Kinta Beevor was born in 1911 at Northbourne in East Kent. After her father went off with a Yeomanry regiment to fight in the First World War, her mother, Lina Waterfield, took Kinta and her brother out to Florence where she started the British Institute. Kinta's childhood was spent at Poggio Gherardo outside Florence and at her parent's castle at Aulla. She returned to England, married and had three sons. She lived at Eastry close to where she was born, but she still returned to Tuscany each year. Kinta Beevor died in August 1995.
Her memoir, A Tuscan Childhood, was first published by Viking in 1993.
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