{"id":16494,"date":"2011-08-19T12:19:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T11:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=16494"},"modified":"2011-08-19T12:19:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T11:19:32","slug":"elisabeth-sladens-autobiography-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/blog\/elisabeth-sladens-autobiography-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Elisabeth Sladen&#8217;s Autobiography Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DGP_1__00252.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16495\" title=\"DGP_1__00252\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DGP_1__00252-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>As a tribute to one of the best loved Who companions and star of The Sarah Jane Adventures, Elisabeth Sladen&#8217;s autobiography will be published this November. Read on for more details from the publisher, Aurum:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prior to her death in April this year, Elisabeth Sladen, the actress who\u00a0entertained millions of children and their parents\u00a0as\u00a0Sarah Jane Smith in <em>Doctor Who<\/em> and <em>The Sarah Jane Adventures<\/em>, had been working on a memoir. An account of her career on stage and\u00a0screen\u00a0and an insider\u2019s view of the world\u2019s longest-running science fiction series,\u00a0the book had been\u00a0completed\u00a0in draft form but illness\u00a0prevented Elisabeth\u00a0from finishing it.<\/p>\n<p>With\u00a0the support\u00a0of\u00a0her husband, Brian Miller, and daughter, Sadie, Aurum\u00a0will now\u00a0publish Elisabeth\u2019s memoir in November this year. A tribute to an actress whose most famous character became a hero and a role model for generations of young fans,\u00a0the book\u00a0traces\u00a0Elisabeth\u2019s story\u00a0from humble beginnings in post-war Liverpool, through a joyful career\u00a0in the theatre, to unexpected fame alongside Doctors\u00a0Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker. In the process it explores the\u00a0far from\u00a0glamorous realities of filming in TV\u2019s\u00a0golden age, the\u00a0strange and wonderful world of <em>Doctor Who<\/em> fandom, and what it was like to return\u00a0to\u00a0the show over thirty years after\u00a0Sarah Jane\u00a0first set foot in the TARDIS.<\/p>\n<p>Elisabeth\u2019s editor at Aurum, Sam Harrison said: \u2018I remember my first meeting with Elisabeth &#8211;\u00a0the hilarious and eye-opening\u00a0stories she\u00a0had to tell\u00a0and my feeling of\u00a0elation that she wanted to turn them into a book. Having grown up watching her\u00a0as\u00a0Sarah Jane Smith it was a personal\u00a0dream come true.\u00a0She was a\u00a0fantastic person to work with &#8211;\u00a0fun but utterly professional &#8211;\u00a0and it\u2019s incredibly sad that she\u2019s no longer with us. I\u2019m glad\u00a0she had a chance to share some of her memories in this book. I\u00a0hope it will make a fitting tribute to a\u00a0great actress and a wonderful woman&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong> <em>Elisabeth Sladen: The Autobiography<\/em> will be published on Monday 7<sup>th<\/sup> November 2011 at \u00a320.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the support of her husband and daughter, Sladen&#8217;s memoir will be published<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":16495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[1,140],"tags":[2098,1859],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DGP_1__00252.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}