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Title	Finding aid for Papers of Elizabeth Jane Howard, 1933-2009.
Creator	Howard, Elizabeth Jane.
Extent	4,214 items. 124 boxes.
Biographical Note	Elizabeth Jane Howard was born in London, England on March 26, 1923. She trained as an actress and, before the Second World War, acted at Stratford-upon-Avon as well as repertory theater in Devon. At various times she worked as a model, a broadcaster for the BBC (1939-1946), as an editor for various publishers, and as a writer. She has been widely published as a novelist, journalist, reviewer, and has written plays for stage, film, and television. In 1962, she was Artistic Director for the Cheltenham Literary Festival, and in 1973, the Artistic Co-Director for the Salisbury Festival of the Arts. She married Sir Peter Markham Scott in 1942 (one daughter); James Douglas Henry in 1960; and Sir Kingsley Amis in 1965. A partial list of her publications includes: The beautiful visit (1950, winner of the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize, 1951), The long view (1956), The sea change (1959), After Julius (1965), Something in disguise (1969; television series, 1982), Odd girl out (1972), Mr. wrong (1975), A companion for lovers (editor, 1978), Getting it right (1982; film script, 1985), Howard and Maschler on food : Cooking for occasions (with Fay Maschler, 1987), The light years (1990), Green shades (anthology, 1991), Marking time (1991), Confusion (1993) and Casting off (1995), and Falling (1999), Slipstream (2002), Love all (2008); as well as scripts for the television series "Upstairs, Downstairs." She has contributed articles to Encounter, Sunday times, Daily express, The New Yorker, and Town and Country. In 2000, Elizabeth Jane Howard was awarded the Commander Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.).
Notes	All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Curator, Literary Manuscripts. Selected manuscripts and correspondence were previously restricted. All restrictions on use were lifted by Elizabeth Jane Howard on Feb. 4, 2011.
Date	1933-2009.
Provenance	Acquired from Elizabeth Jane Howard, August 24, 1995 (Part I), February 5, 2001 (Part II), July 22, 2010 (Part III).
Subject	Amis, Kingsley. Day Lewis, C. (Cecil), 1904-1972. Howard, Elizabeth Jane. C.D.L. Fund. Cheltenham Literary Festival, 1962. Women authors, English -- 20th century -- Archives. World War, 1939-1945.
Form/Genre	Drawings Great Britain 20th century. (aat) Ephemera Great Britain 20th century. (aat) Interviews Great Britain 20th century. (aat) Letters (correspondence) Great Britain 20th century. (aat) Manuscripts Great Britain 20th century. (aat) Photographs Great Britain 20th century. (aat) Poems Great Britain 20th century. (aat) Screenplays Great Britain 20th century. (aat)
Contributors	Amis, Kingsley. Amis, Martin. Ashcroft, Peggy, Dame. Barnes, Julian. Beaton, Cecil, 1904-1980. Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron, 1879-1964. Betjeman, John, 1906-1984. Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974. Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973. Braine, John. Brophy, Brigid, 1929-1995. Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993. Cecil, David, 1902-1986. Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977. Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. Compton-Burnett, I. (Ivy), 1884-1969. Connolly, Cyril, 1903-1974. Conquest, Robert. Day Lewis, C. (Cecil), 1904-1972. Day-Lewis, Daniel. De Bernières, Louis. Drabble, Margaret, 1939-. Fleming, Ian, 1908-1964. Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970. Frost, Robert, 1874-1963. Fuller, Roy, 1912-1991. Fussell, Paul, 1924-. Glover, Jane. Harrison, Rex. Heller, Joseph. Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998. Huxley, Elspeth Joscelin Grant, 1907-1997. James, P. D. Kavanagh, Pat. Koestler, Arthur, 1905-1983. Larkin, Philip. Lee, Laurie. Lehmann, John, 1907-1987. Lehmann, Rosamond, 1901-1990. Lessing, Doris May, 1919-. Linscott, Robert N. (Robert Newton), 1886-1964. Lumley, Joanna. McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967. Mackenzie, Compton, Sir, 1883-1972. Mamet, David. Manning, Olivia. Mantel, Hilary, 1952-. Masefield, John, 1878-1967. Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965. Montgomery, Bruce, 1921-1978. Murdoch, Iris. Norwich, John Julius, 1929-. O'Brien, Edna. Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008. Powell, Anthony, 1905-2000. Priestley, J. B. (John Boynton), 1894-1984. Pritchett, V. S. (Victor Sawdon), 1900-1997. Quennell, Peter, 1905-1993. Ransome, Arthur, 1884-1967. Rawlings, Margaret. Rowse, A. L. (Alfred Leslie), 1903-1997. Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967. Scofield, Paul, 1922-2008. Scott, Peter, 1909-1989. Sillitoe, Alan. Spark, Muriel. Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995. Stoppard, Tom. Tate, Allen, 1899-1979. Taylor, Elizabeth, 1912-1975. Van der Post, Laurens. Waugh, Alec, 1898-1981. West, Rebecca, 1892-1983. Woolf, Leonard, 1880-1969. A.D. Peters & Co., Literary Agents. Jonathan Cape (Firm) Macmillan Company. Random House (Firm) Viking Press.
Department	Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Manuscripts Department.
Call Number	mssEJH 1-4171
Accession Number	mss 01747; mss 02087; mss 02669.
Physical Collection	Elizabeth Jane Howard Papers.
Digital Collection	Finding Aids, Huntington Digital Library
Physical Description	126 p.
Digitization Specifications	Original finding aid converted into PDF document by B. Black, 2011-10-25; revised finding aid converted into PDF document by M. Einaudi, 2012-03-23.
Date Digital	2012-03-23
DCMI Type	text
Digital Format	pdf
Original Finding Aid	Finding aid prepared by Gayle M. Richardson, August 12, 1999, revised April 22, 2005, March 18, 2011, and March 23, 2012.
Citation Information	Finding aid for Elizabeth Jane Howard Papers, Huntington Digital Library, San Marino, California.
Restrictions	Images in this collection are for scholarly research; please review the Huntington Library's copyright information: http://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/about. For purchasing images for publication please review our permission to publish policy: http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=590.
Cataloging Notes	Arranged into three parts. Part I: Manuscripts (Boxes 1-21), Correspondence (Boxes 22-57), Oversize manuscripts and correspondence (Boxes 58-60), Ephemera (Boxes 61-63), Extra oversize ephemera (Boxes 64-65), Part II: Manuscripts (Boxes 75-83), Correspondence (Boxes 84-94), and Ephemera (Box 94). Part III: Manuscripts (Boxes 95-104), Correspondence (Boxes 105-124), Ephemera (Box 124). Arranged alphabetically.

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Full Text	ELIZABETH JANE HOWARD PAPERS 1933 - 2009 (Parts I, II & III) FINDING AID The Huntington Library Gayle M. Richardson August 12, 1999 Revised April 22, 2005 Revised March 18, 2011 ©The Huntington Library

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