Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf.
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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 Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Agatha Christie | The origin of the stage play was a radio play. Elizabeth Jenkins
tells a story that this was based on the actual killing of a war evacuee by the farmer with whom he and his... |
| Literary Setting | Elizabeth Bowen | The novel has two heroines: Portia, a fifteen-year-old, and Anna Quayne, wife of Thomas Quayne. Portia, Thomas' half-sister, comes to live with the Quaynes in their Regent's Park house (based on EB
's own London... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Bowen | Glendinning writes: She is what happened after Bloomsbury; she is the link that connects Virginia Woolf
with Iris Murdoch
and Muriel Spark
. |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth Bowen | Elizabeth Jenkins
observed that EB
, elegant as she was in style, was highly sexed and attractive to men. She bore about her the aroma of passionate experiences.Molly Keane
wrote that at parties all... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Bowen | EB
loved Oxford (where she and her husband spent ten years) and became a social success there. She met and became friends with John
and Susan Buchan
, and it was through them that she... |
| Residence | Elizabeth Bowen | EB
later speculated about what her feelings would be if Bowen's Court were to burn down. Elizabeth Jenkins
found it a beautiful and mournful spectacle. . . . so scantily furnished as to seem almost... |
| Friends, Associates | Theodora Benson | TB
enjoyed a wide circle of friends both literary and non-literary. The former included Rose Macaulay
and Howard Spring
. She met her future collaborator Betty Askwith
(daughter of an old friend of her mother's)... |
| Occupation | Theodora Benson | During the Second World War TB
worked for the Ministry of Information
, writing Speaker's Notes, material for public speeches explaining the war effort.Elizabeth Jenkins
, her assistant, said she was brilliant at this... |
| Residence | Theodora Benson | Late in the second world war she was living in a small flat perched at the top of one of the tall buildings of Piccadilly, with no storage space and precious possessions stacked around... |
| death | Theodora Benson | Her brother-in-law persuaded a reluctant Elizabeth Jenkins
to write her Times obituary. Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson. 139 |
| Literary responses | Theodora Benson | Richard Sunne
wrote in the New Statesman and Nation of Shallow Water, Miss Benson's soufflé is perfect, and she serves it under a magical salamander, so that each piece retains its lightness and its... |
| Literary responses | Theodora Benson | Her friend Elizabeth Jenkins
referred years later to Benson's amateurish but charming novels. Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson. 59 |
| Publishing | Theodora Benson | Elizabeth Jenkins
wrote that before the second world war TB
had a brilliant, brief career in popular journalism, like the flash of a kingfisher across a stream. Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson. 59 |
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