The Echoing Grove

She makes a mood, an atmosphere, which is never forgotten … The inner voice of women talking to themselves about their love affairs, knowing that it is hopeless, having to go ahead anyway, expecting the end as soon as it begins. That, of course, is what Rosamond Lehmann does best * Sunday Times *Full of her sensibility, her funniness, her own peculiar acumen – Elizabeth Jane HowardLehmann legitimised a type of writing that took on deep personal themes – English PENA novelist in the grand tradition … The first writer to filter her stories through a woman’s feelings and perceptions – Anita BrooknerLehmann has always written brilliantly of women in love – Margaret Drabble

Rosamond Lehmann (1901-1990) was born in Buckinghamshire, England, the second of four children. In 1927, a few years after graduating from the University of Cambridge, she published her first novel, Dusty Answer, to critical acclaim and instantaneous celebrity. Lehmann continued to write and publish between 1930 and 1976, penning works including The Weather in the Streets, The Ballad and the Source, and the short memoir The Swan in the Evening. Lehmann was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1982 and remains one of the most distinguished novelists of the twentieth century.

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