6/19/2023 0 Comments Wax by Ethel Lina White![]() Her publications made her one of the best known crime writers in Britain and the United States in the 1930s and 1940s. She was living in Abergavenny in 1911.īy 1917 White was working in London in the Ministry of Pensions, but in 1919 she resigned for a £10 advance in order to write, later saying it was because she disliked "the lack of fresh air and office life". She later began to write short stories, but it was some years before she wrote books. ![]() She passed the Government Examination (Second Class) in freehand drawing at Newport School of Art in 1890. White grew up in Fairlea Grange, which was built in the 1880s by her father, and started writing as a child and contributing essays and poems to children's papers. Her father's invention, a compound of bitumen and cement was the first waterproof building material, and used in the construction of the London Underground, which brought wealth to the family. ![]() ![]() She was best known for her novel The Wheel Spins (1936), on which the Alfred Hitchcock 1938 film The Lady Vanishes was based.īorn in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, in 1876, Ethel Lina White was the daughter of William White, builder and inventor of the Hygeian Rock Building Composition, and Ethel C White, both of Clifton, Bristol. Ethel Lina White (2 April 1876 – 13 August 1944) was a British crime writer from Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales. ![]()
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