 She introduced Lennon to J.D.Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye while they were students in Liverpool, where she was affectionately called 'Duckie'.Eileen Margaret Chapman was born on 18 November 1940 at Durham Road, Darwen, Lancashire second child to parents Ethel Duxbury (née Pearson) (1911–1992), a seamstress, and Alan Holt Duxbury (1906–1955), chief accountant for the North West Gas Board.