Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Jennifer Dawson
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Standard Name: Dawson, Jennifer
Birth Name: Jennifer Dawson
Nickname: Jenny
Married Name: Jennifer Hinton
JD
achieved an early reputation as a novelist of madness, in tune with 1960s ideas about the brilliant and eccentric visions of insanity being damped and persecuted by conformist social institutions. A friend observed that she writes with chilling insight about bleak places inhabited by bleak people;
Whitby, Joy. “In Memory of Jennifer Hinton (Dawson 1949)”. The Ship, Vol.
91
, pp. 54-5.
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a critic called her the supreme chronicler of insanity.
Guttridge, Peter. “Obituary: Jennifer Dawson”. The Independent.
Besides her seven novels she published a volume of short stories and collaborated on a children's book.
Jennifer Dawson
was later to remember the same verse when she titled her novel Fowler's Snare, 1962. A Tauchnitz
edition of BH
's work published the same year is catalogued by some libraries in...
Occupation
Iris Murdoch
The job of tutor, which made high demands in time and energy, brought her into face-to-face contact with a series of extremely able young women. She was unconventional and memorable as a teacher. Her students...
Intertextuality and Influence
Iris Murdoch
It was influenced, said Murdoch's ex-student Jennifer Dawson
, by the thinking of Simone Weil
's L'attente de Dieu.
Dawson, Jennifer. “Impressions of Iris Murdoch, Teacher, in 1951”. The Ship, Vol.
91
, pp. 52-3.
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Timeline
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Texts
Dawson, Jennifer. A Field of Scarlet Poppies. Quartet Books, 1979.
Dawson, Jennifer. Fowler’s Snare. Anthony Blond, 1962.