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Open Book: Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard Remembered

Elizabeth Jane Howard

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Day celebrates the centenary year of the writer Elizabeth Jane Howard.

Elizabeth Day celebrates the centenary year of the writer Elizabeth Jane Howard with Artemis Cooper, Stacey Halls and Maria Rejt.

Elizabeth Jane Howard, the British novelist who was born a hundred years ago this year in 1923. Raised in a privileged but unhappy family her early experiences would inform much of her writing through her long career. Despite winning the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her first novel The Beautiful Visit in 1950 -  it wasn’t until the second half of her life that her fictional quintet The Cazalet Chronicles would bring commercial acclaim. Her private life; three marraiges, including the writer Kingsley Amis, affairs with Laurie Lee and Cecil Day Lewis often overshadow her books, but on the programme today, Elizabeth Day is joined by biographer, Artemis Cooper author of Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence, Howard's editor Maria Rejt, and the author of The Familiars and Mrs England, Stacey Halls, to take a closer look at the qualities of her writing.

Book List – Sunday 23 July and Thursday 27 July

The Beautiful Visit by Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Long View by Elizabeth Jane Howard 
Slipstream by Elizabeth Jane Howard 
Confusion by Elizabeth Jane Howard 
Mr Wrong by Elizabeth Jane Howard 
The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Marking Time by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Confusion by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Casting Off by Elizabeth Jane Howard
All Change by Elizabeth Jane Howard
 Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence by Artemis Cooper 
One Fat Englishman by Kingsley Amis 
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante 
After You’d Gone by Maggie O’Farrell 
The Distance Between Us by Maggie O’Farrell 
This Must be the Place by Maggie O’Farrell

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