Elizabeth Mary Maugham

Elizabeth Mary Maugham (1915 - 1998) known as "Liza", only offspring of English playwright, novelist, and short story writer William Somerset Maugham (1874 ? 1965) and his mistress - later wife, married 1917 - Maud Gwendolen Syrie Wellcome née Barnardo, a daughter of orphanage founder Thomas John Barnardo and former wife of American-born English pharmaceutical magnate Henry Wellcome.

Related Topics:
English - William Somerset Maugham - Maud Gwendolen Syrie Wellcome - Thomas John Barnardo - Henry Wellcome

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On 20 July 1937 Liza married Lt.-Col. Vincent Paravicini, son of Minister for Switzerland to the U.K, Charles Paravicini. She was his first wife. They divorced in 1948.

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In his memoir Looking Back (1962) Somerset Maugham scandalously denied paternity of Liza. This led - only after Maugham's death - to a stinging rebuke by John Beverley Nichols in his 1966 rejoinder A Case of Human Bondage.

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