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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
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.
213
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.
244
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 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...
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.
96
For her part Taylor thought it as much as one...
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

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