Woodham-Smith continued her work on the 19th century with her next book about the British Light Brigade. Published under her own name in 1950 as Florence Nightingale: 1820–1910, it was hailed as a scholarly, witty, and sympathetic work, brought Woodham-Smith considerable acclaim among critics, and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. She published three novels under the pseudonym "Janet Gordon," beginning with April Sky in 1938.ĭrawn to the challenges of biography, in 1941 Woodham-Smith began research for her first nonfiction work, a life of the pioneering nurse Florence Nightingale. She then devoted herself to caring for her two children, but when they were old enough to enter boarding school, Woodham-Smith used her new leisure time to begin writing seriously. In 1928, she quit working when she married George Ivon Woodham-Smith, a prosperous attorney.
She graduated in 1917, and supported herself for the next decade as a typist and copywriter for a London advertising firm. Expelled from the Royal School for Officers' Daughters in Bath, England, for traveling to France without permission, Woodham-Smith then enrolled at a French convent before entering St. (under pseudonym Janet Gordon) April Sky (1938) Tennis Star (1939), Just Off Bond Street (1940) (as Cecil Woodham-Smith) Florence Nightingale, 1820–1910 (1950), The Reason Why (1953), The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845–1849 (1962), Queen Victoria: Her Life and Times (1972).īorn in 1896 in Tenby, Wales, Cecil Woodham-Smith was the daughter of James FitzGerald, a British army officer of Irish descent, and Blanche Philipps FitzGerald, from Wales.
Hilda's College, Oxford married George Ivon Woodham-Smith (an attorney), in 1928 (died 1968) children: Elizabeth Sarah Woodham-Smith Charles James Woodham-Smith. Born Cecil Blanche FitzGerald on April 29, 1896, in Tenby, Wales died on March 16, 1977, in London, England daughter of James FitzGerald (an army colonel) and Blanche Elizabeth Philipps FitzGerald educated at the Royal School for Officers' Daughters in Bath, a French convent school, and at St. Name variations: (pseudonym) Janet Gordon.
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