Enid Bagnold

Enid Bagnold
Enid Bagnold (1889–1981) was a British writer and playwright, best known for her novel "National Velvet" (1935), which was adapted into a popular film in 1944. Her works often explore themes of love, family, and the inner lives of women. Another notable work is "The Chalk Garden" (1955), a play that became a Broadway success. Bagnold's writing reflects her rich life experiences, including serving as a nurse during World War I, which inspired her novel "A Diary Without Dates" (1917).

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OUTSIDE THE GLASS DOORS I like discipline. I like to be part of an institution. It gives one more liberty than is possible among three or four observant friends.   It is always cool and wonderful after the monotone of the dim hospital, its half-lit corridors stretching as far as one can see, to come out into the dazzling starlight and climb the hill, up into the trees and shrubberies here. The wind... more...

CHAPTER I THE TRAVELLER The war had stopped. The King of England was in Paris, and the President of the United States was hourly expected. Humbler guests poured each night from the termini into the overflowing city, and sought anxiously for some bed, lounge-chair, or pillowed corner, in which to rest until the morning. Stretched upon the table in a branch of the Y.W.C.A. lay a young woman from England... more...