Julia Briggs

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...

Julia Briggs considered that another story in this collection never really closes the gap between its fearful vision and its humdrum setting.

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.

For Julia Briggs this story was the masterpiece of the volume into which it was later collected.

Bowen described these stories as flying particles of something enormous and inchoate.Taken singly, they are disjected snapshots—snapshots taken from close up, too close up, in the middle of the mêlée of a battle...

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...

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...

Paris was received by an appreciative audience. Before its publication Virginia Woolf described it as very obscure, indecent, and brilliant.As Julia Briggs observes, its readership remained strictly limited; [but] those, like T. S. Eliot

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...

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.

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

EN first met Alice Hoatson , who became her husband's life-long lover. Biographer Julia Briggs calls Hoatson her intensest and most painful friendship.

Virginia Woolf hand-set the edition. The colophon uses the sign of the constellation Ursa Major (as did those of HM 's three novels). Suzanne Henig reprinted it in the Virginia Woolf Quarterly in 1972...