repeated in that year with the publication of the novel Here Are Lovers. When The Invader was finally published in 1928, it was also favourably received, being seen by Country Life as "one of the best novels of the year". Her next two novels, Her Father's House (1930) and The Soldier and the Gentlewoman (1932) were likewise critically acclaimed. The latter, probably her most successful novel, was dramatised and shown at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, in the same year. Later writings Vaughan's later novels – The Curtain Rises (1935), Harvest Home (1936), The Fair Woman (1942), Pardon and Peace (1945) and The Candle and the Light (1954) – were also received well, but with less fervour. With the outbreak of the Second World War, Charles sent Vaughan and their children to the United States, where they stayed there from 1939 to 1943. The Fair Woman was published whilst there, and later republished in England as Iron and Gold (1948). An exception to the more muted success was the novella A Thing of Nought (1934; revised edition 1948), which returns to some of the same themes as The Battle to the Weak. As well as being critically acclaimed, it unexpectedly sold out within four days of publication. During this period, Vaughan also wrote two plays with Laurier Lister: She Too was Young (1938), performed at Wyndham's Theatre, London, and Forsaking All Other, which was never performed. Final years and death The 1950s and 1960s were a time of disappointment, in which Vaughan sought fruitlessly to have earlier work re-issued. In 1957 she visited the West Indies with Charles, as it was thought the climate might benefit his ailing health. However, the visit proved ineffectual and he died the following year. Her own health being also affected, Vaughan published no more novels and only minimal writings for the rest of her life. Her final piece was an introduction to Thomas Traherne's Centuries, published in 1960, in which she offers an account of her religious faith in terms that are described as "quasi-mystical". In 1963 she was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Hilda Vaughan died on 4 November 1985 at a nursing home in Putney, London, and was buried at Dyserth, Radnorshire. She and her husband were survived by their daughter and son. The former married Henry Paget, 7th Marquess of Anglesey in 1948, thereby becoming a marchioness. Their