Bradda Field

Violet Elsie Bradda Field (February 1893 – 4 February 1957) was a Canadian–British novelist. She is best known for her novels The Earthen Lot, 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.

Biography Violet Elsie Bradda Field was born to British travel writer Agnes Herbert and her husband William George Herbert Field in February 1893. She was named after Bradda Head on the Isle of Man. She was considered Anglo–Canadian, having been born in Canada, but raised in Manchester.

In addition to her first novel, Field wrote the historical work Miledi between 1934 and 1941. The book, which recounted the life of Emma, Lady Hamilton, was published in 1941 and selected as a "Book of the Month" by the Literary Guild in the United States, where it was released under the title Bride of Glory.