Rosamond Langbridge

Rosamond Grant Langbridge was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet.

Life

She was born at Glenalla, County Donegal, Ireland, the daughter of Rev. Frederick Langbridge, a writer, poet and playwright. She was brought up and educated in Limerick, where her father was Rector of St. John's, until he resigned due to ill-health in 1921.
She married the writer J. S. Fletcher, with whom she had one child, Rev. Valentine Fletcher who was himself a writer, author of various children's books and of Chimney Pots and Stacks, on the British domestic chimney pot. Langbridge contributed to newspapers such as The Manchester Guardian and the Saturday Westminster, amongst others. She died at Mersea, in Essex.

Select bibliography

Among her novels are:

The Flame and the Flood
The Third Experiment
Ambush of Young Days
The Stars Beyond
Imperial Richenda
The Single Eye

Short stories:

The Green Banks of Shannon

Plays:

The Spell

Poetry:

The White Moth and Other Poems

Non-fiction:

''Charlotte Brontë, a psychological study''