E. B. C. Jones

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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.
  • BirthName: Emily Beatrice Coursolles Jones
  • Nickname: Topsy
    Her friends as well as family called her Topsy. Virginia Woolf , entertaining her and her husband for probably the first time, asked, May I call you Topsy?
    Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press, 1977–1984, 5 vols.
    2: 156

  • Married: Lucas
  • Indexed: E. B. C. Jones

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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 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.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

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.
qtd. in
Blain, Virginia et al., 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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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