Julia Briggs

EN 's and Barron's collaborative stories reflect his antiquarian interests in what biographer Julia Briggs calls general gadzookery. Derogatory as this term is, Briggs credits Barron with teaching EN that sense of the...

Biographer Julia Briggs believes that the original story was stimulated by EN 's writing about her own schooldays for the Girls' Own Paper. The composite book of tales appeared in instalments in The Windsor...

In a family living without its father (who is in fact in prison, accused of selling state secrets to Russia), Bobby, the eldest girl, is forced to act as second parent to the other children...

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.

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...

The guardian of two young cousins blows their inheritance and absconds leaving them nothing but a house and five hundred pounds. Fresh from school, the two girls respond differently: Lucilla is anxious but Jane Quested...

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.

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

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.

The idea for VW 's fourth novel, Julia Briggs observes, goes back to a plan she had thought of twenty years earlier, for a play about a man and a woman—show them growing up—never meeting—not...

The first reviews of Mrs. Dalloway came out in the same month as those of The Common Reader (first series). Both the Western Mail and the Scotsman dismissed the novel as beyond the general reader...

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...

Critic Louise DeSalvo calls A Sketch of the Pastthe bravest writing task that she had ever set out to accomplish.VW is, she says, a pioneer in exploring the effects of her abuse...