![]() ![]() Taylor's main character lives with her widowed mother above their grocery shop in a row terraced shops on the fictional Volunteer street, near the Butts and the Brewery. The images in this blog, from the Museum's collection, show the early 20th century town that Taylor describes in her novel.ĭove Grocery Stores, Orts Road, Reading, about 1900 (museum no. Angel escapes her dull daily life by locking herself in her room where she creates a fantasy world in her writings. ![]() ![]() The story follows fifteen year old, Angel Deverell who knows she is destined to be a famous author. Her seventh novel Angel first published 1957 is set in and around Reading, thinly disguised as the provincial brewery town of Norley. She lived outside Windsor until her death in 1975. Between 19 she published 11 novels, four short story collections and a book for children another novel was published posthumously. She married John Taylor, a High Wycombe businessman, in 1936. ![]() Elizabeth was educated at The Abbey School, Reading and then worked as a governess, tutor and librarian. She was born Betty Coles, the daughter of Oliver Coles, an insurance inspector, and his wife Elsie. This was not the famous Hollywood actress, but the novelist, who is now regarded as one of England's greatest writers. Kingsley Amis described her as ‘one of the best English novelists born in this century’, while Hilary Mantel has said she was ‘deft, accomplished and somewhat underrated’. Elizabeth Taylor was born in Reading, Berkshire on 3 July 1912. ![]()
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