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Clemence Dane
English novelist and playwright
Clemence Dane CBE | |
|---|---|
| Born | Winifred Ashton 21 February 1888 Blackheath, England |
| Died | 28 March 1965(1965-03-28) (aged 77) London, England |
| Pen name | Clemence Dane |
| Occupation | Novelist, playwright |
| Notable works | Regiment of Women (1914) |
Winifred AshtonCBE, better known by the pseudonymClemence Dane (21 February 1888 – 28 March 1965), was an English novelist and playwright.
Life and career
After completing her education, Dane went to Switzerland to work as a French tutor, but returned home after a year. She studied art in London and Germany. After the First World War, she taught at a girls' school and began writing.
She took the pseudonym "Clemence Dane" from the church, St Clement Danes on the Strand, London.
Her first novel, Regiment of Women, written in 1914, was a study of life in a girls' school.[1] In 1919 she wrote Legend, the story of a group of acquaintances who debate