Hoydens
Susannah Clapp, 18 February 1988
A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924
by Julia Briggs.
Hutchinson, 473 pp., £16.95, November 1987,9780091682101 Show More
by Julia Briggs.
Hutchinson, 473 pp., £16.95, November 1987,
Narratives of Love and Loss: Studies in Modern Children’s Fiction
by Margaret Rustin and Michael Rustin.
Verso, 268 pp., £22.95, November 1987,9780860911876 Show More
by Margaret Rustin and Michael Rustin.
Verso, 268 pp., £22.95, November 1987,
“... boy poet and his spirited sister. The weed’s name is Noel: Mrs Briggs has discovered that Noel Griffith, a friend of Reynolds and Barron, was another of Nesbit’s lovers. His twin – a continuously praised creature whom Mrs Briggs sees as ‘an image of E. Nesbit’s energetic and dominating side, standing guard over a less confident but more creative ... ”