E. B. C. Jones

15 April 1893 - 30 June 1966

EBCJ was a modernist writer, author of two books of poetry, editor of a modernist poetry anthology, and author of five novels, besides reviews. She almost entirely stopped publishing more than thirty years before she died.

Milestones

15 April 1893

EBCJ was born at 6 St John's Park, Blackheath (that is London), the youngest in a family of eight children.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

By 8 May 1917

EBCJ 's first slim volume of poetry was Windows, issued jointly with Christopher Jonson .

Dated by the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp. The name of EBCJ 's co-author is spelled as Johnson on the title-page but as Jonson in the table of contents, on the half-title, and in her poetry anthology of the following year.

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By 19 November 1920

The year before her marriage, EBCJ published her first novel, Quiet Interior, which Katherine Mansfield welcomed as remarkably well constructed for a debut.

Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

Mansfield, Katherine. Novels & Novelists. Editor Murry, John Middleton, Beacon Press, 1930.

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30 June 1966

EBCJ died of a stroke in Newbury, at Newbury District Hospital .

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth and Family

15 April 1893

EBCJ was born at 6 St John's Park, Blackheath (that is London), the youngest in a family of eight children.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/.