Viola Clare Wingfield Powles was born on 8 January 1911, in Rye, Sussex.

Her parents were Isabel Grace Wingfield and Lewis Charles Powles.

In the winter of 1933 she visited her uncle, a high Court Judge, in Lahore in India.

Other dates of first edition not verified Shorter stories in collections: "Turn of the Tide" in Collins Girl's Annual 1955 "Walls of Snow" in Collins Girl's Annual (1953 ?)

Editor ... in The Favourite Book for Girls ... in Girls' Story Omnibus "Walls of Snow" in The Splendid Book for Girls (about 1956) A number of these works were illustrated by Marcia Lane Foster A number of her works were translated into other languages Author's and Writer's Who's Who, 1963 [2] Viola Bayley by Julie Makin [3] Viola Bayley, Rye Castle Museum [4]