Abstract

This essay discusses Elizabeth Taylor's 1953 novel The Sleeping Beauty in the context of the coronation that year of Queen Elizabeth II. The essay concentrates on the novel's peculiar treatment of time, on the lapses, accelerations and suspensions which seem to capture something of the national mood during a period of gradual emergence from immediate post-war austerity. There is a brief discussion also of Rosamond Lehmann's novel of the same year, The Echoing Grove.

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