Biographer Julia Briggs
believes that the original story was stimulated by EN
's writing about her own schooldays for the Girls' Own Paper.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The composite book of tales appeared in instalments in The Windsor...
Textual Production
Lady Cynthia Asquith
LCA
(whom critic Julia Briggs
calls both a patron and practitioner of the ghost-story) published her first collection of this genre, entitled The Ghost Book: Sixteen New Stories of the Uncanny.
Charques, Richard Denis. “Ghosts & Drolls”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1295, p. 836.
836
Briggs, Julia. Night Visitors. Faber.
44
Textual Production
Virginia Woolf
The idea for VW
's fourth novel, Julia Briggs
observes, goes back to a plan she had thought of twenty years earlier, for a play about a man and a woman—show them growing up—never meeting—not...
Textual Production
Vernon Lee
By this date, according to Julia Briggs
, she had already fallen under the influence of Nathaniel Hawthorne
's The Marble Faun, 1860, (an influence she shared with Henry James
).
Briggs, Julia. Night Visitors. Faber.
113, 119
Textual Production
Hope Mirrlees
The volume brings many unpublished poems to light, and its editorial apparatus includes comment written by Julia Briggs
before her death. Parmar is at work on a full scholarly biography.
Textual Features
E. Nesbit
In a family living without its father (who is in fact in prison, accused of selling state secrets to Russia), Bobby, the eldest girl, is forced to act as second parent to the other children...
Textual Features
E. Nesbit
The guardian of two young cousins blows their inheritance and absconds leaving them nothing but a house and five hundred pounds. Fresh from school, the two girls respond differently: Lucilla is anxious but Jane Quested...
Textual Features
E. Nesbit
EN
writes more of female sexuality in this novel than anywhere else, using images of imprisonment to express her sense of what it meant to be a woman in a world dominated by men.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
192
Textual Features
E. Nesbit
EN
's and Barron's collaborative stories reflect his antiquarian interests in what biographer Julia Briggs
calls general gadzookery.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
182
Derogatory as this term is, Briggs credits Barron with teaching EN
that sense of the...
Reception
Virginia Woolf
The first reviews of Mrs. Dalloway came out in the same month as those of The Common Reader (first series). Both the Western Mail and the Scotsman dismissed the novel as beyond the general reader...
Reception
Virginia Woolf
Critic Louise DeSalvo
calls A Sketch of the Pastthe bravest writing task that she had ever set out to accomplish.
DeSalvo, Louise. Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work. Beacon Press.
99
VW
is, she says, a pioneer in exploring the effects of her abuse...
Reception
Hope Mirrlees
Reckoning by numbers of reprints issued, Lud-in-the-Mist is HM
's most popular and enduring work. It was frequently re-issued between 1927 and 2000—especially, as Julia Briggs
notes, since 1970, and the vogue for J. R. R. Tolkien
Publishing
E. Nesbit
When EN
's commissions for children's stories dried up, she was left in financial difficulty. She was used to making perhaps fifty pounds for an episode issued in England and the USA, which worked out...
Publishing
E. Nesbit
A poem by EN
entitled A Year Ago appeared in Good Words; it is her earliest work in print that biographer Julia Briggs
has been able to track down.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
35-6
Publishing
E. Nesbit
From early in her marriage EN
began writing seriously for periodicals, for the sake of the income she could bring in. She submitted work in prose and poetry to the radical Weekly Dispatch, The...
Timeline
After 18 February 1914: Leonard Woolf published his second novel,...
Writing climate item
After 18 February 1914
Leonard Woolf
published his second novel, The Wise Virgins (which he had begun to write on his honeymoon). Quite different in genre from his first, it is a roman à clef reputedly presenting harsh caricatures...
1964: When Julia Ballam (an undergraduate at St...
Building item
1964
When Julia Ballam
(an undergraduate at St Hilda's College, Oxford
, who later became the scholar Julia Briggs) got pregnant, the college stripped her of her scholarship, but more remarkably for this date they did...
October 2014: Forty years after it had become one of the...
Building item
October 2014
Forty years after it had become one of the first five Oxford men's colleges to admit women, Hertford College
marked the occasion by replacing its dining-hall portraits of male eminences with striking black-and-white photographs of...
Texts
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987.
Briggs, Julia. Night Visitors. Faber, 1977.
Hurst, Clive. “Selections from the Accession Diaries of Peter Opie”. Children and Their Books, A Celebratiuon of the Work of Iona and Peter Opie, edited by Gillian Avery and Julia Briggs, Clarendon, 1989, pp. 19-44.
Zipes, Jack. “The Origins of the Fairy Tale for Children or, How Script was Used To Tame the Beast in Us”. Children and Their Books: A Celebration of the Work of Iona and Peter Opie, edited by Gillian Avery and Julia Briggs, Clarendon Press, 1989, pp. 119-34.
Briggs, Julia. “The Wives of Herr Bear”. London Review of Books, pp. 24-5.
Briggs, Julia. Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life. Allen Lane, 2005.
