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“... a throwaway manner, and there was nothing calculated about his charm. His letters, some of which Jean MoorcroftWilson used to excellent effect in her biography of 1985, are more immediately engaging than those of Wilfred Owen, if less touching. Sorley enjoyed a better start in life, his father being Knightsbridge ...”

“... faint blessing’. It was, though, a darkness and the blessing was faint. ‘From an early age’, Jean MoorcroftWilson writes, Thomas ‘felt cursed by a self-consciousness he believed the chief cause of his later problems and depression’. It made him at once shy and withdrawn but also equivocal in his ...”

“... sharpening. After John Stuart Roberts’s compact and readable single volume of 1999, we now have Jean MoorcroftWilson’s double-header, with Max Egremont’s somewhat shorter Life expected soon. Sassoon’s story has also reached a wider audience through television re-creations and through Pat Barker’s novel ...”

“... of Robert Graves. This​ makes him a very difficult subject for a biography. The first volume of Jean MoorcroftWilson’s Life is extremely thorough. It sets out the facts of Graves’s life throughout the period covered by Goodbye to All That (roughly speaking up until Riding’s leap from the window), and is an ...”

“... In 1975 three biographies of Rosenberg were published and in 2003 two of those biographers – Jean MoorcroftWilson and Jean Liddiard – produced selections from his work, the latter also containing a substantial selection of Rosenberg’s letters. With Rosenberg it has been ...”

“... When they heard that Britain was sending troops to recover the Falklands, many in this country were inclined to laugh. Some farcical anti-climax was expected – Anguilla on a wider stage, with penguins. Events which soon followed, ending with Mrs Thatcher taking the salute at a victory parade, have made it hard to remember why it all at first seemed so comic ...”