Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton.
235ff
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Cynthia Asquith | She had a romantic friendship during the years 1918 and 1919 with Desmond MacCarthy
, who was less than ten years her senior and a member of the Bloomsbury group. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton. 235ff |
Friends, Associates | Enid Bagnold | Bagnold's biographer Anne Sebba
writes that try as [EB
] might to belong to the artists' milieu, she could not release her other foot from the smart set. Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 148 |
Literary responses | Enid Bagnold | EB
's friend Desmond MacCarthy
approached Virginia Woolf
to review the book, but she refused, having taken a dislike to Bagnold and assuming that she had enmeshed poor old Desmond. Friedman, Lenemaja. Enid Bagnold. Twayne. 9 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Enid Bagnold | This idiosyncratic autobiography incorporates entertaining sketches of Frank Harris
, Walter Sickert
, H. G. Wells
, Desmond MacCarthy
and several other friends and acquaintances. She was candid about her struggles with writing and her... |
Textual Production | Bryher | Desmond MacCarthy
had launched Life and Letters in June 1928; it issued its last number this month, and Bryher's new publication first appeared in September. It merged it with the London Mercury after May 1939... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Blanche Warre Cornish | Molly
, Blanche's youngest child but one, married the literary journalist and critic Desmond MacCarthy
, and became a friend of Virginia Woolf
. |
Friends, Associates | Isabella Ormston Ford | Besides the Ford sisters, other members of the UDC included founding member James Ramsay MacDonald
, executive committee member Helena Swanwick
, and Vernon Lee
, who was a good friend of IOF
's sister... |
Occupation | Roger Fry | Fry travelled to Paris with Clive Bell, Desmond MacCarthy
, and Lady Ottoline Morrell
to select the paintings. On 6 November 1910, RF
launched the Manet
and the Post-Impressionists exhibition at the Grafton Gallery, which... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Agnes Hamilton | One of Lee's beliefs, pronounced that evening, was: Patriotism . . . is the power to be ashamed of your country. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 74 |
politics | Storm Jameson | In November 1928 SJ
was one of many authors (including E. M. Forster
, Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
, and Desmond MacCarthy
) prepared to testify in defence of Radclyffe Hall
's lesbian novel The... |
Friends, Associates | Vernon Lee | Back in Italy after the end of the First World War, VL
continued to read widely. She returned to Dante
, Shakespeare
, and Goethe
. She introduced herself to newer writings on philosophy, science... |
Literary responses | Vernon Lee | Lee's publication was panned in the Times Literary Supplement, but found strong support from Desmond MacCarthy
, writing as Affable Hawk in the New Statesman, and from G. B. Shaw
in the Nation... |
Literary responses | Rosamond Lehmann | Leonard Woolf
(in the The Nation and Athenæum on 10 September 1927), Desmond MacCarthy
, Arnold Bennett
, and Rose Macaulay
all had more or less serious reservations about the book: Macaulay used very readable... |
Friends, Associates | Marie Belloc Lowndes | Her literary friends of a generation before her own included George Meredith
, Rhoda Broughton
, and Henry James
. She participated in the friendship of the two last-named by being regularly at Broughton's house... |
Publishing | Marie Belloc Lowndes | This book was three times reprinted by January 1942. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan. prelims |