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.

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Literary responses Theodora Benson
Her friend Elizabeth Jenkins referred years later to Benson's amateurish but charming novels.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson, 2004.
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She wrote that TB had enjoyed a succès d'estime with her early works in the pensive, débutante style. After that she...
Publishing Theodora Benson
Elizabeth Jenkins wrote that before the second world war TB had a brilliant, brief career in popular journalism, like the flash of a kingfisher across a stream.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson, 2004.
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After the war she was commissioned by...

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