- Viola Bayley
Viola Clare Bayley (birth: 1911 – ??) was a British children's writer, writing adventure stories.
Life
Birth 1911, in Rye Sussex. Borne Wingfield (?)
education: Effingham House, Bexhill, ?? School of Drama. L.G.S.M. (Licenciate of the Guildhall School of Music)
In the winter of 1933 she visited her uncle, a high Court Judge, in Lahore in India. There she met Vernon Thomas Bayley (C.M.G., O.B.E.) of the Indian Police and got engaged. She returned to England to be married and subsequently returned to Hangu in India with her husband in 1934. In 1935 they moved to Delhi. Over the years frequent trips to places such as Simla and Gulmarg took place. After the war, they returned to England in 1946.
Two sons, two daughters.
Address and Telephone number in 1950/60?: Rother Cliff, Rye, Sussex, Tel: Rye 2204
1975/76: short memoir of the first year in India, and One Woman's Raj about her time in India [http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/Handlist_B.htm#BAYLEY_V] .
Death ??
Works
*The Dark Lantern (1951)
*White Holiday (1953)*. On holiday in Switzerland, Rosamund and her brother help their skiing instructor to uncover a mystery which threatens his life
*Storm on the Marsh (1953)
*April Gold (1954)
*Paris Adventure (1954)
*The Wings of the Morning. Tales (1954)
* Ways of Wonderland (?)
*Little Mallows (1955)
*Lebanon Adventure (1955)
*Turkish Adventure (1957)
*Corsican Adventure (1957)
*Shadow on the Wall (1958)
*Kashmire Adventure (1959)
*Swedish Adventure (1959)
*Mission on the Moor (1960)*
*London Adventure (1962
*Italian Adventure (1964)
*Scottish Adventure (1965)
*Welsh Adventure (1966)
*Austrian Adventure (1968)*
*Jersey Adventure (1969)
*Adriatic Adventure (1970)*
*Caribbean Adventure (1971)*. Tricia and her friends the Hamilton's go to stay with their cousin Derek who has inherited an estate on the island of Grenada.
*Greek Adventure (1972)
*Shadows on the Cape (1985)** date of first edition. Other dates of first edition not verifiedReferences
Author's and Writer's Who's Who, 1963 [http://www.archive.org/stream/authorsandwriter012067mbp/authorsandwriter012067mbp_djvu.txt]
External links
ources
Memoir of life in India, 1933-46: One Woman's Raj written in 1975/76. (134 pp.) Unpublished memoir. Bayley Papers. CSAS (Centre of South Asian Studies, U of Cambridge) [http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/Handlist_B.htm#BAYLEY_V]
Spaces of Colonialism, by Stephen Legg [http://books.google.com/books?id=_9Z7dqE8BOsC&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=viola+bayley&source=web&ots=vPpoNeBgZ-&sig=EoosmbgF8cIZxhTo3333zflFjBM&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result]
Curry, by Elizabeth M. Collingham [http://books.google.com/books?id=kl70GrMq6vwC&pg=PA169&lpg=PA169&dq=viola+bayley&source=web&ots=cdsiaWNLju&sig=8E3Bn00roHlC-TiJxBEEoGkv804&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result#PPA195,M1]
Married to the Empire, by Mary A. Procida [http://books.google.com/books?id=e1y6-MwJY0AC&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134&dq=viola+bayley&source=web&ots=T8HYR1F6cC&sig=Jx57MS9H9qu7XD3qHOmUNlYmuoQ&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPA134,M1]
Gowans, Georgina (2006). Travelling home: British women sailing from India, 1940–1947. Women's Studies International Forum, Volume 29, Pages 81-95 [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VBD-4HTCW4W1&_user=651649&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=651649&md5=0f3100c4892736e36387b94dd5d3d70c]
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