Elizabeth Longford

She had floated the idea of writing a study of women in the seventeenth century in September 1979, and publishers George Weidenfeld and Bob Gottlieb both seem[ed] keen. She dedicated it to her...

She dedicated this book to her mother and her daughter .

Her mother, born Elizabeth Harman, has been described as one of the most brilliant women of her generation and as the radical force in her marriage. She ran for...

All three generations of women are seen combining in the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, given in affectionate memory of the grandmother, and awarded in 2004 by judges Antonia and Flora Fraser (mother and...

John Brown , a Highlander, had first entered the service of the royal family in 1851; Victoria's biographer Elizabeth Longford says she first mentioned him in her journal on 11 September 1849. After Prince Albert

Her mother, known as Elizabeth Longford (from her husband's peerage) on the title-pages of her books, was a historical writer and biographer who was called one of the most brilliant women of her generation and...

When Fraser and her brother were registering their mother 's death, the brother read Pinter's poem Death aloud to the registrar.

SH edited People: Essays & Poems, issued to benefit Oxfam . Contributors (including Iris Murdoch , Margaret Drabble , Anne Ridler , and Elizabeth Longford ) were invited to write about someone influential in their life.

JK titled a poetry volume from the hour when my mother died:Just After Midnight. She remembers her and my extraordinary father in the book's last section.

The title-poem deals with her relationship with her mother . The whole, she says, breathes imprisonment in mother/family stereotypes, and the violent clumsy effort to break free.