The lack of attention given to Elizabeth Taylor's work seems especially remarkable when one examines the number of novels and short stories she wrote. In twenty-seven years Taylor published eleven nov...
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Critical Essay by Peter Vansittart
I have not read [Elizabeth Taylor's] previous novels but familiar ghosts of thirty years of reviews flutter down. 'Formidably intelligent', ...
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Critical Essay by Joy Grant
[Elizabeth Taylor] wrote twelve novels and produced four volumes of short stories, many of the latter reprinted from the New Yorker magazine—in itself a sign that s...
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Critical Essay by Anne Tyler
If the English writer Elizabeth Taylor is not widely known in this country, maybe it's because most of her books were published back when people still spoke of ...
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Critical Essay by Elizabeth Janeway
["In a Summer Season"] is, on the surface, the most explicit of Elizabeth Taylor's fine, subtle novels. It has to do with conflict that seems ...
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Critical Essay by James R. Frakes
A quietly perceptive friend once told me of his conviction that people who "mean well" are the most dangerous of human beings, but I never fully realiz...
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Critical Essay by Katherine Gauss Jackson
[The Soul of Kindness is] a story that holds one's interest from first to last. Yet I found it disappointing, as if I'd just finished reading b...
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Critical Essay by Kingsley Amis
Mrs Taylor is one of those novelists who look homogeneous, as if working within a single mood, and turn out to be varied and wide-ranging. There is a deceptive smoothn...
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Critical Essay by Rosemary Dinnage
The making of a literary reputation is an awkward, unfair business. "One of our foremost novelists", Angus Wilson is quoted as saying on the jacket of...
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Critical Essay by Paul Bailey
Amy Henderson, the central character in [Blaming] …, is a woman of average intelligence and limited sensibility. She is 'nice' to the extent that sh...
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Critical Essay by Nick Totton
Blaming is Elizabeth Taylor's last novel, completed shortly before her death. And death is the dominant theme: not the experience of facing death oneself, but the...
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Elizabeth Taylor returned to the stage Saturday night, after persuading striking TV and film writers to briefly put down their picket signs.The Writers Guild of America agreed not to picket the Par...
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A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit demanding that Elizabeth Taylor turn over a Vincent van Gogh painting once confiscated by Nazis.Four descendants of the late Marg...
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New York (dpa) - Britney Spears released her comeback album
Blackout on Tuesday to generally positive reviews from critics, but
church leaders protested album art that pictu...
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The diary of Chester Gillette, whose murder of his lover in 1906 became the basis for Theodore Dreiser's classic "An American Tragedy," has been donated to Hamilton College after being passed down ...
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So maybe Mark Antony loved Cleopatra for her mind. That is the conclusion being drawn by academics at Britain's University of Newcastle from a Roman denarius coin which depicts the celebrated queen...
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Sen. John W. Warner, for decades one of the most authoritative voices in Congress on military issues and a key player in the debate over Iraq, will announce Friday whether he will seek a sixth term...
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Elizabeth Taylor, wearing a coffee-colored, gold-sequined Naeem Khan gown accented with diamond jewelry, put some superstar sparkle into an HIV/AIDS fundraiser.Taylor, 75 and in a wheelchair, is a ...
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The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a dispute involving actress Elizabeth Taylor over ownership of a Vincent van Gogh painting. The painting is claimed by descendants of a Jewish woman ...
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Question 1 of 10:
Dirk is a musician as well as an actor
. He once set up a Dixieland jazz band and can play which instrument?a) Double bass (0)b) Trombone (1)c) Saxophone (0)d) Drums (0)Question ...
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