Rosamond lehmann autobiography meaning

English writer

Rosamond Nina Lehmann^[3]CBE (3 February 1901 – 12 March 1990) was an English novelist and translator. Her first novel, Dusty Answer (1927), was a succès de scandale; she subsequently became established in the literary world, and intimate with members of the Bloomsbury set.

Her novel The Ballad and the Source received particular critical acclaim.

Early life

Rosamond Lehmann was born in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, the second of four children of Rudolph Chambers Lehmann (1856–1929) and his American wife, Alice Mary Davis (1873–1956), from New England.^[4] Rosamond's father was a LiberalMP from 1906 to 1910, and founder of Granta magazine and editor of the Daily News.^[5] Because of this, Rosamond grew up in an affluent, well-educated, and well-known family; the American playwright Owen Davis was Rosamond's cousin,^[6] and her great-grandfather Robert Chambers founded Chambers Dictionary