Enid Bagnold

Enid Bagnold (1889–1981) was a British novelist and playwright. Born in Rochester, Kent, she grew up partly in Jamaica and later studied art in London. During the First World War she worked as a nurse at the Royal Herbert Hospital; her account of this experience, *A Diary Without Dates* (1918), brought her early attention. Bagnold wrote fiction, plays, and memoir, and is best known for the novel *National Velvet* (1935), later adapted for film. Her later work included wartime writing and diaries, as well as plays such as *The Chalk Garden* (1955). She died in London.