Tag: Elizabeth Taylor

• The Wedding Group

  Oops! I had a brainstorm when I mentioned the 1968 Club and forgot to say that I’d also read The Wedding Group, by Elizabeth Taylor, so I’m writing about it now, and will try to squeeze Muriel Spark in before the week ends. Taylor’s writing, like many of her characters, tends to be understated, restrained…

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  November 1, 2017

  20thC

  Elizabeth Taylor, The 1968 Club, The Wedding Group

• The Blush

  Here we have another Virago (after all, LibraryThing’s All Virago All August is still running). The Blush, is a collection of 12 short stories by Elizabeth Taylor who, unlike Lisa St Aubin de Teran in my last post, could never, ever be accused of melodrama, although she can, on occasions, be much darker than you might expect.…

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  August 9, 2016

  20thC, Short Stories, Virago

  Elizabeth Taylor, The Blush

• Short Story Sunday: The Devastating Boys

  Well, we’ve had our ‘Christmas’ already, last weekend, when the Darling Daughters and their Boyfriends came home, and we had a Christmas dinner, and crackers, and presents, and wine, and sang along to Christmas music, and played silly children’s games, and had a thoroughly wonderful time. My Mother didn’t join us as originally, because she…

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  December 21, 2014

  Elizabeth Taylor, Girl in a Red Dress Reading by a Swimming Pool, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Sir John Lavery, The Devastating Boys, The Penguin Book of Modern Women’s Short Stories