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Friends, Associates | W. H. Auden | It was during his undergraduate years that WHA
formed close friendships with his near-contemporary and fellow writer Christopher Isherwood
and with fellow poet Stephen Spender
. For a while these three were seen as a... |
Friends, Associates | Penelope Mortimer | When PM
met Stephen Spender
, he was groaning about someone raving about some trash which she immediately identified as [m]y book. Mortimer, Penelope. About Time Too: 1940-1978. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 198 |
Leisure and Society | Sylvia Beach | Ernest Hemingway
and Stephen Spender
gave the last readings held at SB
's Les Amis de Shakespeare and Company
. Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton. 370 |
Leisure and Society | Sylvia Beach | Hemingway
was scheduled to read alone but was frightfully anxious, so he asked Stephen Spender
, whom he had met in Spain, to come along and read too. Hemingway was still nervous on the... |
Leisure and Society | Rosamond Lehmann | Stephen Spender
thought RLone of the most beautiful women of her generation. Lehmann, Rosamond. Rosamond Lehmann’s Album. Chatto and Windus. 51 |
Literary responses | E. J. Scovell | 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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge. 123 |
Literary responses | Frances Cornford | In the translator's note Spender
praised Cornford's abilities, calling her one of the best translators living. Eluard, Paul, and Marc Chagall. The Dour Desire to Endure. Translators Spender, Stephen and Frances Cornford, The Trianon Press. 59 |
Occupation | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | 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 |
Occupation | Dorothy Wellesley | |
Occupation | Rebecca West | 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. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (24 April 1969): 438 “Tears, tiffs and triumphs”. Guardian Unlimited. |
politics | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Stephen Spender
includes in his autobiography a passage that biographer Wendy Mulford
terms a vitriolic personal attack Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora. 99 |
politics | Rosamond Lehmann | 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,... |
politics | Valentine Ackland | Stephen Spender
's later autobiography incorporates a vitriolic personal attack Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora. 99 |
politics | Virginia Woolf | 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... |
Publishing | Storm Jameson | SJ
also wrote for the Times Literary Supplement and Left Review (launched in October 1934 by Amabel Williams-Ellis
and others), as well as for Fact (a journal whose editors included Stephen Spender
). Her changing... |
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