British · 1901–1990
Rosamond Lehmann was a British novelist whose work explores female emotional life with lyrical intensity and psychological acuity. Her novels, including Dusty Answer, Invitation to the Waltz, and The Weather in the Streets, were bestsellers in their day and have been rediscovered by subsequent generations. She was praised by contemporaries including Virginia Woolf for her ability to render the textures of feminine consciousness.