E. Arnot Robertson

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During the middle decades of the twentieth century, EAR published nine novels (the last one posthumously), as well as shorter fiction, a work of topography and one of naval history, and a book for children. Her earlier fiction was better received than later works. She became extremely well known as a broadcaster and film reviewer.

Milestones

By June 1903

Eileen Arbuthnot Robertson (who later called herself E. Arnot Robertson ) was born at Holmwood in Surrey, which was then in the countryside. Her birth was registered this month
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

1928

EAR published her first novel, 'Cullum', told in the first person by a narrator obsessively in love with a worthless character who is also a novelist.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

1931

EAR 's novel Four Frightened People was set more entirely than her previous one in Malaya (where the author had never been). It relied on her research at the British Museum .
Devlin, Polly, and E. Arnot Robertson. “Introduction”. Four Frightened People, Virago, p. vii - xix.
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22 September 1961

EAR was found dead at her Hampstead home five months after her husband 's accidental drowning. Perhaps because of the social stigma of suicide, the coroner found that her death was accidental.
“Obituary: Miss E. Arnot Robertson”. Times, p. 12.
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Devlin, Polly, and E. Arnot Robertson. “Introduction”. Four Frightened People, Virago, p. vii - xix.
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1964

The Strangers on My Roof, EAR 's final novel, was published posthumously.
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Biography

She was known socially as Mrs Turner for more than twenty years before she became Lady Turner, but she did not use either married name for her writing, remaining Miss E. Arnot Robertson to reviewers and others.

Birth and Family

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