Harold Nicolson

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...

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...

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.

Against the wishes of her parents, VSW married Harold Nicolson , a diplomat, at Knole Chapel in Kent.

VSW and Harold Nicolson rented a house at 182 Ebury Street, Pimlico, London.

Harold Nicolson (VSW 's husband) left England to take up the post of Counsellor at Teheran in Persia.

Having contracted venereal disease from a male lover (not for the first time), Harold Nicolson told VSW about his homosexual relationships, of which she had had no idea.

VSW and Harold Nicolson bought Sissinghurst Castle in Kent for £12, 375.

VSW and Harold Nicolson moved into Sissinghurst Castle.

VSW and Harold Nicolson began a lecture tour of the United States, where she enjoyed a great popular success.

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.

VSW and her husband, Harold Nicolson , jointly edited and published Another World Than This, a poetry anthology drawn from many cultures.

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.