sentences:  Rosamund was born in 1924 to Major Arthur Paul Dashwood, an engineer who built the massive docks in Hong Kong Harbour, and his wife Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood, née de la Pasture, who was a celebrated author.Many of her mother's novels, under the pen name E. M. Delafield, are semi-autobiographical, and so the young daughter who appears can be taken to be based on Rosamund.Rosamund's only sibling, Lionel, died in 1940.