Gertrude Eileen Trevelyan was born in Bath in 1903. She came to fame as the first woman to win the Newdigate Prize for best undergraduate poem at Oxford in 1927. Starting with Appius and Virginia in 1932, she published eight novels, her last being Trance by Appointment in 1939. Her novel Two Thousand Million Man-Power was reissued in the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press in 2022. She was injured when a German bomb struck her flat in October 1940 and she died at her parents' home in Bath in March 1941.
Alice Jolly is an English novelist, playwright and memoirist, who has won both the Royal Society of Literature's V.
S. Pritchett Memorial Prize for short stories and the PEN/Ackerley Prize for autobiography.
Dr Ann Kennedy Smith is a writer and researcher based in Cambridge. Her articles and reviews have been published in the Times Literary Supplement, English Review and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.