Literary Encyclopedia

Rosamond Lehmann

  • Petra Rau (University of Portsmouth)

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 Buckinghams

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First published 21 March 2002; revised 11 June 2002

Citation: Rau, Petra. "Rosamond Lehmann". The Literary Encyclopedia. 21 March 2002

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Life, Works and Times

Dates:

  • 1901 to 1990 (Life Span)
  • 1927 to 1985 (Activity Span)

Places:

  • England (Birth)
  • England (Primary Activity)

Activities:

  • Novelist (Primary)
  • Autobiographer (Other)
  • Photographer (Other)
  • Story-writer (Other)