National Velvet Summary
Enid Bagnold

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National Velvet Summary

National Velvet is a stirring reminder that one does not have to wait until maturity to arrive at greatness; one need not be held back by gender or lack of money. Velvet Brown's story is a timeless account of an individual rising above the conventional views that hold people back from realizing their dreams.

The first-time reader of the book will be happily surprised to see that, like many literary classics, it is...

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Study Pack

The National Velvet Study Pack contains:

National Velvet Short Guide

Overview

About the Author

Setting

Social Sensitivity

Literary Qualities

Themes and Characters

Adaptations

Topics for Discussion

Ideas for Reports and Papers

For Further Reference

Enid Bagnold Biographies (4)

Enid Bagnold

3,696 words, approx. 13 pages

When Enid Bagnold 's first play, Lottie Dundass, opened at the Vaudeville Theatre in London in the summer of 1943, its author was fifty-three with a twenty-five-year career as novelist behind her. T... Read more

Enid Bagnold

3,589 words, approx. 12 pages

Enid Bagnold was the only daughter--and for the first six years of her life the only child--of Arthur Henry Bagnold and Ethel Alger Bagnold. Bagnold admits that her parents doted on her as a child: "Y... Read more

Enid Bagnold

3,485 words, approx. 12 pages

Enid Bagnold's artistic life began, she says in her Autobiography: From 1889 (1969), when she and her family moved to Jamaica. "Beauty never hit me until I was nine. . . . This was the first page of m... Read more

Enid Bagnold

3,770 words, approx. 13 pages

Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden was the most commercially successful play in Great Britain in 1956, the year of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, but in many ways Bagnold's form of theater belongs t... Read more