| 词条 | Elizabeth Taylor (novelist) |
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Life and writingsBorn 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 married John Taylor, owner of a confectionery company, in 1936, after which they lived in Penn, Buckinghamshire for almost all their married life. She was briefly a member of the British Communist Party, then a consistent Labour Party supporter.[2] Taylor's first novel, At Mrs. Lippincote's, was published in 1945. It was followed by eleven more. Her short stories were published in magazines and collected in four volumes. She also wrote a children's book. The English critic Philip Hensher called The Soul of Kindness a novel "so expert that it seems effortless. As it progresses, it seems as if the cast are so fully rounded that all the novelist had to do was place them, successively, in one setting after another and observe how they reacted to each other.... The plot... never feels as if it were organised in advance; it feels as if it arises from her characters' mutual responses."[2] Taylor's work is mainly concerned with the nuances of everyday life and situations. 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. Her long correspondence with the latter forms the subject of one of her short stories, "The Letter Writers" (published in The Blush, 1951), but the letters were destroyed, in line with her general policy of keeping her private life private. A horror of publicity is the subject of another celebrated short story, "Sisters", written in 1969.[3] Anne Tyler once compared Taylor to Jane Austen, Barbara Pym and Elizabeth Bowen – "soul sisters all," in Tyler's words.[4]Taylor was also a close friend of Elizabeth Jane Howard, who was asked by Taylor's widower to write a biography following Elizabeth Taylor's death. Howard refused due to what she felt was a lack of incident in Taylor's life.[5] See Slipstream, Elizabeth Jane Howard's memoir, for more details on their friendship. Taylor's editor at the UK publisher Chatto & Windus was the poet D. J. Enright.[6] Elizabeth Taylor died of cancer in Penn, Buckinghamshire, at the age of 63.[6] In the 21st century a new interest in her work was kindled by film-makers. During the 1970s, Ruth Sacks Caplin had written an film screenplay based on Taylor's novel Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont.[7] Caplin's screenplay languished for decades, until her son, Lee Caplin, purchased the rights to the film in 1999.[7] Ruth Sacks Caplin's film adaptation, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, directed by Dan Ireland, was finally released in 2005 with British actress Joan Plowright in the title role.[7] French director François Ozon made a 2007 film of The Real Life of Angel Deverell entitled Angel, with Romola Garai. BibliographyNovels
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References1. ^{{cite news |first=Sam |last=Jordison |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2012/may/11/elizabeth-taylor-novelist-english?INTCMP=SRCH |title=Rediscovering Elizabeth Taylor – the brilliant novelist |work=The Guardian |date=11 May 2012 |accessdate=11 May 2012}} 2. ^Philip Hensher [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3651494/The-other-Liz-Taylor.html "The Other Liz Taylor"], The Daily Telegraph (London), 9 April 2006. Retrieved 13 March 2011. 3. ^Publisher's copy for a reissue of The Other Elizabeth Taylor by Nicola Beauman. Retrieved 13 March 2011. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711214454/http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=119 |date=11 July 2011}} 4. ^{{cite web |title=Anne Tyler recommends |url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/t/anne-tyler/ |work=Fantastic Fiction |accessdate=28 March 2014}} 5. ^Edmund Gordon [https://web.archive.org/web/20090507172304/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article6146566.ece "Elizabeth Taylor's last secret"], Times Literary Supplement, 22 April 2009, as reproduced on the timesonline website 6. ^1 2 3 {{Cite ODNB| last1=Bailey| first1=Paul| authorlink=Paul Bailey (British writer)| Paul Bailey| title=Taylor, Elizabeth (1912–1975)| accessdate=23 October 2017| url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/39186 |date=2004}} 7. ^1 2 {{cite news |first=Emily |last=Langer |title=Ruth Sacks Caplin, screenwriter of 'Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont,' dies at 93 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/ruth-sacks-caplin-screenwriter-of-mrs-palfrey-at-the-claremont-dies-at-93/2014/08/08/590c751e-1e4e-11e4-82f9-2cd6fa8da5c4_story.html |work=Washington Post |publisher= |date=2014-08-09 |accessdate=2014-09-02}} 8. ^{{Cite news| last=McCrum| first=Robert| title = The 100 best novels: No 87 – Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor (1971)| work = The Guardian| date = 11 May 2015| accessdate=23 October 2017 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/11/100-best-novels-no-87-mrs-palfrey-at-the-claremont-elizabeth-taylor}} Further reading
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