Longford, Elizabeth Harman Pakenham, Countess of
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▪ 2003
British historian and biographer (b. Aug. 30, 1906, London, Eng.—d. Oct. 23, 2002, Hurst Green, East Sussex, Eng.), was an acclaimed author and the matriarch of one of England's most brilliant literary families—her eight children included biographer Lady Antonia Fraser, writer Thomas Pakenham, novelist Rachel Billington, and poet Judith Kazantzis. Longford published her first history,
Jameson's Raid, in 1960.
Victoria RI (1964), a popular yet scholarly best-seller recounting Queen Victoria's life, was followed by a two-volume biography of the duke of Wellington. In the 1980s and '90s, Longford published a series of works about the British monarchy and an autobiography,
The Pebbled Shore (1986). She became Lady Longford in 1961 when her husband, Labour politician Frank Pakenham, inherited an earldom. She was made CBE in 1974.
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