Pamela Frankau

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Pamela Frankau (1908-1967) was a popular British novelist. Her father was the novelist Gilbert Frankau and her mother a satirist Julia Davis. Her brother is the British radio comedian, Ronald Frankau.

She had success as a writer from a young age. A relationship with the married Humbert Wolfe ended only with his death in 1940. She then ceased to write for a long period. During the Second World War, she worked for the BBC, the Ministry of Food and with the Auxiliary Territorial Service.

She became a Roman Catholic convert in 1942, and spent much time in the United States. She was married there, though only for a few years. She returned to England in 1953. A long lesbian relationship with the theatre director Margaret Webster began in the 1950s.

[edit] Works

• Marriage of Harlequin (1927)
• The Fig Tree (1928)
• The Black Minute, and other stories (1929)
• Three. A Novel (1929)
• She and I (1930)
• Born at Sea (1931)
• Letters from a Modern Daughter to her Mother (1931)
• The Devil We Know (1931)
• “I was the Man.” (1932)
• Women are so Serious, and other stories (1932)
• The Foolish Apprentices (1933)
• A Manual of Modern Manners (1933)
• Walk into my Parlour (1933)
• Tassell-Gentle (1934) as Fly Now Falcon (US)
• I Find Four People (1935) autobiography
• Fifty-Fifty, and other stories (1936)
• Villa Anodyne (1936)
• Jezebel (1937)
• Some New Planet (1937)
• No News (1938)
• A Democrat Dies (1939)
• The Devil We Know (1939)
• Shaken in the Wind (1948)
• The Willow Cabin (1949)
• The Offshore Light (1952)
• The Winged Horse (1953)
• To The Moment of Triumph (1953)
• A Wreath for the Enemy (1954)
• The Bridge (1957)
• Ask me no More (1958)
• Road through the Woods (1960)
• Pen to Paper. A novelist's notebook (1961)
• Letter to a Parish Priest (1962)
• Sing for Your Supper (1963)
• Slaves of the Lamp (1965)
• Over the Mountains (1967)
• Colonel Blessington (1968) posthumous, editor Diana Raymond