Rosamond lehmann autobiography of malcolm

Sibyl Jardine, on the other hand, plays more than one role in life: mother, yes, but lover, writer, feminist, rebel as well.

The novel concerns Judith Earle, an only-child who is mostly solitary, but who becomes friendly with the children who visit next door.

It tells the history of rebellious, dramatic Sibyl Jardine, once a beauty, then an outcast from society, now an elderly woman relating her story to a neighbor's.

This study argues for Rosamond Lehmann's place among enduring women writers of the twentieth century.

Later Mrs Jardine's grandchildren, Malcolm, Maise and Cherry, hitherto estranged from her, come to the house to stay since their father is ill.

It tells the history of rebellious, dramatic Sibyl Jardine, once a beauty, then an outcast from society, now an elderly woman relating her story to a neighbor's.!

Rosamond Lehmann

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.^[