Elizabeth Taylor

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Standard Name: Taylor, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Coles
Married Name: Elizabeth Taylor
ET 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.

Connections

Connections Author name Sort descending Excerpt
Textual Production Lady Cynthia Asquith
Her ten anthologies edited during the 1920s (some of them under pseudonyms such as Leonard Gray) had some significance for the writing of that decade, since they incorporated contributions from, for instance, Marghanita Laski
Reception Samuel Beckett
Novelist Elizabeth Taylor boldly took her older friend Ivy Compton-Burnett to this play, and was rewarded with Compton-Burnett's pronouncement, Not a play to miss.
Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen.
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For her part Taylor thought it as much as one...
Textual Features A. S. Byatt
Her selection (limited to English, not merely British, writers) determinedly eschews the well-known. She seeks the startling and the satisfying, selecting both lesser-known writers like Leonora Carrington or Elizabeth Taylor , and unexpected stories...
Friends, Associates Ivy Compton-Burnett
After Jourdain's death, ICB 's circle of friends included George Furlong , Rex Brandreth , Barbara and Walter Robinson , Soame Jenyns , Elizabeth Taylor , Sonia Orwell (widow of the writer George Orwell), Australian-born...
Literary responses Ivy Compton-Burnett
Printed praise came from Stevie Smith and Raymond Mortimer among others. Elizabeth Taylor noticed how the reviewers' imagery harped on weapons: rapiers, axes, stilettos, knives and grenades.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Textual Production Ivy Compton-Burnett
The BBC did a pre-publication adaptation by Christopher Sykes : before the book appeared ICB 's friend Elizabeth Taylor called it the new short BBC novel.
Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen.
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Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Literary responses Ivy Compton-Burnett
Elizabeth Taylor detailed the interest that attended this book's appearance. Published on a Monday, it was broadcast as a radio play on Wednesday, discussed on radio on Thursday by Daniel George (who called the author...
Friends, Associates Ivy Compton-Burnett
Liddell was to remain one of ICB 's close friends. She maintained a benevolent, almost aunt-like relationship with him, and although resident abroad he was an important source of support after Jourdain's death. He later...
Textual Production Ethel M. Dell
EMD published The Top of the World, a novel later quoted by Elizabeth Taylor in her Angel, 1957.
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Taylor, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Angel, edited by Paul Bailey, Virago, p. v - ix.
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Intertextuality and Influence Ethel M. Dell
Taylor 's romantic-novelist heroine numbers EMD among her models, and quotes this passage with enthusiasm.
Intertextuality and Influence Zoë Fairbairns
Most of the novel is spent uncovering truths about these two major characters: Heather, who seeks knowledge about her birth father (and enters briefly into rivalry with her mother, Julia, over the same man), and...
Textual Production Susan Hill
The anthology of British women writers she published in 1990 with Michael Joseph as The Parchment Moon: An Anthology of Modern Women's Short Stories was reprinted the following year as The Penguin Book of Modern...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Jane Howard
Her friends during the 1950s included Stephen and Natasha Spender , Alec Waugh , Margaret Lane , Malcolm Sargent , and Joyce Grenfell . She also met Cyril Connolly , Olivia Manning , Stevie Smith
Dedications Elizabeth Jane Howard
She went back to writing stories because the shorter form seemed more compatible with the life she was leading while in charge of a large family establishment in the country. She had also lost confidence...
Textual Production Elizabeth Jane Howard
EJH collaborated with Arthur Helps on Bettina: A Portrait, about Elizabeth von Arnim , in 1957. Helps, a professional translator, had drafted this biography, but it badly needed shaping and structuring. Collaboration was difficult...

Timeline

1 January 1916: The British edition of Vogue (an American...

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1 January 1916

The British edition of Vogue (an American fashion magazine) began publishing from Condé Nast in Hanover Square, London.

21 February 1924: The first issue appeared of the New Yorker...

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21 February 1924

The first issue appeared of the New Yorkermagazine (still going strong in the twenty-first century).
Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ .
21 February 2011

26 November 1945: The film Brief Encounter, starring actress...

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26 November 1945

The film Brief Encounter, starring actress Celia Johnson , directed by David Lean , based on a play by Noël Coward , had its English premiere.

8 May 2008: Virago Press marked thirty years of Virago...

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8 May 2008

Virago Press marked thirty years of Virago Modern Classics by re-issuing works by Barbara Pym , E. M. Delafield , Elizabeth Taylor , Jacqueline Susann , Muriel Spark , Helene Hanff , Zora Neale Hurston , and Angela Carter .

Texts

Taylor, Elizabeth. A Dedicated Man, and Other Stories. Chatto and Windus, 1965.
Taylor, Elizabeth. A Game of Hide-and-Seek. Peter Davies, 1951.
Taylor, Elizabeth. A View of the Harbour. Peter Davies, 1947.
Taylor, Elizabeth. A Wreath of Roses. Peter Davies, 1949.
Taylor, Elizabeth. Angel. Peter Davies, 1957.
Taylor, Elizabeth, and Paul Bailey. Angel. Virago, 1984.
Taylor, Elizabeth. At Mrs. Lippincote’s. Peter Davies, 1945.
Taylor, Elizabeth. Blaming. Chatto and Windus, 1976.
Taylor, Elizabeth. Hester Lilly, and Other Stories. Peter Davies, 1954.
Taylor, Elizabeth. In a Summer Season. Peter Davies, 1961.
Taylor, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Angel, edited by Paul Bailey, Virago, 1989, p. v - ix.
Taylor, Elizabeth. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont. Chatto and Windus, 1971.
Taylor, Elizabeth. Palladian. Peter Davies, 1946.
Taylor, Elizabeth. The Blush, and Other Stories. Peter Davies, 1958.
Taylor, Elizabeth. The Devastating Boys, and Other Stories. Chatto and Windus, 1972.
Taylor, Elizabeth. The Sleeping Beauty. Peter Davies, 1953.
Taylor, Elizabeth. The Soul of Kindness. Chatto and Windus, 1964.
Taylor, Elizabeth. The Wedding Group. Chatto and Windus, 1968.