Jean Moorcroft Wilson
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, as well as works on Virginia Woolf, Charles Sorley, Robert Graves, Isaac Rosenberg and William Watson. Her husband was the publisher Cecil Woolf.
Works
- I Was an English Poet: Biography of Sir William Watson
- Virginia Woolf, Life and London: A Biography of Place
- Leonard Woolf: Pivot or outsider of Bloomsbury
- Virginia Woolf's London
- The Selected Poems of Isaac Rosenberg
- Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet, A Biography
- Siegfried Sassoon: The Journey from the Trenches 1918-1967
- Isaac Rosenberg: The Making of a Great War Poet
- Siegfried Sassoon: Soldier, Poet, Lover, Friend
- Edward Thomas: from Adlestrop to Arras: A Biography
- ''Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That ''