Elizabeth's London : everyday life in Elizabethan London / Liza Picard, 2003.
Guardian, 2022-06-12
Information trouvée : Liza Picard, who has died aged 94, wrote a series of books on London’s social history.
The success of the first, Restoration London (1997), stimulated a mini-boom of history
books on everyday life in the capital. Her books began as a retirement hobby – she
was 70 when the first was published. She was born in the village of Dedham, Essex,
the youngest of three sisters. Her father, James Sleigh, was one of a long line of
doctors. After studying jurisprudence at the London School of Economics and being
called to the bar at Gray’s Inn, she did not practise initially as a lawyer. Instead
she was hired to write promotional copy (by John Lewis and then by ICI) for newly
created artificial fabrics. In the late 1950s, unhappy in love, she sold up almost
everything, reducing her worldly possessions to the contents of a tin trunk, and headed
by boat to east Africa, where she worked as a Colonial Office lawyer in Dar es Salaam
and shared her Austin car with a small python. Returning to London after six years,
in 1963 she married Philip Picard, a practising barrister. She subsequently worked
as a lawyer for the Inland Revenue for almost two decades. Liza (Elizabeth Kate) Picard,
writer and lawyer, born 11 October 1927; died 8 April 2022
Internet, http://authorities.loc.gov, LC Control Number: no 97052524, 2004-05-03.
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