Isobel English

Career

Upon her return she was sent in 1928 to Louisiana Retraite, a convent school in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, which she described in her 1956 novel Every Eye. After secretarial college in London she was taught literature by Kenneth Allott while working with him.

Achievements

• She published numerous short stories and a collection of them, after All appeared in 1973 and won the Katherine Mansfield Prize. After All (stories, 1973, winner of the Katherine Mansfield Prize).