Inez Pearn

Marie Agnes Pearn
Marie Agnes Pearn
Born	Marie Agnes Pearn; 1913; United Kingdom
Died	February 1976 (aged 62–63); France
Pen name	Elizabeth Lake
Occupation	Novelist
Education	Somerville College, Oxford
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Years active	1945–1958
Notable works	Spanish Portrait (1945); Marguerite Reilly (1946); The Lovers Disturbed (1949); The First Rebellion (1951); Siamese Counterpart (1958)
Spouse	Stephen Spender (m. 1936; div. 1939); Charles Madge (m. 1942);
Children	2 (including Vicky Randall)

Marie Agnes Pearn (1913–1976), known as Inez Pearn and by the pen name Elizabeth Lake, was a British novelist who was acclaimed for her "remorseless interest in emotional truth", her "formidable ... characterisation", and her ability to evoke places with "almost magical clarity". The author and critic Elizabeth Bowen considered that she belonged to the school of literary realism.