S02E45 The Amorous Ghost by Enid Bagnold

Edith Bagnold Edith Bagnold, later Lady Jones was born in 1889 in Rochester, Kent and died in 1981 in London . She was most famous for her novel *National Velvet* published in 1935, which was made into a famous film that starred Elizabeth Taylor. &nbsp; Her father was a Colonel in the&nbsp; British Army, and she was mainly brought up in Jamaica.&nbsp; She loved riding horses when she was in Jamaica and that inspired National Velvet.&nbsp; She went to art school in London and worked for Frank Harris, an Irish-American novelist and had an affair with him. She was very Bohemian and mixed with artists and free-thinkers. During the First World War she became a nurse but was critical of the way the hospitals were won and got sacked. She became a driver for the army in France and wrote a memoir of her time dung that. In 1920 she became the wife of Sir Roderick Jones and therefore became Lady Jones.&nbsp; they lived on the south coast of England near Brighton. They had a house in London and were neighbours of Winston Churchill and Jacob Epstein. Her great-grand-daughter was Samantha, wife of the recent British Prime Minister, David Cameron. &nbsp; Virginia Woolf called her ‘a scallywag who married a very rich man.’ Woolf thought that Bagnold had begun as a rebel and Bohemian but ended up being conventionally rich with a butler.&nbsp; Read this article about Bagnold. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/may/31/biography.theatre (Upstairs, downstairs | Margaret Drabble | The Guardian) If You Appreciate The Work I’ve Put In Here &nbsp;https://www.patreon.com/barcud (Become A Patreon) For Bonus Stories Or&nbsp; https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker (buy me a coffee) , if you’d like to keep me working. &nbsp;https://bit.ly/somecomeback (Music)&nbsp; by The Heartwood Institute <a rel="payment" href="https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker">Support this podcast</a>