One of her paternal uncles was historian Bernard Pares, known for his work on Russia and a first cousin was plantswoman and photographer Susan Jellicoe.
[1] Notable cover illustrations included Woman Alive by Susan Ertz (1935); Wigs of the Green by Nancy Mitford (1935);[4] Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon (1937); Fair Fat Lady (1937) by Noel de Vic Beamish, Living with History by Ernest Henry Short (1939) and Good-bye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton (1952).
[6] She created maps for the Daily Express during the Second World War[3] having been recorded as enrolled in the Air Ministry ARP Camouflage in the 1939 Register.
[2] On 30 September 1933, Pares married Alfred Trevor Gwyn Thomas, a physician, at St Mary the Virgin, in Horsell Surrey.
She then shared her flat with Eric Vernon Francis, a writer on politics and economics, and Frederick Elwyn Jones, later Baron Elwyn-Jones, the Welsh barrister and Labour politician.
The couple spent their honeymoon in the Himalayas, travelling with the British Everest Expedition which set out that year under Bill Tilman.