ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the lives and works of two women writers who drew on their experience of bringing up young children at this time. The primary writer on whom the chapter focuses is Rosamond Lehmann, whose writing interweaves the narrative voices of children to articulate memories and sensations of guilt and who was influenced by a circle of friends and correspondents including many of chosen writers and other important figures of the time. The second writer is Elizabeth Taylor, author of Palladian, A Wreath of Roses, A Game of Hide and Seek and A View of the Harbour, as well as two novels Angel and Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont that were subsequently filmed. The chapter looks at how Freud's lost daughter is recorded in 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle', and considers how the lost children of Taylor, Lehmann and Adam appear in their literary representations of wartime children.
