12 Facts About Pamela Frankau

Pamela Sydney Frankau was a popular English novelist from a prominent artistic and literary family.

Pamela Frankau was abandoned by her novelist father Gilbert Frankau at an early age, and she became a prolific writer.

Pamela Frankau stopped writing for a decade after the death of her lover, the poet Humbert Wolfe, in 1940.

Pamela Frankau's grandmother was the satirist Julia Frankau, one of several famous siblings, and her uncle was the British radio comedian Ronald Frankau.

Pamela Frankau wrote about this period in her autobiographical novel I Find Four People.

Pamela Frankau had success as a writer from a young age.

Pamela Frankau had a long but stormy friendship with the author and journalist Dame Rebecca West.

The couple divorced in 1951, and Pamela Frankau later returned to London.

In part autobiographical, Pamela Frankau clearly identified with her lead character, who is presented as a writer in development.

Pamela Frankau wrote of her distant relationship with her father in Pen to Paper.

In 1962, Pamela Frankau was diagnosed with breast cancer, with a poor prognosis due to the remedial cancer treatments available at the time.

Pamela Frankau was buried in a Catholic service at Hampstead Cemetery.