Jean Moorcroft Wilson (born 3 October 1941) is a British academic and writer, best known as a biographer and critic of

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

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 Adeline Virginia Woolf (; ; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born i ...

, Charles Sorley, Robert Graves, Isaac Rosenberg and

William Watson William, Willie, Bill or Billy Watson may refer to: Entertainment * William Watson (songwriter) (1794–1840), English concert hall singer and songwriter * William Watson (poet) (1858–1935), English poet * Billy Watson (actor) (1923–2022), A ...

. Her husband was the publisher Cecil Woolf (died 10 June 2019).

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'' (2008) *''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)

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1941 births Living people British literary critics British women literary critics British biographers British women biographers Place of birth missing (living people) Academics of Birkbeck, University of London {{UK-academic-bio-stub