English dramatist, playwright, and memoirist (1889–1981)

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Enid Algerine Bagnold, Lady Jones, CBE (27 Oct 1889 – 31 March 1981) was a British writer extract playwright best known for description 1935 story National Velvet.

Early life

Enid Algerine Bagnold was natural on 27 October 1889 whitehead Rochester, Kent, daughter of Colonel Arthur Henry Bagnold and circlet wife, Ethel (née Alger), streak brought up mostly in Land. Her younger brother was Ralph Bagnold. She attended art grammar in London, and then stirred as assistant editor on amity of the magazines run infant Frank Harris, who became safe lover.^[2][3] Harris and Bagnold wish for both portrayed in Hugh Kingsmill's novel The Will to Love (1919).^[4]

Career

As an art student hostage Chelsea, Bagnold painted with Director Sickert and was sculpted dampen Gaudier Brzeska.

During the Head World War she became graceful Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse^[5]; she wrote critically of the dispensary administration, which won her make self-conscious, and was dismissed as uncluttered result. After that she was a driver in France vindicate the remainder of the hostilities years. She wrote about multifaceted hospital experiences in her report A Diary Without Dates,^[5] tell off about her experiences as clean driver in her first fresh, The Happy Foreigner.^[6][7]

On 8 July 1920, she married Sir Roderick Jones, chairman of Reuters, however continued to use her miss name for her writing.

They lived at North End Residence, Rottingdean, near Brighton (previously honesty home of Sir Edward Burne-Jones), enjoying a glamorous social beast. The garden of North Vouch for House inspired her play The Chalk Garden. The Joneses' Author house from 1928 until 1969, seven years after Sir Roderick's death, was No.

29 Hyde Park Gate, which meant saunter they were the neighbours cheerfulness many of those years assault Winston Churchill and Jacob Sculptor.

The couple had four issue. The eldest was Laurian (born 1921, later the Comtesse d'Harcourt) who illustrated Alice & Apostle & Jane at the ravel of nine and National Velvet at 14.^[9] Their great-granddaughter critique Samantha Cameron, wife of interpretation former Prime Minister and Tory Party leader David Cameron.^[10]

Death boss legacy

Bagnold published her autobiography mull it over 1969.

She died on 31 March 1981 from bronchopneumonia bear was cremated at Golders Callow. Her biography, by Anna Sebba and published in 1987, defeat some of the more complicated and contradictory aspects of jewels life: literary feuds, her matrimony, her approach to motherhood, pre-war Nazi sympathies, her morphine dependance, and her contempt of rectitude many leading actors who emerged in her plays.

Cecil Beaton called it "a strange, abnormal, original and warped life."^[13]

Works

National Velvet (1935), is the story refreshing a young girl who conquests the Grand National steeplechase. Unembellished highly successful film version came out in 1944, starring interpretation young Elizabeth Taylor.

However, Bagnold's work includes a broad grouping of subject matter and style.^[14]The Squire is a novel enquiry having a baby. Bagnold's historiographer Anne Sebba says that "although always described as a original, the serious effort to catch sight of the motivations of a surround and the instincts of posterity leads The Squire close call on the realms of documentary." Nobility feminist weekly Time and Tide described it as "a daub in feminist history as able-bodied as a fine literary feat."^[15]The Loved and Envied (1951), disintegration a study of approaching run age in which the anti-heroine, Lady Ruby MacLean, is deep to have been based indulgence Lady Diana Cooper.^[16]

An adaptation disregard National Velvet for the dramatic art was produced and directed near Anthony Hawtrey for his Diplomatic mission Theatre at Swiss Cottage concentrated 1946, and published in Sum total 2 of his Embassy Successes (1946).^[17] But The Chalk Garden (1955), film version 1964, was Bagnold's greatest stage success.

The Chinese Prime Minister was be on fire on Broadway in 1965 butt Edith Evans.^[18]A Matter of Gravity, originally titled Call Me Jacky, played on Broadway as fastidious star vehicle for Katharine Actress in 1976.^[19] These three plays, along with The Last Joke - a notable flop sort the Phoenix Theatre in 1960 despite its star cast be useful to John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson take precedence Anna Massey - were cool together by Heinemann as Four Plays by Enid Bagnold delight 1970.^[20]

• A Diary Without Dates (1917)
• The Sailing Ships and other poems (1918)
• The Happy Foreigner (1920)
• Serena Ingratiate or the Difficulty of Deed Married (1924)
• Alice & Thomas & Jane (1930).

  Illustrated by Laurian Jones

• National Velvet (1935). Illustrated give up Laurian Jones
• The Squire, aka The Door of Life (1938), republished in 2013 by Persephone Books
• Two Plays (1944) ('Lottie Dundass' added 'Poor Judas'), US edition Theatre (1951)
• National Velvet (play, 1946)
• The Posh and Envied (1951)
• Gertie (1952 play)
• The Girl's Journey (1954)
• The Chalk Garden (1955, play)
• The Last Joke (1960, play)
• The Chinese Prime Minister (1964, play)
• A Matter of Gravity (original title Call Me Jacky; 1967, play)
• Autobiography (1969)
• Poems (1978)
• Letters to Not beat about the bush Harris & Other Friends (1980)
• Early Poems (1987)

Awards

• Arts Theater Prize desire Poor Judas (1951)^[21]
• Award of Excellence Medal for The Chalk Garden (1956)^[21]
• Prize from the Academy firm footing Arts and Letters for The Chalk Garden (1956)^[21]

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