Gilmore, Maeve.

Maeve Patricia Gilmore was born on 14 June 1917, one of the six children of Dr Owen Gilmore and his wife Matty Gilmore, née Carr. Maeve grew up on Acre Lane, Brixton, and received a convent education as befitted her Irish catholic background, before attending a Swiss finishing school.

In 1936 Maeve enrolled at Westminster School of Art to study sculpture (changing to painting some time later). On her first day at Westminster she met her future husband, Mervyn Peake, who was teaching life drawing at the school. In 1937 Maeve was sent to study in Germany for six months. On her return in July 1937 she became engaged to Mervyn and the couple were married on the 1 December of that year. They set up home at Primrose Mansions in Battersea, moving to Maida Vale in the autumn of 1938.

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