Frances Donaldson, Baroness Donaldson of Kingsbridge

Frances Annesley, Lady Donaldson of Kingsbridge ( Lonsdale; 13 January 1907 – 27 March 1994), was a British writer and biographer. a daughter and two sons. producing record crop and milk yields. She was invited to broadcast in wartime and wrote several books about her experiences.

Child of the Twenties (1962)

The Marconi Scandal (1962)

Evelyn Waugh: Portrait of a Country Neighbour (1967) – An appreciation, rather than a comprehensive biography

Actor Managers (1970)

Edward VIII (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974) – Won the Wolfson History Prize in 1974, and was the basis for the seven-part television series Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978), starring her nephew actor Edward Fox as Edward

P. G. Wodehouse (1982)

Yours Plum (1990) Letters of P. G. Wodehouse

The British Council: the First Fifty Years (1984)

The Royal Opera House in the 20th Century (1988)

A Twentieth-Century Life (1992)

Frances Donaldson: A Woman's War (2017), an edition of her letters, written in 1939–1945 to her husband