Doris Langley Moore Born 1902.

Doris was a writer and historian, who was passionately interested in fashion and items like furniture. She was born in Lancashire but was educated in South Africa; her father was a newspaper editor. She went to university and then in the 1920s she began to write books. She married and had a daughter. She had an interest also in art and theatre, and was the founder of a Fashion Museum in Bath. She also wrote several biographies, she was something of an authority on Byron and wrote biographies of him and his daughter. She also produced several novels, including one called Not At Home, which Ive just read. It is set in London just after the war, and is a wry comedy about Miss Farren, a middle aged woman who is not very well off and has a house which she is renting.. She is trying to reduce expenses and decides to let some rooms in the house. There is a terrible shortage of housing in England because of the war damage and people are desperate to find any place. She settles on a younger married woman who is married to an American journalist who is in the Forces. The lady has 2 children who are in the US, and tells Miss Farren that she will be a very careful tenant and no trouble at all.. However, it doesn't work out as she had hoped. M/F