Julian Orde

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title: "Julian Orde" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1917-births", "1974-deaths", "english-television-actresses", "english-women-poets", "english-film-actresses", "20th-century-english-actresses", "20th-century-english-women-writers", "20th-century-english-poets", "20th-century-women-poets"] description: "English poet, writer and actor (1917–1974)" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Orde" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary English poet, writer and actor (1917–1974) ::

Julian Orde (31 December 1917 – 1974) was a female English poet, writer and actor.

Family background

Orde was the eldest child of war artist Cuthbert Orde and Lady Eileen Wellesley, daughter of the 4th Duke of Wellington. The name Julian had been common in the Orde family for generations, for boys and girls.

Life and work

In the 1940s, she was the girlfriend of poet WS Graham. | author = Tony Lopez | title = Graham and the 1940s | publisher = W.S. Graham: Speaking Towards You (ed. Pite and Jones), Liverpool University Press, 2004 | isbn = 0-85323-569-4 | url = https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&docId=102324084 | accessdate = 31 October 2010| year = 2004 | title = Jeannie (TV1946) | publisher = Internet Movie Database | url = http://www.uk.imdb.com/title/tt0264725/ | accessdate = 31 October 2010}} (not to be confused with the 1941 movie version), and co-wrote the 1948 British movie thriller The Small Voice.{{citation | title = The Small Voice | publisher = Internet Movie Database | url = http://www.uk.imdb.com/title/tt0040801/fullcredits#writers | accessdate = 31 October 2010}}

She had poems included in Kenneth Rexroth's 1948 anthology The New British Poets, in whose biographical notes - as well as claiming to be a couple of years younger - she says she 'was on the stage for six years, but now writes for films and radio'. | editor = Kenneth Rexroth | title = The New British Poets, an Anthology | publisher = New Directions, 1948 | url = https://archive.org/stream/newbritishpoets030038mbp/newbritishpoets030038mbp_djvu.txt | accessdate = 31 October 2010}} Her 1946 poem The Changing Wind was included in the 1968 Penguin anthology Poetry of the Forties.{{citation | title = Poetry of The Forties | publisher = Penguin, London | year = 1968 | author = Robert Skelton (ed.)}}

She married Ralph Abercrombie in London in 1949. She published poetry afterwards under name Julian Orde Abercrombie. In 1963 she wrote an episode of ATV’s Drama '63 series entitled The Lady And The Clerk.{{citation | title = The Lady And The Clerk | publisher = BFI Film and TV database | url = http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/258635 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090527203219/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/258635 | url-status = dead | archive-date = 27 May 2009 | accessdate = 31 October 2010}}{{citation | title = Drama '61-'67 The Lady And The Clerk (1963) | publisher = Internet Movie Database | url = http://www.uk.imdb.com/title/tt0981980/fullcredits#cast | accessdate = 31 October 2010}}

Death and legacy

Her death, in 1974 aged 56, moved fellow poet David Wright to compose On A Friend Dying. |author = David Wright |title = On A Friend Dying |publisher = Poetry Nation No. 4, 1975 |url = http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=5801 |accessdate = 31 October 2010 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20120306032401/http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=5801 |archivedate = 6 March 2012 | title = Conjurors | publisher = Greville Press, Warwick, 1988 }} The Florist was included in the 1995 anthology The Supernatural Index. | title = The Supernatural Index: A Listing of Fantasy, Supernatural, Occult, Weird and Horror Anthologies (Bibliographies & Indexes in Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror) | publisher = (ed. Ashley and Contento), Greenwood Press, 1995 | isbn = 0-313-24030-2| year = 1995 | title = A Field of Large Desires | publisher = Carcanet Press, 2010 | url = http://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781847770509 | accessdate = 31 October 2010}}

References

References

1. England & Wales, Marriage Index: 1916-2005. Hampstead, Jul-Aug-Sep 1949, Volume 5c, p2250. Retrieved from ancestry.co.uk, 31 October 2010
2. England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005. St Marylebone, Jul-Aug-Sep 1974, Volume 14, p1837. Retrieved from ancestry.co.uk, 31 October 2010
3. "PN Review Print and Online Poetry Magazine - on a Friend Dying - David Wright - Poetry Nation 4".
4. "poetrymagazines.org.uk - Conjurors".

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