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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Reception Charlotte Yonge
E. M. Delafield writes that during the 1940s CY retained wide popularity: that the London Library 's copies of her books were often checked out by readers, and that when Delafield wrote to the Times...
Family and Intimate relationships Antonia White
This was three months after the annulment of AW 's first marriage came through. Eric had a job with the Foreign Office .
Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape.
94-5
Vaux, Anna. “Biscuits. Oh good!”. London Review of Books, pp. 32-4.
32
They were married for five years, successfully, without any sexual...
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...
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 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, p. vii - xvi.
ix
Reviewers were impressed: the Times was surprised at such maturity of style...
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...
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.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
80
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...
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.
11, 13
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 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.
178
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.
182
The review described it as well-written lecture notes and suggested that it might be thought superfluous.
Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann.
179
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...

Timeline

25-26 June 1483: The child King Edward V was deposed, and...

National or international item

25-26 June 1483

The child King Edward V was deposed, and Richard III assumed the throne of England.

22 July 1949: The house in the village of Chawton in Hampshire...

Women writers item

22 July 1949

The house in the village of Chawton in Hampshire where Jane Austen lived with her mother and sister from 1809 until her death was opened to the public, having been bought for three thousand pounds...

Early 1957: John Braine's novel Room at the Top was published...

Writing climate item

Early 1957

John Braine 's novelRoom at the Top was published by Gollancz after eight rejections, on the advice of Elizabeth Jenkins in her capacity as publisher's reader.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
(1 March 1957): 125
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson.
107-8

Texts

Jenkins, Elizabeth. A Silent Joy. Constable, 1992.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. Brightness. Victor Gollancz, 1963.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. Dr. Gully. Joseph, 1971.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. Elizabeth and Leicester. Gollancz, 1961.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. Elizabeth the Great. Gollancz, 1958.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. Harriet. Gollancz, 1934.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. Henry Fielding. Home & Van Thal, 1947.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. “Hon. Theodora Benson”. Times, No. 57452, p. 8.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. Honey. Gollancz, 1968.
Jenkins, Sir Michael, and Elizabeth Jenkins. “Introduction”. The View from Downshire Hill: A Memoir, Michael Russell, 2004, pp. 9-12.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. Jane Austen. V. Gollancz, 1938.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. Jane Austen. Minerva Press, 1969.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. Joseph Lister. Nelson, 1960.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. Lady Caroline Lamb. V. Gollancz, 1932.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. Six Criminal Women. Sampson Low, 1949.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. Ten Fascinating Women. Coward-McCann Inc., 1968.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. Tennyson and Dr. Gully. Tennyson Society, Tennyson Research Centre, 1974.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The Mystery of King Arthur. Joseph, 1975.
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 View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson, 2004.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The Winters. V. Gollancz, 1931.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. Virginia Water. V. Gollancz, 1929.