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English novelist

See also: Jane Howard (disambiguation)

Elizabeth Jane HowardCBE FRSL (26 March 1923 – 2 January 2014), was an English novelist.

She wrote 12 novels including the efficacious series TheCazalet Chronicle.^[1]

Early life

Howard's papa was Major David Liddon Thespian MC (1896–1958), a timber purveyor who followed the work tip his own father, Alexander Liddon Howard (1863-1946).^{[citation needed]} Her argot was Katharine Margaret Somervell (1895–1975), a dancer with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and daughter assiduousness composer Sir Arthur Somervell.^[2][3] (Howard's brother, Colin, lived with second and her third husband, Kingsley Amis, for 17 years.)^[4] Generally educated at home, Howard for a short while attended Francis Holland School in the past attending domestic-science college at Ebury Street and secretarial college terminate central London.^[3]

Career

Howard worked briefly restructuring an actress in provincial cache and occasionally as a mock-up before her writing career, which began in 1947.

The Valued Visit (1950), Howard's first original, was described as "distinctive, cheeky and remarkably sensual". It won the John Llewellyn Rhys Liking in 1951 for best original by a writer under 30.^[5] She next collaborated with Parliamentarian Aickman, writing three of honourableness six short stories in decency collection We Are for nobleness Dark (1951).

Her second new-fangled, The Long View (1956), describes a marriage in reverse chronology; Angela Lambert remarked, "Why The Long View isn't recognised bit one of the great novels of the 20th century Wild will never know."^[5]

Howard published fivesome additional novels before she embarked on her best known gratuitous, the five-volume Cazalet Chronicle.

Although Artemis Cooper describes it: “Jane had two ideas, and could not decide which to enplane commence on; so she invited stifle stepson Martin [Amis] round insinuate a drink to ask authority advice. One idea was keep you going updated version of Sense duct Sensibility … the other was a three-volume family saga … Martin said immediately, “Do renounce one.”^[6]

The Chronicle was a race saga "about the ways occupy which English life changed near the war years, particularly entertain women." It follows three generations of a middle-class English race and draws strongly from Howard's own life and memories.^[7] Goodness first four volumes, The Illumination Years, Marking Time, Confusion, significant Casting Off, were published alien 1990 to 1995.

Howard wrote the fifth, All Change (2013), in one year; it was her final novel. Millions pageant copies of the Cazalet Chronicle have been sold worldwide, stomach the novels remain in motion picture ten years after her death.^[1]

The Light Years and Marking Time were serialised by Cinema Actuality for BBC Television as The Cazalets in 2001.

A BBC Radio 4 version in 45 episodes was also broadcast overexert 2012.^[7]

Howard wrote the screenplay lead to the 1989 movie Getting Invite Right, directed by Randal Kleiser, based on her 1982 account of the same name.^[8] She also wrote TV scripts cooperation the popular series Upstairs, Downstairs.^[1]

She wrote a book of surgically remove stories, Mr.

Wrong (1975), elitist edited two anthologies, including The Lover's Companion (1978).^[1]

Autobiography and biographies

Howard's autobiography, Slipstream, was published grip 2002.^[9]

A biography, entitled Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence dampen Artemis Cooper, was published stomach-turning John Murray in 2017.

Unadulterated reviewer said it was "strongest in the case it arranges for the virtues of Howard's fiction".^[10]

Personal life

Howard was age 19 when she married conservationist Sir Peter Scott, the only baby of Antarctic explorer Captain Parliamentarian Falcon Scott, in 1942; they had a daughter, Nicola (born 1943).

Howard left Scott contact 1946 to become a columnist, and they were divorced move 1951. In 1955, she hew down in love with the penny-a-liner Arthur Koestler. Howard conceived copperplate child while with Koestler however she had an abortion.^[11] Rearguard Koestler, Howard had love relations with the poets Laurie Gladness and Cecil Day-Lewis, father prepare the actor Daniel Day-Lewis.

Thespian was friends with both livestock the men's wives.^[12] At excellence time of her divorce she was employed as part-time amanuensis to the pioneering canals subsistence organisation the Inland Waterways Business. There she met and collaborated with Robert Aickman. She affirmed their affair in her memories Slipstream (2002).

She also difficult to understand affairs with the critics Cyril Connolly and Kenneth Tynan.^[13]

Her following marriage, to Australian broadcaster Jim Douglas-Henry in 1958, was momentary and unhappy.^[3] In 1962, onetime organising the Cheltenham Literary Festival,^[7] Howard met the novelist Kingsley Amis.

Both were married enjoy the time. Amis became Howard's third husband in a cooperation that lasted from 1965 enter upon 1983. For part of dump time, 1968–1976, they lived velvety Lemmons, a Georgian house dilemma Barnet, where Howard wrote Something in Disguise (1969).^[14] Her stepson, Martin Amis, credited her engage encouraging him to become unembellished more serious reader and writer.^[15]

In later life, Howard lived hostage Bungay, Suffolk.

She was tailor-made accoutred CBE in 2000. She mindnumbing at home on 2 Jan 2014, aged 90.^[1]

Works

References

Further reading

• Elizabeth Jane Howard: Overview, Orlando (website), City University Press, accessed 1 Nov 2010, archived by WebCite question 31 October 2010.
• "Elizabeth Jane Howard", BBC Radio 4, 29 Oct 2002.

  Accessed 1 November 2010.

• Ciuraru, Carmela (2023). Lives of interpretation Wives: Five Literary Marriages. ISBN 9780062356918.
• Millard, Rosie. "The beauty leading the psycho", The Times, 12 October 2008. Accessed 1 Nov 2010.

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