Janice Elliott

Janice Elliott (13 October 1931 – 25 July 1995) was an English fiction writer and journalist.

Elliott was born in Derby and raised in Nottingham. She studied English at St. Anne's College, Oxford University. She pursued a career in journalism, working for House and Garden and the Sunday Times among others. She became a full-time writer in 1962. She was married to Robert Cooper, an oil executive and sailor, and lived in Partridge Green, Sussex, for many years before retiring to Cornwall. She died in 1995.

Elliott's debut novel Cave With Echoes was published by Secker & Warburg in 1962, OCLC 654787693. Another novel, The Italian Lesson (1985) is her work most widely held in WorldCat libraries. It was published by Hodder & Stoughton, as was most of her speculative fiction. The King Awakes and The Empty Throne, 1987 and 1988 novels illustrated by Grahame Baker, are an "Arthurian sequence for older children", also known as The Sword and the Dream (series) after the title of its two-volume reissue.