- Was nominated for Broadway's 1956 Tony Award as author of Best Play nominee "The Chalk Garden."
- Served as a nurse in the British army during World War I, then as a driver attached to the French army.
- Great-grandmother of Samantha Cameron and Emily Sheffield.
- She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1976 Queen's New Year Honours List for her services to literature.
- Husband Sir Roderick Jones was chairman for 25 years of the British news agency Reuters.
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