Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Hilda Matheson
Standard Name: Matheson, Hilda
Connections
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Travel | Dorothy Wellesley | She also writes of visiting Sicily with Hilda Matheson
. She found it a place of exquisite wild flowers in profusion. It was Sicily that held my heart, and will forever. . . . Why... |
Textual Production | Mary Agnes Hamilton | |
Textual Production | Rose Macaulay | RM
's Life Among the English, 1942, was the second-highest seller in the beautifully designed and illustrated series Britain in Pictures, conceived by Hilda Matheson
(who had died in 1940) as a riposte... |
Textual Production | Edith Sitwell | |
Residence | Dorothy Wellesley | She said the house's little faĉade was perfect, and the rocks were real, large, and primeval. It had once belonged to Guglielma Penn
, wife of the famous Quaker William Penn
and daughter (though Wellesley... |
Publishing | Elspeth Huxley | EH
published East Africa for Collins
's British Commonwealth in Pictures series, launched by Hilda Matheson
and Dorothy Wellesley
. Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins. 151 |
Publishing | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
published English Country Houses, illustrated both in colour and black-and-white, in Collins
's Britain in Pictures series, the brainchild of her lover Hilda Matheson
. British Book News. British Council. (1941): 765 Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 416 Carney, Michael. Stoker. Published by the author. 126-31 |
Publishing | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
's introductions are largely biographical. After these first books she got her series taken on by Collins for The English Poets, a subset of their series Britain in Pictures (of whose editorial committee... |
Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | The head of the Corporation, Sir John Reith
, is one of those whose character she draws in her memoirs. She mentions that women drew the same salary as men at the BBC, and compliments... |
Occupation | Dorothy Wellesley | At Penns during the Second World WarDW
wrote of her fear—An explosion. I thought of my son. (Oh, don't think!) I thought of Hilda
(she is safe)—but also of solitude, of her... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Kate O'Brien | One in Hilda Matheson
's series entitled Britain in Pictures a project for gaining sympathy abroad for Britain, beleaguered in the early years of World War Two, KOB
's contribution was reprinted in 1944 and... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Susan Tweedsmuir | This was one of a series conceived by Hilda Matheson
, during the desperate conditions of the second world war, offering information about Britain and its colonies (this series was a smaller subset of Britain... |
Literary responses | Vita Sackville-West | On its publication this book was somewhat eclipsed by that of Woolf's Orlando. Hilda Matheson
made a point of telling VSW
how much she liked it. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 208 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vita Sackville-West | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Wellesley | 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... |
Timeline
By October 1926: The BBC named Hilda Matheson as its first...
Building item
By October 1926
The BBC
named Hilda Matheson
as its first Director of Talks, one of the most highly paid jobs for a woman in any organisation at that time, as her biographer puts it.
Carney, Michael. Stoker. Published by the author.
23
4 December 1931: The BBC announced the resignation of Hilda...
Writing climate item
4 December 1931
The BBC
announced the resignation of Hilda Matheson
, its director of talks, which she had actually submitted in October. This was the climax of a long-running struggle over a series of talks by Harold Nicolson
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