Pamela Frankau

PAMELA FRANKAU d1967. English novelist from a prominent artistic and literary family. Abandoned by her novelist father Gilbert Frankau at an early age, she soon became a prolific writer herself. She stopped writing for a decade after the death of her lover (the poet Humbert Wolfe) in 1940. She published her most successful novel (The Willow Cabin in 1949) which was based partly on the experience of her love for Wolfe. Her following novels were widely read. First published in 1954 ; "A Wreath for the Enemy" is perhaps her most enduring novel and is still in print on both sides of the Atlantic. She died in London aged 59 on June 8th 1967