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Bagnold was an art student until she became a VAD during the war. Her A Diary Without Dates, from which this excerpt is taken, caused her to be fired from the hospital in which she was working. In her preface to the 1935 edition of the book, she claims to have written it at the age of nineteen, perhaps in order to heighten the impression of the narrator’s naivete. She was in fact twenty-nine. Bagnold went on to enjoy a distinguished career as a novelist and is perhaps best known for her children’s book, National Velvet.
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Klein, Y.M. (1997). Enid Bagnold (1889–1981). In: Klein, Y.M. (eds) Beyond the Home Front. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25497-2_10
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