Ilinska was born in Wilno, then in Poland, and came to Britain as a refugee in 1939. She took a degree in English from Reading University and wrote poetry in English and in Polish. After her first husband, Olgierd Ilinski died just three weeks after their wedding, Ilinska married Harley Moseley, an American diplomat. The couple spent their honeymoon in St Mawes, Cornwall and were so taken by the village that they bought its two hotels, which they would run for the next 30 years. Ilinska continued to write and translate, authoring The Idles Rocks (1972) which records the comings and goings of their St. Mawes Hotel and the poetry book Horoscope of the Moon (1992) as well as translating T.S Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral into Polish. In 1992 she returned home, now located within Belarus, and raised money to rebuild her family chapel.
Zofia Aleksandra Ilinska (
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Maiden name
Brochocka
Short biography
Date of birth
29 October 1921
Place of birth
Wilno, Poland
Date of death
30 October 1995
Place of death
St. Austell, Cornwall
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