Cecil Day-Lewis

EJH met Arthur Koestler at a party and was bowled over by his whirlwind energy, but when he proposed marriage she had enough sense to counter-suggest living together for some months instead to see how...

When EJH 's old friend and one time lover Cecil Day-Lewis fell terminally ill with pancreatic cancer, he and his wife Jill Balcon both came to stay at Lemmons. Day-Lewis died there.

She wrote it in 1946, and revised it in a state of dissatisfaction with her first version. Chatto and Windus were enthusiastic about it and offered her an advance of £150 and a royalty of...

She began this book by April 1955, but her writing was interrupted when her mother arrived from Kenya to spend three months in England. She submitted the draft to Chatto on 7 March 1956...

Jameson had been approached by the Ministry of Information once the USA had entered World War II, for suggestions on how to cement Anglo-American relations. The resulting volume includes work by Phyllis Bentley ,...

She had a remarkably catholic talent for friendship. During her student days she became a friend of Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis . Her correspondents at this and later periods of her life included her...

Penguin was emboldened to embark on the course of action that led to the trial by the Obscene Publications Act of the previous year, which admitted the defence of literary merit against charges of obscenity...

Together, RL and Cecil Day Lewis launched and edited a literary magazine called Orion, which kept afloat for four issues.

RL made an admired speech. Other speakers included her current husband, Wogan Philipps , her current lover, Goronwy Rees , and the man who was to be her great love, Cecil Day Lewis .

This became Cecil Day-Lewis 's second home, and Lehmann adapted the barn to make a studio for her sister Beatrix .

Elizabeth Bowen published an appreciative review of this novel in The New Statesman and Nation on 11 July 1936.Ralph Straus and Cecil Day Lewis were also lavish with their praise. Q. D. Leavis

The novel exhibits the resignation, bitterness, and exhaustion of the times (and possibly the ending of Lehmann's relationship with C. Day-Lewis ). It also contains humour which comes close to madness in the face of...

RL wrote verse throughout her life. Much of it is personal and occasional. Her abandonment by her lover, C. Day-Lewis , produced one melancholy lament and one bitter little satirical dirge. She wrote...

RL began a sexual relationship with the poet Cecil Day-Lewis ; she knew him a little, and he declared his love for her at dinner together during a bombing raid.

RL was finally abandoned by Cecil Day-Lewis , who left her to marry the actress Jill Balcon , a woman twenty-one years younger than himself.