[2] In 1927 Elzbieta finished her secondary education at a school run by the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception in Nowy Sącz.
Around 1935 she created a large sgraffito at the residential building, Madalińskiego St. 80 in Warsaw, where she and her husband lived at that time.
[3] In the first days of World War II, Temple and her mother fled to England via Sweden.
Nicolas Barker in The Book Collector, (Summer 1979) said of it, and the first volume in the series written by J. J. G. Alexander, Insular Manuscripts 6th to the 9th century,[6] "The admirably comprehensive and thoughtfully arranged plates combine with the text to provide the best survey of this great period of British art yet produced"[7] whilst John Beckwith in his review of her book in Apollo magazine, (vol.
[11] The British Library, in the article ‘Medieval England and France, 700-1200’ on their website, lists Temple’s book as recommended reading on English Manuscript Illumination,[12] and her work forms the basis for the section ‘Illuminated Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts 900-1066 AD’[13] on the site ‘The Viking Age Compendium’.