Lady Clifford CBE
Mrs Henry de la Pasture
Born	Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle Bonham 1866 (1866) Naples,Italy
Died	30 October 1945(1945-10-30) (aged 78–79) England
Occupation(s)	Novelist, dramatist, children's writer
Spouses	Henry Philip Ducarel de la Pasture ​ ​ (m. 1887; died 1908)​ SirHugh Clifford ​ ​ (m. 1910; died 1941)​
Children	2, includingE. M. Delafield

Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle, Lady CliffordCBE (néeBonham, formerlyde la Pasture; 1866 – 30 October 1945), as known asMrs Henry de la Pasture, was an English novelist, dramatist and children's writer. Her children's novelThe Unlucky Family has been called a classic of its genre.

She was born Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle Bonham inNaples, daughter of Edward Bonham ofBramling,Kent, a Britishconsul.

A Roman Catholic, she married, in 1887, Henry Philip Ducarel de la Pasture ofLlandogo Priory,Monmouthshire. The couple moved atAldrington, nearHove, when Edmée, the elder of their two daughters was born in 1890.^[1] Edmée was known by the pseudonymE. M. Delafield (married name Edmée Dashwood) and authored theProvincial Lady series, but predeceased her mother in 1943, whom she failed to mention in herWho's Who entry.^[2] The younger daughter, Yolande Friedl, called Yoé, was a medical doctor, who died in London in 1976.

Her first marriage ended in 1908 with the death of her husband. Two years later she married SirHugh Clifford, a colonial administrator and a friend of the novelistJoseph Conrad,^[2] with whom she lived between 1912 and 1929 successively in theGold Coast (where she edited an album in 1908),Nigeria,Ceylon andSingapore. He ended his career asGovernor of the Straits Settlements.^[3] In 1918, she was appointed aCBE.^[4][2]

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• The Little Squire (1893). Children's novel, later dramatised
• A Toy Tragedy (1894). Children's novel, translated asJeanne, la petit mère by Bl. de Méry, 1914
• Deborah of Tod's (1897). Later dramatised, reprinted 1898 and 1908
• Adam Grigson (1899). Reprinted 1908
• Catherine of Calais (1901). Reprinted 1907
• Cornelius (1903).^[6] Reprinted 1909
• Peter's Mother (1905). Dramatised and acted at Sandringham by royal command in 1906, reprinted 1906, 1907 and 1912
• The Lonely Lady of Grosvenor Square (1906). Reprinted 1907 and 1909
• The Unlucky Family (1907). Children's novel, reprinted 1908, 1946, 1980 and 1988. In his 1980 prefaceAuberon Waugh called it "one of the great classics of its genre".
• The Grey Knight: An Autumn Love Story (1908)
• Catherine's Child (1908)
• The Tyrant (1909). Reprinted 1910
• Master Christopher (1911)
• Erica (1912). EntitledThe Honorable Mrs. Garry for the 1912 Canadian and 1913 American editions
• Michael Ferrys (1913). EntitledMichael for the American edition

• The Man from America (1905). Sentimental comedy
• The Lonely Millionaires (1905)
• Her Grace the Reformer (1907)

• Works by Mrs Henry de la Pasture atProject Gutenberg
• Works by or about Mrs Henry de la Pasture at theInternet Archive
• Works by Mrs Henry de la Pasture atLibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Works by Mrs Henry de la Pasture atFaded Page (Canada)
• Peter's Mother atProject Gutenberg

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• English women novelists
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• English expatriates in Italy

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