Profile: Elizabeth Wetherell

About This Author

Elizabeth Major studied at University of London, Goldsmiths’ College and taught in Bristol primary schools for ten years. After a period as Schools Liaison Officer for Bristol Festival for Children, she worked as General Manager for The Bristol Cancer Help Centre and subsequently became Administrative Director for the Bristol Urological Institute. She started writing poetry and short stories whilst bringing up her family, and has continued writing over the last thirty years. Married to Eric Wetherell, she has collaborated with him on several projects including The Diaries of Adam and Eve, an entertainment for two actors, chorus and chamber orchestra, written in 2000. We Are the Women came the following year and then, in 2003, she wrote A Matching of Powers for soprano, baritone and full orchestra. She has contributed the words for several solo songs and chorus pieces and in 2010 she and Eric Wetherell combined forces on the opera "A Foreign Field", based on the book by Ben Macintyre. This was followed by a second opera, "The Snow Child", from the book by the American author Eowyn Ivey, first performed in 2014. She has always enjoyed singing, and her interests have been as diverse as large choral works, part songs for small groups, jazz and the Gilbert and Sullivan repertoire, where she performed nearly all the "old hag" roles in a local G & S society over some 20 years. She also spent many happy hours singing with a local jazz quartet, soaking up the atmosphere in smoky pubs and at invited gigs. Her first novel "Mystica, Seeking Rainbows" was e-published in 2013, under her married name, Liz Wetherell. She is currently working on a Mystica sequel and has started a further novel, spanning 60 years from 1916 onwards. Further plans are to publish a collection of poetry and to put the Mystica novels on a proper hard copy published footing.