Enid Algerine Bagnold ('Lady Jones')
(1889-1981), Novelist and playwright; member of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY); wife of Sir Roderick Jones; daughter of Arthur BagnoldSitter in 10 portraits
Artist of 1 portrait
As a young woman, Bagnold studied drawing and moved in artistic circles; friends included the sculptor Henri Gaudier-Breszka and the writers Katherine Mansfield and Vita Sackville-West. Her earliest books, A Diary without Dates (1918) and The Happy Foreigner (1920) record her experiences as a volunteer during World War I. She married Sir Roderick Jones in 1920, and had four children. Her best-known book National Velvet (1935) became a Hollywood film. After 1951 she devoted her time to writing plays, including The Chalk Garden (1955).
Related People
- Laurian (née Jones), comtesse d'Harcourt (daughter)
- Richard Bagnold Jones (son)
- Sir (George) Roderick Jones (husband)
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