Harold Nicolson

John Gielgud and Peggy Ashcroft performed in Twelfth Night in the Barn Theatre; it was on this night that CSJ first met her new neighbours Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson .

After her long recovery, FS continued to enjoy her popularity in London society. Sir Sydney Cockerell , director of Cambridge 's Fitzwilliam Museum , became a friend. She was introduced to Virginia Woolf , Rose Macaulay

Visitors to Asolo (as well as hosts to Stark in England) during this period include Nancy, Lady Astor , Lord David Cecil , and Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson .

John Jock Murray and Sir Sydney Cockerell initially advised Stark against writing this book, urging her to remain in the travel genre rather than attempt philosophical writing. However, they apologized for their opinions when the...

The text was praised by Arnold Toynbee and Harold Nicolson , but it disappointed most of FS 's established audience.

This was Sackville-West's first trip away from her husband, Harold Nicolson , and it strained their marriage. Harold was often hostile towards Violet, referring to her from time to time as that swine Violet...

Unrealistically, she expected that Sackville-West would somehow rescue her from this marriage, but when Vita stayed on with her husband Harold at Versailles instead of intervening to stop the wedding, Violet wrote to her, [y]ou...

Trefusis also made peace with one of her great loves, Vita Sackville-West . Sackville-West visited St Loup with her husband Harold Nicolson in 1950 and 1951; she went by herself to stay at Ombrellino in 1952.

Don't Look Round was given a largely positive review in The Spectator by Harold Nicolson , who maintained one reservation: [a]fter all. . . this is the world of the Ritz .Philippe Jullian

VT and Vita Sackville-West corresponded frequently throughout their early friendship and love affair. Denys Trefusis burned Vita's letters to his wife in a fit of rage in July 1920; Violet later informed Vita, though, that...

In Rome during the First World War, DW became a friend of two scholars, Geoffrey Scott , and Gerald Tyrwhitt, later Lord Berners . In the years after the war she formed her important...

DW seems to have first met Hilda Matheson just before the latter took over the role of central player in Vita Sackville-West 's love-life. But Matheson (director of talks for the BBC , soon to...

The event was organized in part by Pippa Strachey ; other guests included Vanessa Bell , Cicely Hamilton , Laura Knight , Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson , and T. S. Eliot . Here Woolf...

On 10 May Germany had invaded Holland and Belgium. In the event of an invasion of England, they could indeed expect a terrible personal fate, on account of their anti-war politics, Leonard's anti-war career and...

VW , dining at Clive Bell 's, met Vita Sackville-West (and her husband Harold Nicolson ) for the first time.