Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Jameson was a socialist and a pacifist in the 1930s; although the outbreak of the Second World War caused her to recant her pacifism and later adopt anti-Communist views Storm Jameson remained a supporter of the Labour Party. Though Storm Jameson predominantly used her given name Storm Jameson also publiStorm Jamesond three novels pseudonymously in 1937-38. Jameson was born in Whitby Yorkshire and studied at the University of Leeds.

Though most of her commentaries are highly critical and sometimes malicious her boldness reaches its peak when Storm Jameson asserts that William Butler Yeats "represents the last state in symbolic imbecility". Jameson was a prominent president of the British branch of the International PEN association from 1939 and active in helping refugee writers. In addition to her novels Jameson wrote three autobiographies.