Popular, prize-winning English author who published eleven novels that
dealt with middle-class domesticity. Ironically, her own domestic life
had to be kept secret. A suffragette and wife of a lawyer, she began an
affair with Ralph Henderson, Headmaster of the public school Alleyn's,
and they remained lovers for the rest of her life. After her husband
was killed in the Battle of Ypres in 1917, Young actually moved to
London to join Henderson and his wife in a ménage a trois, although
occupying a separate part of their house. After Mrs. Henderson's death,
they moved together to Bradford on Avon, though they never married. On
Young's death, Henderson endowed the EH Young Prize for Greek Thought,
an essay prize awarded annually at Bristol Grammar School.
