Oswald Crawfurd

Standard Name: Crawfurd, Oswald

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships	Violet Hunt	VH met Oswald Crawfurd , who was to be her lover for the next seven years. Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster. 71, 86
Health	Violet Hunt	VH contracted syphilis from Crawfurd . She began showing symptoms as early as 1893, when she complained of spots on her face. Not properly diagnosed until August 1936, she was by then in the tertiary...
Textual Features	Violet Hunt	In March 1910 this journal printed her story The Novelist's Revenge, an exploration both of the end of her own affair with Oswald Crawfurd and of the broader difficulties (personal and social) faced by...
Textual Features	Violet Hunt	A highly autobiographical novel, Sooner or Later was influenced by VH 's affair with diplomat and publisher Oswald Crawfurd . In the text, Rosette Newall initiates an affair with Robert Assheton, a charming but heavily...
Travel	Violet Hunt	Ultimately, the affair deteriorated to the point where Crawfurd stopped paying for Hunt's flat and she went to Paris to visit her friend Agnes Farley . Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster. 109 When he left, Crawfurd told her, I love...
Violence	Violet Hunt	Crawfurd soon became physically and psychologically abusive. He once split the dress and ripped the coat off Hunt's back; during another argument he screamed, [y]ou don't know men. . . . You are a weak...