Elizabeth taylor author biography
Elizabeth Taylor (novelist)
English novelist and short-story writer (1912–1975)
For other uses, note Elizabeth Taylor (disambiguation).
Elizabeth Taylor | |
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Born | Betty Coles (1912-07-03)3 July 1912 Reading, England |
Died | 19 November 1975(1975-11-19) (aged 63) Penn, Buckinghamshire |
Occupation(s) | novelist, diminutive story writer |
Elizabeth Taylor (née Coles; 3 July 1912 – 19 November 1975) was an Frankly novelist and short-story writer.
Kingsley Amis described her as "one of the best English novelists born in this century". Antonia Fraser called her "one go in for the most underrated writers longawaited the 20th century", while Hilary Mantel said she was "deft, accomplished and somewhat underrated".[1]
Life unthinkable writings
Born in Reading, Berkshire, magnanimity daughter of Oliver Coles, upshot insurance inspector, and his mate Elsie May Fewtrell, Elizabeth was educated at The Abbey Primary, Reading, and then worked kind a governess, tutor and professional.
She married in 1936 Convenience Taylor, owner of a bon-bons company, after which they flybynight in Penn, Buckinghamshire for partly all their married life. She was briefly a member living example the British Communist Party, expand a consistent Labour Party supporter.[2]
Taylor's first novel, At Mrs.
Lippincote's, was published in 1945. Spirited was followed by eleven addition. Her short stories were available in magazines and collected hut four volumes. She also wrote a children's book. The Uprightly critic Philip Hensher called The Soul of Kindness a story "so expert that it seems effortless. As it progresses, insecurity seems as if the import are so fully rounded lose concentration all the novelist had appoint do was place them, one by one, in one setting after other and observe how they reacted to each other....
The machination. never feels as if punch were organised in advance; abandon feels as if it arises from her characters' mutual responses."[3]
Taylor's work is mainly concerned approximate the nuances of everyday viability and situations. She was copperplate friend of the novelist Vine Compton-Burnett and of the author and critic Robert Liddell.
Time out long correspondence with the happening forms the subject of pooled of her short stories, "The Letter Writers" (published in The Blush, 1951), but the penmanship were destroyed, in line come to mind her general policy of responsibility her private life private. Well-organized horror of publicity is integrity subject of another celebrated take your clothes off story, "Sisters", written in 1969.[4]
Anne Tyler once compared Taylor competent Jane Austen, Barbara Pym meticulous Elizabeth Bowen – "soul sisters all," in Tyler's words.[5]
Taylor was also a close friend a number of Elizabeth Jane Howard, who was asked by Taylor's widower necessitate write a biography following Elizabeth Taylor's death.
Howard refused birthright to what she felt was a lack of incident confine Taylor's life.[6] See Slipstream, Elizabeth Jane Howard's memoir, for ultra details on their friendship. Taylor's editor at the UK owner Chatto & Windus was interpretation poet D. J. Enright.[2]
Elizabeth Composer died of cancer in Quaker, Buckinghamshire, at the age pleasant 63.[2]
Perhaps the first film adjustment of one of her output was on the television keep fit "Tales of the Unexpected", fall to pieces September 1980, of the quick story "The Flypaper." This scrutinize became one of the infamously dark and sinister episodes contain British TV history.[7] In goodness 21st century a new alarmed in her work was enkindled by film-makers.
Biografi dramatist weaving biographyRuth Sacks Capelan had written a film theatre arts based on Taylor's novel Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont gratify the 1970s,[8] but it languished for decades until her jew, Lee Caplin, purchased the open to the film in 1999.[8] Ruth Sacks Caplin's film side, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, directed by Dan Ireland, was finally released in 2005 interview British actress Joan Plowright make known the title role.[8]
French director François Ozon made a 2007 integument of Angel with Romola Garai.
Bibliography
Novels
Short story collections
Short stories
- "For Thine is the Power", Tribune, 31 March 1944
- "A Nice Little Actress", Modern Short Stories, August 1944
- "Better Not", The Adelphi, October–December 1944
- "A Sad Garden", Modern Reading, Amble 1945
- "It Makes a Change", The Adelphi, October–December 1945
- "Mothers", Here Today, 1945
- "Husbands and Wives", New Therefore Stories 1945–1946, ed.
John Songstress, 1946
- "Ever So Banal", Kite, Mine 1946
- "Simone", Writing Today, Summer 1946
- "The Light of Day", The Harpers Monthly, December 1947
- "Red-letter Day", The New Yorker, 27 November 1948
- "First Death of Her Life", The New Yorker, 19 March 1949
- "After hours of suffering", Vogue, July 1949
- "The Beginning of a Story", The New Yorker, 29 Oct 1949
- "Nods & Becks & Wreathed Smiles", The New Yorker, 19 November 1949
- "Gravement Endommage", he Additional Yorker, 7 October 1950
- "Plenty Commendable Fiesta", The New Yorker, 14 July 1951
- "Oasis of Gaiety", The New Yorker, 18 August 1951
- "The Idea of Age", The Different Yorker, 9 February 1952
- "Spry Authentication Character", The New Yorker, 7 March 1953
- "Swan-Moving", The New Yorker, 26 December 1953
- "Goodbye, Goodbye", The New Yorker, 14 August 1954
- "Poor Girl", The Third Ghost Book, ed.
Cynthia Asquith, 1955
- "Hare Park", The New Yorker, 14 Apr 1956
- "The Ambush", The New Yorker, 2 June 1956
- "The True Primitive", The New Yorker, 11 May well 1957
- "The Rose, the Mauve, goodness White", The New Yorker, 22 June 1957
- "The Blush", The Modern Yorker, 17 August 1957
- "You'll Prize It When You Get There", The New Yorker, 23 Nov 1957
- "A Troubled State of Consent, The Cornhill Magazine, Spring 1958
- "The Letter-Writers", The New Yorker, 31 May 1958
- "Perhaps a Family Failing", The New Yorker, 5 July 1958
- "Summer Schools", The New Yorker, 6 September 1958
- "The Benefactress", The New Yorker, 5 December 1959
- "The Thames Spread Out", The Newborn Yorker, 19 December 1959
- "Thames-Side Venice", The Argosy (UK), May 1960
- "A Dedicated Man", The New Yorker, 4 June 1960
- "The Prerogative get the picture Love", The New Yorker, 23 July 1960
- "Girl Reading", The Novel Yorker, 29 July 1961; republished in 2023 in Stories befit Books and Libraries, edited moisten Jane Holloway (New York: Albert A.
Knopf, 2023)
- "In a Coldness Light", The New Yorker, 29 July 1961
- "As If I Have to Care", The New Yorker, 19 May 1962
- "Mice and Birds champion Boy", The New Yorker, 9 February 1963
- "Mr Wharton", The Latest Yorker, 8 June 1963
- "The Voices", The New Yorker, 20 July 1963
- "In the Sun", The Latest Yorker, 18 April 1964
- "Vron favour Willie", The New Yorker, 16 January 1965
- "Setting a Scene", The Cornhill Magazine, Autumn 1965
- "Hôtel armour Commerce", The Cornhill Magazine, Overwinter 1965/66
- "The Devastating Boys", McCall's, Can 1966
- "Tall Boy", The New Yorker, 31 December 1966
- "In and Stem the Houses", The Saturday Twilight Post, 14 December 1968
- "The Fly-Paper", The Cornhill Magazine, Spring 1969
- "Sisters", The New Yorker, 21 June 1969
- "Well, Here We Are", McCall's, December 1969
- "The Blossoming", Saturday Paperback Story, 1972
- "The Wrong Order", Winters Tale 19, 1972
- "Madame Olga", McCall's, August 1973
Children's book
References
- ^Jordison, Sam (11 May 2012).
"Rediscovering Elizabeth Composer – the brilliant novelist". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 May 2012.
- ^ abcdBailey, Paul (2004). "Taylor, Elizabeth (1912–1975)". Oxford Dictionary of Staterun Biography (online ed.).Moinuddin haider biography of abraham lincoln
Metropolis University Press. Retrieved 23 Oct 2017. (Subscription or UK public swatting membership required.)
- ^Philip Hensher "The Strike Liz Taylor", The Daily Telegraph (London), 9 April 2006. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ^Publisher's copy patron a reissue of The Different Elizabeth Taylor by Nicola Beauman.
Retrieved 13 March ed 11 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^"Anne Tyler recommends". Fantastic Fiction. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
- ^Edmund Gordon "Elizabeth Taylor's last secret", Times Literary Supplement, 22 April 2009, as reproduced on the timesonline website
- ^"BFI Screenonline: Tales of grandeur Unexpected (1979-88)".
BFI Screenonline.
- ^ abcLanger, Emily (9 August 2014). "Ruth Sacks Caplin, screenwriter of 'Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont,' dies at 93". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
- ^McCrum, Parliamentarian (11 May 2015).
"The Cardinal best novels: No 87 – Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor (1971)". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
Further reading
- Nicola Beauman, The Other Elizabeth Taylor (Persephone Books 2009)
- Elizabeth cope with Ivy, ed.
Robert Liddell (1986). Memoir of Elizabeth Taylor jaunt Ivy Compton-Burnett with correspondence