![]() ![]() ![]() and Falmouth, Massachusetts and continued to write, most of her books being set in Britain. Soon after this, she moved to the United States after marrying a US Marine Corps officer, Roy Stratton, and adopting two girls, Pamela and Prudence. One Pair Of Feet (1942) recounted her work as a nurse, and subsequently she worked in an aircraft factory and on a local newspaper - her experiences in the latter field of work inspired her 1951 book My Turn To Make The Tea. ![]() Having become disillusioned with the world she was brought up in - she was expelled from St Paul's Girls' School in London before she was presented at court as a debutante - she decided to go into service despite coming from the privileged class her experiences as a cook and general servant would form the nucleus of her first book, One Pair Of Hands in 1939. She was the grand-daughter of Sir Henry Fielding Dickens KC, the eminent judge. She was born in an upper middle class London family to Henry Charles Dickens (1882-1966), a barrister, and Fanny Runge. Monica Enid Dickens was an English writer, the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens. ![]()
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