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SAT阅读素材:Elizabeth Taylor

2014-11-06 22:33:59来源:网络

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  Angel by Elizabeth Taylor

  Elizabeth Taylor was a popular English novelist and short story writer.

  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 Phillip 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. 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. 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. A horror of publicity is the subject of another celebrated short story, "Sisters", written in 1969.

  Anne Tyler once compared Taylor to Jane Austen, Barbara Pym and Elizabeth Bowen -- "soul sisters all," in Tyler's words. In recent years new interest has been kindled by movie makers in her work. 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.

  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)

  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".

  Children's book

  Mossy Trotter (1967)

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