Edgar Wallace

PF took her title from a lyric by seventeenth-century Thomas Carew , telling his auditors not to enquire after lost beauty since it has gone to make up the face of his beloved. She dedicated...

She wrote it at the age of seventeen, on suburban trains while commuting between her Windsor home and her office job in London. She thought her heroine resembled Shakespeare 's famously irresolute hero, and...

After interruptions from the war and from her first bout with tuberculosis NJ returned to performing, this time to the legitimate stage, where after a frightening initiation she found herself in demand for character parts...