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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Residence | Vita Sackville-West | |
Travel | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
and Harold Nicolson
began a lecture tour of the United States, where she enjoyed a great popular success. Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 34. Gale Research. 34: 261 Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 254-5 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Vita Sackville-West | In Paris while her husband
worked on the Armistice, VSW
planned with Michael Sadleir
the joint editorship of a journal to be called The Critic; the journal never came into existence. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 102 |
Textual Production | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
and her husband, Harold Nicolson
, jointly edited and published Another World Than This, a poetry anthology drawn from many cultures. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 337 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
sought to emulate her mother, who fed her stories about the number of eligible proposals of marriage she had formerly received. In Italy the Marchese Orazio Pucci
fell in love with her. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 31, 36 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vita Sackville-West | Her mother strongly favoured her marrying Lascelles (who would make Vita a countess and the mistress of Harewood House) in preference to Harold Nicolson
, who had upper-middle-class parents and a diplomatic career. Marriage... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Vita Sackville-West | It included many poems about her own life and feelings. She wrote of her engagement to Harold Nicolson
: I followed him into the sun / And laughed as he desired. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 58-9 |
Literary responses | Vita Sackville-West | This volume was well reviewed in The Observer and the Morning Post, though her husband warned VSW
that reviewers were covering war poems only. Harold
wrote of these poems: Oh my darling clever little... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Vita Sackville-West | Writing in the third person about herself as the eponymous heroine, she details her emotional relationships with her parents and her so far unconsummated love-affairs. In this text her marriage to Harold Nicolson
and first... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vita Sackville-West | Lord Lascelles
, heir to the Earl of Harewood, a leading blue-blooded suitor, proposed to VSW
(sometime after her first proposal from Harold Nicolson
). Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 48 |
Literary responses | Vita Sackville-West | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
, talking intimately to Harold Nicolson
at a ball, felt convinced that she would marry him, though she refrained from telling him she loved him. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 43-4 |
Textual Production | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
had written these poems during her affair with Mary Campbell
. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 220 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vita Sackville-West | Against the wishes of her parents, VSW
married Harold Nicolson
, a diplomat, at Knole Chapel in Kent. Nicolson, Nigel, and Vita Sackville-West. Portrait of a Marriage. Futura. 58 |
Residence | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
and Harold Nicolson
rented a house at 182 Ebury Street, Pimlico, London. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 74 |
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