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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Lady Cynthia Asquith | D. H. Lawrence
blamed LCA
's class-consciousness on the basis of her diaries. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton. 127 |
Literary responses | Enid Bagnold | Not surprisingly, the article came under attack from many directions. Dame Ethel Smyth
responded in the next issue of the Sunday Times: It surprises me that so brilliant an intelligence should not remember that... |
Friends, Associates | Stella Benson | |
Friends, Associates | Stella Benson | SB
met Lord David Cecil
at a dinner with Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
, after which they all went on to Clive
and Vanessa Bell
's house. Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan. 254, 255 |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Bussy | La Souco was visited regularly by all of their Bloomsbury Group friends, among them Lytton
and the other Strachey siblings, the Vanessa
and Clive Bell
, Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
, John Maynard Keynes
and... |
Reception | Dorothy Bussy | DB
first wrote Olivia in 1933 and then sent the manuscript to her friend André Gide
. Gide found it not very engaging Caws, Mary Ann, and Sarah Bird Wright. Bloomsbury and France: Art and Friends. Oxford University Press. 344 |
Fictionalization | Lady Eleanor Butler | Penruddock
's version of their story sets their elopement in the middle of a ball, and gives them two exciting years in London; Colette and de Beauvoir take a triumphalist view of their assumed lesbianism... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dora Carrington | DC
met her greatest love, the writer Lytton Strachey
, during a three-day stay at Asheham, the Sussex home of Virginia
(and Leonard) Woolf
. This was a year which in Virginia Woolf's life was... |
Publishing | Dora Carrington | Carrington
contributed four illustrative woodcuts to Two Stories, the first publication of Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
's Hogarth Press
; she was paid 15s for this work. Woolmer, J. Howard, and Mary E. Gaither. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1946. Woolmer/Brotherson. 3 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dora Carrington | |
Textual Production | Dora Carrington | Carrington took on other work for the Press
: she designed numerous paper book covers with linoleum cuts (because easier to work with and less expensive than wood); in 1921 she created the cover (with... |
Publishing | Ivy Compton-Burnett | She offered it to the Hogarth Press
, where Leonard Woolf
passed it to the office boy, Richard Kennedy
(with Sligo by Jack Yeats
) to try his hand at a reader's report. Kennedy consulted... |
Friends, Associates | Nancy Cunard | Her boredom with this life (her mother's social milieu) was something that she shared with her friend Iris Tree
, also a poet. Despite her antipathy towards it, this life presented her with important literary... |
Intertextuality and Influence | T. S. Eliot | Leonard Woolf
later said that this poem had greater influence upon English poetry, indeed upon English literature, than any other in the 20th century. Gaither, Mary E., and J. Howard Woolmer. “The Hogarth Press: 1917-1938”. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1938, Hogarth Press, pp. 3-24. 11 |
Performance of text | T. S. Eliot | He read an early draft of this poem to Mary Hutchinson
and Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
on the evening of 17 October 1928. Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press. 3: 201 and n5 |