Wyndham, Violet. The Sphinx and Her Circle: A Biographical Sketch of Ada Leverson 1862-1933. A. Deutsch.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Ada Leverson | Osbert Sitwell
wrote his approval. Wyndham, Violet. The Sphinx and Her Circle: A Biographical Sketch of Ada Leverson 1862-1933. A. Deutsch. 86 |
Textual Production | Ada Leverson | AL
sometimes wrote to Osbert Sitwell
more than once a day. He called her near-illegible letters the hieroglyphs of the Sphinx. Speedie, Julie. Arthur Machen and The Sphinx. Tartarus. |
Fictionalization | Ada Leverson | Several of AL
's literary friends—Harold Acton
, Osbert Sitwell
—left more or less fictionalised portraits of her; but these turn much more on her character and public image than on her writing. Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne. 27-9 |
Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | |
Textual Production | E. B. C. Jones | Her contributors included Jane Barlow
, Frank Betts
, Elizabeth Bridges (later Daryush)
, M. St Clare Byrne
, Elsa L. Duff
, A. P. Herbert
, Aldous Huxley
, E. H. W. Meyerstein
,... |
Textual Production | Storm Jameson | Jameson had been approached by the Ministry of Information
once the USA had entered World War II, for suggestions on how to cement Anglo-American relations. Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row. 524 |
Friends, Associates | Aldous Huxley | Those friends of Aldous whom his wife Maria referred to as the brilliant ones, Bedford, Sybille. Aldous Huxley. Knopf; Harper & Row. 105 |
Textual Production | Aldous Huxley | Between 1921 and 1929 AH
published fifteen works: novels, collections of short stories, works of non-fiction, and books of poetry. Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press. 356-7 |
Residence | Susan Hill | SH
loved Scarborough, which she calls a dramatic town, both scenically and climatically. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 139 |
Publishing | Nina Hamnett | NH
and Osbert Sitwell
together published The People's Album of London Statues, with drawings by her and text by him. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 927 |
Friends, Associates | Nina Hamnett | She took up old friendships, making visits out of wartime London to Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska
in Gloucestershire and Roger Fry
at Guildford (where Lady Strachey
led the party in evening literary games). She breakfasted regularly with... |
Occupation | Nina Hamnett | Several of old friends (including Osbert
and Edith Sitwell
) sat for Hamnett for their portraits. Edith Sitwell's portrait especially attracted a good deal of comment. Hamnett, Nina. Laughing Torso. Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc. 98-9, 104-5 |
Textual Production | Nina Hamnett | The idea for the book was NH
's; Osbert Sitwell
supplied the text. Library catalogues today list the book as his, but it was advertised as described by Osbert Sitwell
, drawn by Nina Hamnett... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Nina Hamnett | This book opens in 1926, with the author considerably bewildered by [her] somewhat disordered life since [her] return to England, Hamnett, Nina. Is She a Lady? A Problem in Autobiography. Allan Wingate. 38 |
Textual Production | Rumer Godden | RG
was critical of the distaste with which English writers Osbert
and Edith Sitwell
or Vita Sackville-West
had regarded their American lecture audiences. About her coast-to-coast tour with her husband she later wrote, I took... |
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