Elizabeth Taylor (novelist)
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Elizabeth Taylor (July 3, 1912 – November 19, 1975) was a popular English novelist and short story writer.
She was born Elizabeth Coles in Reading, Berkshire. She was educated at The Abbey School, Reading, and worked as a governess, as a tutor and as a librarian.
In 1936, she married John Taylor, a businessman. She lived in Penn, Buckinghamshire, for almost all her married life.
Her first novel, At Mrs. Lippincote's, was published in 1945 and was followed by eleven more. Her short stories were published in various magazines and collected in four volumes. She also wrote a children's book.
Taylor's work is mainly concerned with the nuances of "everyday" life and situations, which she writes about with dexterity. Her shrewd but affectionate portrayals of middle class and upper middle class English life won her an audience of discriminating readers, as well as loyal friends in the world of letters.
She was a friend of the novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett and of the novelist and critic Robert Liddell.
Elizabeth Taylor died at age sixty-three of cancer.
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Novels
- At Mrs. Lippincote's (1945 & 1988)
- Palladian (1946)
- A View of the Harbour (1947 & 1987)
- A Wreath of Roses (1949 & 1994)
- A Game of Hide and Seek (1951 & 1986)
- The Sleeping Beauty (1953 & 1982)
- Angel (1957 & 1987)
- In a Summer Season (1961 & 1983)
- The Soul of Kindness (1964 & 1983)
- The Wedding Group (1968 & 1985)
- Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (1971 & 1982)
- Blaming (1976 & 1992)
Short story collections
- Hester Lilly (1954 & 1990)
- The Blush and Other Stories (1958 & 1986)
- A Dedicated Man and Other Stories (1965 & 1993)
- The Devastating Boys (1972 & 1984)
Children's books
Quotes
- 'The whole point is that writing has a pattern and life hasn't. Life is so untidy. Art is so short and life so long. It is not possible to have perfection in life but it is possible to have perfection in a novel.'de:Elizabeth Taylor (Schriftstellerin)