EJH
and Peter Scott
(son of the charismatic polar explorer) were married in London.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Jane Howard
EJH
left her husband, Peter Scott
, to live alone in a crumbling flat above a grocery and poultry shop off Baker Street and try and make a living as a writer.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Jane Howard
EJH
met Peter Scott
, son of the explorer Captain Scott
, when she was in her teens and he was thirty-one, and she and her brother were invited to visit as company for his...
Material Conditions of Writing
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Its early working title was The Deep Blue Sea. She mentioned it as work in progress to Terence Rattigan
, who thought it a very good title indeed. She later wrote that she liked...
Material Conditions of Writing
Elspeth Huxley
Encouraged by her friendship with Peter Scott
, the explorer's son, EH
spent a whole month, plus additional shorter periods, in research at the Scott Polar Research Institute
at Cambridge, and also visited the...
Textual Production
Elspeth Huxley
The eighty-six-year-old EH
published her final book, the biography Peter Scott
: Painter and Naturalist, written at the request of his widow, Philippa
.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002.
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Textual Production
Elspeth Huxley
It had a foreword by conservationist and ornithologist Peter Scott
(though he disliked the choice of title, thinking it too gimmicky for serious scientists). EH
's relationship (by marriage) to Aldous Huxley
, author of...
Travel
Elizabeth Jane Howard
A visit in 1946 to New York, where Peter Scott
was having a show of his paintings, was a rapturous experience: the hospitality, the culture, the rich food.
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Timeline
July 1978: Dulcie Gray won the Times Educational Supplement...
Women writers item
July 1978
Dulcie Gray
won the Times Educational Supplement Information Book Award for her book on butterfly conservation, Butterflies on My Mind: Their Life and Conservation in Britain Today, with illustrations by Brian Hargreaves
and a...