Rosamond Lehmann (1901-1990) was born in Buckinghamshire and educated privately before going to Girton College, Cambridge, as a scholar. She was made a CBE in 1982 and remains one of the most distinguished writers of the 20th century.
...the first writer to filter her stories through a woman's feelings & perceptions Anita Brookner She is immensely readable, acute, passionate, funny and original Elizabeth Jane Howard