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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Nina Hamnett | She took up old friendships, making visits out of wartime London to Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska
in Gloucestershire and Roger Fry
at Guildford (where Lady Strachey
led the party in evening literary games). She breakfasted regularly with... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Nina Hamnett | This book opens in 1926, with the author considerably bewildered by [her] somewhat disordered life since [her] return to England, Hamnett, Nina. Is She a Lady? A Problem in Autobiography. Allan Wingate. 38 |
Residence | Susan Hill | SH
loved Scarborough, which she calls a dramatic town, both scenically and climatically. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 139 |
Friends, Associates | Aldous Huxley | Those friends of Aldous whom his wife Maria referred to as the brilliant ones, Bedford, Sybille. Aldous Huxley. Knopf; Harper & Row. 105 |
Textual Production | Aldous Huxley | Between 1921 and 1929 AH
published fifteen works: novels, collections of short stories, works of non-fiction, and books of poetry. Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press. 356-7 |
Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | |
Friends, Associates | Ada Leverson | During the 1920s she came to count the Sitwells among her close friends. She once sent a laurel crown to Edith Sitwell
, and she attended the first performance of Façade at the Aeolian Hall |
Friends, Associates | Ada Leverson | Her pleasure in European travel included spending time with young friends: Harold Acton
, Ronald Firbank
, the Sitwellbrothers
, and the young composer William Walton
. Speedie, Julie. Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson. Virago. 256-7 Wyndham, Violet. The Sphinx and Her Circle: A Biographical Sketch of Ada Leverson 1862-1933. A. Deutsch. 87 |
Textual Production | Edith Sitwell | |
Textual Production | Edith Sitwell | |
Reception | Edith Sitwell | The National Portrait Gallery
in London held an exhibition of works on ES
and her twobrothers
, which more than 30,000 people attended. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Sitwell | Osbert
and Sacheverell Sitwell
were both introduced to the world of the imagination by Edith, and considered their elder sister as a mentor. Later, the three of them became what Osbert termed a closed corporation... |
Textual Production | Edith Sitwell | |
Textual Production | Edith Sitwell | |
Textual Production | Edith Sitwell |