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Authors: Elizabeth Jane Howard
After my wedding with Peter Scott (1942).
My portrait inCountry Life(1942) at the time of my marriage to Peter Scott.
With Peter and K (c.1943).
Wayland, Pete’s brother, drawn by Pete (1940).
Pen drawing of me by Pete at Cowes (1942).
The naval production ofThe Importance of Being Earnestat Anglesea (1942). Bored with life as a naval wife I suggested that perhaps I might produce theplay.
Number 8 Edwardes Square. The house, built for refugees from the French Revolution, was pretty.
With Robert Aickman at Covent Garden.
At the publication of my first novel (1950).
On theAilsa Craigwith Robert Aickman and Anthea and James Sutherland. I grew to love canals and narrowboats for their secretive beauty and the way theyslipped though large industrial towns and into country.
Cecil Day-Lewis (c.1936).
After my daughter Nicola’s christening on HMSDiscovery.From left to right: Nina Milkina, Marny Tuck, Colin, Uncle Hubert, my mother, me withNicola, Pete, Lady K, Anthony Craxton, unknown.
Nicola aged three.
On theQueen Mary,returning from New York with Pete (1946).