Enid Bagnold
Bagnold, Enid (băg'nəld), 1889-1981, English novelist and playwright, b. Rochester, Kent, England. She was a nurse in a military hospital in World War I. In 1920 she married Sir Roderick Jones, head of Reuters news agency. Bagnold's works combined wit, charm, sophistication, and wisdom. Her best-known novel was National Velvet (1935), the story of a teenage girl who wins a horse in a raffle and rides it to victory in the famed Grand National race. Bagnold's other works included the novels Serena Blandish (1924) and The Loved and the Envied (1951), and the plays The Chalk Garden (1955), The Chinese Prime Minister (1964), and A Matter of Gravity (1975).
Bibliography
See her autobiography (1969); also studies by L. Friedman (1986) and A. Sebba (1987).
Quotes By:
Top
Enid Bagnold
Quotes:
"It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors."
"When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much."
"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."
"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again."
"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."
"Judges don't age. Time decorates them."
See more famous quotes by
Enid Bagnold
Wikipedia on Answers.com:
Top
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 his wife Ethel Alger, 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 A 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,[1] 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 in St Margaret's churchyard.
Works
- A Diary Without Dates (1917) at The Internet Archive
- The Sailing Ships and other poems (1918)
- The Happy Foreigner (1920) at A Celebration of Women Writers
- 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 (1955) 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)
References
- Anne Sebba (1986) Enid Bagnold, The Authorised Biography
- Lenemaja Friedman (1986) Enid Bagnold
- Enid Bagnold (1969) Enid Bagnold's Autobiography
- ^ Cairo in the War: 1939-1945 (1989). ISBN 0-241-12671-1.p. 83
External links
- Page at Spartacus
- Works by Enid Bagnold at Project Gutenberg
- Enid Bagnold at the Internet Broadway Database
- Selected performances in Theatre Archive University of Bristol
- Enid Bagnold at the Internet Movie Database
- Some context of the interwar pony story in which Bagnold's National Velvet was conceived
This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)
Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:
Copyrights:
Columbia Encyclopedia
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. www.cc.columbia.edu/cu/cup/.
Read more
