Rosamond Lehmann (Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, 1901 - London, 1990) He belonged to a family of writers, publishers and artists: his father, Rudolph Chambers Lehmann, was one of the founders of the magazine Granta and editor of the Daily News; his brother, John Lehmann, was a writer and had his own publishing house; his sister was the actress Beatrix Lehmann. Rosamond was educated at home, with private tutors, until she went to the University of Cambridge, where she studied English Literature and Modern and Medieval Languages. In 1927, Lehmann published his first novel, which was a succès de scandale and brought her to fame when she was still very young: Dusty Answer, much praised by critics. Other of his best known works are A Note in Music (1930), Invitation to Dance (1932, published in Spanish by Errata Naturae in 2015), In the open (1936), The Ballad and the Source (1944), The Echoing Grove (1953), and A Sea-Grape Tree (1976). He also published a play, a collection of stories and a photographic "album" of his friends (Rosamond Lehmann's Album, 1985), among which were several members of Bloomsbury, such as Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Dora Carrington or Lytton Strachey. Since the late thirties, Lehmann had a love affair with the poet Cecil Day-Lewis, father of the well-known actor Daniel Day-Lewis. Admired by many writers of later generations (Jonathan Coe has become one of his great "rediscovers"), Rosamond Lehmann was named Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1982.