Anne Cumming

Anne Cumming (the pen name of Felicity Anne Cumming Mason, 14 December 1917 – 28 August 1993) was a British translator, public relations officer, polyamorist and writer. Early life Cumming was born in Walton-on-Thames in 1917, to parents Howard Cumming and Eileen Groves. She had an indulgent childhood courtesy of her grandfather, James Grimble Groves, a member of parliament and a brewery owner. Cumming spent much of her childhood in South Africa, where her father had bought a farm. She was a débutante in 1935 and she later reported that she first had sex under the Eiffel Tower. She studied contemporary dance and later acting at Dartington Hall with Michael Chekhov. She married a fellow student, Henry Lyon Young, in 1938. He was an aspiring playwright and later writer. She and her husband, along with Chekhov, left for the United States as war approached, intending to establish a drama school there to teach the Stanislavski method of acting.