John, Angela V. “’Behind the Locked Door’: Evelyn Sharp, suffragette and rebel journalist”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
12
, No. 1, pp. 5-13. 8
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Literary responses | Evelyn Sharp | Henry W. Nevinson
called this article most beautifully done and excellent—and he was notoriously hard to please. John, Angela V. “’Behind the Locked Door’: Evelyn Sharp, suffragette and rebel journalist”. Women’s History Review, Vol. 12 , No. 1, pp. 5-13. 8 |
Literary responses | Evelyn Sharp | Henry Nevinson
, however, judged this to be Sharp's greatest book, worthy of comparison with Swift
's Gulliver's Travels or Samuel Butler
's Erewhon. Harold Laski
, too, admired it. John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press. 122, 126 |
Textual Features | Evelyn Sharp | The diaries cover holidays, travel, her famine relief work in Russia (briefly excerpted in a pamphlet printed by the Friends
Relief Committee), and in Britain the General Strike and civilian life during the Second World... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Evelyn Sharp | ES
first met Henry W. Nevinson
when she collided with him on an ice-rink at Knightsbridge. It was in late 1903 that they became close. John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press. 36, 38 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Evelyn Sharp | After a thirty-year friendship, the sixty-three-year-old ES
married Henry Nevinson
, a recent widower aged seventy-five, who was also a journalist and who had been her lover for thirty years. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Norquay, Glenda. Voices and Votes: A Literary Anthology of the Women’s Suffrage Campaign. Manchester University Press. 316 |
Violence | Evelyn Sharp | ES
and Henry Nevinson
were bombed out of their Hampstead house in a day of terror which followed many other progressively damaging hits nearby. John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press. 204-6 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Evelyn Sharp | Henry W. Nevinson
, journalist, writer, and husband of ES
, died at Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire. Nevinson, Henry. Visions and Memories. Editor Sharp, Evelyn, Oxford University Press. 166 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Evelyn Sharp | Oxford University Press
published ES
's edition of a second collection of essays (including literary essays) and a few poems by her late husband, Henry W. Nevinson
: Visions and Memories. John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press. 214-15 Nevinson, Henry. Visions and Memories. Editor Sharp, Evelyn, Oxford University Press. vi Clark, Beverly Lyon, and Evelyn Sharp. “Introduction”. The Making of a Schoolgirl, Oxford University Press, pp. 3-23. 23 |
Textual Production | Evelyn Sharp | Another selection of writing by Henry Nevinson
appeared in print after long gestation, edited by Henry Noel Brailsford
with help from ES
: Essays, Poems and Tales, including excerpts from ten of Nevinson's books. John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press. 224 |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | Others with whom she shared this or that memorable experience were the Meynells (Wilfrid
, Alice
, and Viola
), Clarence Rook
and his wife, and Henry W. Nevinson
, whom she eventually married... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Evelyn Sharp | About her turn-of-the-century years and her first group of literary friends, ES
wrote later, we fell in and out of love with and without disaster, like other people. Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head. 58 |
Occupation | Evelyn Sharp | ES
was apparently an unusually effective public speaker. Henry Nevinson
, her long-time lover and eventual husband, said she was driven to speech by a white-hot indignation that blazed in her words rather than in... |
Publishing | Evelyn Sharp | ES
took up full-time the great profession of journalism in 1904, Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head. 93 |
Friends, Associates | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | Through her early mentor W. Pett RidgeGHS
met various literary men: W. W. Jacobs
, Barry Pain
, Jerome K. Jerome
, Hugh Walpole
, and Ernest Temple Thurston
. Pett Ridge (P... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | As a child GHSimagined that a person, particularly a lady, would have to be something very unusual to produce real books. Schütze, Gladys Henrietta. More Ha’pence Than Kicks. Jarrolds. 37-8 |