Carola Oman

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CO , daughter of a historian, published a single book of poetry in the wake of the First World War. She then turned first to historical novels, then to historical biography, with one book of non-biographical history and some works in the same genres for children.
  • BirthName: Carola Mary Anima Oman
  • Married: Lenanton
    CO was Mrs Lenanton for social purposes for twenty-four years before becoming Lady Lenanton in 1946.
  • Pseudonym: C. Oman
  • Titled: Lady Lenanton
  • Indexed: C. Lenanton

Milestones

11 May 1897

CO was born in Oxford, the middle child in a family of three, during a visit to Oxford by the Prince of Wales .
Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton, 1976.
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After July 1946

CO 's biography of Britain's national naval hero, Nelson (probably her best-known achievement), appeared in the USA the year before its English publication, likely on account of wartime paper shortages.
Oman, Carola. Nelson. Doubleday, 1946.
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British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

1976

CO 's An Oxford Childhood, an early memoir of herself and her family, with delightful period photographs, was published a couple of years before her death.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

11 June 1978

CO died at a little over eighty, having been a widow for more than twenty-five years.
“Obituary: Miss Carola Oman”. Times, 12 June 1978, p. 16.
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Biography

Birth and Family

11 May 1897

CO was born in Oxford, the middle child in a family of three, during a visit to Oxford by the Prince of Wales .
Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton, 1976.
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