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Writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm was IT 's half-uncle, the youngest son from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's father's second marriage. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm also wrote...

VSW 's next lovers were women working professionally in the media: first was Hilda Matheson , Director of Talks for the BBC . They presumably met in connection with VSW 's first broadcast, on 18...

The writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm was VT 's uncle. A son of her grandfather's second marriage, he retained the original surname. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm...

JG 's younger son, Tom, caused her terror in his teens when a large hole was discovered in his thigh bone. He recovered, however. Her eldest, Tim , after a successful career with the BBC

DW seems to have first met Hilda Matheson just before the latter took over the role of central player in Vita Sackville-West 's love-life. But Matheson (director of talks for the BBC , soon to...

Some commentators have argued that theirs was a lesbian, sexual relationship, and some that it was not. It was the subject of the radio play One Goodnight by Maureen Duffy , broadcast by the BBC

Scholars of colonial discourse such as Simon Gikandi have found in her newly available narrative an avenue for exploring the complexity of the colonial subject's construction of identity, against whom to read better-known Victorian women...

It was in connection with her immediate or recent reputation that AL was allegedly fictionalised both in Brontë 's Shirley and Rosa Kettle 's The Mistress of Langdale Hall, 1872. Scholars like Violet Ingham

BBC radio aired a play by Harold Lang and Kenneth Tynan , The Quest for Corbett, in which NJ played the lead role as Aphra Corbett, a preposterous woman writer modelled on herself.

June Purvis traces the influence on EP 's reputation of the relations between her daughters. Sylvia , estranged from her mother, portrayed her in The Suffragette Movement (1931, influentially reprinted in 1977) as a lost...

Honours were showered upon Barrie in his later days. He was created a baronet in 1913 and awarded the Order of Merit in 1920. A number of universities honoured him, and in 1928 he became...

Through correspondence RM became a life-long friend of Gilbert Murray , Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford , and Chairman of the Executive of the League of Nations Union . He was fifteen years her...

Both these two (Fry and Oakeley ) remained Rathbone's close friends. In a BBC broadcast in 1956, Margery Fry recalled one of her discussions with ER on the social and professional possibilities open to educated...

On 26 August 1944, Hemingway came rolling down rue de l'Odéon with four BBC cars and liberated the rue de l'Odéon. SB writes that she heard four shots on the roofs and that was the...

In her day EJ knew most of the London literary world. She met Agatha Christie , whom she described as the most elegantly dressed elderly woman I have ever seen. She counted among her...