Jean Moorcroft Wilson Explained

Jean Moorcroft Wilson 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,^[1] as well as works on Virginia Woolf, Charles Sorley, Robert Graves, Isaac Rosenberg^[2] and William Watson. Her husband was the publisher Cecil Woolf (died 10 June 2019).^[3]

Works

• I Was an English Poet: Biography of Sir William Watson (1981)
• 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: The Making of a Great War Poet (2007)^[4]
• Siegfried Sassoon: Soldier, Poet, Lover, Friend (2014)
• Edward Thomas: from Adlestrop to Arras: A Biography (2015)
• Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That (1895-1929) (2018)

External links

• Camden New Journal
• Guardian review

Notes and References

1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007mvl9 BBC - In Our Time
2. Web site: Visions from the trenches. 8 November 2003. The Guardian. 12 May 2020.
3. http://www.thecnj.com/review/2008/041708/books041708_03.html Camden New Journal, 17 April 2008
4. Web site: Isaac Rosenberg, the outsider's outsider. 8 May 2008. Nigel H. Jones. Nigel H. Jones. The Telegraph. London. 12 May 2020.