Pamela Frankau

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PF had a dazzling success with her first novel in 1927. She went on to publish more than thirty novels, as well as plays for stage and radio, short stories, autobiography, and an important anti-nuclear pamphlet. Despite several Virago reprints, she has not received the critical attention she deserves.
Black-and-white portrait photo of Pamela Frankau, 1928. The portrait is very minimal aside from a patterned scarf/brooch on the left side of her dress.

Milestones

8 June 1908
PF was born, the younger in a family of two daughters.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
By October 1954
PF published A Wreath for the Enemy, a bildungsroman set mostly in the French Riviera and the Cotswolds.
British Book News. British Council.
(1954): 576
8 June 1967
PF died of cancer at not yet sixty; she had been gravely ill since the spring, but her death came much sooner than her friends had expected.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(9 June 1967): 12
By June 1968
PF 's final novel, left unfinished at her death, was completed from her manuscript by her cousin Diana Raymond , and published as Colonel Blessington.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

Biography

Birth and Family

8 June 1908
PF was born, the younger in a family of two daughters.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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