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Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford, CBE (née Harman; 30 August 1906 – 23 October 2002), better known as Elizabeth Longford, was a British historian. She was a member of the Royal Society of Literature and was on the board of trustees of the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Elizabeth Longford, who has died aged 96, was matriarch of a large dynasty that almost equalled that of Queen Victoria (one of her biographical subjects) in size.
Elizabeth Longford, RSL, CBE (1906-2002), historical biographer and family matriarch, is best known for Victoria RI (1964), her scholarly and readable life of Queen Victoria which won the James Tait Black Prize, and for her magisterial Wellington: Years of the Sword (1969) and Wellington: Pillar of State (1972).
Learn about the life and works of Elizabeth Longford, who wrote acclaimed biographies of Queen Victoria, Wellington, Byron and others. She was also a Labour politician, a mother of four famous writers and a friend to many historians.
25 de out. de 2002 · Elizabeth Longford, the best-selling biographer and political activist who was the widow of the social reformer Lord Longford and the matriarch of a family that bred other well-known...
15 de jun. de 2023 · On Monday, Guha was in London to collect a £5,000 cheque for winning the highly regarded Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2023 in its 20th anniversary year for Rebels against the Raj: Western Fighters for India’s Freedom (published by William Collins).
2020 Prizewinner. 2020’s winner was D.W. Hayton for ‘Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier’ ( Manchester University Press). Commenting on 2020’s Shortlist, Roy Foster, Chair of the Judges, said: “The Elizabeth Longford Historical Biography Prize has traditionally considered a wide range of biography, examining people ...
