Virginia Woolf
hand-set the edition. The colophon uses the sign of the constellation Ursa Major (as did those of HM
's three novels).
Briggs, Julia. “The Wives of Herr Bear”. London Review of Books, pp. 24-5.
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Suzanne Henig
reprinted it in the Virginia Woolf Quarterly in 1972...
Friends, Associates
E. Nesbit
EN
first met Alice Hoatson
, who became her husband's life-long lover. Biographer Julia Briggs
calls Hoatson her intensest and most painful friendship.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987.
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Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987.
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Intertextuality and Influence
E. Nesbit
In this work (influenced, says Julia Briggs, by the work of Hesba Stretton
) the children find the lost treasure that will enable Arden Castle (a symbol of English history) to be restored.
Briggs
takes...
Intertextuality and Influence
Jane Ellen Harrison
JEH
's work exerted a palpable influence on the Modernist movement in literature, and both her persona and her life's work were represented, sometimes in much modified form, in many creative texts. Critic Julia Briggs
Literary responses
Elizabeth Bowen
Julia Briggs
considered that another story in this collection never really closes the gap between its fearful vision and its humdrum setting.
Briggs, Julia. Night Visitors. Faber, 1977.
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Literary responses
E. Nesbit
Briggs
calls this a most readable book, a pure romance full of happy improbabilities pegged down by telling concrete details, rich with her own passionate enthusiasms and prejudices.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987.
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Literary responses
Elizabeth Bowen
For Julia Briggs
this story was the masterpiece of the volume into which it was later collected.
Briggs, Julia. Night Visitors. Faber, 1977.
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Literary responses
Elizabeth Bowen
Bowen described these stories as flying particles of something enormous and inchoate.
Kenney, Edwin J. Elizabeth Bowen. Bucknell University Press, 1975.
67
Taken singly, they are disjected snapshots—snapshots taken from close up, too close up, in the middle of the mêlée of a battle...
Literary responses
Virginia Woolf
Leonard Woolf
, reading the typescript of this novel at the end of February 1941, judged it to be more vigorous and pulled together than most of her other books, to have more depth and...
Literary responses
Hope Mirrlees
Julia Briggs
reads the text as a roman à clef in which Scudéry
is an unflattering portrait of Natalie Barney
(whom HM
would have encountered when herself living in Paris) while Harrison
appears as the...
Literary responses
Hope Mirrlees
Paris was received by an appreciative audience. Before its publication Virginia Woolf
described it as very obscure, indecent, and brilliant.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980.
2: 385
As Julia Briggs
observes, its readership remained strictly limited; [but] those, like T. S. Eliot
Literary responses
Hope Mirrlees
Growing interest in HM
was reflected in Julia Briggs
's discussion about her contributions to modernist literary culture in her Reading Virginia Woolf, 2006. Recognition of the significance of the author's work has grown...
Occupation
E. Nesbit
A few years later she believed, as if she had entered into one of her own fantasies for children, that she had found out the Shakespeare cipher, which comes out as definitely as the result...
Publishing
E. Nesbit
When EN
's commissions for children's stories dried up, she was left in financial difficulty. She was used to making perhaps fifty pounds for an episode issued in England and the USA, which worked out...
Publishing
E. Nesbit
A poem by EN
entitled A Year Ago appeared in Good Words; it is her earliest work in print that biographer Julia Briggs
has been able to track down.
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Timeline
After 18 February 1914
Leonard Woolf
published his second novel, The Wise Virgins (which he had begun to write on his honeymoon). Quite different in genre from his first, it is a roman à clef reputedly presenting harsh caricatures...
1964
When Julia Ballam
(an undergraduate at St Hilda's College, Oxford
, who later became the scholar Julia Briggs) got pregnant, the college stripped her of her scholarship, but more remarkably for this date they did...
October 2014
Forty years after it had become one of the first five Oxford men's colleges to admit women, Hertford College
marked the occasion by replacing its dining-hall portraits of male eminences with striking black-and-white photographs of...
Texts
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987.
Briggs, Julia. Night Visitors. Faber, 1977.
Hurst, Clive. “Selections from the Accession Diaries of Peter Opie”. Children and Their Books, A Celebratiuon of the Work of Iona and Peter Opie, edited by Gillian Avery and Julia Briggs, Clarendon, 1989, pp. 19-44.
Zipes, Jack. “The Origins of the Fairy Tale for Children or, How Script was Used To Tame the Beast in Us”. Children and Their Books: A Celebration of the Work of Iona and Peter Opie, edited by Gillian Avery and Julia Briggs, Clarendon Press, 1989, pp. 119-34.
Briggs, Julia. “The Wives of Herr Bear”. London Review of Books, pp. 24-5.
Briggs, Julia. Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life. Allen Lane, 2005.
