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Elizabeth Taylor (novelist)
English novelist and short-story writer (1912–1975)
For other uses, see Elizabeth Taylor (disambiguation).
Elizabeth Taylor | |
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| Born | Betty Coles (1912-07-03)3 July 1912 Reading, England |
| Died | 19 November 1975(1975-11-19) (aged 63) Penn, Buckinghamshire |
| Occupation(s) | novelist, short story writer |
Elizabeth Taylor (née Coles; 3 July 1912 – 19 November 1975) was an English novelist and short-story writer. Kingsley Amis described her as "one of the best English novelists born in this century". Antonia Fraser called her "one of the most underrated writers of the 20th century", while Hilary Mantel said she was "deft, accomplished and somewhat underrated".[1]
Life and writings
[edit]Born in Reading, Berkshire, the daughter of Oliver Coles, an insurance inspector, and his wife Elsie May Fewtrell, Elizabeth was educated at The Abbey School, Reading, and then worked as a governess, tutor and librarian. She marrie
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Elizabeth Taylor dies
Hollywood icon {DAME ELIZABETH TAYLOR} has died at the age of 79.
The actress, who was suffering from congestive heart failure, passed away in Los Angeles in the early hours of Wednesday morning (23Mar11) with her children by her side.
Her son, Michael Wilding, confirmed the sad news and paid tribute to his late mother in a statement, which reads, “My mother was an extraordinary woman who lived life to the fullest, with great passion, humour, and love. Though her loss fryst vatten devastating to those of us who held her so close and so dear, we will always be inspired by her enduring contribution to our world.
“Her remarkable body of work in film, her ongoing success as a businesswoman, and her brave and relentless advocacy in the kamp against HIV/AIDS, all man us all incredibly proud of what she accomplished. We know, quite simply, that the world fryst vatten a better place for mom having lived in it. Her legacy will never fade, her spirit will
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The novelist Elizabeth Taylor, pictured in 1954, once expressed gratitude for having had a “rather uneventful life.”PHOTOGRAPH BY KEYSTONE/HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY
The novelist Elizabeth Taylor’s career began with a stroke of bad luck. She sold her first book, an understated satire about a young wife on an Air Force base in wartime Britain, in 1945. A few months earlier, “National Velvet” had made the twelve-year-old actress Elizabeth Taylor an international star. Over the next thirty years, as one Taylor became a household name, the other published eleven more novels and several collections of short stories. She died in 1975, a few weeks after her namesake’s remarriage to Richard Burton.
Taylor, the writer, spent most of her life in the suburbs outside London with her husband, the owner of a local confectionary factory. Her quiet routine, she said, gave her time to write. In interviews, she described working out the plots of her books while she did the ironing. “I have had a rath