Derek Johns

Standard Name: Johns, Derek

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Literary responses Jan Morris
The Times Literary Supplement review opened by taking exception to Morris's claim that the flood of books about Venice had, by this period, dried to a trickle; but it accepted Morris's view that the best...
Literary responses Jan Morris
Her biographer Derek Johns calls this surely the best book ever written on its subject. He praises it for approaching Oxford with a kind of awe, but faults it for packing in possibly too much...
Literary responses Jan Morris
JM 's biographer found the compromise not wholly satisfactory.
Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber, 2016.
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Literary responses Jan Morris
Derek Johns points out that references to the author in the first person, which give an agreeably personal air to the writing, often modulate into the second person to suggest collusion between writer and reader:...
Occupation Jan Morris
JM 's talents (which in childhood included a fine singing voice) embrace drawing as well as writing. Morris provided line decorations for From Hand to Hand, a translation into English by Richard C. Ruck
Publishing Jan Morris
In the early 1990s Derek Johns became JM 's agent at A. P. Watt . He continued in that role until 2013, and published a monograph on Morris in 2016.
Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber, 2016.
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Reception Jan Morris
Hav provoked from JM 's biographer a discussion of the part played by fiction in her serious and supposedly factual writings. Morris, he wrote, called herself a romancer and admitted to touching up a scene...
Textual Features Jan Morris
Compared with its predecessor, said Johns , this volume reflects a growing awareness of the iniquities of the imperial system.
Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber, 2016.
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It opens on a female observer of empire, the witty and accomplishedEmily Eden
Textual Features Jan Morris
Derek Johns observed that these are the most negative and critical pieces in Morris's travel oeuvre. The account of Sydney in particular is a hatchet job which drew angry responses from Guardian readers. Johns suggested...
Textual Production Jan Morris
JM published Sultan in Oman, which biographer Derek Johns calls Morris's only travel book, in the sense of being an account of one particular journey.
Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber, 2016.
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TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
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Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber, 2016.