Enid Algerine Bagnold, Lady Jones:
(27 October 1889 – 31 March 1981).
British writer and playwright best known for the 1935 story National Velvet.
Born on 27 October 1889 in Rochester, Kent, daughter of Colonel Arthur Henry Bagnold and his wife, Ethel (née Alger), and brought up mostly in Jamaica. Her younger brother was Ralph Bagnold.
She attended art school in London, and then worked as assistant editor on one of the magazines run by Frank Harris, who became her lover. Harris and Bagnold are both portrayed in Hugh Kingsmill’s novel The Will to Love (1919).
It was March. The days of March creeping gustily on like something that man couldn’t hinder and God wouldn’t hurry.
