Elizabeth Taylor Mollie Panter-Downes Antonia White Anna Kavan E M Forster Alison Uttley Rosamund Lehmann Nancy Mitford H.E. Bates Beverley Nichols Henry Green Rebecca West Caroline Blackwood Clare Chambers Molly Keane Anne Sebold Elizabeth Bowen Barbara Trapido Barbara Pym Dodie Smith Sylvia Townsend Warner Angela Thirkell Rose Tremain E Annie Proulx Jean Rhys Iris Murdoch Penelope Lively Kate Atkinson Ian Mcewan D H Lawrence Margaret Atwood