Bagnold, Enid (Algerine) (1889-1981)

English novelist and dramatist. Her novel National Velvet (1935), about a girl who wins the Grand National on a horse won in a raffle, was made into a film in 1944 starring Elizabeth Taylor. Her most notable play was The Chalk Garden (1954).

She was educated in Godalming, Surrey, and Paris. During World War I she served in a voluntary capacity, and later with the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) attached to the French army. Her war experiences are recounted in A Diary Without Dates (1917) and The Happy Foreigner (1920). In 1924 she published Serena Blandish. Sailing Ships (1917) is a volume of poems.