Elizabeth Berridge

Elizabeth Berridge (3 December 1919 – 2 December 2009) was a British novelist and critic, most famous for the novels Across the Common, which won the 1964 Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year Award, and Touch and Go. Publications The Story of Stanley Brent (1945). Novella House of Defence (1945). Novel Selected Stories (1947); reissued by Persephone Books as Tell It to a Stranger (2000). Be Clean, Be Tidy (1949); in U.S. titled It Won't Be Flowers. Novel Upon Several Occasions (1953). Novel Rose under Glass (1961). Novel Across the Common (1964); in U.S. Lancer paperback edition titled The Violent Past (1968). Novel Sing Me Who You Are (1967). Novel That Surprising Summer (1972). For children The Barretts of Hope End: The Early Diary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (editor) (1974). Family Matters: Sixteen Stories (1980). Run for Home (1981). For children People at Play (1982). Novel Touch and Go (1995). Novel References 1919 births 2009 deaths English women novelists English short story writers Novelists from London British women short story writers 20th-century English novelists 20th-century English women writers 20th-century British short story writers