Search - List of Books by Enid Bagnold
"Judges don't age; time decorates them." -- Enid Bagnold
Enid Algerine Bagnold, Lady Jones, CBE (27 October 1889 – 31 March 1981), known by her maiden name as Enid Bagnold, was a British author and playwright, best known for the 1935 story National Velvet which was filmed in 1944 with Elizabeth Taylor.She was born in Rochester, Kent, daughter of Colonel Arthur Henry Bagnold, and brought up mostly in Jamaica. She went to art school at the school of Walter Sickert in London, and then worked for Frank Harris, who was also her first lover.
She was a nurse during World War I, writing critically of the hospital administration and being dismissed as a result. She was a driver in France for the remainder of the war years. She wrote of her hospital experiences in Diary Without Dates and her driving experiences in The Happy Foreigner.
Her brother Ralph Bagnold founded the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) during World War II, a precursor of the SAS.
In 1920 she married Sir Roderick Jones (Chairman of Reuters) but continued to use her maiden name for her writing. They lived at North End House in Rottingdean, near Brighton, Sussex, (previously the home of Sir Edward Burne-Jones), the garden of which inspired her play The Chalk Garden. They had four children. Their great-granddaughter is Samantha Cameron, wife of the United Kingdom's current Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader David Cameron.
Lady Jones died at Rottingdean in 1981 and is buried at St Margaret's Church.
"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.""As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.""If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.""In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.""The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.""The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.""When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much."
- A Diary Without Dates (1917)
- The Sailing Ships and other poems (1918)
- The Happy Foreigner (1920)
- Serena Blandish or the Difficulty of Getting Married (1924) as A Lady of Quality
- Alice & Thomas & Jane (1930)
- National Velvet (1935)
- The Door of Life (1938)
- The Squire (1938)
- Lottie Dundass (1943) play
- Two Plays (1944)
- The Loved and Envied (1951)
- Theatre (1951)
- The Girl's Journey (1954)
- The Chalk Garden (1956) play
- The Chinese Prime Minister (1964) play
- A Matter of Gravity (original title Call Me Jacky) (1967) play
- Autobiography (1969)
- Four Plays (1970)
- Poems (1978)
- Letters to Frank Harris & Other Friends (1980)
- Early Poems (1987)
Total Books: 81