A little-known English author who merits re-discovery

Who knew that Elizabeth Taylor was a novelist? Well, not that Elizabeth Taylor; this one is among the slew of mid-20th-century British novelists who wrote primarily about women and women's issues and were extremely prolific and most of them quite well-read - but for some reason ET was never known in the U.S. as well as some of her contemporaries, Murdoch, Pym, Stark,  et al. Now she's yet another of the authors re-discovered by the great New York Review Books series, and judging from the first third or so of her 1957 novel, Angel, she deserved much greater renown in the U.S. In this novel, the eponymous Angel is 15 at the outset, attending a private school in a remote industrial English city. She is deeply ashamed of her family background - her mother runs a little grocery stores, father deceased - and she tells other students at the school that she lives in a mansion w/ many servants, etc. (in fact, her aunt is a maidservant in such a household - btw, this theme was central to a recent season of the Spanish series Elite). When the truth comes out, she pretty much fakes her way out of school by pretending to be ill, opens a huge rift with her mother and her aunt, and spends her days writing a novel in longhand in a series of notebooks. She sends the completed work to various publishers; of course we know it will be over-written and puerile - but amazingly one of the publishers makes her an offer; we see that they think the book will get a lot of attention because it's so over-written and self-indulgent and full of archaic language (the publisher and editor joke about how many pages contain the word "Nay!") - the foresee a hit much like "Springtime for Hitler," a work so bad that it's good, or at least popular. And that's kind of what happens - but the key is ET is sharp and sensitive about Angel and her troubled behavior. Today, we would clearly say that she has autism of some sort - all the signs are there, she has absolutely no sense of humor and is unable to communicate at any length with strangers, yet is bold and uncompromising about things that matter to her - for ex., she refuses to make any editorial changes in her mss (and gets away w/ it!). The first third of the novel covers about 2 years of her life, as her book has some success and she embarks on a 2nd and a 3rd, while the rift between her and her mother and aunt widens and she seems to have no friends whatsoever - a sad story for sure, but not w/out some wry amusement and literary gossip In publishing, things have changed: Imagine sending a novel mss to a publisher's slush pile and expecting - and getting! - a response within a few days.