Laura (Riding) Jackson’s biographer, Elizabeth Friedmann, shares two reviews:

Dear-Dear-Gertrude-Gertrude

By Elizabeth Friedmann

A review of

The Letters of Laura Riding and Gertrude Stein 1927-1930

Logan Esdale and Jane Malcolm, editors

Illustrated. 163 pp. University of New Mexico Press, 2023

THE LAUREATE: ‘Not to be construed as real’

By Elizabeth Friedmann

A commentary on the 2021 film depicting the relationship between Laura Riding, Robert Graves, and Nancy Graves.

Our UK partners, led by Mark Jacobs, maintain the wonderful Laura (Riding) Jackson website that focuses on Laura’s writing. If you are interested in learning more about her work this is an essential resource.


See what Maria Popova is saying about Laura in her blog:

An wonderful article by Maria Popova from The Marginalian website


Read Maria Popova’s article about Laura’s book The Telling


Reading Riding, Slowly slowly with Dr. Joyce Wexler 5/19/2

Library collections relating to Laura (Riding) Jackson

Cornell University: Laura (Riding) Jackson Digital Archives

New York Public Library: Laura (Riding) Jackson Papers

Nottingham Trent University: Laura (Riding) Jackson Archival Collection

Northwestern University: Laura (Riding) Jackson Collection

University of Maryland: Laura (Riding) Jackson Papers Archive

Indian River State College (location of Laura’s historic home): Library Guide

Digital Recordings of Laura (Riding) Jackson

WTTB studio recording, Reel 1 – Harvard Digital Collections Laura (Riding) Jackson

WTTB studio recording, Reel 2 – Harvard Digital Collections Laura (Riding) Jackson

Norton lecture. reading Laura Riding – Harvard Digital Collections by John Ashbery

Academic Writing about Laura (Riding) Jackson

Blackmore, Jack Laura (Riding) Jackson Webinar Paper – Three Poems Written for the Laura (Riding) Jackson Foundation “Conversations Series” 3/2021

Blackmore, Jack Reviving Life of the Dead 2021

Theodorakopoulos, Elena. ““The ever-dissolving image of deceptively tranquil antiquity”: Classical Myth and Literature in the Prose and Poetry of Laura Riding.” Synthesis: an Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies [Online], 0.12 (2019): 21-41. Web. 30 Mar. 2021