Elizabeth Webster (nee Astrow) is a character that began in a story called Marshall City, and is now in the series, Harpers Falls: New Beginnings. She is played on a recurring basis by Emmy award winning actress, Maeve Kinkead, who is best known for her role of socialite Vanessa Chamberlain Lewis on the now defunct serial Guiding Light.
Rebellious socialite[]
A woman with an air of regalness, but underneath that regalness there lies a somewhat rebelious and cool streak in her, Liz Webster shows how she has made life an interesting ride from the very beginning in New York City.
When Bette Davis said "Fasten your seat belts, it's gonna be a lovely ride", she clearly had Liz in mind.
Elizabeth Astrow wanted to live life on her terms and not on the terms of her stuffy parents. Even as a debutante, Liz showed her strong-willed and often daring nature, which aggravated her socialite mother, and despaired her powerful father, a stockbroker on Wall Street.
She had, at one time on a dare, disrobed in Central Park and jumped into the Pulitzer Fountain! Liz was always doing something that would shock the masses. Something she still does at times, even at her age!
However, while at college at Tufts University in Boston, she met Arnold Webster, a doctor, and they fell madly in love. Her cool and rebellious nature appealed to the somewhat staid Dr. Webster, and she helped him become less tense. They married in 1966, and their marriage lasted until 1991.
Liz's pride and joy is her daughter, Ashley who followed in her dad's footsteps and became a doctor. Ashley was born three years after her parents divorced, but that didn't matter to Ashley, who still received a lot of love from her parents.
Ashley can be a bit stunned by her mother's often rebellious and daring exploits, but, as she told Dylan Harper and Sheila Harper Watkins, "It's really amazing, I admit, to have a really cool mom at her age, and to not give a hoot about what people think."
As she has done most of her life, Liz lives life on her own terms. Despite her often rebellious and daring nature, she is a respected head of the Tufts University board of trustees and is a socialite in the Beacon Hill area. However, she is like June Harper in that she doesn't give a hoot what the snobbier Beacon Hill Biddies care about her or anyone else she is allied with.