Julia Briggs

Standard Name: Briggs, Julia

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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.
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Derogatory as this term is, Briggs credits Barron with teaching EN that sense of the...
Literary responses Hope Mirrlees
Julia Briggs reads the text as a roman à clef in which Scudéry is an unflattering portrait of Natalie Barney (whom HM would have encountered when herself living in Paris) while Harrison appears as the...
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
Anthologization Hope Mirrlees
Virginia Woolf hand-set the edition. The colophon uses the sign of the constellation Ursa Major (as did those of HM 's three novels).
Briggs, Julia. “The Wives of Herr Bear”. London Review of Books, pp. 24-5.
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Suzanne Henig reprinted it in the Virginia Woolf Quarterly in 1972...
Literary responses Hope Mirrlees
Paris was received by an appreciative audience. Before its publication Virginia Woolf described it as very obscure, indecent, and brilliant.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
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As Julia Briggs observes, its readership remained strictly limited; [but] those, like T. S. Eliot
Literary responses Hope Mirrlees
Growing interest in HM was reflected in Julia Briggs 's discussion about her contributions to modernist literary culture in her Reading Virginia Woolf, 2006. Recognition of the significance of the author's work has grown...
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The volume brings many unpublished poems to light, and its editorial apparatus includes comment written by Julia Briggs before her death.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 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.
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Intertextuality and Influence Jane Ellen Harrison
JEH 's work exerted a palpable influence on the Modernist movement in literature, and both her persona and her life's work were represented, sometimes in much modified form, in many creative texts. Critic Julia Briggs
Literary responses Elizabeth Bowen
Julia Briggs considered that another story in this collection never really closes the gap between its fearful vision and its humdrum setting.
Briggs, Julia. Night Visitors. Faber.
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Literary responses Elizabeth Bowen
For Julia Briggs this story was the masterpiece of the volume into which it was later collected.
Briggs, Julia. Night Visitors. Faber.
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Literary responses Elizabeth Bowen
Bowen described these stories as flying particles of something enormous and inchoate.
Kenney, Edwin J. Elizabeth Bowen. Bucknell University Press.
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Taken singly, they are disjected snapshots—snapshots taken from close up, too close up, in the middle of the mêlée of a battle...
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.
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Briggs, Julia. Night Visitors. Faber.
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