
When Graves met Margot Callas in June 1960, he recognized her as a fresh incarnation of the White Goddess. This photograph was taken about 1961-62.

In the summer of 1958, Graves met for the first time Cindy Lee, whose real name was Emile Laraçuen (later adding an A to her first name). Aemilia would become another of Graves’s ‘Muse-Goddesses’, inspiring his poetic outputs.

In October 1966, while recovering in a London hospital ward from a gall bladder operation, Graves was visited by Julia (Juli) Simon, a 17 year old ballet school student. On her second visit to Graves she said: ‘I have fallen in love with you’. Juli Simons would be his longest-serving Muse. This photograph was taken in 1968.
Thanks to William Graves, and the St John’s College Robert Graves Trust, Oxford