English novelist. Her works are social satires set mainly in a fictionalized Bristol.
They include Miss Mole 1930, A Corn of Wheat 1910, The Vicar’s Daughter 1928, and
Chatterton Square 1947.
The middle-aged, unmarried Miss Mole is the housekeeper in a vicarage. Her secrets
and her sarcastic observations of the people she was supposed to consider her social
betters display the wit and psychological insight characteristic of Young.