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Elizabeth Jane Howard's Books
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Guardian.co.uk, May 11, 2012
...of stripped, piercing feminine wit". Jilly Cooper hails her as "a wonderful novelist." Both Paul Bailey and Elizabeth Jane Howard, meanwhile, declare that they "envy any reader coming to her for the first time". I belong to that latter group. I can't...
Telegraph, May 8, 2012
...more than a passing resemblance between the victim, young, highly strung female novelist Millicent Miles, and Day-Lewiss mistress, Elizabeth Jane Howard, best friend of his second wife, Jill Balcon. And then in The Deadly Joker (1963), the corpse belongs...
Brisbane Times, March 16, 2012
...Destiny's child ... Martin Amis (left), his father, Kingsley Amis, (right) and Kingsley's second wife, Elizabeth Jane Howard, all writers, in 1980. Photo: Camera Press London The first biography of 'the Mick Jagger of literature' tries to exonerate him...
Telegraph, March 12, 2012
...The painting, by Peter Scott, depicts Elizabeth Jane Howard as Fritha in the Snow Goose. A portrait of the author, Elizabeth Jane Howard, by her first husband, Peter Scott, has emerged for sale at Cheffins auctioneers in...
Observer, February 19, 2012
...stage, I didn't care enough about the characters to be truly moved. Unlike with Anne Tyler or Elizabeth Jane Howard, both masters of the minutely observed family saga, there seems to be no heart at this book's core. Crucial plot developments, such as...
Observer, February 18, 2012
...stage, I didn't care enough about the characters to be truly moved. Unlike with Anne Tyler or Elizabeth Jane Howard, both masters of the minutely observed family saga, there seems to be no heart at this book's core. Crucial plot developments, such as...
Irish Independent, November 21, 2011
...welcome, as were all the girlfriends, at the hospitable home of Kingsley and his second wife, the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard. In one of the livelier anecdotes (Bradford doesn't do irony or satire much) Brown -- who it is said could be unintentionally...
Observer, February 19, 2012
...stage, I didn't care enough about the characters to be truly moved. Unlike with Anne Tyler or Elizabeth Jane Howard, both masters of the minutely observed family saga, there seems to be no heart at this book's core. Crucial plot developments, such as...
The Independent, February 18, 2012
...Jill Balcon, the daughter of the British movie mogul Michael Balcon. He also had a brief affair with Elizabeth Jane Howard (see columns passim) who later married Kingsley Amis. While I fight the urge to produce a Venn diagram of all these intersecting...
Observer, February 18, 2012
...stage, I didn't care enough about the characters to be truly moved. Unlike with Anne Tyler or Elizabeth Jane Howard, both masters of the minutely observed family saga, there seems to be no heart at this book's core. Crucial plot developments, such as...
imagic reflections, May 30, 2011
...This is what I love about historical fiction. You, both authors and readers, can explore the most wonderful “what ifs”. It has been speculated that Anne Boleyn probably met Leonardo da Vinci whilst residing with the French Court, but, what if...
