Elizabeth Jane Howard

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EJH , a novelist of the later twentieth century, has also written short stories (some of them ghost stories), plays, film and television scripts, reviews and articles, biographies, a memoir, and she has edited several anthologies. She has published seven novels as well as a family saga in four titles.
  • BirthName: Elizabeth Jane Howard
    The baby born first in her family, who died very young, had also been called Jane.
    Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Slipstream. Macmillan, 2002.
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    EJH has always been just Jane Howard to her family and friends.

  • Married: Scott; Douglas-Henry; Amis
Black-and-white protrait photo of Elizabeth Jane Howard looking off-camera, circa 1956. She wears a dark turtleneck, beaded stud earrings, and has short hair that falls above her ear and is cut in bangs.

Milestones

26 March 1923

EJH was born in London, the eldest and the only girl in a family of three surviving children.
Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Slipstream. Macmillan, 2002.
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By 23 March 1956

EJH published The Long View, a novel which opens with the break-up of a marriage and then traces in flashback key moments in the relationship, step by step backwards to the first meeting twenty-four years earlier.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

2 January 2014

EJH died, aged ninety, at her home at Bungay in Suffolk.

Biography

Birth and Family

26 March 1923

EJH was born in London, the eldest and the only girl in a family of three surviving children.
Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Slipstream. Macmillan, 2002.
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