Anglonautes > Arts > Books / Writers > 20th / 21st century > UK

Arts > Writers > UK > Elizabeth Jane Howard 1923-2014

Elizabeth Jane Howard, c1956.

Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images

Elizabeth Jane Howard:

Hilary Mantel on the novelist she tells everyone to read

Saturday 30 January 2016 11.00 GMT

Elizabeth Jane Howard 1923-2014

For much of a career

spanning more than 60 years,

the writer Elizabeth Jane Howard

(...)

suffered a certain condescension

from literary editors as a writer

of "women's novels".

But it did not deter her.

She herself described

her readers

as "women and educated men",

and expressed "puzzlement"

when Margaret Drabble

left her out of her 1985 edition

of The Oxford Companion

to English Literature.

Related > Anglonautes > Arts

Related > Anglonautes > Vocapedia > Arts