Editing Dylan Thomas (section)

====Marriage====
[[File:Dylan Thomas and Caitlin Macnamara at Brown’s Hotel, Laugharne, South Wales in 1938.png|thumb|Dylan and Caitlin at [[Brown’s Hotel]], [[Laugharne]] in 1938. Taken by their [[Blashford#The Dylan Thomas Connection|Blashford]] friend, the photographer and artist Nora Summers.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Summers|first1=Gabriel and Leonie |last2=Towns |first2= Jeff |title= Dylan Thomas and the Bohemians: The Photographs of Nora Summers  |date=2014 |pages=66-81|publisher=Parthian |location= Cardigan|isbn=9781909844988 }}</ref>]]
In early 1936, Thomas met [[Caitlin Thomas|Caitlin Macnamara]] (1913–1994), a 22-year-old dancer of Irish and French Quaker descent.<ref>{{cite web |title=Caitlin's descent |url=https://sites.google.com/site/caitlinthomaslearningmore/home}} This was first published on the official Dylan Thomas website, [https://www.discoverdylanthomas.com/majoliers-caitlins-literary-relatives-guest-blog-david-n-thomas ''Discover Dylan Thomas''], 24 April 2017.</ref> She had run away from home, intent on making a career in dance, and aged 18 joined the [[chorus line]] at the [[London Palladium]].{{sfnp|Ferris|1989|p=151}}<ref Name="Thorpe-2006">{{cite news |last=Thorpe |first=Vanessa |title=Race to put the passion of Dylan's Caitlin on big screen |url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1957289,00.html |work=The Observer |location=London |date=26 November 2006 |access-date=17 October 2009}}</ref><ref Name="Cait"/> Introduced by [[Augustus John]], Caitlin's lover, they met in The Wheatsheaf pub on Rathbone Place in London's [[West End of London|West End]].{{sfnp|Ferris|1989|p=151}}<ref Name="Cait">[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/55871 Paul Ferris], "Thomas, Caitlin (1913–1994)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 (subscription only)</ref><ref name="Jones-1994">{{cite news |last=Jones |first=Glyn |author-link=Glyn Jones (Welsh writer) |title=Obituary: Caitlin Thomas |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-caitlin-thomas-1380886.html |newspaper=The Independent |date=2 August 1994 |access-date=21 July 2012}}</ref> Laying his head in her lap, a drunken Thomas proposed.<ref Name="Thorpe-2006"/><ref>{{cite news |last=Akbar |first=Arifa |title=Dylan Thomas revival proves death has no dominion |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/dylan-thomas-revival-proves-death-has-no-dominion-811781.html |newspaper=The Independent |date=19 April 2008 |access-date=21 July 2012}}</ref> Thomas liked to assert that he and Caitlin were in bed together ten minutes after they first met.{{sfnp|FitzGibbon|1965|p=205}} Although Caitlin initially continued her relationship with John, she and Thomas began a correspondence, and in the second half of 1936 were courting.{{sfnp|Ferris|1989|pp=152–153}} They married at the register office in [[Penzance]], Cornwall, on 11 July 1937.{{sfnp|Ferris|1989|p=161}}

In May 1938, they moved to Wales, renting a cottage in the village of [[Laugharne]], Carmarthenshire.{{sfnp|Ferris|1989|p=164}} They lived there intermittently{{refn|They also lived in Blashford (November 1938 to March 1939 and January 1940 to March 1940), Marshfield, Chippenham (July 1940 to November 1940), and Bishopston (December 1940 to April 1941) – see {{harvp|Ferris|1985}}.|group=nb}} for just under two years until July 1941, and did not return to live in Laugharne until 1949.{{refn|{{harvp|Ferris|1985}} shows that the family lived for eighteen months in Gosport Street and Sea View, Laugharne, between May 1938 and July 1940, and for three months in the Castle in 1941. They did not return to live in Laugharne until May 1949.|group=nb}} Their first child, Llewelyn Edouard, was born on 30 January 1939.{{sfnp|Ferris|1989|p=175}}