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Enid Bagnold Novelist
- Gender: Female
- Citizenship: England
- Born: Oct 27, 1889
- Died: Mar 31, 1981
Enid Algerine Bagnold, Lady Jones, CBE 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, and brought up mostly in Jamaica. She went to art school in London, and then worked for Frank Harris, who became her lover.
During the First World War she became a nurse, writing critically of the hospital administration and being dismissed as a result. After that she was a driver in France for the remainder of the war years. She wrote about her hospital experiences in A Diary Without Dates, and about her experiences as a driver in The Happy Foreigner.
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, Rottingdean, near Brighton, the garden of which inspired her play, The Chalk Garden.
The couple had four children. Their great-granddaughter is Samantha Cameron, wife of the United Kingdom's current Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader David Cameron.