Bradda Field

Violet Elsie Bradda Field was a Canadian–British novelist. She is best known for her novels The Earthen Lot (1928), which marked the beginning of her long publishing relationship with Constable, and Miledi (1941), a historical biography of Emma, Lady Hamilton that was selected as a "Book of the Month" by the Literary Guild. In 1933, she received the Femina–Vie Heureuse Prize for her novel Small Town. Field was noted for bypassing literary agents in favor of direct dealings with publishers, a practice she inherited from her mother, the travel writer Agnes Herbert.