Jean Moorcroft Wilson

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.

Dr Wilson is a lecturer at the University of London. She is married to the publisher Cecil Woolf. She has written a two-volume biography of Siegfried Sassoon and works on Virginia Woolf, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg and William Watson.

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)

External links

* [http://www.camdennewjournal.com/2004%20archive/110304/f110304_2.htm Camden New Journal]
* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1079370,00.html Guardian review]