author
Rosamond Lehmann
1901–1990
Best known for psychologically acute novels such as Dusty Answer and Invitation to the Waltz, she wrote with unusual tenderness about youth, longing, and the uneasy passage into adult life. Her fiction helped make her one of the distinctive English novelists of the 20th century.
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Dusty answer
by Rosamond Lehmann
Elämänhurman häipyessä
by Rosamond Lehmann
About the author
Born in Buckinghamshire in 1901, Rosamond Lehmann became known for elegant, emotionally searching fiction that paid close attention to inner life. Reference works describe her as an English novelist and translator, and note her gift for portraying young women at moments of change, with a style admired for its subtlety and precision.
Her debut novel, Dusty Answer (1927), brought her early fame, and later books including Invitation to the Waltz, The Weather in the Streets, and The Ballad and the Source confirmed her place in modern English literature. Accounts of her career also note her connection to the Bloomsbury literary world and the wider cultural life of mid-20th-century Britain.
Lehmann died in London in 1990. She is still remembered for fiction that feels intimate and quietly brave, especially in the way it captures desire, vulnerability, and the complicated emotions of growing up.