Marlborough College); 9 KA, c. twelve years old ( British Library Reproductions © The British Library Board); 10 Philip Larkin and fellow undergraduates, St John's College, Oxford, Summer 1942 (courtesy of the Philip Larkin Estate, Society of Authors); 11 KA and fellow undergraduates, St John's College, Oxford, Summer 1942 (courtesy of the Philip Larkin Estate, Society of Authors); 12 Lieutenant KA and fellow officers, 1945*; 13 KA's batman, Bert Wootton, c. 1945 (courtesy of the Kingsley Amis Literary Estate); 14 St John's College Humanitarian Society, 1947 (courtesy of Sir Mervyn Brown); 15 Hilly at seventeen, 1946*; 16 KA, Hilly and her sister Margaret ‘Miggy’ Partington (née Bardwell), 1948*; 17 KA, Hilly and Mandy, their dog, 1949*; 18 Leonard Bardwell (‘Daddy B’), c. 1935-39 (by kind permission of the East Surrey Morris Men website: [www.esmm.org.uk](www.esmm.org.uk)); 19 KA at Abbey Timbers, 1946 (courtesy of the Philip Larkin Estate, Society of Authors); 20 Margery and Leonard Bardwell, Abbey Timbers, c. 1948-50 (courtesy of Margaret Righton, née Bardwell); 21 William Bardwell, Hilly's older brother (courtesy of Margaret Righton); 22 Bruce Montgomery, 1958 (courtesy of the Philip Larkin Estate, Society of Authors); 23 Philip Larkin, 1962 (courtesy of the Philip Larkin Estate, Society of Authors); 24 John Wain, 1958 (© Mark Gerson/National Portrait Gallery, London); 25 KA's students at Swansea, Geoffrey Nicholson, David Rees and Clive Gammon (published in Dawn, 1952, the official publication of the Students’ Union Council, University College, Swansea (LF1215D18)); 26 KA in staff-student Hamlet, 1953 (The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, MS Eng. c. 6050, fol.65); 27 KA, Swansea, 1958 (© Slim Aarons/Getty Images)  \nSECTION TWO  \n28 KA, 1955 (John Deakin/Vogue ©The Condé Naste Publications Ltd.); 29 KA and Hilly with Philip, Sally and Martin, 1955 (Daniel Farson/Hulton Archive/Getty Images); 30 University College of Swansea, 1952 (Image from Swansea University College Brochure by kind permission of University College, Swansea); 31 Anthony Powell, Philip Larkin, KA and Hilly, 1958 (courtesy of the Philip Larkin Estate, Society o","cbCaikjZwAvLQUFn","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikjZwAvLQUFn","pdf",5017752,755,"English","# Contents\n## Introduction\n## 1 Family\n## 2 Reading and Writing\n## 3 City of London\n## 4 CLS at Marlborough\n## 5 Wartime Oxford\n## 6 The War\n## 7 Post-War Oxford\n## 8 Newly Married: Oxford and Eynsham\n## 9 Swansea\n## 10 Making Lucky Jim\n## 11 Fame and Friendship\n## 12 Uncertain Feelings\n## 13 ‘Fun’\n## 14 Abroad\n## 15 Widening Horizons\n## 16 Princeton\n## 17 Patrick and Dai\n## 18 Cambridge\n## 19 Waking Beauty\n## 20 Break-Up\n## 21 Divisions\n## 22 Lefties, Toffs and Bigots\n## 23 Lemmons\n## 24 Dissolution\n## 25 Nadir\n## 26 Return\n## 27 Ending Up\n## 28 Afterlife\n## Acknowledgements\n## Notes\n## Bibliography","[{\"question\":\"What major topics are covered in the listed chapters?\",\"answer\":\"The contents sequence covers family, reading and writing, key cities and institutions, wartime and post-war Oxford, later life in Swansea and abroad, and concluding reflections including afterlife themes.\"},{\"question\":\"Does the document include illustration credits and sources?\",\"answer\":\"Yes. 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