Enid Bagnold

Enid Algerine Bagnold, Lady Jones ( born October 27, 1889 in Rochester, Kent, † March 31, 1981 in Rottingdean, Brighton and Hove, East Sussex ) was a British novelist and playwright.

Life

Enid Bagnold was born in Rochester, Kent, but spent her early childhood in Jamaica. Your education she received in Switzerland and in England, where she received lessons in Prior 's Field, a school that was run by the mother of Aldous Huxley. From 1908 she attended Walter Sickets Art School, where she developed a talent for etchings. During this time in London, she worked for some time as a journalist for Frank Harris, with whom she had an affair, and Henri Gaudier- Brzeska learned, Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry know.

At the outbreak of the First World War, she volunteered and worked as a nurse at the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich. Your record of this experience, published as Diary Without Dates (1917 ), as contained sharp criticism of the hospital management that their military superiors prompted her dismissal. Bagnold, however, was still determined to support the war effort of their country and went to France, where she worked as a driver. Your experiences flowed later in the book The Happy Foreigner (1920).

1920 married Enid Bagnold Sir Roderick Jones, head of Reuters. However, become her marriage to Lady Jones, she continued under her birth name. Attracted attention in 1924 her novel The Difficulty of Getting Married. My internationally best-known and most successful work, Velvet, the girl with the horse ( National Velvet) first appeared in 1935., The children's book in 1944 by Clarence Brown under the title Little Girl, Big Heart ( National Velvet) with Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp and Mickey Rooney filmed in Hollywood. Bagnold himself later worked at in a play. Of the other novels Bagnolds The Gate of Life, 1939, and The Loved and Envied (1951 ) There are The Squire (1937 ) Loved the title with the title and envied 1952 translated into German. Since their literary beginnings Bagnold had also written poems that were published in several anthologies.

From their plays became known for The Chalk Garden ( The Chalk Garden, 1955) in Germany was reasonably well known, not least thanks to the film adaptation of The House in the chalk garden ( The Chalk Garden, 1963) by Ronald Neame, with Edith Evans, Deborah Kerr, Sir John Mills and Hayley Mills in the lead roles. To the piece she had her own garden in North End House in Rottingdean inspired. 1969 Enid Bagnold published her autobiography. She died on 3 March 1981 in Rottingdean.

Honors

Works (selection)

Novels

• The Happy Foreigner, 1920
• Serena Blandish or the Difficulty of Getting Married 1924
• Alice & Thomas & Jane, 1930
• National Velvet, 1935, ISBN 0-3808-1056-5 (engl. Velvet, the girl with the horse, 1956)
• The Squire, 1938 (Eng. The Gate of Life, 1939)
• The Door of Life, 1938
• The Loved and Envied, 1951 ( German Loved and envied, 1952)
• The Girl 's Journey, 1954 (contains The Happy Foreigner and The Squire )

Poetry

• The Sailing Ships and other poems, 1918
• Poems, 1978
• Early Poems, 1987

Stage plays

• Lottie Dundass, 1943
• The Chalk Garden, 1955 (Eng. The Chalk Garden, 1961)
• National Velvet, 1961
• The Chinese Prime Minister, 1964 (Eng. The Chinese prime minister)
• Call Me Jacky, 1968 ( dt call me Jacky )
• Matter of Gravity, 1975

Autobiographical, letters and diaries

• A Diary Without Dates, 1917
• Autobiography, 1969
• Letters to Frank Harris & Other Friends, 1980