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‘The Cazalet Chronicles’ author Elizabeth Jane Howard dies aged 90
LONDON – Elizabeth Jane Howard, whose saga of an upper-class English family living in the shadow of war enchanted readers a generation ahead of “Downton Abbey,” has died, her publicist says. She was 90.
Jacqui Graham said that Howard died Thursday at her home in Bungay, England. No details as to the cause of death were immediately available.
Howard’s whirlwind life saw her write 15 novels, leave three marriages, model, act, broadcast, and more besides. Many of her books were critical successes, but she was best known for “The Cazalet Chronicles,” which followed the tangled lives and loves of several generations of an aristocratic household in the run-up to World War II.
Funeral arrangements weren’t immediately available. Howard is survived by Nicola, her daughter from her first marriage to Peter Scott.
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