Elizabeth Taylor
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published, during the mid to late twentieth century, twelve novels, four collections of short stories, and a handful of essays. As a writer of high calibre whose favourite effects are built on understatement and irony, she has been persistently undervalued by commentators.
- BirthName: Dorothy Betty ColesShe was not christened Elizabeth, but Betty. She never used Dorothy, but was Betty to everybody until she got married. Then she chose to be called Elizabeth (a name which she had first used as an amateur actor).
- Self-constructed: Elizabeth
- Married: Taylor