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Elizabeth Taylor (novelist)

Elizabeth Taylor (née Coles; 3 July 1912 in Reading, Berkshire - 19 November 1975 in Penn, Buckinghamshire) was a British novelist and short storywriter.
ولدت الروائية اليزبث تايلو عام 1912 في انجلترا وماتت في 1975
Life and writings

The daughter of Oliver Coles, an insurance inspector, and his wife, Elsie May Fewtrell, Elizabeth Coles was educated at The Abbey School in Reading and then worked as a governess, tutor, and librarian.
درست في مدرسة ابي ثم عملت في عدة وظائف مثل موظفة كتبه
She married John William Kendall Taylor, owner of a confectionery company, in 1936.
تزوجت عام 1936 من وليم كندل وهو صاحب شركة حلويات
They lived in Penn, Buckinghamshire, for almost all their married life. She was briefly a member of the Communist Party, then a lifelong Labour Party supporter.
انضمت للحزب الشيوعي لفترة قصيرة ثم انضمت لحزب العمال بقية حياتها
Taylor's first novel, At Mrs. Lippincote's, was published in 1945 and was followed by eleven more. Her short stories were published in magazines and collected in four volumes. She also wrote a children's book. The British critic Philip Hensher called The Soul of Kindness a novel "so expert that it seems effortless. As it progresses, it seems as if the cast are so fully rounded that all the novelist had to do was place them, successively, in one setting after another and observe how they reacted to each other.... The plot... never feels as if it were organised in advance; it feels as if it arises from her characters' mutual responses."
Taylor's work is mainly concerned with the nuances of everyday life and situations, which she writes about with dexterity.
كتبت ما يعالج الاحداث اليومية
Her shrewd but affectionate portrayals of middle class and upper middle class English life won her an audience of discriminating readers, as well as loyal friends in the world of letters.
كتبت عن الطبقة الوسطي والطبقة البرجوازية
She was a friend of the novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett and of the novelist and critic Robert Liddell. Her long correspondence with the latter forms the subject of one of her short stories, "The Letter Writers" (published in The Blush, 1951), but the letters were unfortunately destroyed, in line with her general policy of keeping her private life private.
بذلت اقصى جهدها لتظل حياتها الخاصة خاصة وقد اتلفت الكثير من الوثائق لذلك الغرض
A horror of publicity is the subject of another celebrated short story, "Sisters", written in 1969.
الخوف من الاعلام كان احد مواضيع قصصها القصيرة
Anne Tyler once compared Taylor to Jane Austen, Barbara Pym and Elizabeth Bowen -- "soul sisters all," in Tyler's words.
Elizabeth Taylor was also a close friend of Elizabeth Jane Howard, who was asked by Elizabeth Taylor's widower to write a biography following Elizabeth Taylor's death.
Elizabeth Jane Howard refused due to what she felt was a lack of incident in Elizabeth Taylor's life. See Slipstream, Elizabeth Jane Howard's memoir, for more details on their friendship. Taylor's editor at the UK publisher Chatto & Windus was the poet D. J. Enright.
رفضت صديقتها اليزابيث جين كتابة مذكراتها كون ان حايتها خالية من الاحداث المهمة طبعا حسب وجهة نظرها
Elizabeth Taylor died of cancer in 1975, at the age of 63.]
ماتت بسبب السرطان عام 1975
In the 21st century a new interest in her work was kindled by film-makers. French director François Ozon made a 2007 film of The Real Life of Angel Deverell entitled Angel, with Romola Garai. US director Dan Ireland made a screen adaptation of Taylor's Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2005), with Joan Plowright in the title role.
Bibliography of her works

Novels

· At Mrs. Lippincote's (1945)
· Palladian (1946) shows most clearly the influence of Jane Austen.
· A View of the Harbour (1947)
· A Wreath of Roses (1949)
· A Game of Hide and Seek (1951)
· The Sleeping Beauty (1953)
· The Real Life of Angel Deverell (published as Angel,1957)
· In a Summer Season (1961) is her most sex-infused work, telling the story of a rich woman who marries a man ten years her junior.
· The Soul of Kindness (1964)
· The Wedding Group (1968)
· Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (1971). The author's actress namesake is probably alluded to when it is announced that "the blousy Mrs Burton" is coming to stay at the hotel.[8]
· Blaming (1976), posthumous.
Short story collections

· Hester Lilly (1954)
· The Blush and Other Stories (1958)
· A Dedicated Man and Other Stories (1965)
· The Devastating Boys (1972). Includes "Sisters".
· Dangerous Calm (1995). A selection of her stories.
Children's book

· Mossy Trotter (1967)
Quotation

· "The whole point is that writing has a pattern and life hasn't. Life is so untidy. Art is so short and life so long. It is not possible to have perfection in life but it is possible to have perfection in a novel."
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The Other Elizabeth Taylor

Editor’s Choice: The late English writer is overdue for the recognition and readers she deserves.
By Benjamin Schwarz

The English author Elizabeth Taylor (1912–1975) is best known for not being better known.
هذه الروائية معروفه باتها فير وعروفه
Taylor’s lack of recognition springs from accident and temperament, from literary tastes and prejudices, and from her artistic approach and ambitions. National Velvet came out in 1944, the year before Taylor’s first novel, At Mrs. Lippincote’s, was published. For her entire career, living and posthumous, every conversation and article about her, and every request for her books, has had to begin “Elizabeth Taylor the writer.” Moreover, Taylor eschewed the London literary scene; she had, as Amis recalled, a “genuine distaste for any kind of publicity—that rarest of qualities in a writer.” Although universally regarded as an extraordinarily thoughtful and polite woman, she was nearly pathologically shy.
كانت خجولة الى حد مرضي
(Howard recalled trying to interview her on a television show: Taylor, “looking like a trapped and rather beautiful owl,” answered 30 questions in a minute and a half.) Most crucial, in many ways Taylor’s biography fit her subject, and neither appealed to the literary tastemakers.
في احد المقالات التفلزيونية ظهرت وكأنها بومة جميلة وقد اجابت على 30 سؤال خلال دقيقة ونصف
Like Jane Austen, the writer with whom she’s most often compared, Taylor led a perversely mild and parochial life. Before she was married, she worked as a governess and a librarian. With her husband, the director of his family’s confectionery company, she had a boy and a girl (her fiction displays a remarkable ear for the speech of children and a subtle grasp of their peculiar obsessions, suspicions, and insecurities). Ensconced in an upper-middle-class Buckinghamshire village, she was fascinated and deeply comforted by the daily routine of domestic life, the details of which she gave minute attention in her fiction. “I dislike much travel or change of environment and prefer the days … to come round almost the same, week after week,” she said.
كانت تكره التغيير وعاشت حياة متحفظة ومحدودة
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Elizabeth Taylor

A View of the Harbour is made up of short sections which jump from one character’s perspective to another’s. What effect does this have?
‘I think loneliness is a theme running through many of my novels and short stories,’ Taylor once wrote.
قالت في احدى المقابلات : اعتقد ان الشعور بالوحدة هو فكرة رئيسية تم التعامل معها خلال كل قصصي ورواياتي"