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BIBESCO,
ELIZABETH [CHARLOTTE LUCY] (26 Feb 1897 – 7 Apr 1945)
(née Asquith, aka Princess Bibesco)
1920s – 1940s
Daughter of Margot ASQUITH. Poet, playwright, novelist, and short story
writer. The Nation compared her
stories to Mansfield and James, while Marcel Proust said that she "was
probably unsurpassed in intelligence by any of her contemporaries." She
wrote four novels—The Fir and the Palm
(1924), which was serialized in the Washington
Post, of all places, There is No
Return (1927), Portrait of Caroline
(1931), and The Romantic (1940)—and
three story collections—I Have Only
Myself to Blame (1921), Balloons
(1922), and The Whole Story (1925).
A collection of selected stories, poems, and aphorisms appeared in 1951 as Haven, with an impressive introduction
by no lesser figure than Elizabeth BOWEN. Bibesco lived in Romania during
World War II, having married Prince Antoine Bibesco (for whom Enid BAGNOLD
was rumored to have a passion as well), and she died of pneumonia there at
age 48.
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BICKLE,
JUDITH BRUNDRETT (21 Apr 1886 – 16 Apr 1965)
(née Bower, aka
J. Tweedale, aka Judith Tweedale)
1930s, 1960s
Primarily known as a poet (her Collected
Poems appeared in 1948), Bickle also wrote two novels—The
Unimaginable Flowers (1935), a love story set against the backdrop of
south England, and Village of Rosemary
(1965), about which little information is available.
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BIDWELL, MARJORIE [ELIZABETH
SARAH] (20 Jun 1900 – 21 Jan 1985)
(née Lambe, aka Elizabeth Ford, aka Mary Ann Gibbs)
1930s – 1980s
Author of nearly 60 novels, including romantic suspense (and perhaps other
general fiction, some of it historical) under her Ford pseudonym and
historical romance under her Gibbs pseudonym. Among the former are Fog (1933), The House with the Myrtle Trees (1942), The Young Ladies' Room (1945), The Irresponsibles (1946), Spring
Comes to the Crescent (1949), Just
Around the Corner (1952), Outrageous
Fortune (1955), The Cottage at
Drimble (1957), A Week by the Sea
(1962), Limelight for Jane (1970),
and Open Day at the Manor (1977).
Among the latter are A Young Man with
Ideas (1950), A Bit of a Bounder
(1952), Young Lady with Red Hair
(1957, aka The Penniless Heiress), The Years of the Nannies (1960), Horatia (1961), The Apothecary's Daughter (1962), The Sugar Mouse (1965), The
Moon in a Bucket (1972), A Most
Romantic City (1976), and The
Marquess (1982). Twentieth Century
Romance and Historical Writers summed up Bidwell's historical romance
novels: "A plucky girl with a zest for life and a refusal to let its
adversities overwhelm her characterize the type of heroine always present in
a Mary Ann Gibbs romance."
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BIGGS, MARGARET (9 Jul 1929 - )
1950s, 2000s
Author of 14 works of
children's fiction, most of them school stories. She is best known for her
Melling School series, which originally included seven books—The Blakes Come to Melling (1951), The New Prefect at Melling (1952), Last Term for Helen (1953), Head Girl at Melling (1954), Susan in the Sixth (1955), The New Girl at Melling (1956), and Summer Term at Melling (1957). In the
2000s, when Girls Gone By began reprinting the series, Biggs added two new
volumes, Kate at Melling (2008) and
Changes at Melling (2009). Her
other books are Triplets at Royders
(1950), a collaboration with Jacqueline BLAIRMAN, Christmas Term at Vernley (1951), Bobby at Hill House (1954), Dilly
Goes to Ambergate (1955) and The
Two Families (1958).
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BIGLAND, EILEEN (29 May 1898 –
11 Apr 1970)
(née Carstairs)
1930s – 1950s
Best known for her "witty and sensitive accounts of travel in exotic
places swept by political upheavals" (Contemporary Authors), such as Laughing Odyssey (1937), about the Soviet Union, The Lake of the Royal Crocodiles
(1939), about tropical Africa, Into
China (1940), about her experiences as the first white women to travel
the Burma Road, and Journey to Egypt
(1949), Bigland also published nine novels, as well as biographies for younger
readers. Gingerbread House (1934)
is loosely autobiographical and seems to be an example of the "eccentric
family" genre. Others are Doctor's
Child (1934), Alms for Oblivion
(1937), This Narrow World (1938), Conflict with a God (1938), You Can Never Look Back (1940), Miranda (1947), Clown Without Background (1950), and Flower Without Root (1952). After World War II she published
histories of the WRNS and the ATS (both 1946).
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BINDER, PEARL (28 Jun 1904 – 25
Jan 1990)
(originally Binderevski, married name Elwyn-Jones)
1930s – 1940s
Born in England to Ukrainian parents, Binder is best known as an artist,
illustrator, and writer and BBC broadcaster on fashion, but she seems to have
also written some fiction, including Misha
and Masha (1936), a collection of stories about life in the Soviet Union,
and a children's title, Misha Learns
English (1942).
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BINGHAM, MADELEINE [MARY] (1 Feb
1912 – 16 Feb 1988)
(née Ebel, aka Julie Mannering)
1950s
Primarily known as a biographer (of Mary Queen of Scots, Richard Sheridan,
and Henry Irving, among others) and historian, Bingham also wrote two early
novels—first, under her Mannering pseudonym, The Passionate Poet (1951), about Lord Byron, and then, under her
own name, Look to the Rose (1953).
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BINGLEY, BARBARA (9 Mar 1902 – 7
Nov 1972)
(married name Vere-Hodge)
1930s – 1960s
Playwright, children’s author, and novelist. Her
one novel was The Clear Heart
(1945), about a young Venetian's involvement with court intrigue in 17th
century India. Earlier, she had published Tales
of the Turquoise (1933), a collection of retellings of traditional
Buddhist tales. She wrote six one-act plays in the 1950s, and two children’s
books in the 1960s—The Story of Tit'be
& His Friend Mouffette (1962) and Vicky
and the Monkey People (1966), the latter set in a British community in
Victorian India.
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BINNIE, MARJORIE [INEZ FRYAR]
(1894 - 1975)
(née Cope)
1930s
Author of a single novel, Women with
Men (1935), set in Africa. Binnie spent her early life in Singapore
before moving to South Africa to farm with her husband.
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BIRCH, VERA [BENEDICTA] (29 Apr
1899 – 22 Jan 1983)
(née Gage, aka Camilla Tracy)
1920s, 1940s – 1950s
Author of two quirky humorous novels and one children's book. Under her own
name, she published a very early children's book, The Green-Faced Toad and Other Stories (1921)—illustrated by Lois
Lenski no less—and the novel Game for
One Player (1947). Her second novel, Cousin
Charles (1950), appeared under her pseudonym. I reviewed the latter here. Thank you to Pamela McKirdy for her help identifying Birch and her
works.
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BIRD, JANE (22 Apr 1897 - 10 Aug 1954)
(pseudonym of Dame Dorothea Croft, née Mavor)
1930s
Author of two novels. By Accident (1935) deals with a “family of busybodies” who determine to learn
the secrets of two new arrivals in their village. Both Hands (1936) tells
of the effects of the reappearance in a family of a long-estranged aunt,
including “rich comedy and subtle sadness.” She seems to have also edited the
earlier anthology, Elizabethan
Lyrics (1921).
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BIRLEY, JULIA (13 May 1928
- )
(née Davies)
1950s – 1960s
Daughter of Margaret KENNEDY and author of four novels—The Children on the Shore (1958), about "provincial dons and
their wives," The Time of the
Cuckoo (1960), When You Were There
(1963), and A Serpent's Egg (1966).
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BISHOP, SHEILA GLENCAIRN (17 Aug
1918 - 2004)
(née Paterson)
1940s – 1990s
Author of more than two dozen novels, most historical romances set in the
Elizabethan or Regency periods. Titles include The Durable Fire (1958), The
House with Two Faces (1960), The
Second Husband (1964), Impatient
Griselda (1965), Penelope Devereux
(1966), The Favourite Sister
(1967), That Night at the Villa
(1968), Goldsmith's Row (1969), No Hint of Scandal (1971), The Wilderness Walk (1972), The Parson's Daughter (1973, aka Bath Assembly), A London Season (1975), A
Speaking Likeness (1976), Consequences
(1980), Rosalba (1982), A Well-Matched Pair (1987), and Fair Game (1992). She seems to have
also been the author of a children's book, A Silver Nutmeg and a Golden Pear (1945), a wartime title that
involves golliwogs.
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BLACK, DOROTHY [DELIUS ALLAN]
(27 Mar 1890 - 1977)
(married name MacLeish, aka Peter Delius)
1910s – 1970s
Niece of composer Frederick Delius. Author of well over 100 romance novels,
as well as numerous short stories, including many utilizing her experience of
life in Burma and India. (In a 1921 article, she referred to Burma as "a
paradise for women," and she raised her children there.) Her many novels
include The Man with a Square Face
(1916), Idle Women (1928), Wise Folly (1933), The Pineapple Garden (1935), If Sorrow Follows After (1938), Dance, Little Lady (1940), Burmese Picnic (1943), The Broken Moon (1949), The Stag at Bay (1950), The Blackthorn Winter (1953), Gentle Stranger (1956), The Unforgettable Miss Jones (1960), Sisters Three (1966), Midsummer Magic (1969), Love Belongs to Everyone (1972), and From Faraway (1974). Her memoir was The Foot of the Rainbow (1961).
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BLACK, [EMMA] HERMINA [MARY] (9
Jun 1893 – 2 Feb 1986)
(married name Lethridge)
1930s – 1980s
Author of more than 70 novels of romance and
romantic suspense. Titles include Forbidden
Kisses (1934), The Love Hotel
(1935), The Society Mannequin
(1935), The Lure of the Footlights
(1937), Passion's Web (1937), Yesterday's Folly (1940), Flower of the Lotus (1942), Sweet Pilgrimage (1943), Enchanted Oasis (1947), The House with the Fountains (1951), Moon Over Morocco (1951), Bitter Honey (1954), Tread on the Stars (1954), Jennifer Harlow, M.D. (1957), Cinderella in Sunlight (1958), Private Patient (1962), Danger in Montparnasse (1967), The Scent of Marigolds (1969), Romance Comes to Scotland Yard (1970),
Stardust for Dreams (1973), Blue Aloes (1979), and Dangerous Masquerade (1986).
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BLACKBURN,
[EVELYN] BARBARA (15 Jul 1898 – 14 May 1981)
(married name
Leader, aka Frances Castle, aka Barbara Leader, aka Jane Grant)
1920s – 1960s
Author of more than two dozen romantic novels, including Return to Bondage (1926), Courage
for Martha (1930), Marriage and
Money (1931) Lover Be Wise
(1934), Abbots Bank (1948), Georgina Goes Home (1951), Star Spangled Heavens (1953), Summer at Sorrelhurst (1954), The Buds of May (1955), Green for Lovers (1958), Lovers' Meeting (1962), City of Forever (1963), and Tara's Daughter (1970).
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BLACKBURN,
ELIZABETH [JOHANNA MARGARET] VERNON (22 Sept 1841 - 1921)
(married name
Vernon Blackburn, but seems to have gone by Blackburn, née Sang)
1910s
Author of a single novel, The Duchess
Ilsa: A Page from the Secret Memoirs of the Court of Hohenau-Sesselstadt
(1914), about which details are scarce.
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BLACKMORE,
JANE [STUART] (11 Mar 1914 – 25 Jul 2005)
(née Blackmore)
1940s – 1970s
Author of more than 40 romantic novels to at least the late 1970s, after
which it becomes difficult to distinguish retitled reprints from new works.
Titles include Towards To-Morrow
(1941), They Carry a Torch (1943), Snow in June (1947), The Square of Many Colours (1948), The Bridge of Strange Music (1952), Three Letters to Pan (1955), Storm in the Family (1956), Beware the Night (1958), Tears in Paradise (1959), The Night of the Stranger (1961), Joanna (1963), Gold for My Girl (1967), Broomsticks
in the Hall (1971), and Ravenden
(1976). Her maiden and married names are the same—did she marry a cousin or
is it coincidence?
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Blackstock, Charity
see TORDAY, URSULA
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Blackstock, Lee
see TORDAY, URSULA
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BLAIKLEY,
EDITHA L[EIGHTON]. (28 Oct 1886 - 1975)
1910s – 1930s
Author of four novels and two plays. The novels are Dorothy Gayle (1912), The
Enchanted Pen (1919), Alone in a
Crowd (1931), and Lady Springmead
(1938). Her diary from World War II was independently published as "No Soldier": The 1942 Diary of
Miss Editha Blaikley of Wren Cottage (1992).
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BLAIR, INA (16 Jan 1903 - 20 Oct 1965)
(pseudonym of Ina Albertina Bubna-Litic, married
name Kasteliz)
1930s
Author of a single novel, They Dance on
a String (1931), summed up by
one critic: "A rich waster marries a beautiful girl because he thinks a
decorative wife will be amusing. The girl's life in London, Paris, and New
York is vividly depicted.” Blair’s unusual maiden name results from her
mother’s marriage to Austrian Count Johann Franz Bubna-Litic, “son of Count
Bubna, of Upton Towers, Slough.”
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Blair,
Joan
see OLIVER, JANE and STAFFORD,
ANN
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Blair, Kathryn
see WARREN, LILLIAN
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BLAIRMAN, JACQUELINE [HARRIS]
(1927 - )
(married name Pinto, aka Jacqueline Pinto)
1940s
Author of three school stories which deal humorously with class and pretense—The Headmistress in Disgrace (1949), A Rebel at St Agatha's (1949), and Triplets at Royders (1950, co-authored
with Margaret BIGGS)—and of a later series, under her married name, beginning
with The School Gala Disaster
(1985).
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Blake, Andrea
see WEALE, ANNE
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Blake, Monica
see MUIR, MARIE
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BLAKE, SNOWDON
(4 Oct 1903 – 7 Jul 1945)
(pseudonym of
Freda Mansell, née Sneath)
1930s
Author of three novels of nautical adventure—Nor Helm Nor Compass (1935), Something
About a Sailor (1936), and Next
Port Eldorado (1937). Of the second, the publisher said that it
"tells us how Jack Friendship mastered peril on the sea, served King and
Empire and loved a little lady half tomboy and half fairytale princess."
One review mentions that the first novel, at least, might have been a
collaboration, perhaps with her husband Arthur Mansell, but other references
refer only to her.
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BLAKER,
[HARRIET] MARY (MARIANNE) (16 Sept 1859 – 15 Jan 1938)
(uncertain but
probably identification)
1920s
Author of two romantic novels, The
Pagan Lover (1928) and Jill Came
Tumbling (1929).
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BLATHWAYT, [MARJORIE] JEAN (17
Sept 1918 – 7 Sept 1999)
1950s – 1970s
A nurse and nursery school teacher as well as author,
Blathwayt published more than a dozen books for children, including Uncle Paul's House (1957), The Well Cabin (1957), Jenny Leads the Way (1958), Jo's Neighbours (1958), The Beach People (1960), The Mushroom Girl (1960), The Fisherman's Little Girl (1961), Peter's Adventure (1961), On the Run for Home (1965), House of Shadows (1967), Lucy's Brownie Road (1970), River in the Hills (1971), and Lucy's Last Brownie Challenge (1972).
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BLAZEY, [CLARA] WINIFRED (21 Dec
1891 – 19 Jul 1964)
1930s – 1940s
Author of four novels, three with crime elements. Britannia
and Eve called Dora Beddoe (1936) “a study of the psychology of a
murderer” and “grim, closely written, not easily forgotten”. The Crouching
Hill (1941), about a strangled schoolmistress, is “told entirely in the
form of police interviews with witnesses and suspects,” with “extremely
lively and entertaining” results, according to the Observer. Her
fourth and final novel, Grace Before Meat (1942), about a young woman
taking charge of a village school, is described as "a cheerful period
piece with a murder thrown in for good measure." Blazey's remaining
novel, Indian Rain (1938), is set
in 18th century India. A contemporary review noted that she came to writing
fiction via the unusual path of child welfare work, and she was a close
friend and sometime roommate of Gladys MITCHELL.
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BLEY,
ELSIE [FRANCES] (25 Jul 1908 – 2 Jul 2004)
1950s
Author of two children's titles, Tell
Us a Tale (1950), illustrated by Grace LODGE, and The Secret of the Headland (1955), a holiday adventure featuring
two children at the seaside with an aunt and her friend who were in the
French Resistance.
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BLIGH
BOND, MARY [THEODORA ST. VINCENT] (23 Oct 1895 - 1968)
(married names
Milward and Saunders)
1920s
Daughter of Frederick Bligh Bond, architect and ghost hunter, and author of
a single novel, Avernus (1924),
described as a fantasy novel dealing with reincarnation.
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BLISS, ELIOT (12 Jun 1903 – 10
Dec 1990)
(pseudonym of Eileen Nora Lees Bliss)
1930s
Born in Jamaica to English parents, Bliss was the author of two novels, Saraband (1931), about a young girl
growing up in the years before, during, and after World War I, and Luminous Isle (1934), in which a young
woman returns to her birthplace in Jamaica after years in England. Both were
reprinted by Virago in the 1980s. In 2015, her poems were collected as Spring Evenings in Sterling Street.
According to Virago's bio, Bliss's friends in London included Dorothy
RICHARDSON, Vita SACKVILLE-WEST, and Jean RHYS.
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BLOCH, REGINA MIRIAM (1888/9 - 1 Mar
1938)
1910s
Journalist, poet, and author of two
story collections concerned with mysticism—The Swing-Gods and Other Visions (1917), which featured an introduction by Israel Zangwill, and The Book of Strange Loves (1918). She worked to raise awareness of
Jewish culture and to establish an international children’s museum in London
(not the same as that currently in operation). In 1918, she received unexpected
publicity when it was erroneously reported that she and Rebecca WEST were the
same person.
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BLOOM, URSULA [HARVEY] (11 Dec
1892 – 29 Oct 1984)
(married names Denham-Cookes and Robinson, aka Sheila Burns, aka Mary
Essex, aka Rachel Harvey, aka Lozania Prole, aka Deborah Mann, aka Sara
Sloane, aka April Thorn)
1920s – 1980s
Reportedly the author of 560 books, and once the Guiness Book of World Records most
prolific female author, Bloom wrote under her own name as well as multiple
pseudonyms, some of which had distinct styles. According to ODNB, her more straightforward
romances, which she found "silly and light," were published under
her own name and as Sheila Burns. She wrote historical novels as Lozania
Prole, hospital novels as Rachel Harvey, and "modern romances" as
Mary Essex, including the charming Tea
Is So Intoxicating (1950), reprinted in the British Library Women Writers
series. A number of her other works have also been released in e-book format.
She wrote several memoirs, including War
Isn't Wonderful (1961), about her experiences in World War II. There's an
entire website devoted to Bloom's work, which you can view here.
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BLOUNT, REBECCA (dates unknown)
1920s
Untraced author of a single girls' school story, Schooldays (1921), about an old-fashioned school being superceded
by more modern schools. Sims and Clare note that it may be autobiographical.
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BLUMENFELD, JOSEPHINE [SALIE]
(14 Oct 1903 – 10 Apr 1982)
(married name Bott)
1930s – 1960s
Wife of Pan Books founder Alan Bott. Best known for seven volumes of humorous
anecdotes and short stories—Shrimps for
Tea (1930), "Dip, Lizzie,
Dip" and Other Stories (1935), Heat
of the Sun (1948), Step This Way
(1951), Birds on the Roof (1960), See Me Dance the Polka (1962), and The Sun Is Up (1969). In reviewing Birds on the Roof, the Times Literary
Supplement wrote: "Miss Blumenfeld creates her own world where the
trivial is highlighted by a very individual style into achieving a
significance." She also wrote a single novel, Pin a Rose on Me (1958), the “madcap” tale of “a middle-aged
English woman's quest for independence,” which I discussed here.
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BLUNDELL, AGNES [MARY FRANCES]
(9 Jun 1884 – 4 Mar 1966)
1910s – 1940s
Daughter of M. E. FRANCIS, with whom she published
several children’s books, and sister of Margaret BLUNDELL. Author of several
novels on her own, some or all with Catholic themes and some historical.
Titles include Pension Kraus
(1912), Ancient Lights (1928), The Living Voice (1931), The Robber's Cave (1933), The Master's Forge (1933), In Peril for the King (1934), The Net (1937), The Three Cs (1945), and Cloaked
Malice (1950).
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BLUNDELL, MARGARET [ELIZABETH
CLEMENTINA MARY] (19 Nov 1881 – 16 Feb 1964)
1910s – 1920s
Daughter of M. E. FRANCIS and sister of Agnes BLUNDELL. Novelist and
biographer who collaborated with her mother on Lady Jane and the Smallholders (1924) and published two solo
novels, Katherine of the Barge
(1911) and Wood Sanctuary (1930).
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Blundell,
Mary
see FRANCIS, M. E.
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BLUNT, SIBELL LILIAN (14 Aug
1878 – 20 May 1962)
(née Mackenzie)
1900s – 1930s
Author of nine novels, primarily of exotic romance, sometimes mixed with fantasy. Titles are Sons of the Milesians (1906), The
Days of Fire (1908), Out of the
Dark (1910), The Golden Guard
(1912), The Decoy (1914), Whosoever Shall Receive (1924), The Temple of the Winds (1925), Heremon the Beautiful (1930), and Zeo the Scythian (1935).
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BLYTON, ENID [MARY] (11 Aug 1897
– 28 Nov 1968)
(married names Pollock and Waters, aka Mary Pollock)
1920s – 1960s
Hugely prolific and successful children's author.
Although much of her work is for young children, she also published several
series for older children, including the "Malory Towers" school
novels (1946-51), the "St Clare's" school stories (1941-1945), a
mystery series beginning with The
Rockingdown Mystery (1949), the "Five" series (1942-1963), and
the "Secret Seven" series (1949-63).
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BOAS,
CICELY (17 Feb 1898 – 6 Jan 1973)
(pseudonym of
Augusta Alice Cecilia Boas, née Whitehead)
1930s – 1940s
Author of three novels—The Vicar's Wife
(1931), A Farmer's Marriage (1935),
and This Motherhood (1942). The
first two are tragic tales of mismatched couples, while the third is
described as about "the psychological difficulties of motherhood from
the modern standpoint." She was married to scholar and biographer Guy
Boas.
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BODEN, HILDA (27 Sept 1901 – 17
Feb 1988)
(pseudonym of Hilda Bodenham, née Morris)
1940s – 1970s
Prolific children’s author whose works often featured horses. Titles like Pony Trek (1948) and One More Pony (1952) were followed by
six tales of the Marlow family and Boden’s own favorite work, Faraway Farm (1961). Other titles
include Family Affair: A Midland
Chronicle (1948), Caravan Holiday
(1953), Two Lost Emeralds (1958), The New Roof (1960), Joanna Rides the Hills (1961), Noel, the Brave (1963), Highland Holiday (1965), The Mystery of Castle Croome (1966), Canal House (1969), The Severnside Mystery (1970), Pedro Visits the Country (1970), and Boomerang (1973).
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BOGGS,
[MARY] WINIFRED (1874 – 10 Nov 1931)
(aka Edward
Burke, aka Gloria Manning)
1900s – 1930s
Author of more than a dozen novels under her own name and two pseudonyms,
including Ethel Pilcher (1907), The Return of Richard Carr (1907), Vagabond City (1911), Bachelors' Buttons: The Candid Confessions
of a Shy Bachelor (1912), The
Bewildered Benedict: The Story of a Superfluous Uncle (1913), The Sale of Lady Daventry (1914), Sally on the Rocks (1915), recently
reprinted in the British Library Women's Classics series, My Wife (1916), Yesterday: Being the Confessions of
Barbara (1918), The Indignant
Spinsters (1921), The Spinster Aunt
(1922), The Joyous Pilgrim (1923), Ashmorlands (1925), The Young Elizabeth: A Romantic Comedy
(1928), and The Romance of a Very Young
Man (1930). One of her final novels, Murder
on the Underground (1929), is a mystery with some humor but also some
particularly toxic racism (on the part of the narrator heroine, no less). A
reader of this blog noted that some copies of the book were missing pp.
193-208 due to a printer’s error, which may have contributed to the book’s
scarcity. Thanks to Bella Caravelli for this information.
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BOILEAU, ETHEL [MARY] (16 Feb 1882 – 16
Jan 1942)
(née Young)
1920s – 1940s
Author of twelve novels
which appear widely varied in subject. Of her debut, The Box of Spikenard (1923), the Bookman rather impenetrably summed up: "Some husbands treat
the precious ointment of a woman's love as if it were cold cream to be used
after shaving." Hippy Buchan
(1924) is about a man who is snubbed by a woman and then finds himself heir
to a dukedom. Of Gay Family (1933),
Kirkus said: "Contagious humor, originality in the telling of even the
simplest events, mark this author as gifted beyond the ordinary run." The Map of Days (1935) is described as
the story of "a modern Lancelot, a giant of a soldier, an ardent
lover" and apparently covers the World War I period. Clansman (1936) is a Scottish family
saga. Ballade in G Minor (1938) may
be a sequel to Gay Family. Her
other books, about which details are lacking, are The Arches of the Years (1930), Turnip-Tops (1932), The
Fire of Spring, or, The Garden of Dreams (1933), When Yellow Leaves... (1934), The
Fair Prince: The Story of the Forty-Five (1936), and Challenge to Destiny (1947).
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BOLAND, BRIDGET (13 Mar 1913 –
19 Jan 1988)
1930s – 1970s
Playwright, screenwriter, and author of three novels. Best known for her
debut The Wild Geese (1938), a
family saga set in 18th century Ireland, and for the plays Cockpit (1948) and The Prisoner (1954). Her other novels
are Portrait of a Lady in Love
(1942) and Caterina (1975). Among
her screenwriting credits were Gaslight
(1940), War and Peace (1956), and Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), for
which she and collaborator John Hale won Oscars. In the 1970s, she published
two books on gardening with her sister, Maureen Boland, and a memoir, At My Mother's Knee (1978).
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BOLAND,
JUNE (?1900 - ?2001)
(?pseudonym of
Eliza Maud Boland, née Cooksey [uncertain but probable identification])
1920s – 1930s
Author of about thirty romantic novels, many probably "dime
novels." Titles include The Girl
in Crimson (1920), The Girl from
America (1922), The Master Wooer
(1924), Kirsty at the Manse (1926),
Hotel Splendide (1928), The Alabaster Nymph (1932), The Black Forest Inn (1936), and The Secret of Westmayne (1937). If our
identification is correct, she may have been a schoolteacher.
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BOLITHO, SYBIL (16 Nov 1892 – 21
Jun 1975)
(née Matesdorf, other married names Temple, Ryall, Hofmann-Beer, and
Fearnley, aka Sybil Ryall)
1920s – 1940s
Author of at least five novels. A Fiddle for Eighteenpence (1927), which
I reviewed here, is about two young
women’s misadventures while travelling in France. My Shadow as I Pass (1934) was a tribute to her late husband
William Bolitho. She wrote two novels in collaboration with a later husband
(there were several of them!) Cecil Fearnley—Mrs. Rudd Writes Home (1936), set among theatrical people staying
at a villa in Verona, and I Ask No
Pardon (1938)—and one final novel in collaboration with John Lloyd
Balderston, A Goddess to a God
(1948).
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BOLTON, IVY MAY (18 May 1879 – 9
May 1961)
1920s – 1950s
Anglican nun, schoolteacher, and author of a dozen novels, most or all of
them tales of historical adventure. Titles are The Young Knight (1923), The
King's Minstrel: A Story of Norman England (1926), Shadow of the Crown: A Story of Malta (1931), A Loyal Foe: A Tale of the Rival Roses
(1933), Rebels in Bondage (1938), Tennessee Outpost (1939), Luck of Scotland (1940), Raeburn Unafraid (1942), Son of the Land (1948), Wayfaring Lad (1949), Father Junipero Serra (1952), and Andrew of the Eagleheart (1952).
Bolton was born in England but immigrated to the U.S. in her teens. She
became a nun in 1911 and took the name Sister Mercedes.
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BONAVIA-HUNT,
DOROTHY [ALICE] (29 Apr 1880 – 21 Nov 1970)
(name changed
from Hunt)
1940s – 1950s
Author of two novels written when she was around 70 years of age—a popular
Jane Austen sequel, Pemberley Shades
(1949), which has been noted on several blogs and which was reprinted in
recent years by Sourcebooks, and a follow-up, The Relentless Tide (1951), which appears to have been published
only in the U.S. Not to be confused with Dorothy A[lice]. HUNT, though their
books have sometimes been misattributed—see here for details.
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BOND, FREDA C[ONSTANCE]. (25 Mar
1894 – 15 Jun1960)
1930s – 1950s
Author of one novel for adults—The
Philanthropists (1933), about a do-gooding woman whose children are
alienated—and eight children's titles, including a trilogy about the
Lancaster family—The End House (1943),
The Lancasters at Lynford (1944),
and Susan and Priscilla
(1945)—discussed by Call Me Madam here, and four more that deal with the Carol family—The Holiday that Wasn’t (1947), The Week Before Christmas (1948), The Carols Explore (1949), and Squibs at School (1951). The final volumes of both series are set
at school. Bond's final book, The
Wishing Well Adventure (1952), is a standalone title.
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BOND, NOREEN (1902 – 27 Feb
1981)
(pseudonym of Nancy Helen Beckh)
1930s
Author of two novels, Hide Away (1936) and Take
Care (1938), far-fetched adventure tales featuring spunky young
protagonists. I reviewed both here.
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BONE, FLORENCE E[MILY]. (26 Jan
1875 – 17 Feb 1971)
1900s – 1950s
Author of around sixty volumes of fiction, including romantic and historical
fiction as well as both girls' and boys' school stories characterized,
according to Sims & Clare, by melodramatic but enjoyable plots). Titles
include Ways of Marigold: A Story of
the North Riding (1906), Alison's
Quest, or, The Mysterious Treasure (1910), Margot's Secret (1910), The
Wonderful Gate (1911), A Burden of
Roses (1913), Curiosity Kate
(1913), The Web on the Loom (1915),
A Maid of Quality (1920), The Four Hearts of a Woman (1922), Cobblesett: Chronicles of Our Village
(1926), Just like Fay (1928), A Flutter In Brocade (1929), Clacking Shuttles (1933), Galloping Days (1937), Crimson Sunrise (1942), Love Across the Cobbles (1951), and Invisible Walls (1955).
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BONE, GERTRUDE [HELENA] (11 Jan 1876 –
25 Feb 1962)
(née Dodd)
1900s – 1920s
Poet, travel writer, and
author of at least five volumes of fiction, including several illustrated by
her husband Muirhead Bone. OCEF
notes three novels, singling out Women
of the Country (1913), about a middle-aged spinster who takes in a
pregnant unwed girl, for "its decisive but unsensational focus on the
experience of women." The others are Mr. Paul (1921)
and This Old Man (1925). Provincial Tales (1904) is a story
collection, but this leaves Children's
Children (1907), which is also fiction, perhaps for children. The Cope (1930) seems to be a short
religious story published in book form, while Came to Oxford (1953) appears to be a memoir.
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BONETT,
EMERY (2 Dec 1906 – 7 Nov 1995)
(pseudonym of
Felicity Winifred Carter, married name Coulson)
1930s – 1960s
Daughter of novelist Winifred CARTER. Screenwriter, novelist, and mystery
writer, both as a solo author and in collaboration with her husband John
Coulson, who wrote under the name John Bonett. Her debut, A Girl Must Live (1936), was about a
chorus girl seeking a wealthy husband, and was made into a film starring
Margaret Lockwood in 1939. I reviewed it here. Three more
solo novels—Never Go Dark (1940), Make Do With Spring (1941), and High Pavement (1944, aka Old Mrs Camelot)—followed. After World
War II, she began collaborating with her husband and produced eight
mysteries. Dead Lion (1949) deals
with the murder of a literary critic, A
Banner for Pegasus (1951, aka Not
in the Script) is about the shooting of a film in an English village, and
No Grave for a Lady (1962), set in
Lyonesse, is about a novelist looking into the death of a silent film
actress. The other titles are Better
Dead (1964, aka Better Off Dead),
The Private Face of Murder (1966), This Side Murder? (1967, aka Murder on the Costa Brava), The Sound of Murder (1970), and No Time to Kill (1972). Her uncle John
L. Carter was also a novelist, and her aunt Edith Carter was a playwright.
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BONHAM, ELIZABETH LYDIA
ROSABELLE (26 Aug 1866 – 30 Oct 1945)
(aka Mrs. Henry de la Pasture, later married name Clifford)
1890s – 1910s
Mother of E. M. DELAFIELD and grandmother of Rosamund Dashwood. Playwright
and author of 13 novels and 3 children's titles, most famously The Unlucky Family (1907), a humorous
children's book about a family learning to live in an inherited country
house. Her novels are often about young, inexperienced heroines, though The Grey Knight (1908) is "about
a romance between two middle-aged people." Her other adult novels are Deborah of Tod’s (1897), Adam Grigson (1899), Catherine of Calais (1901), Cornelius (1903), The Man from America (1905), Peter’s
Mother (1905), The Lonely Lady of
Grosvenor Square (1907), Catherine's
Child (1908), The Tyrant
(1909), Master Christopher (1911), Erica (1912, aka The Honourable Mrs. Garry), and Michael Ferrys (1913).
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BONHAM, MARGARET (14 Oct 1913 –
10 Nov 1991)
(married names Griffith, Bazalgette, and Kimber)
1940s
A distinctly un-prolific writer, Bonham published The Casino (1948), a story collection reprinted by Persephone, and
a single novel, The House Across the
River (1950). She continued to write short stories after that (though
these remain uncollected) until her son's tragic death in 1972, after which
she stopped writing.
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BOOTH, AGNES [CLARA] (1888 -
1975)
1940s – 1960s
Schoolteacher for at least a part of her life and author of several
children's books, including one that is in part a school story—The Forest Mystery (1949). The others
aree The Deerskin Island Mystery
(1945), The Secret of the Harvest Camp
(1948), Red Eagle (1950), and The Quest of the Stone (1963).
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BOOTH, MARJORIE (1 Mar 1895 -
1969)
(real name Marjory, married name Grey)
1920s – 1940s
Author of at least 9 novels. Winterfield
(1934) is described as a psychological study of jealousy, but I haven't found
details of the others, which include A
Gem of Earth (1929), Time to Stare
(1930), Caps Over the Mill (1932), Overture to Fortune (1933), Portrait in Pastel (1935), Monday's a Long Day (1937), Thunder Hill (1938), and The Timeless Realm (1948). An
additional title shown in the British Library catalogue, House Among Trees and No More Waiting (1944), may be two novellas
or short novels published together?
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BORER,
MARY [IRENE] CATHCART (3 Feb 1906 – 2 Dec 1994)
(married name
Myers)
1930s – 1960s
Historian and author of nearly two dozen works of children's fiction, which
sometimes made use of her early involvement
with ethnography and archaeology. The
First Term at Northwood (1948) is her one girls' school story. Other
titles include Kilango (1936), Taha, the Egyptian (1937), The Valley of the White Lake (1947), The Secret Tunnel (1950), Trapped by the Terror (1951), The Mystery of the Snakeskin Belt
(1951), The Dog and the Diamonds
(1956), and Sophie and the Countess
(1960). She also published numerous works of history, including, of
particular interest for this blog, Willingly
to School: A History of Women's Education (1976).
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BORGHYS, NORAH RAY (7 Dec 1887 –
5 Aug 1976)
(née Williams)
1930s
Author of three novels—Green Apples Blush (1935), In
Scarlet Town (1935), and The Golden
Bed (1938)—about which information is scarce.
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BORNE, J. E. C. (dates unknown)
1930s
Author of a single novel, More
Lives Than One (1935), about "a young widow's groping for new
bearings after her husband's death." The author is referred to in a
review by the discoverer of the novel as “Miss Borne,” but I’ve not found any
other details about her. Her novel appears in an online listing of Winifred
Holtby’s personal library.
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BORROW,
ENID S. (dates unknown)
1930s – 1940s
Untraced author of nine novels, probably romantic in nature, including The Golden Chain (1930), The Faithful Heart (1932), For Herself Alone (1932), The Pointing Finger (1937), She Didn't Count (1938), The Newcomer (1939), The Girl She Cheated (1939), A Woman's Gamble (1941), and The Sunlit Path (1941).
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BOSANQUET, MARY [DOROTHY] (11
Jun 1913 - 1999)
(married name Darby)
1950s – 1960s
Best known for two travel narratives—Saddlebags
for Suitcases: Across Canada on Horseback (1942, later reprinted as Canada Ride), about her gruelling
horseback ride from Vancouver to New York, and Journey Into a Picture (1947), about her time with the YMCA in
Italy in the final year of World War II—Bosanquet also published a children's
book, People with Six Legs (1953),
and an adult novel, The Man on the
Island (1962), about a lonely young woman finding new friendships while
studying in the north of England.
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BOSANQUET, THEODORA (3 Oct 1880
– 1 Jun 1961)
1910s
Co-author of a single novel, The
Spectators (1916), with Clara Smith, about which information is sparse.
She also worked as secretary to Henry James for the last decade of his life,
published two books of criticism, Harriet
Martineau: An Essay in Comprehension (1927) and Paul Valery (1933), kept diaries, and practiced extensive
automatic writing.
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BOSTON, L[UCY]. M[ARIA]. (10 Dec
1892 – 25 May 1990)
(née Wood)
1950s – 1970s
Already in her sixties when she published her first novel, Yew Hall (1954), for adults, Boston
quickly transitioned to children's fiction and penned the classic Green Knowe
series, which deals with a manor house in which time travel is possible. That
series, illustrated by Boston's son, includes The Children of Green Knowe (1954), The Chimneys of Green Knowe (1958, aka Treasure of Green Knowe), The
River at Green Knowe (1959), A Stranger
at Green Knowe (1961), An Enemy at
Green Knowe (1964), and The Stones
of Green Knowe (1976). She published several other children's titles, as
well as one additional novel for adults, Persephone
(1969, published in the US as Stronghold),
and two memoirs, Memory in a House
(1973) and Perverse and Foolish: A
Memoir of Childhood and Youth (1979).
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BOTIBOL, JENETTA (3 Oct 1909 –
21 Dec 1988)
1930s
Author of four novels in the 1930s—Sun's Shadow (1934), These Our Dreams (1935), Bitter Seed (1936), and Before High Heaven (1937)—about which
little information is available.
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BOTTOME, PHYLLIS (31 May 1884 –
22 Aug 1963)
(married name Forbes-Dennis)
1900s – 1960s
Author of nearly 50 works of fiction, often focused
on social or political issues. Among her best known works were Old Wine (1924), set in post-WWI Austria, Private Worlds (1934), a tale of
mental illness made into a film starring Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer,
The Mortal Storm (1937), which
warned about the rise of the Nazis and was made into a Hollywood propaganda
piece in 1940, and her "blitz lit" novels, London Pride (1941) and Without
the Cup (1943, aka Survival).
Bottome also focuses on the war in Mansion
House of Liberty (1941, aka Formidable
to Tyrants), described as "snapshots of England at war," and on
the approach to war in The Life-Line
(1946), set in Austria in 1938. Other fiction includes Life, the Interpreter (1902), The
Dark Tower (1916, aka Secretly
Armed), The Depths of Prosperity,
written with American author Dorothy Thompson and set in the U.S., Level Crossing (1936), Man and Beast (1953), and Eldorado Jane (1956). She published
three volumes of memoir, Search for a
Soul: Fragment of an Autobiography (1947), The Challenge (1952), and The
Goal (1962).
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BOUMPHREY,
ESTHER [MARY] (28 Aug 1896 – 24 May 1970)
(née Grandage)
1920s – 1940s
Sole author of three children's stories—The
Hoojibahs (1929), The Hoojibahs and
Mr. Robinson (1931), and Hoojibahs
and Humans (1949)—as well as one collaboration with Barbara Euphan TODD, The House That Ran Behind (1943).
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Bourne, Lesley
see MARSH, JEAN
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BOWEN, ELIZABETH [DOROTHEA COLE]
(7 Jun 1899 – 22 Feb 1973)
(married name Cameron)
1920s – 1960s
One of the most important of the authors whose work was formerly dismissed as
"women's fiction." Author of ten novels, most famously The Death of the Heart (1938), about a
young orphan living with her half-brother and his wife who don't really want
her, and The Heat of the Day
(1948), set in London during the Blitz and described by The Atlantic as "a Graham Greene thriller projected through
the sensibility of Virginia Woolf." She is also well-known for her short
stories, of which there are more than eighty, compiled in her Collected Stories (1980). Bowen's
other novels were The Hotel (1927),
The Last September (1929), Friends and Relations (1931), To the North (1932), The House in Paris (1935), A World of Love (1955), The Little Girls (1964), and Eva Trout (1968). She also published
two memoirs, Seven Winters: Memories of
a Dublin Childhood (1942) and Bowen's
Court (1942) (recently reprinted in a single volume), a travel book, A Time in Rome (1960), and numerous
essays, reviews, and critical writings. The
House in Paris and The Death of the
Heart were filmed for television in 1977, while The Heat of the Day became first a stage play (adapted by Harold
Pinter, no less) in 1989 and and then a TV movie in 1991, and The Last September became a feature
film in 1999.
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BOWEN, MARJORIE (1 Nov 1886 – 23
Dec 1952)
(pseudonym of Margaret Gabrielle Vere Campbell, married names Constanzo
and Long, aka Joseph Shearing, aka George Preedy, aka John Winch, aka Robert
Paye)
1900s – 1950s
Author of more than 90 works of fiction, including tales of the supernatural,
historical fiction as George Preedy, crime novels (many of them reconstructions
of real-life cases) as Joseph Shearing, and children's fiction under the
names John Winch and Robert Paye, as well as her own name, a memoir under her
own name, Margaret Campbell, ironically titled The Debate Continues: Being the Autobiography of Marjorie Bowen
(1939). Among her most successful works are The Viper of Milan (1906), Black
Magic: a Tale of the Rise and Fall of the Antichrist (1909), A Knight of Spain (1913), Stinging Nettles (1923), General Crack (1928), made into a film
with John Barrymore, her Renaissance trilogy, comprised of The Golden Roof (1928), The Triumphant Beast (1934), and Trumpets at Rome (1936), Forget-Me-Not (1932), The Last Bouquet (1933), and Airing in a Closed Carriage (1943).
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BOWER, MARIAN (24 Jul 1865 – 5
Oct 1945)
1890s – 1930s
Author of 16 novels, apparently social dramas with light intrigue elements.
Title are Paynton Jacks, Gentleman
(1893), Samson's Youngest (1895), The Story of Mollie (1897), The Guests of Mine Host (1899), The Puppet Show (1900), Marie-Eve (1903), The Wrestlers (1907), Skipper
Anne: A Tale of Napoleon's Secret Service (1913), The Love Story of Guillaume-Marc (1917), The Chinese Puzzle (1919), Nick
Nonpareil (1922), The Quince Bush
(1927), Gotobedde Lane (1928), Glory Place (1930), Swans Battle (1933), and Sisters' Circus (1934).
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BOWERS, DOROTHY (11 Jun 1902 –
29 Aug 1948)
1930s – 1940s
Author of five acclaimed mysteries, who was
inducted into the prestigious Detection Club shortly before her premature
death from tuberculosis. Postscript to
Poison (1938), about anonymous letters and a murdered matriarch, takes
place before World War II begins, and Shadows
Before (1939), about a man acquitted of one murder and then mixed up in
another, takes place in the Cotswolds just as the war is looming. A Deed Without a Name (1940), which takes
place during the "Phony War", is about a man trying to determine
why someone wants to kill him. In Bowers' most famous novel, Fear and Miss Betony (1941), named by
James Sandoe as one of the best "Golden Age" mystery novels, the
title character—a retired schoolmistress—is called to the aid of a former
student to investigate suspicious doings at the school she runs, which has
been evacuated to Dorset. The Bells of
Old Bailey (1947) deals with a hat shop owner who realizes several recent
deaths in the village must be connected. She was mentioned in 2010 by
Christopher Fowler as one of his unjustly Forgotten Authors.
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BOWES-LYON, LILIAN (22 Dec 1895
– 25 Jul 1949)
(aka D. J. Cotman)
1920s – 1930s
A popular poet in her day, Lyon wrote in part about
her disabilities as a result of illness and injuries from the Blitz (a bus
she was on was caught in a bomb blast and her leg severely injured, finally
having to be amputated just before the end of the war, and she was further
crippled by both diabetes and arthritis). She also worked with Anna Freud
caring for children traumatized by war. Lyon wrote two novels, The Buried Stream (1929) and, under
her pseudonym, The Spreading Tree
(1931). She was a cousin of the Queen Mother, and there's a fascinating blog
post about her here.
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BOWHAY,
BERTHA LOUISA (6 Oct 1873 – 4 Jun 1948)
1920s – 1930s
Playwright and author of three novels—Elenchus
Brown (1929), a utopian novel, the historical Caspar: A Medieval Romance (1930), and Guessing Deeper (1933), about which I could find no details.
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BOX, MURIEL (22 Sept 1905 – 18
May 1991)
(née Baker)
1950s – 1960s
A successful writer of screenplays with her husband, Box also wrote two
novels. Forbidden Cargo
(1957)—credited to her husband as well as her, for marketing purposes, but in
fact by Muriel alone—was a humorous thriller set at a fictional bird
sanctuary. The Big Switch (1964),
meanwhile, was a humorous science-fiction novel set in a post-nuclear world
in which women hold the power. Earlier, as World War II approached, she and
her husband, under the name Evelyn August, had published The Black-out Book: Being One-Hundred-and-One Black-out Nights'
Entertainment (1939), which was very popular. Muriel also published Odd Woman Out: An Autobiography in
1974. She and her husband won Oscars for their work on The Seventh Veil (1945), a tremendously successful psychological
drama starring James Mason and Ann Todd.
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BOYD, JANE (dates unknown)
(pseudonym of ?????)
1950s
Pseudonym used for a single mystery novel, Murder in the King's Road (1953). The
publisher noted that this was the pseudonym of "a crime writer of
distinction," but no one has yet determined which one. I reviewed it here and gave a
sample of the writing as well as a list of possible suspects.
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BOYD, LOUISA R[EID]. (7 Feb 1873
– 22 Jun 1948)
1910s – 1930s
Author who lived in Scotland and published three books which seem to be
novels—The Quest for Joy (1912), Comrades Here (1930), and An Idle Diary (1934). Little else is
known except that a 1901 census shows she is one of eight adult children
(ages 20s to 40s) all still living at home!
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BOYD, MARY STUART (1860 - 1937)
(née Kirkwood, aka Paxton Holgar)
1900s – 1910s
Boyd started her brief writing career with two travel books—Our Stolen Summer: The Record of a
Roundabout Tour (1900) and A
Versailles Christmas-tide (1901)—followed by eight more works of fiction.
Her first, With Clipped Wings
(1902), is a village comedy, and Her
Besetting Virtue (1908) and The
Glen (1910), at least, appear to be romantic comedies. Backwaters (1906) is described by OCEF as "a loss-of-memory mystery
set on the Thames," and The
Mystery of the Castle (1911), written for young readers, also has mystery
elements. Her other novels are The Man
in the Wood (1904), The Misses
Make-Believe (1906), and The First
Stone (1909). She published two more travel books, The Fortunate Isles: Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza
(1911) and From the Shelf (1915),
the latter using her Holgar pseudonym, and then seems to have stopped
writing. Boyd's husband Alexander illustrated some of her books, and they
later emigrated to New Zealand.
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Boyd, Prudence
see BRADLEY, NORAH MARY
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BOYLE, [CONSTANCE] NINA
(ANTONINA) (21 Dec 1866 – 4 Mar 1943)
1920s – 1930s
Suffragist, journalist, welfare worker, and campaigner for women's rights,
Boyle also wrote a dozen novels, often featuring strong female protagonists.
Many of these seem to be humorous, crime-themed adventures, but The Late
Unlamented (1931), for example, in which "the delightfully
irresponsible hero and heroine juggle with poison, destroy clues, and direct
the beam of suspicion on to the wrong person,” may be more of a straightforward
mystery. In Out of the Frying Pan (1920), the heroine leaves her school in search of her parents, only
to find that they are thoroughly shady and lead her into sordid adventures. What
Became of Mr. Desmond (1922) tells of a man who disappears from his
village for 15 years, then returns as if nothing has happened. Nor All Thy
Tears (1923) is set in Brittany, and Anna's (1925) features the
owner of a pub kept over from smuggler days and her high tolerance for crime
(and bigamy). Moteley's Concession (1926) is set in a Ruritanian
province in the Pyrenees, and The Rights of Mallaroche (1927) on an
island off of Wales. The Stranger within the Gates (1926) deals with a
Jeckyll and Hyde case, and How Could They? (1932) features the Divorce
Court, kidnapping, and a trip to Corfu. In Treading on Eggs (1929), a
member of the smart set discovers an old friend playing music in the street,
and My Lady's Bath (1931) features an escaped convict holding a woman
captive in her bath (it presumably goes on from there), while in Good Old Potts! (1934) a young
man comes into accidental possession of valuable jewels and adventures
result.
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