Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson.
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Elizabeth Jenkins
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Standard Name: Jenkins, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Margaret Elizabeth Heald Jenkins
EJ
, whose productive period extended from just after World War Two into the twenty-first century, was the author of half a dozen historical biographies and twice that many novels (several of which portray women in the position of victims of one kind or another), besides a play, book reviews, and a memoir. Some of her works have been often reprinted.
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Theodora Benson | Her friend Elizabeth Jenkins
referred years later to Benson's amateurish but charming novels. |
| Literary responses | Theodora Benson | Elizabeth Jenkins
wrote that The White Sea Monkey was not only the most terrifying story I ever read, but the most characteristic expression of her, in its agonized compassion and its understanding of the human... |
| Literary responses | Norah Lofts | Elizabeth Jenkins
found The House at Sunset admirable, written with unflagging buoyancy, intensity, vigour and emotional colour. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (3 May1963): 317 |
| Literary responses | Mollie Panter-Downes | MPD
's contemporary the future novelist Elizabeth Jenkins
later remembered devouring the successive instalments of this book in the Daily Mirror. Beauman, Nicola, and Mollie Panter-Downes. “Introduction”. One Fine Day, Virago, p. vii - xvi. ix |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Bowen | Glendinning writes: She is what happened after Bloomsbury; she is the link that connects Virginia Woolf
with Iris Murdoch
and Muriel Spark
. Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf. xv |
| Literary responses | Angela Thirkell | AT
never over-estimated her own talent. She wrote that she and her fictional alter-ego, Laura Morland, each write the same book each year with unfailing regularity, and called her own work not very good books... |
| Literary responses | Monica Dickens | It caused, however, considerable outrage in some nursing circles. Going back to the hospital to visit a patient, MD
disguised herself as far as possible, knowing that her book could not have been welcome. A... |
| Leisure and Society | Marghanita Laski | ML
co-founded the Charlotte M. Yonge Society
, along with friends and fellow writers and Yonge
enthusiasts Elizabeth Jenkins
, Georgina Battiscombe
, and Lettice Cooper
, among others. Laski, Marghanita, and Georgina Battiscombe, editors. A Chaplet for Charlotte Yonge. Cresset Press. 11, 13 |
| Friends, Associates | Theodora Benson | TB
enjoyed a wide circle of friends both literary and non-literary. The former included Rose Macaulay
and Howard Spring
. She met her future collaborator Betty Askwith
(daughter of an old friend of her mother's)... |
| Friends, Associates | Stella Gibbons | In 1954 SG
became concerned that her literary career was running down. At the instigation of her friend and fellow novelist Elizabeth Jenkins
, she enlisted a new literary agent, Curtis Brown
, who helped... |
| Friends, Associates | Margaret Kennedy | Other women writers with whom MK
established friendships included Lettice Cooper
, Phyllis Bentley
(who had also been at Cheltenham
), Marghanita Laski
, Elizabeth Jenkins
, and Rose Macaulay
. These authors supported and... |
| Friends, Associates | Marghanita Laski | ML
was a friend of a number of other women writers (besides her fellow Charlotte Yonge enthusiasts Elizabeth Jenkins
, Georgina Battiscombe
, and Lettice Cooper
), notably Margaret Kennedy
(whom her husband published) and Betty Miller
. |
| Friends, Associates | Norah Lofts | NL
rarely associated with other authors, though she was a friend of the popular writer Elizabeth Jenkins
, whose interests, like her own, were historical. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 80 |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Bowen | EB
loved Oxford (where she and her husband spent ten years) and became a social success there. She met and became friends with John
and Susan Buchan
, and it was through them that she... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Antonia White | This was three months after the annulment of AW
's first marriage came through. Eric had a job with the Foreign Office
. Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape. 94-5 Vaux, Anna. “Biscuits. Oh good!”. London Review of Books, pp. 32-4. 32 |
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