Elizabeth Jenkins

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Standard Name: Jenkins, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Margaret Elizabeth Heald Jenkins
EJ , whose productive period extended from just after World War Two into the twenty-first century, was the author of half a dozen historical biographies and twice that many novels (several of which portray women in the position of victims of one kind or another), besides a play, book reviews, and a memoir. Some of her works have been often reprinted.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Monica Dickens
It caused, however, considerable outrage in some nursing circles. Going back to the hospital to visit a patient, MD disguised herself as far as possible, knowing that her book could not have been welcome. A...
Friends, Associates Stella Gibbons
In 1954 SG became concerned that her literary career was running down. At the instigation of her friend and fellow novelist Elizabeth Jenkins , she enlisted a new literary agent, Curtis Brown , who helped...
Literary responses Stella Gibbons
The publisher had no shortage of praise to quote in advertising material. Elizabeth Goudge called the book the most exciting story and generally agreed with Elizabeth Jenkins 's point that it achieved a truly remarkable...
Friends, Associates Margaret Kennedy
Other women writers with whom MK established friendships included Lettice Cooper , Phyllis Bentley (who had also been at Cheltenham ), Marghanita Laski , Elizabeth Jenkins , and Rose Macaulay . These authors supported and...
Textual Production Margaret Kennedy
Other notable women authors also contributed to this series, including three of MK 's writing friends: Lettice Cooper , Elizabeth Jenkins , and Marghanita Laski .
Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann, 1983.
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Literary responses Margaret Kennedy
The biography, which reads like a handbook, was not reviewed positively by the Times Literary Supplement.
Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann, 1983.
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The review described it as well-written lecture notes and suggested that it might be thought superfluous.
Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann, 1983.
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Leisure and Society Marghanita Laski
ML co-founded the Charlotte M. Yonge Society , along with friends and fellow writers and Yonge enthusiasts Elizabeth Jenkins , Georgina Battiscombe , and Lettice Cooper , among others.
Laski, Marghanita, and Georgina Battiscombe, editors. A Chaplet for Charlotte Yonge. Cresset Press, 1965.
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Friends, Associates Marghanita Laski
ML was a friend of a number of other women writers (besides her fellow Charlotte Yonge enthusiasts Elizabeth Jenkins , Georgina Battiscombe , and Lettice Cooper ), notably Margaret Kennedy (whom her husband published) and Betty Miller .
Textual Production Marghanita Laski
Other contributors to the volume included Lettice Cooper , Elizabeth Jenkins , Margaret Kennedy , and Katharine Briggs .
Friends, Associates Norah Lofts
NL rarely associated with other authors, though she was a friend of the popular writer Elizabeth Jenkins , whose interests, like her own, were historical.
qtd. in
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2025, Numerous volumes.
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Literary responses Norah Lofts
Elizabeth Jenkins found The House at Sunset admirable, written with unflagging buoyancy, intensity, vigour and emotional colour.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
(3 May1963): 317
A reviewer of the recent reprints had some reservations about the narrative method, but praised...
Textual Features Ngaio Marsh
She named her detective-hero Roderick Alleyn after the Elizabethan actor and theatre entrepreneur Edward Alleyn (who founded the school where her father had been educated, and a biography of whom by Elizabeth Jenkins was published...
Literary responses Mollie Panter-Downes
MPD 's contemporary the future novelist Elizabeth Jenkins later remembered devouring the successive instalments of this book in the Daily Mirror.
Beauman, Nicola, and Mollie Panter-Downes. “Introduction”. One Fine Day, Virago, 1985, p. vii - xvi.
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Reviewers were impressed: the Times was surprised at such maturity of style...
Textual Production Naomi Royde-Smith
NRS dedicated her work to Florence Mary Parsons (calling her, with formal correctness, Mrs. Clement Parsons), author of the twenty-five-year-old definitive biography of Siddons. People she acknowledges include her husband (for advice about old...
Literary responses Angela Thirkell
AT never over-estimated her own talent. She wrote that she and her fictional alter-ego, Laura Morland, each write the same book each year with unfailing regularity, and called her own work not very good books...

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Texts

Jenkins, Elizabeth. The Mystery of King Arthur. Joseph, 1975.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The Princes in the Tower. H. Hamilton, 1978.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The Shadow and the Light: A Defence of Daniel Douglas Home, the Medium. H. Hamilton, 1982.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The Tortoise and the Hare. V. Gollancz, 1954.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The Tortoise and the Hare. Virago, 1983.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson, 2004.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The Winters. V. Gollancz, 1931.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. Virginia Water. V. Gollancz, 1929.