[1] Raised Roman Catholic, though her mother was a Jew.
Father: Maximilian von Schoenebeck (d. 1920)
Mother: Elizabeth Bernard
Husband: Walter Bedford ("Terry", m. 1935, div.)
Royal Society of Literature 1994
Officer of the British Empire 1981
Author of books:
The Sudden View: A Mexican Journey (1953, nonfiction)
A Legacy (1956, novel)
The Best We Can Do: An Account of the Trial of John Bodkin Adams (1958)
The Faces of Justice (1961)
A Favourite of the Gods (1963, novel)
A Compass Error (1968)
Aldous Huxley: A Biography (1973-74, biography, 2 vols.)
Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education (1989, novel)
As it Was: Pleasures, Landscapes, and Justice (1990, articles)
Pleasures and Landscapes: A Traveller's Tale from Europe (2003, articles)
Quicksands: A Memoir (2005, memoir)
