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Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923–2014)

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Elizabeth Jane Howard was born in London, England on March 26, 1923. She was educated by governesses at home. Her first novel, The Beautiful Visit, was published in 1950 and won the John Llewellyn Rhys prize. Her other works include the series the Cazalet Chronicles, Falling, and the autobiography näytä lisää Slipstream. The first two novels of the Cazalet Chronicles, The Light Years and Marking Time, became the BBC TV series The Cazalets in 2001. The other books in the series are Confusion, Casting Off, and All Change. She also edited several anthologies and wrote short stories, articles, television plays, film scripts and a book on food with Fay Maschler. She was made a CBE in 2000. She died on January 2, 2014 at the age of 90. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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(eng) Elizabeth Jane Howard (March 26, 1923-January 2, 2014) was a British novelist. Not to be confused with mystery writer Elizabeth Howard.

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Tekijän teokset

The Light Years (1990) 1,241 kappaletta
Marking Time (1991) 811 kappaletta
Confusion (1993) 710 kappaletta
Casting Off (1995) 634 kappaletta
All Change (2013) 376 kappaletta
The Long View (1956) 264 kappaletta
Slipstream (2002) 178 kappaletta
Falling (1999) 175 kappaletta
Odd Girl Out (1972) 174 kappaletta
After Julius (1965) 163 kappaletta
The Beautiful Visit (1950) 145 kappaletta
The Sea Change (1959) 140 kappaletta
Something in Disguise (1969) 134 kappaletta
Getting It Right (1982) 100 kappaletta
Mr Wrong (1975) 94 kappaletta
Love All (2008) 74 kappaletta
Green Shades (1991) 16 kappaletta
Cooking for Occasions (1987) 14 kappaletta
Upstairs, Downstairs: The Complete Fourth Season [1974] (1974) — Writer — 12 kappaletta
The Lover's Companion (1978) 10 kappaletta
Marriage (1997) 9 kappaletta
The Long View/The Sea Change (1995) 7 kappaletta
Lectures and Addresses (2002) 5 kappaletta
Falling Love All 3 kappaletta
Bettina: A Portrait (1957) 2 kappaletta
Three Miles Up 1 kappale
2018 1 kappale

Associated Works

The Enchanted April (1922) — Johdanto, eräät painokset2,787 kappaletta
Elizabeth and her German Garden (1898) — Johdanto, eräät painokset1,088 kappaletta
Sokkoleikki (1951) — Johdanto, eräät painokset575 kappaletta
The Wedding Group (1968) — Johdanto, eräät painokset255 kappaletta
Värisyttävä kosketus. 2 (1993) — Avustaja — 231 kappaletta
The Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories (1990) — Avustaja — 100 kappaletta
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996) — Avustaja — 70 kappaletta
The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1964) — Avustaja — 61 kappaletta
The Norton Book Of Ghost Stories (1994) — Avustaja — 49 kappaletta
The Cazalets [2001 TV series] (2004) — Original book — 18 kappaletta
A Different Sound: Stories by Mid-Century Women Writers (2023) — Avustaja — 17 kappaletta
Paha vieras (1996) 15 kappaletta
A Feast of Stories (1996) — Avustaja — 14 kappaletta
Ghostly, grim and gruesome: An anthology (1976) — Avustaja — 7 kappaletta

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Syntymäaika
1923-03-26
Kuolinaika
2014-01-02
Sukupuoli
female
Kansalaisuus
UK
Syntymäpaikka
London, England, UK
Kuolinpaikka
Bungay, Suffolk, England, UK
Asuinpaikat
London, England, UK
Bungay, Suffolk, England, UK
Ammatit
short-story writer
novelist
actor
Suhteet
Scott, Peter (first husband)
Amis, Kingsley (third husband)
Amis, Martin (step-son)
Aickman, Robert (lover)
Organisaatiot
Inland Waterways Association
Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
CBE (2000)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (1951)
Lyhyt elämäkerta
Elizabeth Jane Howard, known as Jane, worked briefly as an actor in provincial theater before marrying Sir Peter Scott in 1942, at age 19. They had a daughter, Nicola, and 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. She published her first novel in 1950 and her autobiography, Slipstream, in 2002.
Erotteluhuomautus
Elizabeth Jane Howard (March 26, 1923-January 2, 2014) was a British novelist. Not to be confused with mystery writer Elizabeth Howard.

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149. Something in Disguise by Elizabeth Jane Howard, Backlisted Book Club (maaliskuu 2022)
Elizabeth Jane Howard, Virago Modern Classics (tammikuu 2014)

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The Cazalets–patriarch, matriarch, three adult sons, their wives and children–traditionally spend their summers at their country house in Sussex. The Light Years opens in 1937, with the first part of the novel developing each of the characters as they enjoy an idyllic summer together: eldest son Hugh his devoted wife Sybil and their three children; second son Edward, his strong-willed wife Viola aka Villy, and their three children; and youngest son Rupert, his much younger wife Zoe, and their three children from Rupert’s previous marriage. Hugh and Edward make occasional trips to London for the family timber business, while Sybil and Villy capably manage household affairs while gossiping about Zoe. The cousins band together with those closest to their own age, with occasional drama and shifting loyalties. Most of this sounds too good to be true, and sure enough the second part of the novel, set in late 1938, exposes chinks in the family armor and some closely guarded secrets. The threat of war is palpable: Hitler is already laying groundwork for what we know is to come. The family engages both in denial, and preparations for living at their country house for the foreseeable future.

I love a good family saga, and this most certainly is one. Elizabeth Jane Howard puts her female characters at the center, often the source of real power in the family. At the same time, she shows the ways women are disadvantaged in society, through limited education (which continues with the female Cazalet children), to dependence on male wage earners and a complete lack of reproductive freedom. Also, the children are multi-dimensional, setting them up to play more significant roles in the ten years that play out in the remaining Cazalet Chronicles novels. I am really looking forward to continuing this series.
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lauralkeet | 52 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 11, 2024 |
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/marking-time-by-elizabeth-jane-howard/

Marking Time is the second of the series, set a year after the first, and concentrating very much on three teenage Cazalet girls, whose fathers are brothers. But it’s now war time – the book starts in September 1939 and ends with Pearl Harbour in December 1941, so it covers a long and crucial period of the girls’ lives; Louise, an aspiring actress, whose father is abusive; Clary, an aspiring writer, whose father goes missing after Dunkirk; and sensitive Polly, whose mother is very ill though nobody will admit it. Between the lines (and not only there) is a thoughtful reflection on the roles of women in English society of the time.

The cast of characters is huge – the family tree at the start lists eighteen living Cazalet relatives, and there are a half dozen more who get at least some viewpoint time – lovers, servants, in-laws. But Howard keeps them all under control, and although we know that parts of this are based on her own life, it doesn’t come across didactically. There is a minor twist at the end of the book which made me gasp, but in any case I would have been impatient for the next instalment; some very tempting plot lines have been set up. I’ll get to it soon enough!
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nwhyte | 28 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 24, 2024 |
Marvelous. Now deep into the whole 5-book series.
 
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fmclellan | 52 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jan 23, 2024 |
I read all the 5 parts of the Cazalet Chronicles during christmas holiday. An English family saga which starts in 1937 and ends in november-december 1958. What struck me most was the changing world of women, starting in victiorian times. The decennia after WorldWar II, gives more possibilities to women, but marriage is still what parents most for their daughters and going to university and becoming an intellectual woman is not done. Elizabeth Jane Howard, who put a lot her own experiences and history in the chronicle is a superb in observation. Writer Hilary Mantel prized her and rightly so: "Elizabeth Jane Howard is one of those novelists who shows, through her work, what the novel is for... She helps us to do the neccessary thing - open our eyes and our hearts"… (lisätietoja)
 
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timswings | 52 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jan 21, 2024 |

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