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Elizabeth Jane Howard is an English novelist. She was born in London on 26 March 1923. She was an actress and a model before becoming a novelist. The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster which contains Big Ben Tower Bridge at night A red double-decker bus crosses Piccadilly Circus. ... March 26 is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (86th in leap years). ... 1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...


In 1951, she won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her first novel, The Beautiful Visit. Six further novels followed, before she embarked on her best known work, a four novel family saga set in wartime England. The Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion, and Casting Off were serialised by BBC television as "The Cazalets". The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize is a British based literary prize. ...


She has also written a book of short stories, Mr Wrong, and edited two anthologies.


She married Sir Peter Scott in 1942; they had a daughter, Nicola, then divorced in 1951. A second marriage, to Jim Douglas-Henry in 1958, was brief. Her third marriage to novelist Kingsley Amis lasted from 1965 to 1983. Categories: People stubs | 1909 births | 1989 deaths | British illustrators | British painters | Ornithologists ... Sir Kingsley William Amis (April 16, 1922 – October 22, 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. ...


Her autobiography, Slipstream, was published in 2002.


Bibliography

  • Elizabeth Jane Howard (1950). The Beautiful Visit. Jonathan Cape. ISBN 0224609777.
  • Elizabeth Jane Howard (1956). The Long View. Jonathan Cape. ISBN 0224603183.
  • Elizabeth Jane Howard (1959). The Sea Change. Jonathan Cape. ISBN 0224603191.
  • Elizabeth Jane Howard (1965). After Julius. Jonathan Cape. ISBN 0224610376.
  • Elizabeth Jane Howard (1969). Something in Disguise. Jonathan Cape. ISBN 0224617443.
  • Elizabeth Jane Howard (1972). Odd Girl Out. Jonathan Cape. ISBN 0224006614.
  • Elizabeth Jane Howard (1982). Getting it Right. Hamish Hamilton. ISBN 0241108055.
  • Elizabeth Jane Howard (1990). The Light Years. MacMillan. ISBN 0333538757.
  • Elizabeth Jane Howard (1991). Marking Time. MacMillan. ISBN 0333565967.
  • Elizabeth Jane Howard (1993). Confusion. MacMillan. ISBN 0333575822.
  • Elizabeth Jane Howard (1995). Casting Off. MacMillan. ISBN 0333607570.
  • Elizabeth Jane Howard (1999). Falling. MacMillan. ISBN 0333730208.
  • Elizabeth Jane Howard (2002). Slipstream. MacMillan. ISBN 0333903498.

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