 With Jo Manton, he wrote "Dorothy Wordsworth" (1985) and the same year published his last book of verse, "People, Places, Personal".His last book, "Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys", was printed a few days before his death.In 1934, Gittings married Katherine Edith Cambell, a Cambridge contemporary who had been at Girton College and was known as Kay, and they had two sons, called Robert and John, together, but this marriage ended in divorce.