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The daughter of Oliver Coles, an insurance inspector, and his wife, Elsie May Fewtrell, Elizabeth Coles was educated at The Abbey School in Reading and then worked as a governess, tutor, and librarian.

She married John William Kendall Taylor, owner of a confectionery company, in 1936.

They lived in Penn, Buckinghamshire, for almost all their married life.

She was briefly a member of the Communist Party, then a lifelong Labour Party supporter.