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Bagnold, Enid Algerine

Bagnold, Enid Algerine ( Lady Jones ) ( 1889 – 1981 ),
novelist and playwright, who spent much of her early childhood in the West Indies, returning to England to Prior's Field, an intellectually progressive school run by the mother of A. Huxley . She worked as nurse and ambulance driver during the First World War (see her Diary without Dates, 1917 ) and married in 1920 , but continued to write and move in artistic and bohemian circles, writing several novels, of which the best known and commercially most successful was National Velvet ( 1935 , filmed 1944 with Elizabeth Taylor as the girl who wins the Grand National). Of her plays, the most successful was The Chalk Garden ( 1955 ). Her Autobiography was published in 1969 .

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