Laura (Riding) Jackson

Laura (Riding) Jackson’s four essays are taken from a sequence of 11, themselves part of ‘From a Notebook of Essays-in-Little’. Both the essays and the poem are previously unpublished.

Letter
SIR: I have been sent, by a friend, a copy of the composite review by Paul Delany (LRB, 3 February) of the book on Graves, and of the Selected Letters published relatedly to that, and of my book of early stories in a new edition, Progress of Stories; and I have considered writing something for the interest of your readers on the actual tendentious disposition underlying your reviewer’s effort to...

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