![]() White returned from the Second World War mentally ill and was institutionalised. She married Ernest Connor Bantry White (called "Connor"), an army doctor, on 8 August 1941. She worked in a tax office in Ely for three years and later found a job as an assistant stage manager for the Festival Theatre in Cambridge. ![]() She had to leave school at the age of sixteen to work to take care of her younger siblings, sister Monica, and brother Edward, because her family did not have much money and her father did not believe in higher education for girls. Her mother was committed to a mental hospital when James was in her mid-teens. She was educated at the British School in Ludlow and Cambridge High School for Girls. ![]() James was born in Oxford, the daughter of Sidney Victor James, a tax inspector, and his wife, Dorothy Mary James. Her rise to fame came with her series of detective novels featuring the police commander and poet, Adam Dalgliesh. James, was an English novelist and life peer. ![]() ![]() Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL (3 August 1920 – 27 November 2014), known professionally as P. 58 Holland Park Avenue, London W11 where PD James lived from 1984-2012 ![]()
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