Gilbert Frankau

JF bore her eldest child, Gilbert Frankau . He later became a famous popular novelist, but was only one of Julia's immediate descendants to evince literary or theatrical talent.

Her father, Gilbert Frankau , novelist and womaniser, came from a gifted family full of writers. He was divorced from his wife, and (in G. B. Stern 's words) nonchalantly strolled out of [Pamela's] existence...

PF later called this my unpopular novel, though it was her own favourite. Her father confessed himself puzzled by it.

PF published the novel Tassell-Gentle, which she completed in a solitude enforced for working purposes by her father, Gilbert Frankau .

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...

PF returned from the USA to live in London; she was just too late to see her father before he died.

Stephen Lock suggests in his introduction to the 1989 reprint that this novel is à clef: that JF 's Phillips (whose name, before the publisher suggested a change, was Dr Abrams) was modelled on Ernest Abraham Hart

Two years after JF 's death her son Gilbert Frankau collected her hitherto unpublished stories in Mothers and Children, with a preface by himself.

JF 's son Gilbert dramatized this novel in 1920 as a star vehicle for his second wife, Aimée de Burgh , but the result was not a stage success. The novel was also twice filmed...

Other titles were A Coquette in Crape, 1907, An Incomplete Eton ian, 1909,Full Swing,1914, and The Story Behind the Verdict, 1915.

In this book PF offers her impressions of celebrities met through her great-aunt Eliza Aria . Place is important too, like her vivid yet dreamlike description of Sligachan on the Isle of Skye...