Elisaveta Fen (Lydia Jackson (née Lidiia Vitalevna Zhiburtovich))
1 portrait of Elisaveta Fen (Lydia Jackson (née Lidiia Vitalevna Zhiburtovich))
© Mark Gerson / National Portrait Gallery, London
Elisaveta Fen (Lydia Jackson (née Lidiia Vitalevna Zhiburtovich))
by Mark Gerson
bromide print, 1962
9 1/8in. x 7 1/2in. (233 mm x 190 mm)
Purchased, 1967
Photographs Collection
NPG x13369
Sitterback to top
- Elisaveta Fen (Lydia Jackson (née Lidiia Vitalevna Zhiburtovich)) (1899-1983), Novelist, autobiographer, translator and child pyschologist. Sitter in 1 portrait.
Artistback to top
- Mark Gerson (1921-), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 277 portraits, Sitter in 2 portraits.
Events of 1962back to top
Current affairs
After a series of by-election defeats, the prime minister, Harold MacMillan organises a drastic cabinet reshuffle, dismissing one third of his cabinet. Liberal MP Jeremy Thorpe's wry comment summed up the desperate action: 'greater love hath no man than this, than to lay down his friends for his life.'Britain suffers the 'Big Freeze' with no frost-free nights between 22nd December 1962 and 5th March 1963.
Art and science
The Beatles have their first hit with Love Me Do and release their first album Please Please Me.The new Coventry Cathedral is consecrated and creates a showcase for British artistic talent with the first performance of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, a wall hanging by Graham Sutherland, stained glass by John Piper, and sculptures by Jacob Epstein and Elizabeth Frink.
International
The world comes to the brink of nuclear war with the Cuban Missile Crisis. In response to the USA's nuclear advantage, the USSR sent missiles to Cuba. The crisis lasted for 12 days before a deal was finally stuck between Khrushchev and Kennedy in which the Cuban missile bases were dismantled in return for the secret removal of US missiles from Turkey.Comments back to top
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Victoria Millar
14 January 2019, 11:09
Elisaveta Fen (pen name of Lidiia Vitalevna Zhiburtovich, 1899-1983) emigrated from the Soviet Union to England in 1926 and established herself as a novelist, journalist, translator and memoirist writing in English. As Lydia Jackson (her married name) she had a parallel career as a child psychologist.
She was a close friend of Eileen Blair (née O'Shaughnessy, 1905 – 1945), the first wife of George Orwell.
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