Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden was the most commercially successful play in Great Britain in 1956, the year of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, but in many ways Bagnold's form of theater belongs to a generation eclipsed by the changes wrought by...

When Enid Bagnold 's first play, Lottie Dundass, opened at the Vaudeville Theatre in London in the summer of 1943, its author was fifty-three with a twenty-five-year career as novelist behind her. The next twenty-three years she would devote to the...

Enid Bagnold was the only daughter--and for the first six years of her life the only child--of Arthur Henry Bagnold and Ethel Alger Bagnold. Bagnold admits that her parents doted on her as a child: "You'd have thought I was the Infant Jesus," she wrote...

Enid Bagnold's artistic life began, she says in her Autobiography: From 1889 (1969), when she and her family moved to Jamaica. "Beauty never hit me until I was nine. . . . This was the first page of my life as someone who can 'see.' It was like a man...