Composers and their stage works 


 

Enid Algerine (Lady Jones) Bagnold

(1889 - 1981)

Born Rochester, Kent, England October 27, 1889. Spent early childhood in the West Indies returning to England to Priors Field, Godalming. Married 1920 to Sir Roderick Jones who was, for 25 years Chairman of Reuters.

Stage Works
  1. Lottie Dundass (produced Santa Barbara, California, 1942 ; London, 1943).
  2. National Velvet, adaptation of her own novel (produced London, 1945).
  3. Poor Judas (produced London, 1951).
  4. Gertie (produced New York, 1952; as Little Idiot, produced London, 1953).
  5. The Chalk Garden (produced New York, 1955; London, 1956).
  6. The Last Joke (produced London, 1960).
  7. The Chinese Prime Minister (produced New York, 1964; London, 1965).
  8. Call Me Jacky (produced Oxford, 1967). (revised version, as A Matter of Gravity, produced Washington, D.C., 1975; New York, 1976).

Novels

  1. The Happy Foreigner. London, Heinemann, and New York, Century, 1920.
  2. Serena Blandish; or, The Difficulty of Getting Married (as A Lady of Quality). London, Heinemann, 1924; New York, Doran, 1925; as Enid Bagnold, New York, Morrow, 1946.
  3. National Velvet. London, Heinemann, and New York, Morrow, 1935.
  4. The Squire. London, Heinemann, 1938 ; as The Door of Life, New York, Morrow, 1938.
  5. The Loved and Envied. London, Heinemann, and New York, Doubleday, 1951.
  6. The Girl's Journey: Containing The Happy Foreigner and The Squire. London, Heinemann, and New York, Doubleday, 1954.

Verse

  • The Sailing Ships and Other Poems. London, Heinemann, 1918.

Other

  1. A Diary Without Dates. London, Heinemann, 1918 ; New York, Morrow, 1935.
  2. Alice and Thomas and Jane (juvenile). London, Heinemann, 1930; New York, Knopf, 1931.
  3. Enid Bagnold's Autobiography: From 1889. London, Heinemann, 1969; Boston, Little Brown, 1970. Revised 1985
  4. Translator, Alexander of Asia, by Princess Marthe Bibesco. London, Heinemann, 1935.