A Diary Without Dates - Bagnold, Enid

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Résumé :
A diary that feels like a window into a quiet, lived life-and a door into a cherished century. A Diary Without Dates opens up ordinary hours to reveal the texture of memory, time, and domestic life as it would have felt to live through interwar England. This slim, deceptively simple volume gathers observations, feelings, and small events that illuminate the art of diary literature and the art of being present. It reads as a melodic conversation with the day, where small moments become enduring resonances. The form offers a bridge between autobiography and fiction, inviting both casual readers and classic-literature collectors to consider how a life can be chronicled with tenderness, wit, and surprising clarity. It sits beside the best of british literature, a touchstone for students of memory, time, and place, and a companion for readers who treasure Virginia Woolf diaries and Edith Sitwell journals. Its significance extends beyond nostalgia. Enid Bagnold's pages offer insight into interwar England and the shifts of early twentieth-century life, while the book's careful craft invites discussion about how ordinary life is observed, recorded, and remembered. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this edition is Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure for diary lovers, fiction diarists, and memory-minded readers alike....

Biographie:
Enid Algerine Bagnold, Lady Jones, CBE, was a British author and playwright best known for her 1935 story National Velvet. Enid Algerine Bagnold was born on October 27, 1889, in Rochester, Kent, the daughter of Colonel Arthur Henry Bagnold and his wife, Ethel, and raised primarily in Jamaica. Her younger brother was named Ralph Bagnold. She went to art school in London before working as an assistant editor for one of Frank Harris' journals, who later became her girlfriend. Hugh Kingsmill's work The Will to Love (1919) portrays both Harris and Bagnold. Bagnold studied art in Chelsea, where he painted with Walter Sickert and had his sculptures created by Gaudier Brzeska. On July 8, 1920, she married Sir Roderick Jones, the chairman of Reuters, but continued to write under her maiden name. They lived in North End House, Rottingdean, near Brighton (formerly Sir Edward Burne-Jones' residence), and led a spectacular social life. The grounds at North End House inspired her play The Chalk grounds. The Joneses lived at No. 29 Hyde Park Gate in London from 1928 until 1969, seven years after Sir Roderick's death, which means they were Winston Churchill and Jacob Epstein's neighbours for many of those years....