Enid Bagnold
Enid Algerine Bagnold, Lady Jones, CBE (27 October 1889 – 31 March 1981) was a British author and playwright, known for the 1935 story National Velvet.
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Early life
She was born in Rochester, Kent. daughter of Colonel Arthur Henry Bagnold and his wife, Ethel (née Alger), and brought up mostly in Jamaica. She went to art school in London, and then worked for Frank Harris, who became her lover.[1]
Career
During the First World War she became a nurse, writing critically of the hospital administration and being dismissed as a result. After that she was a driver in France for the remainder of the war years. She wrote about her hospital experiences in A Diary Without Dates,[2] and about her experiences as a driver in The Happy Foreigner.[3][4]
In 1920, she married Sir Roderick Jones, Chairman of Reuters, but continued to use her maiden name for her writing. They lived at North End House, Rottingdean, near Brighton (previously the home of Sir Edward Burne-Jones), the garden of which inspired her play, The Chalk Garden.
The couple had four children. Their great-granddaughter is Samantha Cameron, wife of the United Kingdom's current Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader David Cameron.[5]
Death
Bagnold died at Rottingdean in 1981, aged 91, and is interred at St Margaret's churchyard there.[6]
Other
During the Second World War, Bagnold's brother Ralph Bagnold founded the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG), a precursor of the SAS.[7]
Works
- A Diary Without Dates (1917)
- The Sailing Ships and other poems (1918)
- The Happy Foreigner (1920)
- Serena Blandish or the Difficulty of Getting Married (1924)
- Alice & Thomas & Jane (1930)
- National Velvet (1935)
- The Door of Life (1938)
- The Squire (1938)
- Lottie Dundass (1943 play)
- Two Plays (1944)
- The Loved and Envied (1951)
- Theatre (1951)
- The Girl's Journey (1954)
- The Chalk Garden (1955 play)
- The Chinese Prime Minister (1964 play)
- A Matter of Gravity (original title Call Me Jacky; 1967 play)
- Autobiography (1969)
- Four Plays (1970)
- Poems (1978)
- Letters to Frank Harris & Other Friends (1980)
- Early Poems (1987)
References
- ↑ Weblog John Simkin
- ↑ A Diary Without Dates
- ↑ The Happy Foreigner
- ↑ Profile: "A Celebration of Women Writers", upenn.edu; accessed 28 September 2014.
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- ↑ Works by Enid Bagnold at Project Gutenberg
- ↑ Cairo in the War: 1939-1945 (1989); ISBN 0-241-12671-1, pg. 83
Further reading
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- Works by Enid Bagnold at Project Gutenberg
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- Works by Enid Bagnold at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Anne Sebba (1986), Enid Bagnold, The Authorised Biography
- Lenemaja Friedman (1986), Enid Bagnold
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External links
- Enid Bagnold at the Internet Broadway DatabaseLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Enid Bagnold at the Internet Movie Database
- A Diary Without Dates (1917) archived here
- Selected performances, Theatre Archive University of Bristol; accessed 28 September 2014.
- Some context of the interwar pony story in which Bagnold's National Velvet was conceived, jeunessejournal.com; accessed 28 September 2014.
- Profile, spartacus-educational.com; accessed 28 September 2014.
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- English dramatists and playwrights
- English women novelists
- People from Rochester, Kent
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- People educated at Prior's Field School
- British women dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century English writers
- 20th-century women writers
- 20th-century English novelists
- 20th-century British dramatists and playwrights
