Jean Moorcroft Wilson is a celebrated biographer and leading expert on the First World War poets. Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper biography prize for her Isaac Rosenberg, she has also written biographies of Siegfried Sassoon, Charles Hamilton Sorley and Edward Thomas. She has lectured for many years at the University of London, as well as in the United States and South Africa. She is married to the nephew of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, on whom she has also written a widely-praised biography of place.
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List of Illustrations Introduction 1 'A Mixed Letter' 2 Victorian Beginnings and an Edwardian Education (1895-1909) 3 Charterhouse: 'the Public School Spirit' (1909-12) 4 Charterhouse: Of Cherry-Whiskey and Other Matters (1912-14) 5 'On Finding Myself a Solider' (August 1914-May 1915) 6 'These Soul-Deadening Trenches' (May-July 1915) 7 The Battle of Loos (August-October 1915) 8 Siegfried Sassoon and a Recipe for Rum Punch (October 1915-March 1916) 9 The Road to High Wood (March-July 1916) 10 The Survivor (July 1916-February 1917) 11 A Change of Direction (March-June 1917) 12 A Protest, Craiglockhart and 'A Capable Farmer's Boy' (June-July 1917) 13 The Fairy and the Fusilier (October 1917-January 1918) 14 Babes in the Wood (January 1918-January 1919) 15 A Poet on Parnassus (January-October 1919) 16 Oxford and 'Pier-Glass Hauntings' (October 1919-March 1921) 17 'Roots Down into a Cabbage Patch' (1921-5) 18 From Psychology to Philosophy and Beyond 19 Into the Unknown: Cairo and Laura Riding (January-June 1926) 20 The World Well Lost (June 1926-April 1927) 21 'Free Love Corner' (May 1927-October 1928) 22 'Like the Plot of a Russian Novel' (February-April 1929) 23 'A Doom-Echoing Shout' (26 April-June 1929) 24 Good-bye to All That (June-November 1929) Abbreviations Notes Select Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
List of Illustrations Introduction 1 'A Mixed Letter' 2 Victorian Beginnings and an Edwardian Education (1895-1909) 3 Charterhouse: 'the Public School Spirit' (1909-12) 4 Charterhouse: Of Cherry-Whiskey and Other Matters (1912-14) 5 'On Finding Myself a Solider' (August 1914-May 1915) 6 'These Soul-Deadening Trenches' (May-July 1915) 7 The Battle of Loos (August-October 1915) 8 Siegfried Sassoon and a Recipe for Rum Punch (October 1915-March 1916) 9 The Road to High Wood (March-July 1916) 10 The Survivor (July 1916-February 1917) 11 A Change of Direction (March-June 1917) 12 A Protest, Craiglockhart and 'A Capable Farmer's Boy' (June-July 1917) 13 The Fairy and the Fusilier (October 1917-January 1918) 14 Babes in the Wood (January 1918-January 1919) 15 A Poet on Parnassus (January-October 1919) 16 Oxford and 'Pier-Glass Hauntings' (October 1919-March 1921) 17 'Roots Down into a Cabbage Patch' (1921-5) 18 From Psychology to Philosophy and Beyond 19 Into the Unknown: Cairo and Laura Riding (January-June 1926) 20 The World Well Lost (June 1926-April 1927) 21 'Free Love Corner' (May 1927-October 1928) 22 'Like the Plot of a Russian Novel' (February-April 1929) 23 'A Doom-Echoing Shout' (26 April-June 1929) 24 Good-bye to All That (June-November 1929) Abbreviations Notes Select Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
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