Elizabeth Jane Howard
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Standard Name: Howard, Elizabeth Jane
Birth Name: Elizabeth Jane Howard
Married Name: Elizabeth Jane Scott
Married Name: Elizabeth Jane Douglas-Henry
Married Name: Elizabeth Jane Amis
EJH
, a novelist of the later twentieth century, has also written short stories (some of them ghost stories), plays, film and television scripts, reviews and articles, biographies, a memoir, and she has edited several anthologies. She has published seven novels as well as a family saga in four titles.
Connections
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Family and Intimate relationships | Antonia Fraser | AF
's father, born Francis Aungier (Frank) Pakenham, was an Oxford
academic whose subject was politics. He became the seventh Earl of Longford
in 1961, but he had already been made Baron Pakenham by Clement Attlee |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Taylor | They had met as fellow members of High Wycombe Theatre Club; Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books, 2009. 57 |
Friends, Associates | Fay Weldon | Their social circle in north London included many writers and painters, including Ted Hughes
and Sylvia Plath
, David
and Assia Wevill
, Kingsley Amis
and Elizabeth Jane Howard
, Bernice Rubens
, psychologist R. D. Laing |
Friends, Associates | Sybille Bedford | SB
said she grew up with very little knowledge of people her own age, and in friendships and love affairs tended to seek out those of at least ten years older than herself. Bedford, Sybille. Quicksands. Counterpoint, 2005. 126 |
Friends, Associates | Brigid Brophy | BB
's close friends included writers Elizabeth Jane Howard
, Shena Mackay
, and Iris Murdoch
, whom she met at Cheltenham in summer 1955. Murdoch's letters to Brophy reveal the depth and many-sidedness of... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Taylor | Friends said that ET
was very shy, but cared very much for very few people. Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen, 1986. 44 |
Health | Brigid Brophy | She fell when she ran across a street. Neither she nor her friend Elizabeth Jane Howard
, who was with her, could account for the accident or for its severity. In early June 1983 BB |
Literary responses | Rosamond Lehmann | Auberon Waugh
likened A Sea-Grape Tree to pulp romance, The Times thought it unintentionally absurd, and Lorna Sage
called the main characters paper people. Thoughtful and positive comments from Elizabeth Jane Howard |
Literary responses | Muriel Spark | This novel was chosen a Book Society
recommendation (of which between six and ten were selected per month); it was not the choice of the month, since the panel felt it was too morbid—deeply... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Taylor | Blanche Knopf
asked for fairly radical revisions in this novel: that it should concentrate more completely on the two very young lovers. ET
replied, in terms of the utmost humility, that she could not revise... |
Reception | Christine Brooke-Rose | The reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement found the regressive narrative disconcerting and tiring. Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press, 1994. 38 |
Reception | Olivia Manning | OM
's biographers note that a number of reference sources make no mention of this novel. At round about the same date she was distressed to find herself omitted from Who's Who in Twentieth Century... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Taylor | US sales for stories soon followed. Harper's Bazaar published one extracted from A View from the Harbour in July 1947, and a year later, in September 1948, I Live in a World of Make-Beiieve (which... |
Timeline
1 January 1916
The British edition of Vogue (an American fashion magazine) began publishing from Condé Nast
in Hanover Square, London.
19 March 1975
Maharishi Maresh Yogi
, spiritual leader and proponent of transcendental meditation, arrived in London, where he made appearances at the Festival Hall (for a press conference) and the Albert Hall.