Elizabeth Mavor

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Elizabeth Mavor (17 December 1927 – 22 May 2013)[1] was a British writer.

Biography[]

Born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1927, she was educated at St Leonard's School, St Andrews and St Anne's College, Oxford. She married the illustrator , and had two sons and lived in Oxfordshire. She is best known as a novelist, and wrote The Green Equinox, a biography of the Duchess of Kingston that was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Ladies of Llangollen, and Fanny Kemble: American Journals.[2]

Bibliography[]

  • The Virgin Mistress [2]
  • Ladies of Llangollen: A Study in Romantic Friendship [2]
  • The Grand Tour of William Beckford [2]
  • The Grand Tours of Katherine Wilmot: France 1801-3 and Russia 1805-7 (Compiler and Editor).[2]
  • A Year with the Ladies of Llangollen [2]
  • Summer in the Greenhouse [2]
  • The Temple of Flora [2]
  • The Redoubt [2]
  • The Green Equinox [2]
  • The White Solitaire [2]

References[]

  1. ^ 10 Jun 2013. "Elizabeth Mavor". Telegraph. Retrieved 2013-06-11.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k Detail taken from a copy Grand Tours of Katherine Wilmot published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson London in 1992 with an ISBN of 0 297 81223 - 78
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