Longford, Elizabeth, 1906-2002
Dates
- Existence: 1906 - 2002
Biographical Note
Elizabeth Longford was born Elizabeth Harman in 1906. She became a biographer whose subjects included Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth (the wife of George VI), Winston Churchill, Lord Byron, and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. An outspoken Catholic and socialist, she married social reformer Frank Pakenham, Lord Longford, in 1931. The couple had eight children, many of whom also became writers. Elizabeth Longford published her memoirs, entitled The Pebbled Shore, in 1986 on the occasion of her eightieth birthday. She died in 2002.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Elizabeth Longford's Pilgrimage of Passion, The Life of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt drafts
The papers concern the work of twentieth-century British historian and biographer Elizabeth Longford. Included is a typescript and thirty-five draft notebooks of Pilgrimage of Passion: The Life of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.
Collection is open for research.