Enid Algerine Bagnold was born on 27 October 1889 in Rochester, Kent, the elder of the two children of Arthur and Ethel Alger Bagnold. Her father was a colonel in the Royal Engineers, and her mother was the daughter of William Alger, the mayor of Plymouth. The Bagnolds' younger child, Ralph, was born in 1896.
The family lived in Jamaica from 1899 until 1902, when they returned to England and Enid was enrolled in the unconventional Prior's Field school in Surrey. Her parents sent her to finishing schools in Switzerland and France in 1906-1907, and in the summer of 1910 she was sent to learn German by living with a family in Marburg. The following year she became a student at Walter Sickert's school of drawing and began to move in the artistic circles of pre- World War I London.
In late 1912 Bagnold began working for Frank Harris at his magazine Hearth and Home, later joining the staff of Modern Society after he bought that periodical in 1913.
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