When the Bagnolds returned from Jamaica, Enid, age twelve, was sent to Prior's Field Boarding School, not only to get a good education but also for refinement and discipline. The headmistress, the mother of Aldous Huxley, was a kind woman who amazed Bagnold because she appeared to think before she spoke, a habit Bagnold had never practiced. Her years with Mrs. Huxley were five of her happiest. Mrs. Huxley left the school when Bagnold, still outspoken and spontaneous for a young woman, was seventeen. Bagnold spent the next year or so traveling to finishing schools in Germany, Switzerland, and France. At eighteen she returned home to Woolwich and attended a coming-out at the Royal Military Academy. It was during this time that she decided she wanted to become a writer. Major Bagnold provided her a private room to develop her talents. In her autobiography she admits that "bit by bit I became the disciplined writer, in that Tower Room." In 1920 she married Sir Roderick Jones, the owner and director of Reuters News Agency; the couple had four children.
Bagnold was a dedicated writer for more than sixty years of her life. Writing mainly for adults, she has to her credit a book of poems, a nonfiction book, novels, plays, and a screen adaptation of one of her novels.
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