{"id":14677,"date":"2014-01-02T17:46:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T01:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=14677"},"modified":"2014-01-02T17:46:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T01:46:35","slug":"elizabeth-jane-howard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=14677","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Jane Howard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/at_home_in_Suffolk_2727033b-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14679\" title=\"at_home_in_Suffolk_2727033b-1\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/at_home_in_Suffolk_2727033b-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/at_home_in_Suffolk_2727033b-11.jpg 620w, https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/at_home_in_Suffolk_2727033b-11-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a career spanning more than 60 years, the writer Elizabeth Jane Howard, \u00a0has died at aged 90. Jane (as she was always called) achieved a triumph in her 70s with <em>The Cazalet Chronicle<\/em>, a highly praised tetralogy of novels set in the England of 1937-47. The first two books, The Light Years (1990) and Marking Time (1991), became an acclaimed BBC TV series, The Cazalets, in 2001. Her 2002 autobiography,\u00a0<em>Slipstream,<\/em> revealed how closely the Cazalet family was modeled on her own and that the roots of her novel. In November 2013, a fifth Cazalet novel, All Change, was published, shortly after a long-running dramatization of the original quartet on BBC Radio 4.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/With_Kingsley_Amis_2727030c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14682\" title=\"With_Kingsley_Amis_2727030c\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/With_Kingsley_Amis_2727030c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/With_Kingsley_Amis_2727030c.jpg 460w, https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/With_Kingsley_Amis_2727030c-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jane had an 18-year relationship with novelist Kingsley Amis, which made for fascinating public fodder. They married in 1965 and divorced in 1980 (it was her third marriage).<\/p>\n<p>Jane once admitted that writing was the most &#8220;frightening&#8221; thing she did, and that she did not enjoy it. &#8220;I find it much too anxious a business,&#8221; she said. She once tried to give it up altogether. But she couldn&#8217;t. &#8220;When you write something which comes off, it&#8217;s a feeling like no other,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s like being visited by something outside yourself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Elizabeth Jane Howard, writer, born 26 March 1923; died 2 January 2014<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a career spanning more than 60 years, the writer Elizabeth Jane Howard, \u00a0has died at aged 90. 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