Mrs Henry de la Pasture

Mrs Henry de la Pasture.

Mrs Henry de la Pasture (1866 – 30 October 1945), born Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle Bonham, and after her second marriage styled Lady Clifford, was a British novelist and dramatist.

Biography

She was born Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle Bonham in Naples, daughter of Edward Bonham of Bramling, Kent, a British consul. A Catholic, in 1887 she married Henry Philip Ducarel de la Pasture of Llandogo Priory, Monmouthshire. They had two daughters, the elder of whom was E. M. Delafield (married name Edmée Dashwood), author of the Provincial Lady series, who predeceased her mother in 1943; the younger, Yolande Friedl, was a doctor who died in London in 1976. Henry died in 1908 and in 1910 Elizabeth married Sir Hugh Clifford, a colonial administrator who ended his career as Governor of the Straits Settlements.^[1] In 1918 she was awarded the CBE.^[2]

Works

Novels

• The Little Squire (1893). Children's novel. Later dramatised.
• A Toy Tragedy (1894). Children's novel.
• Deborah of Tod's (1897). Later dramatised.
• Adam Grigson (1899)
• Catherine of Calais (1901)
• Cornelius (1903)
• Peter's Mother (1905)
• The Man from America (1905)
• The Lonely Lady of Grosvenor Square (1907)
• The Unlucky Family (1907). Children's novel.
• The Grey Knight (1908)
• Catherine's Child (1908)
• The Tyrant (1909)
• Master Christopher (1911)
• Erica (1912)
• Michael Ferrys (1913)

Plays

• The Lonely Millionaires (1906)
• Her Grace the Reformer (1907)

References

1. The Catholic Who's Who & Yearbook, 1930
2. Everyman's Dictionary of Literary Biography, 3rd ed. (1962)

External links

• Works by Mrs Henry de la Pasture at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Mrs Henry de la Pasture at Internet Archive
• Peter's Mother at Project Gutenberg