Life
1908-1967 [Mrs. Dill]; English novelist and story-teller; b. Windsor, dg. Gilbert Frankau, novelist; ed. Stapleton; sub-ed. Women’s
Journal, and copy-ed. in London Advertising Agency; ATS major in World War Two; married Major Dill, a novelist, and settled in America; converted to Catholicism, 1942; returned to London, 1960; among her numerous novels is Road to the Woods (1961), a psychological novel set in Limerick, involving an amnesiac boy whose identity seems different to each of the tortured and eccentric characters he meets; her Irish connection, if any, not disclosed. IF2
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References
Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances and Folklore [Pt. 2] (Cork: Royal Carbery 1985), cites Marriage of Harlequin; The Willon Cabin; The Offshore Light; The Winged Horse; A Wreath for the Enemy; Ask Me No More; The Bridge; also autobiography, I Find Four People (1935); lists Road to the Woods (London: Heinemann 1961),
a psychological novel set in atmosphere of magic with Irish countryside as background; boy finds himself on Sarsfield Bridge, etc.
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