Rosamond Lehmann (1901-1990) was an English novelist who achieved instant fame with her debut, Dusty Answer (1927), a scandalous success based on her years at Girton College, Cambridge, that openly depicted same-sex infatuations.Her fiction was deeply autobiographical, focusing on female sexuality, disillusionment, and the emotional wreckage of affairs with married men-mirroring her own tumultuous personal life, which included two divorces and a painful relationship with poet Cecil Day-Lewis. Following the devastating death of her daughter in 1958, Lehmann abandoned fiction for spiritualism, leaving a legacy as a raw and elegant chronicler of female vulnerability.