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Elizabeth Coles Taylor biography

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  • PLACE OF DEATH: Penn, Buckinghamshire, England
  • Maiden Name: Elizabeth Coles
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Elizabeth Coles Taylor was a popular English novelist who portrays with flawless accuracy the behavior of women during her time.


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Born in England in 1912, Elizabeth Coles Taylor was a popular novelist who portrays with flawless accuracy the behavior of women during her time. Most of her stories had lackluster plot-lines, but it was her characters and their nuances that captured her readers. She wrote regularly for The New Yorker magazine, and published several novels,

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Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.
– Elizabeth Coles Taylor

including A Game of Hide and Seek and The Wedding Group.

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née Coles (born July 3, 1912, Reading, Berkshire, Eng.—died Nov. 19, 1975, Penn, Buckinghamshire) British novelist noted for her precise use of language and scrupulously understated style.

Her first novel, At Mrs Lippincote's, was published in 1945; like most of her work, it has a largely uneventful plot but portrays with unerring accuracy the behaviour of women in contemporary society. Among her other works are A Wreath of Roses (1950), A Game of Hide and Seek (1951), The Sleeping Beauty (1953), and The Wedding Group (1968). Volumes of short stories include A Dedicated Man (1965) and The Devastating Boys (1972). She frequently contributed to The New Yorker magazine.

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