Bagnold, Enid

Bagnold, Enid

▪ British author
married name  Lady Jones 
born October 27, 1889, Rochester, Kent, England
died March 31, 1981, London

      English novelist and playwright who was known for her broad range of subject and style.

      Bagnold, the daughter of an army officer, spent her early childhood in Jamaica and attended schools in England and France. She served with the British women's services during World War I; her earliest books—A Diary Without Dates (1917) and The Happy Foreigner (1920)—describe her wartime experiences. In 1920 she married Sir Roderick Jones (1877–1962), who for 25 years was chairman of the news agency Reuters, Ltd.

      Bagnold's best-known work is the novel National Velvet (1935), which tells the story of an ambitious 14-year-old girl who rides to victory in Great Britain's Grand National steeplechase on a horse bought for only £10; a motion picture of the same title was made from the novel in 1944. Two quite different novels are The Squire (1938; also published as The Door of Life), which conveys the mood of expectancy in a household awaiting the birth of a child, and The Loved and Envied (1951), a study of a woman facing the approach of old age. As a playwright, Bagnold achieved great success with The Chalk Garden (1955); a motion-picture version was produced in 1964. Her other stage works include Four Plays (1970) and A Matter of Gravity (1975).

      Enid Bagnold's Autobiography (from 1889) was published in 1969.

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