1894-1977 GB
A.k.a. Phyllis Eleanor Bentley
Phyllis Eleanor Bentley, OBE (19 November 1894 – 27 June 1977), was an English novelist.The youngest child of a mill owner, she grew up in Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire and was educated at Halifax High School for Girls and Cheltenham Ladies' College. During World War I, she worked in the munitions industry. After the war, she returned to her native Halifax where she taught English and Latin.Bentley was a literary celebrity in the 1930s: in 1938 she gave the first in a series of 'Manchester Celebrity Lectures' on the subject 'Writing a novel'.