Harold Nicolson

LCA tried to remain oblivious of the increasingly threatening situation during the 1930s of international politics. When war was declared she felt that the two decades intervening since the previous world war had been merely...

GB met Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West in Paris.

Through her father, CB was descended from the writer Frances Sheridan , though the Sheridan blood was thought of in the family as bad blood, and CB 's biographer seems to associate it solely...

In the early 1930s—when the persecution of lesbians in general and Radclyffe Hall in particular was raging in the wake of The Well of Loneliness trial—EC , Christopher St John , and Clare Atwood

In her first volume of autobiography RF describes (in a paragraph which also says that all her writing and public speaking during the 1920s was with the hope of interpreting the Arabs to the Anglo-Saxon...

She dedicated it, in September 1931, to Harold Nicolson and Douglas Goldring , without whose kindness and encouragement, she says, she would never have written it. Goldring was the first person to whom she...

There they spent time with journalists broadcasters, actors, and writers like Alexander Woollcott , Greta Garbo , Alfred Lunt , Lynn Fontanne , Noël Coward , Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson , Sam Behrman ,...

Through all the unwelcome publicity, many friends continued to offer support and sympathy to the Lehmanns—among them author and diplomat Harold Nicolson . Spender's friendship with John Lehmann was restored in time, as were relations...

The Conversations established Marguerite Blessington's literary popularity, and has remained the work for which she is remembered. It has been praised by modern writers on Byron, among them Harold Nicolson , André Maurois , Iris Origo

Besides reviewing television, PM wrote both plays and screenplays for the small screen. She adapted for television both Colette 's Ripening Seed (a novel, translated into English by Roger Senhouse , about a teenage boy's...

ER posthumously received tributes from colleagues and some of those who had benefitted from her programmes. Harold Nicolson gave high praise to her character and activities in the 11 January issue of The Spectator...

Sylvia Pankhurst enrolled her son as a day-boy at Beacon Hill, and lived nearby while writing The Suffragette Movement; Beatrice and Sidney Webb , and G. B. Shaw also visited. The school hosted annual...

George Moore and Hugh Walpole both praised Heritage before publication; Walpole discerned the influence of Joseph Conrad and Emily Brontë .Again VSW 's mother weighed in as self-appointed publicist, and her husband envisaged for her...

Lord Lascelles , heir to the Earl of Harewood, a leading blue-blooded suitor, proposed to VSW (sometime after her first proposal from Harold Nicolson ).

VSW had written these poems during her affair with Mary Campbell .VSW consulted her husband, Harold Nicolson , about the desirability of publishing them (on account of their lesbian element). He advised firmly...