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She continued to write, most of her books being set in Britain.

and Falmouth, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, producing the 1972 book of the same name.

They adopted two daughters, Pamela and Prudence. Soon after this, she moved from her home in Hinxworth in Hertfordshire to the United States after marrying a United States Navy officer, Roy O. One Pair of Feet (1942) recounted her work as a nurse, and subsequently she worked in an aircraft factory and on the Hertfordshire Express – a local newspaper in Hitchin her experiences in the latter field of work inspired her 1951 book My Turn to Make the Tea. Disillusioned with the world she was brought up in – she was expelled from St Paul's Girls' School in London for throwing her school uniform into the Thames before she was presented at court as a debutante – she decided to go into domestic service despite coming from the privileged class her experiences as a cook and general servant would form the nucleus of her first book, One Pair of Hands in 1939. She was the granddaughter of Sir Henry Fielding Dickens KC. Known as "Monty" to her family and friends, she was born into an upper-middle-class London family to Henry Charles Dickens (1878–1966), a barrister, and Fanny Dickens (née Runge).

Monica Enid Dickens, MBE ( – 25 December 1992) was an English writer, the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens. Charles Dickens (great-grandfather) Sir Henry Fielding Dickens (grandfather)