Cooke, Rachel. “In search of the real Philip Larkin”. The Observer, 27 June 2010.
Monica Jones
Standard Name: Jones, Monica
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death | Philip Larkin | He is buried in the Cottingham municipal cemetery, and both Monica Jones
and Maeve Brennan
are buried nearby. |
Dedications | Philip Larkin | The Marvell Press
had been newly launched by George
and Jean Hartley
, who became his close friends, and who persuaded him to alter the title from Various Poems. The contract was not signed... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Philip Larkin | In LeicesterPL
became involved with Monica Jones
, who was then a young member of the English department there. A later commentator described Jones as a cockatoo of a woman, and as clever, eccentric... |
Reception | Iris Murdoch | It is not clear why Philip Larkin
and Monica Jones
chose a copy of this novel for systematically defacing every page with childishly salacious alterations and insertions (lips were parted, for instance, became... |
Textual Features | Philip Larkin | PL
's correspondence with Brennan began tentatively but became frivolous, gossipy and light-hearted, running to fun and fantasy Brennan, Maeve. The Philip Larkin I Knew. Manchester University Press, 2002. 139 |
Textual Production | Philip Larkin | PL
kept a voluminous series of diaries, which Betty Mackereth
shredded soon after his death, according to his explicit instructions as relayed through Monica Jones
. Cooke, Rachel. “In search of the real Philip Larkin”. The Observer, 27 June 2010. |
Textual Production | Philip Larkin | PL
was also an indefatigable letter-writer. A couple of thousand of his letters to his mother
survive at Hull History Centre
, and about 1,500 to Monica Jones
. A selection of his highly personal... |
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