G. E. Trevelyan

Gertrude Eileen Trevelyan was born in Bath in 1903. She came to fame as the first woman to win the Newdigate Prize for best undergraduate poem at Oxford. Starting with Appius and Virginia in 1932, she published eight novels, her last being Trance by Appointment in 1939. Her novels Two Thousand Million Man-Power and William’s Wife have been reissued in the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press in 2022. Injured when a German bomb struck her flat in October 1940, she died at her parents' home in March 1941.