Mrs Henry de la Pasture
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Mrs Henry de la Pasture (1866 – October 30, 1945), born Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle Bonham and after her second marriage styled Lady Clifford, was a British novelist and dramatist.
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[edit] Biography
Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle Bonham was born in Naples, daughter of Edward Bonham of Bramling, Kent, a British consul. A Catholic, in 1887 she married Henry Philip Duracel de la Pasture (died 1908) of Llandogo Priory, Monmouthshire. In 1910 she married Sir Hugh Clifford, Governor of the Straits Settlements.[1] In 1918 she was awarded the CBE.[2]
[edit] Works
Novels
- The Little Squire (1894). Later dramatized.
- Deborah of Todd's (1897). Later dramatized.
- Peter's Mother(1905)
- The Man from America (1906)
- The Lonely Lady of Grosvenor Square (1907)
- The Tyrant (1909)
- Michael Ferrys (1913)
Plays
- The Lonely Millionares (1906)
- Her Grace the Reformer (1907)
[edit] References
- ^ The Catholic Who's Who & Yearbook, 1930
- ^ Everyman's Dictionary of Literary Biography, 3rd ed. (1962)
[edit] External links
- Peter's Mother, available at Project Gutenberg.
- Works by or about Mrs Henry de la Pasture in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
