Harold Nicolson

Standard Name: Nicolson, Harold
Used Form: Sir Harold George Nicolson

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Residence Vita Sackville-West
VSW and Harold Nicolson moved into Sissinghurst Castle.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
235
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
On her wedding...
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
VSW consulted her husband, Harold Nicolson , about the desirability of publishing them (on account of their lesbian element). He advised firmly...
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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