Edith Templeton

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The fiction of ET , novelist, short-story writer, and travel writer, acquired a high reputation for its force and distinctive style and tone, and notoriety for a degree of sexual explicitness rare in serious women writers. Best known from the 1950s onwards for her early novels set in her native Bohemia, she was rediscovered for her erotic writings at the end of the twentieth century, but rapidly forgotten again. Her death in 2006 went unnoticed by the English-speaking press.
Black-and-white photo of Edith Templeton and V S Pritchett smoking cigarettes as they chat at a party celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Book Society, Knightsbridge, London, 1946.

Milestones

7 April 1916

Edith Pole (later ET ) was born in Prague, which was then in Bohemia and is now in the Czech Republic.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

December 1966

ET pseudonymously issued Gordon, her erotic novel or memoir, under the name of Louise Walbrook (which is similar to the name of the protagonist, Louisa).
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1967
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Hyde, Debra. “New Buzz for a Forgotten Novel”. Yes Portal: Adult News, Entertainment & Shopping.

24 May 1993

ET published the short story Irresistibly in the New Yorker.
Templeton, Edith. “Irresistibly”. New Yorker, pp. 82-9.
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June 2006

ET died. As a blog entitled Jahsonic remarked: Nobody seems to have noticed—even though reissues of her work had been much in the news only three years before.
Geerinck, Jan. Jahsonic. http://jahsonic.wordpress.com/page/104/?archives-list=1.

Biography

Birth and Background

7 April 1916

Edith Pole (later ET ) was born in Prague, which was then in Bohemia and is now in the Czech Republic.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

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