The Other Elizabeth Taylor Category_Grey Books/Biography and of the development of

and of the development of the modern mind during the early years of the last century

Men are flying in close combat with death in the lonely sky

1940 by Russell Sidney Reeve (1895-1970) © Ipswich Borough Council Museum and Gallery/PCF

came from an old French aristocratic family

subjects her friends to lie-detector tests and embraces the media ­television crews camped outside her Boston house – with the clear tunnel vision of the mad: never mind that she is being exploited

The Other Elizabeth Taylor Category_Grey Books/Biography and of the development of448pp ISBN 9781906462109 This is the first biography of one of the most important English writers of the last century. Betty Coles became Elizabeth Taylor upon her marriage in 1936. Her first novel At Mrs Lippincote's appeared in the same year (1945) as the actress Elizabeth Taylor was starring in National Velvet and began her ascent to stardom. Meanwhile, over the next thirty years, 'the other Elizabeth Taylor' lived and worked in Buckinghamshire and