Eileen Arbuthnot Robertson (10 January 1903 at Moor Lodge, South Holmwood, Surrey – 21 September 1961 in Hampstead, London) was an English novelist, critic and broadcaster.
In that year she also sat anonymously for the painting A Red Haired Girl by James McBey.
[5] By her mid-twenties E. Arnot Robertson, as she chose to be called in print, was on her way to becoming a popular "middlebrow" novelist with a large following, especially for her first five novels.
However, her later novels added little to the reputation the earlier ones had given her, although she had "seemed at one time likely to develop into a novelist of considerable comic substance and power.
"[9] She was involved in 1946 in protracted litigation with MGM over what the corporation perceived as unfairly negative reviews of their films.
This contributed to her losing a job at the BBC,[10] but her eventual legal costs of £8,000 were paid from the proceeds of a fundraising appeal made by the Critics' Circle.