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Elizabeth Fair

Born

Haigh, Lancashire , The United Kingdom

Genre

Fiction, Humor and Comedy

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Margery Sharp, Angela Thirkell, Trollope

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Elizabeth Mary Fair was born in 1908 in Haigh, Lancashire, a small village not far from Wigan.] Her father was the land agent for the 10th Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, whose family seat, Haigh Hall, was nearby. Elizabeth and her sister were educated by a governess. Her father died in 1934 and the family moved to Hampshire, where they had a small house and a large garden in New Forest.

During World War II Fair served for five years as an ambulance driver in the Civil Defence Corps in Southampton. In 1944 she joined the Red Cross and spent eighteen months in Ceylon, India, and Belgium.[3]

After returning to England in 1947, she moved to Boldre in Hampshire.

Fair wrote six novels of English village life that humorously and gently dissected ...more

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Average rating: 3.91 · 2,566 ratings · 357 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Winter Away 3.89 avg rating — 595 ratings — published 1957 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bramton Wick 3.93 avg rating — 514 ratings — published 1952 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Landscape in Sunlight 3.94 avg rating — 378 ratings — published 1953 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seaview House 4.01 avg rating — 305 ratings — published 1955 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Native Heath 3.77 avg rating — 304 ratings — published 1954 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mingham Air 3.94 avg rating — 263 ratings — published 1960 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Clichés really do describe emotional experiences, you know. The mere fact that hundreds of people use them proves it. People who are truly suffering don’t bother about looking for elegant new ways of expressing their feelings.”
― Elizabeth Fair, The Mingham Air

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“Oh, but it’s because it is the past. You remember the sunlight, the good times, and forget the worries and the rain. Surely we all do that? But you’re still young, so there hasn’t been time yet for you to – to blot out the sadness.”
― Elizabeth Fair, The Marble Staircase

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“To Miss Conway this was a challenge. Things which were somewhere had been stored by herself and could be located, but things which Alice had put in a safe place were often lost forever; the safeness of the place seemed to absolve her from the necessity of remembring where it was.”
― Elizabeth Fair, A Winter Away

tags: british-humor, eccentric-women

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