Editing John Maynard Keynes (section)

===Marriage===
[[File:Lopokova and Keynes 1920s (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|[[Lydia Lopokova]] and Keynes in the 1920s]]
In 1921, Keynes wrote that he had fallen "very much in love" with [[Lydia Lopokova]], a well-known Russian [[Ballet dancer|ballerina]] and one of the stars of [[Sergei Diaghilev]]'s ''[[Ballets Russes]]''.{{r|Moggridge|p=[https://archive.org/details/maynardkeyneseco0047mogg/page/395 395]}} In the early years of his courtship, he maintained an affair with a younger man, [[W. J. H. Sprott|Sebastian Sprott]], in tandem with Lopokova, but eventually chose Lopokova exclusively.<ref>Christiansen, Rupert (25 April 2008). [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/3672942/The-unlikely-Lydia-Lopokova.html "The unlikely Lydia Lopokova"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210729091452/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/3672942/The-unlikely-Lydia-Lopokova.html |date=29 July 2021 }}''The Telegraph''.</ref><ref>[[Kathryn Hughes|Hughes, Kathryn]] (19 April 2008). [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/apr/19/featuresreviews.guardianreview3 "The firebird of Gordon Square"], ''The Guardian''. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210729082250/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/apr/19/featuresreviews.guardianreview3 |date=29 July 2021 }}</ref> They were married in 1925, with Keynes's former lover [[Duncan Grant]] as best man.{{r|ES|Heilbroner nyt}} "What a marriage of beauty and brains, the fair Lopokova and John Maynard Keynes" was said at the time. Keynes later commented to Strachey that beauty and intelligence were rarely found in the same person, and that only in Duncan Grant had he found the combination.<ref>{{cite book|author=Justin Wintle|title=Makers of Modern Culture|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=991tT3wSot0C&pg=PA270|volume=1|year=2002|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-26583-6|page=270|chapter=Keynes, John Maynard|access-date=18 March 2016|archive-date=15 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200615024053/https://books.google.com/books?id=991tT3wSot0C&pg=PA270|url-status=live}}</ref> The union was happy, with biographer [[Peter Clarke (historian)|Peter Clarke]] writing that the marriage gave Keynes "a new focus, a new emotional stability and a sheer delight of which he never wearied".<ref name="clarke">{{Cite news|last=Mackrell|first=Judith|date=6 May 2013|title=Niall Ferguson is wrong: writing on Lopokova, Keynes' wife, I found evidence of a warm and loving relationship in which both wanted children|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/may/06/niall-ferguson-keynes-marriage-sex|access-date=28 April 2021|archive-date=28 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210428150842/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/may/06/niall-ferguson-keynes-marriage-sex|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>
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</ref> The couple hoped to have children but this did not happen.<ref name="clarke"/>

Among Keynes's Bloomsbury friends, Lopokova was, at least initially, subjected to criticism for her manners, mode of conversation and supposedly humble social origins{{snd}}the last of the ostensible causes being particularly noted in the letters of [[Vanessa Bell|Vanessa]] and [[Clive Bell]], and [[Virginia Woolf]].{{r|Light}}<ref>Anand, Chandavarkar (25 August 1990). "Review: Keynes and the Celestial Dancer". "Reviewed work(s): ''Lydia and Maynard: Letters between Lydia Lopokova and Maynard Keynes'' by Polly Hill; Richard Keynes". ''Economic and Political Weekly'', Vol. '''25''', No. 34 , p. 1896</ref> In her novel ''[[Mrs Dalloway]]'' (1925), Woolf bases the character of Rezia Warren Smith on Lopokova.<ref>{{cite book|title=Lydia and Maynard: letters between Lydia Lopokova and John Maynard Keynes|url=https://archive.org/details/lydiamaynard00lydi|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/lydiamaynard00lydi/page/97 97]|publisher=André Deutsch|editor1=Polly Hill |editor1-link=Polly Hill (economist)|editor2=Richard Keynes |editor2-link=Richard Keynes|year=1989|isbn=978-0-233-98283-0}}</ref> [[E.&nbsp;M.&nbsp;Forster]] later wrote in contrition about "Lydia Keynes, whose every word should be recorded";<ref>{{cite book|title=Commonplace Book|quote=Lydia Keynes, whose every word should be recorded, said to me as I was leaving her flat the other night: 'You know I once tumbled from the stairs and believe me I paid the price.' I took the sentence down before I forgot it.|page=195|last=Forster|first=E. M. |year=1987}}</ref> "How we all used to underestimate her".<ref name="Light">{{cite magazine | first=Alison | last=Light | author-link=Alison Light | title=Lady Talky | magazine=London Review of Books | volume=30 | issue=24 | date=18 December 2008}}</ref>

Keynes had no children, and his wife outlived him by 35 years, dying in 1981.

[[File:46 Gordon Square London.jpg|thumb|upright|46 [[Gordon Square]], where Keynes often stayed while in London. Following his marriage, Keynes took out an extended lease on ''Tilton House'', a farm in the countryside near [[Brighton]], which became the couple's main home when not in the capital.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tiltonhouse.co.uk/ |title=Tilton House homepage |publisher=Tiltonhouse.co.uk |access-date=2 October 2013 |archive-date=30 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530201803/http://www.tiltonhouse.co.uk/ |url-status=live }}</ref>]]

[[File:John Maynard Keynes 46 Gordon Square blue plaque.jpg|thumb|[[Blue plaque]], 46 Gordon Square]]