Rosamond Lehmann

Petra Rau (University of East Anglia)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of York), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

Born 3 Feb 1901
Died 12 Mar 1990
Activity 1927-1985

Places

Born in England
Active in England

Activities

Primary

Novelist

Other

Autobiographer
Photographer
Story-writer

Resources

Lehmann's Works

Save to Bookshelf

Rosamond Lehmann was one of the most celebrated writers of the late 1920s and 1930s, famed as much for her beauty and elegance as for her well-crafted interwar novels. Consistently blending romance and loss, her work captures the

Zeitgeist

of a period much given to nostalgia. Her lasting achievement, however, lies in her acute sense of the tensions and conflicts in women's lives in the interwar years: in the portrayal of the

impasse

between modernity and convention, between the desire for romance and the need for independence.

Rosamond Nina Lehmann was born as the second daughter of Rudolph Chambers Lehmann and Alice Marie Davis, at 'Fieldhead', the family home on the banks of the Thames at Bourne End in Buckinghamshire. Rudolph was the son of a distinguished Jewish-German family of

Please log in to consult the article in its entirety. If you are a member (student of staff) of a subscribing institution (see List), you should be able to access the LE on campus directly (without the need to log in), and off-campus either via the institutional log in we offer, or via your institution's remote access facilities, or by creating a personal user account with your institutional email address. If you are not a member of a subscribing institution, you will need to purchase a personal subscription. For more information on how to subscribe as an individual user, please see under Individual Subcriptions.

1699 words

Citation: Rau, Petra. "Rosamond Lehmann". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 March 2002; last revised 06 November 2002. [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2682, accessed 23 November 2024.]