Elizabeth Taylor (novelist)

Elizabeth Taylor ( born July 3, 1912 in Reading, Berkshire, † November 19, 1975 in Penn, Buckinghamshire ), born Coles, was a British writer.

Life

Until her marriage in 1936, Elizabeth Taylor as a private teacher ( governess ) and librarian was busy. The time of their professional duties, they kept always positive memories. So she wrote: " I ​​learned so much from synthesis jobs and have never regretted the time I spent at them. " ( German: " I learned so much through these activities and have the time I spent with it, never regretted it. " )

As a novelist and author of numerous short stories, she devoted herself mainly to the lives of women of the middle and upper middle class, who himself belonged. This environment and is active women described them accurately and with humor. In the center of the action of their prose are no exciting plot, but rather everyday situations. Your language corresponds to this content and can be characterized as precise and slightly to the effects haschend.

The American writer Anne Tyler, who also engaged in their work life of the middle class in the center, looks like in Jane Austen and Barbara Pym soul sisters of Elizabeth Taylor.

The first of its twelve novels titled At Mrs Lippincote 's appeared 1945. Her short stories, previously published in various journals have been published in several anthologies. From Elizabeth Taylor is also a children's book Mossy Trotter.

Works

Novels

  • Palladian (1946 ), dt Lonely Heart (1948 )
  • A View of the Harbour ( 1947), German Small waves (1950 ) Overlooking the harbor; from the English by Bettina Abarbanell. Dörlemann -Verlag, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-908777-66-3.
  • Hide and seek. Translated from English by Bettina Abarbanell. Dörlemann, Zurich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-908777-84-7.
  • Summer long. Novel. TRANSFER From d Engl. by Hans Jürgen Will and Barbara Klau. v. Schröder, Hamburg 1962.

Short stories ( selection)

  • Hester Lilly ( 1954)
  • The Blush and Other Stories (1958 )
  • A Dedicated Man and Other Stories (1965 )
  • The Devastating Boys ( 1972)

Children's Books

  • Mossy Trotter (1967 )

Films

  • Angel, 2007 Director: François Ozon
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