Stephen Spender

Through the 1930s, Woolf struggled to define herself and her work against the rise of Fascism in Europe, to chart the relationship between artistic and political tasks. She and her Bloomsbury friends began to be...

Her political activities kept AWE at the centre of London's socially-conscious literary circles. Guests at The Well of Loneliness tea-party included Virginia Woolf , Rose Macaulay , Vita Sackville-West , G. B. Shaw , and...

She helped the poet Stephen Spender early in his career by bringing his work to the attention of Louis Untermeyer .

RW was one of the judges (along with Stephen Spender , Frank Kermode , David Farrer , and W. L. Webb ) for the award of the first-ever Booker Prize.

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...

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...

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.

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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

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