Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Regular ten-name petitions received this week for permanent officers named Barbara Heanue and Ruth Marshall for secretary and Louise Pochi and Elizabeth Zacharchuk for treasurer...
...final address of the afternoon, to be given by Elizabeth P. Rice, assistant professor of Medical Social Work, will cover "Social and Emotional Problems of the School Age Period...
Adventure Enough. In this typical "bit of dialogue, Novelist Elizabeth Taylor skips ahead of the reader to state-and quickly puncture with mockery-the best justification for her novels. A Wreath of Roses is her fourth, and it has the same lightness and speed, the same clairvoyance at catching ripples of feminine feeling, as her first, At Mrs. Lippincote's. Since there is nothing very busty or blustery about all this, Mrs. Taylor will probably have to be content with a lot fewer readers than she deserves...
Like Jane Austen, one of her models in the art of fiction, Elizabeth Taylor has lived a quiet life in provincial England. As a schoolgirl in Reading, she wrote surreptitious romances when she was supposed to be studying; she worked as a governess, later as a librarian, then she married and had two children. She is now a fair, grey-eyed young woman (36) who lives with her family in Buckinghamshire and, thinking that to be adventure enough, hopes never to have any others. She is a born writer and a good...
...Elizabeth Taylor's best novel is still her third, A View of the Harbour, in which she managed a greater range of characters and moods with more solidity of style...