Stephen Spender

RL knew Guy Burgess in the late 1930s through Goronwy Rees, and she knew early on that he was a Comintern agent. When the news came in June 1951 that he had gone to Russia,...

New Stories also published Pamela Hansford Johnson , Dylan Thomas , and Stephen Spender . OM 's title, which is challenging in a way that was characteristic for this stage of her career, comes from...

Women contributors ranged widely: Rebecca West , Stella Benson , Cicely Hamilton , Members of Parliament Lady Nancy Astor and Ellen Wilkinson , Virginia Woolf , Naomi Mitchison , E. M. Delafield , Rose Macaulay

LOM continued to entertain in London, hosting such guests as Ethel Smyth , Elizabeth Bowen , Stephen Spender , Max Beerbohm , Hope Mirrlees , Djuna Barnes , Charlie Chaplin , the novelist Henry Green

When PM met Stephen Spender , he was groaning about someone raving about some trash which she immediately identified as [m]y book.

It was dedicated to the poet Stephen Spender and his wife Natasha .

VSW was rather apt to turn her friends into lovers. She also developed a strong rapport with more than one man with whose wife she was sexually involved: Denys Trefusis and later Roy Campbell ...

Stephen Spender and Geoffrey Grigson both praised this volume. Grigson called EJS somewhat inscrutably the purest woman poet of our time—meaning, apparently, that her technique was unobtrusive or transparent. The year after its...

In Paris ES frequented Sylvia Beach 's bookshop. She saw more than before of Gertrude Stein , whom she liked for her personal qualities but called the last writer whom any other writer in the...

During her first visit to the USA, ES met Charlie Chaplin , Greta Garbo , and Marianne Moore . A press party at the Gotham Book Mart in New York was attended by ES ...

ES 's sister-in-law, the former Lily Headland , became first an essayist as the Rev. L. Spender, then a novelist as Mrs John Kent Spender or Mrs Lily Spender. She was also grandmother...

Audience members included Virginia and Leonard Woolf , Stephen Spender , William Plomer , Raymond Mortimer , Eddy Sackville-West , and Eardley Knollys .

Their friends included in Newcastle Quentin and Anne Olivier Bell , while in London they entertained T. S. Eliot , Rosamond Lehmann , and Stephen Spender , among others.

Stephen Spender includes in his autobiography a passage that biographer Wendy Mulford terms a vitriolic personal attack on Warner and Ackland, denigrating their work in Spain. Mulford characterises this as heterosexism and homophobia, representative...

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...