Elizabeth Taylor (née Coles) was a popular English novelist and short story writer. Elizabeth Coles was born in Reading, Berkshire in 1912. She was educated at The Abbey School, Reading, and worked as a governess, as a tutor and as a librarian.
In 1936, she married John William Kendall Taylor , a businessman. She lived in Penn, Buckinghamshire, for almost all her married life.
Her first novel, At Mrs. Lippincote's, was published in 1945 and was followed by eleven more. Her short stories were published in various magazines and collected in four volumes. She also wrote a children's book.
Taylor's work is mainly concerned with the nuances of "everyday" life and situations, which she writes about with dexterity. Her shrewd but affectionate portrayals of middle class and upper middle class English life won her an audience of discriminating readers, as well as loyal friends in the world of letters.
She was a friend of the novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett and of the novelist and critic Robert Liddell.
Elizabeth Taylor died at age 63 of cancer.
Novels
At Mrs Lippincote's (1945)
Palladian (1946)
A View of the Harbour (1947)
A Wreath of Roses (1949)
The Sleeping Beauty (1953)
Angel (1957)
A Game of Hide and Seek (1958)
In a Summer Season (1961)
The Soul of Kindness (1964)
Mossy Trotter (1967)
The Wedding Group (1968)
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (1971)
The Devastating Boys (1972)
Blaming (1976)
Palladian (1946)
A View of the Harbour (1947)
A Wreath of Roses (1949)
The Sleeping Beauty (1953)
Angel (1957)
A Game of Hide and Seek (1958)
In a Summer Season (1961)
The Soul of Kindness (1964)
Mossy Trotter (1967)
The Wedding Group (1968)
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (1971)
The Devastating Boys (1972)
Blaming (1976)
Collections
Hester Lilly (1954)
The Blush (1958)
A Dedicated Man (1965)
Short Stories of Elizabeth Taylor (1995)
Dangerous Calm (1995)
The Blush (1958)
A Dedicated Man (1965)
Short Stories of Elizabeth Taylor (1995)
Dangerous Calm (1995)
Anthologies containing stories by Elizabeth Taylor
The 3rd Ghost Book (1955)
Great British Short Stories (1974)
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996)
Great British Short Stories (1974)
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996)
Short stories
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Poor Girl (1955) |
Awards
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