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| | Elizabeth Taylor's relentless Englishness - TLS Highlights - Times Online |
 | | Born Elizabeth Coles in 1912 in Reading, she was educated at the Abbey School (here it is conventional to genuflect to the influence on Taylor of another Abbey old girl, Jane Austen). |
 | | Taylor, by contrast, is hard-headed: It is seldom safe to confide in lonely people, she points out briskly in At Mrs Lippincotes, better to trust in busy, popular people, who have no time for betraying one and no personal need to do so. |
 | | Taylors early heroes, and villains, somehow lack the sex-appeal we are supposed to find in them: simultaneously prissy and pompous, they often seem culled either from the Trevor Howard, stuffed-shirt school of masculinity, or from the smarmier David Niven mode. |
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