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Elizabeth Berridge (novelist)

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Elizabeth Berridge (3 December 1919 – 2 December 2009) was a British novelist and critic, most famous for the novels Across the Common, which won the 1964 Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year Award, and Touch and Go.[1]

Publications

  • The Story of Stanley Brent (1945). Novella
  • House of Defence (1945). Novel
  • Selected Stories (1947); reissued by Persephone Books as Tell It to a Stranger (2000).
  • Be Clean, Be Tidy (1949); in U.S. titled It Won't Be Flowers. Novel
  • Upon Several Occasions (1953). Novel
  • Rose under Glass (1961). Novel
  • Across the Common (1964); in U.S. Lancer paperback edition titled The Violent Past (1968). Novel
  • Sing Me Who You Are (1967). Novel
  • That Surprising Summer (1972). For children
  • The Barretts of Hope End: The Early Diary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (editor) (1974).
  • Family Matters: Sixteen Stories (1980).
  • Run for Home (1981). For children
  • People at Play (1982). Novel
  • Touch and Go (1995). Novel

References

  1. ^ "Elizabeth Berridge obituary". The Guardian. 16 December 2009. Retrieved 5 July 2010.