{{Short description|British novelist and biographer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Elizabeth Mavor''' (17 December 1927 – 22 May 2013)<ref>{{cite web|author=10 Jun 2013 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10111201/Elizabeth-Mavor.html |title=Elizabeth Mavor |publisher=Telegraph |date= |accessdate=2013-06-11}}</ref> was a British novelist and biographer.
==Biography== Born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1927, she was educated at St Leonard's School in St Andrews and St Anne's College, Oxford. She married the illustrator Haro Hodson, and had two sons and lived in Oxfordshire. She is best known as a novelist, and wrote ''A Green Equinox'' (1973), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in the same year. Her work as an historian and biographer includes ''The Ladies of Llangollen'' and ''Fanny Kemble: The American Journals''.<ref name=Mavor/>
==Bibliography== * '' The Virgin Mistress: A Life of the Duchess of Kingston'' (1964)<ref name=Mavor>Detail taken from a copy ''Grand Tours of Katherine Wilmot'' published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson London in 1992 with an ISBN of 0 297 81223 - 78</ref> * ''The Ladies of Llangollen: A Study in Romantic Friendship'' (1971)<ref name=Mavor/> * ''The Grand Tour of William Beckford'' (1986)<ref name=Mavor/> * ''The Grand Tours of Katherine Wilmot: France 1801–3 and Russia 1805–7'' (1992) (Compiler and Editor).<ref name=Mavor/> * ''A Year with the Ladies of Llangollen''<ref name=Mavor/> * ''Fanny Kemble: The American Journals'' (1990) * ''The Captain's Wife: The South American Journals of Maria Graham 1821–23'' (1993) * ''Summer in the Greenhouse'' (1959), novel<ref name=Mavor/> * ''The Temple of Flora'' (1961), novel<ref name=Mavor/> * ''The Redoubt'' (1967), novel<ref name=Mavor/> * ''A Green Equinox'' (1973), novel<ref name=Mavor/> * ''The White Solitaire'' (1988), novel<ref name=Mavor/>
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