Jean Moorcroft Wilson
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Dr Jean Moorcroft Wilson (born 3 October 1941) is a British academic and writer, best known as a biographer and critic of First World War poets and poetry.
A lecturer in English at Birkbeck, University of London
, she has written a two-volume biography of Siegfried Sassoon
, as well as works on Virginia Woolf
, Charles Sorley
, Isaac Rosenberg
and William Watson
. Her husband is the publisher Cecil Woolf.
A lecturer in English at Birkbeck, University of London
Birkbeck, University of London
Birkbeck, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It offers many Master's and Bachelor's degree programmes that can be studied either part-time or full-time, though nearly all teaching is...
, she has written a two-volume biography of Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon CBE MC was an English poet, author and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's...
, as well as works on Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century....
, Charles Sorley
Charles Sorley
Charles Hamilton Sorley was a British poet of World War I.Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, he was the son of William Ritchie Sorley. He was educated, like Siegfried Sassoon, at Marlborough College...
, Isaac Rosenberg
Isaac Rosenberg
Isaac Rosenberg was an English poet of the First World War who was considered to be one of the greatest of all English war poets...
and William Watson
William Watson (poet)
Sir William Watson , was an English poet, popular in his time for the political content of his verse. He was born in Burley, in West Yorkshire....
. Her husband is the publisher Cecil Woolf.
Works
- I Was an English Poet: Biography of Sir William Watson (1982)
- Virginia Woolf, Life and London: A Biography of Place (1988)
- Leonard Woolf: Pivot or outsider of Bloomsbury (1994)
- Virginia Woolf's London (2000)
- The Selected Poems of Isaac Rosenberg (editor) (2003)
- Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet, A Biography (1886-1918) (1999)
- Siegfried Sassoon: The Journey from the Trenches 1918-1967 (2004)
- Isaac Rosenberg (2008)