Elizabeth Jane Howard

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Elizabeth Jane Howard , CBE (born March 26, 1923 in London ; died January 2, 2014 in Bungay , Suffolk ) was a British writer .

Life

Elizabeth Jane Howard was born into a wealthy timber merchant family. Among other things, she worked as a model, actress and presenter. In 1951 Howard won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her first novel, The Beautiful Visit . Many of her 15 novels were well received by critics, but her fame was largely based on the Cazalet Chronicles , a saga about the lives of three generations of an upper-class family between 1937 and 1957.

She led three marriages, including with Peter Markham Scott and from 1965 to 1983 with Kingsley Amis . Her admirers included Arthur Koestler , Laurie Lee, and Cecil Day Lewis .

In 2000 she was named Commander of the British Empire .

literature

  • Artemis Cooper: Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence . John Murray, 2016

Works

  • The Beautiful Visit . Jonathan Cape. 1950.
  • We Are for the Dark: Six Ghost Stories . Jonathan Cape. 1951
  • The Long View . Jonathan Cape. 1956
  • The Sea Change . Jonathan Cape. 1959
  • After Julius . Jonathan Cape. 1965
  • Something in Disguise . Jonathan Cape. 1969
  • Odd girl out . Jonathan Cape. 1972
  • Mr. Wrong . Jonathan Cape. 1975.
  • Getting It Right . Hamish Hamilton. 1982
  • The Light Years. The Cazalet Chronicles I . Macmillan Publishers. 1990
    • The years of lightness. Novel. The chronicle of the Cazalet family. Volume 1 . Translated from English and annotated by Ursula Wulfekamp. dtv Verlagsgesellschaft , Munich 2018
  • Marking time. The Cazalet Chronicles II . Macmillan. 1991
    • The time to wait. Novel. The chronicle of the Cazalet family. Volume 2 . Translated from English and annotated by Ursula Wulfekamp. dtv Verlagsgesellschaft , Munich 2018
  • Confusion. The Cazalet Chronicles III . Macmillan. 1993
    • The stormy years. Novel. The chronicle of the Cazalet family. Volume 3 . Translated from English and annotated by Ursula Wulfekamp. dtv Verlagsgesellschaft , Munich 2019
  • Casting off. The Cazalet Chronicles IV . Macmillan. 1995
  • Falling . Macmillan. 1999
  • Slipstream . Macmillan. 2002
  • Three Miles Up and Other Strange Stories .
  • Love all . Macmillan. 2008
  • All change. The Cazalet Chronicles V . Macmillan. 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BBC News: "Novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard dies" (obituary, English)
  2. ↑ Gina Thomas: Men lay at her feet . Obituary. In: FAZ , January 4, 2014, p. 34
  3. ↑ Quinn: Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence by Artemis Cooper - review , in: The Guardian , September 18, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Howard, Elizabeth Jane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 2014
Place of death Bungay , Suffolk