Biography of the children's writer best known for The Railway Children, revealing her to have been a wilful, demanding, and adventurous woman, and a true bohemian who had an intensive affair with George Bernard Shaw. xx, 473 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..

A woman of passion: the life of E.Nesbit, 1858-1924

Biographies & Memoirs

BRIGGS, Julia

Arts & Literature

Hutchinson

Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life

Virginia Woolf is one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century literature. She was original, passionate, vivid, dedicated to her art. Yet most writing about her still revolves around her social life and the Bloomsbury set. In this fresh, absorbing book, Julia Briggs puts the writing back at the center of Woolf’s life, reads that life through her work, and mines the novels themselves to create a compelling new form of biography. Analyzing Woolf’s own commentary on the creative process through her letters, diaries, and essays, Julia Briggs has produced a book that is a convincing, moving portrait of an artist, as well as a profound meditation on the nature of creativity.

Mariner Books

This Stage-Play World: English Literature and Its Background, 1580-1625

The later years of Elizabeth and the reign of James I were the age of Shakespeare, but the age also of Sidney, Spenser, and Donne, of fellow dramatists Marlowe, Jonson, and Webster, and of the prose writers Nashe, Bacon, and Burton. This book examines the social conditions that produced this uniquely dazzling array of talent, and relates them closely to the literature of the period. In this extensively revised new edition, Julia Briggs has included two new chapters which examine the role of women, the family, travelers and `outsiders' within the social and literary contexts of the period.

This stage-play world: English literature and its background, 1580-1625

Literature & Fiction

Titles Distributed by Oxford University Press (Aus

224p paperback, from a Cambridge college library, title fitted with adhesive transparent film, bookplate, hardly used, very good

British & Irish

Oxford University Press

The later years of Elizabeth and the reign of James I were the age of Shakespeare, but the age also of Sidney, Spenser, and Donne, of fellow dramatists Marlowe, Jonson, and Webster, and of the prose writers Nashe, Bacon, and Burton. This book examines the social conditions that produced this uniquely dazzling array of talent, and relates them closely to the literature of the period. In this extensively revised new edition, Julia Briggs has included two new chapters which examine the role of women, the family, travelers and `outsiders' within the social and literary contexts of the period.

This Stage-Play World: Texts and Contexts, 1580-1625 (OPUS)

Dramas & Plays

Includes twenty tales written to introduce young readers to the plots of Shakespeare's plays

Tales from Shakespeare (Everyman's Library)

Lamb, Mary

Lamb,Charles

Everymans Library

Night visitors: The rise and fall of the English ghost story

Faber&Faber

A View from the Spire: William Golding's Later Novels

Crompton, Don

Classics

Blackwell Pub.

The pleasure and excitement of exploring Virginia Woolf's writings is at the heart of this book by a highly respected Woolf critic and biographer. Julia Briggs reconsiders Woolf's work - from some of her earliest fictional experiments to her late short story, 'The Symbol', and from the most to the least familiar of her novels - from a series of highly imaginative and unexpected angles. Individual essays analyse Woolf's neglected second novel, Night and Day and investigate her links with other writers (Byron, Shakespeare), her ambivalent attitudes to 'Englishness' and to censorship, her fascination with transitional places and moments, with the flow of time (and its relative nature), her concern with visions and revision and with printing and the writing process as a whole. We watch Woolf as she typesets an extraordinarily complex high modernist poem (Hope Mirrlees's 'Paris'), and as she revises her novels so that their structures become formally - and even numerologically - significant. A final ess

Reading Virginia Woolf

Edinburgh University Press

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