Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor was born in 1912 in Reading, worked as a governess and then a librarian, briefly joined the Communist Party in her youth, then supported the Labour Party. She married a confectionery manufacturer and wrote twelve novels and many short stories from a village in Buckinghamshire, thirty-five of which appeared in a New York weekly. Sharing her name with a famous actress long harmed her reputation, and critics have lastingly underrated her. She died in 1975.

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• NovelMrs Palfrey at the ClaremontElizabeth Taylor · 1971Literature