Casey, Juanita
Biographical note
Author and artist Juanita Casey was born in England in 1925, and shortly thereafter adopted by Gerald Haw Taunton Barlow and Mary Bischoff Barlow. She spent much of her childhood with her uncle, A. Walter Barlow, and with the Romani circus troupe who overwintered at his farm, both of whom introduced her to her Romani and Traveller heritage. She married three times, and had one child with each husband: John Fisher (1945-1953), Sven Berlin (1953-1963), and Fergus Casey (1963-1971). She moved frequently, and lived on a ship moored in Cornwall, a caravan in England’s New Forest, a chalet and caravans in Counties Meath and Kerry in Ireland, and various houses and caravans in Okehampton, Devon, England. Her early career focused on visual art, primarily of horses. While living in Ireland in the 1960s, her focus was on creative writing, notably the novel The horse of Selene (Dolmen Press, 1971). Casey also trained and bred horses and zebras. She died in 2012 in Okehampton, and her ashes were scattered in the New Forest.
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Tim Vignoles collection of Juanita Casey
Correspondence and writings by twentieth-century author and artist Juanita Casey, collected by Tim Vignoles, pertaining to short stories, poetry, and other works by Casey, alongside business correspondence and other administrative materials pertaining to a proposed film adaptation by Vignoles of Casey's novel The Horse of Selene.
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