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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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death | Enid Bagnold | She was cremated and her ashes interred at Rottingdean. At a memorial service held in November, John Gielgud
read the lesson and Vita Sackville-West
's son Nigel Nicolson
gave the address. EB
's papers... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | Though far more experienced sexually, Sackville-West figured Trefusis as her seductress in the confession which her son Nigel Nicolson
later published as Portrait of a Marriage: I might have been a boy of eighteen... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
's younger son, Nigel
, was born, quite quickly and easily, in the Nicolsons' Ebury Street house. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 83 |
Friends, Associates | Enid Bagnold | Bagnold's biographer Anne Sebba
writes that try as [EB
] might to belong to the artists' milieu, she could not release her other foot from the smart set. Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. 148 |
Leisure and Society | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
became a debutante, entering the ritual season of fashionable parties which would launch her in society. Her son Nigel Nicolson
dates this in June 1910, but biographer Glendinning
makes that date sound unlikely. Nicolson, Nigel, and Vita Sackville-West. Portrait of a Marriage. Futura, 1974. 57 Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 37 Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 31 |
Publishing | Rose Macaulay | She began writing this as a book of 40,000 words on a contract from Weidenfeld and Nicolson
for a series called Pleasures and Treasures. When it got too long for the series, Nigel Nicolson |
Residence | Enid Bagnold | EB
moved to Chelsea to live with her friend and fellow art student Dolly Tylden
. This was an escape from the conventionally respectable life of her parents, Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. 31 |
Textual Production | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
began this work while alone in the country with her children, but still deeply affected by the turbulent after-life of her affair with Violet Trefusis
. She finished it on 28 March 1921. Nigel Nicolson |
Textual Production | Violet Trefusis | VT
often wrote privately about her intimate experiences and perceptions. When, during the summer of 1920, in the midst of the controversy surrounding her relationship with Vita Sackville-West
, she was sent to Scotland with... |
Textual Production | Virginia Woolf | Nigel Nicolson
and Joanne Trautmann
edited and published the first volume in a collection of VW
's letters, The Flight of the Mind: The Letters of Virginia Woolf 1888-1912, from the Hogarth Press
. British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1987. 1976 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. |
Textual Production | Penelope Mortimer | Besides reviewing television, PM
wrote both plays and screenplays for the small screen. She adapted for television both Colette
's Ripening Seed (a novel, translated into English by Roger Senhouse
, about a teenage boy's... |
Travel | Iris Murdoch | IM
's early travel was mostly political: Geneva for the League of Nations
summer school, Brussels, Bruges and Antwerp in the intoxicating postwar moment of personal reunions and renewed intellectual freedom. Even her delighted... |
Wealth and Poverty | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
loaned her younger son, Nigel
, £4,000 to capitalize the new publishing house of Weidenfeld and Nicolson
. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 355 |