Rosamond Lehmann (1901-1990) was born in Buckinghamshire. She was educated privately and was a scholar at Girton College, Cambridge. She wrote her first novel in her twenties, the best-selling Dusty Answer, and married Wogan Philipps, the artist, in 1928.
Her reputation was firmly established with the publication of A Note in Music in 1930, and the subsequent Invitation to the Waltz and its sequel, The Weather in the Streets.
During the war she contributed short stories to the notable book-periodical New Writing which was edited by her brother, John Lehmann. Rosamond Lehmann remains one of the most distinguished novelists of this century, and was created a CBE in 1982.
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