Enid Bagnold

Enid Algerine Bagnold, Lady Jones known as Enid Bagnold (CBE) (Rochester, 1889 - October 27, Rottingdean, 31 March 1981) was a British writer, both of books and plays. [1]

Her best known work National Velvet was released in 1935. It was filmed in 1944 with Elizabeth Taylor in the lead role. A Diary Without Dates was in 2012 in the Dutch translated by Erwin Mortier under the title Diary without dates. ==Biography[ Edit] == She was born the daughter of Colonel Arthur Henry Bagnold (1854-1943) and his wife Ethel Alger and spent much of her childhood in Jamaica. Prior's Field School they ran in the first school in Godalming to afterwards an artistic training in London under the direction of Walter Sickert. In 1913 she was editorial assistant at the magazineModern Society, that was published by Frank Harris.

During the first world war she was a nurse in a military hospital in Woolwich. Her experiences there was later a book them down in what pende, her debut A Diary Without Dates, that came out in January 1918, before the end of the war. They wrote about the horror of the war, also with an eye for all that could go wrong in the system. For this reason she was fired and went to France for other war work. Her period in France described them in The Happy Foreigner.

In 1920 she married sir Roderick Jones with whom she had four children. She was the great-grandmother of Samantha Cameron, the wife of British Prime Minister David Cameron. ==Bibliography[ Edit] ==
 * A Diary Without Dates (1918)
 * 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) stage
 * Two Plays (1944)
 * The Loved and Envied (1951)
 * Theatre (1951)
 * The girl's Journey (1954)
 * The Chalk Garden (1955) stage
 * The Chinese Prime Minister (1964) stage
 * A Matter of Gravity (original title Call Me Jacky) (1967) stage
 * Autobiography (1969)
 * Four Plays (1970)
 * Poems (1978)
 * Letters to Frank Harris & Other Friends (1980)
 * Early Poems (1987)