Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard is an English novelist. She was born in London on 26 March 1923. She was an actress and a model before becoming a novelist.

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London - 26 March - 1923

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In 1951, she won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her first novel, The Beautiful Visit. Six further novels followed, before she embarked on her best known work, a four novel family saga set in wartime England. The Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion, and Casting Off were serialised by BBC television as "The Cazalets".

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She has also written a book of short stories, Mr Wrong, and edited two anthologies.

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She married Sir Peter Scott in 1942; they had a daughter, Nicola, then divorced in 1951. A second marriage, to Jim Douglas-Henry in 1958, was brief. Her third marriage to novelist Kingsley Amis lasted from 1965 to 1983.

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Peter Scott - Kingsley Amis

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Her autobiography, Slipstream, was published in 2002.

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