Lord David Cecil

Standard Name: Cecil, Lord David

Used Form: David Cecil

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Friends, Associates	Barbara Pym	BP wrote steadily throughout her life, regardless of changes in occupation. One of the benefits of her first publication, Some Tame Gazelle, in 1950 was the introduction of various authors into her personal and...
Friends, Associates	Ruth Pitter	Despite her singularly unleisured lifestyle, RP had a remarkable talent for friendship, which extended to people with whom she might be expected to have little in common. Her friendship with Lord David Cecil brought her...
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, 1987. 254, 255
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Bowen	EB loved Oxford (where she and her husband spent ten years) and became a social success there. She met and became friends with John and Susan Buchan , and it was through them that she...
Friends, Associates	Dorothy Wellesley	This friendship led to others for DW , for on Yeats's later visits she invited people to meet him, including Lord David Cecil , Sir William Rothenstein , Rex Whistler , H. A. L. Fisher
Friends, Associates	Freya Stark	Visitors to Asolo (as well as hosts to Stark in England) during this period include Nancy, Lady Astor , Lord David Cecil , and Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson . Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House, 1999. 327
Friends, Associates	Barbara Pym	BP encountered Lord David Cecil (Oxford don, longtime admirer, and one of the two recent rediscoverers of her work) at a media event filmed by the BBC and aired as Tea With Miss Pym. Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994. 44
Intertextuality and Influence	G. B. Stern	GBS opens the second Austen book with an amusing account of an interview with a seventeen-and-a-half-year-old niece who relates how she has fallen seriously in love with a dashing army officer who is her ideal...
Leisure and Society	Barbara Pym	Pym appeared again on BBC radio and television programmes after her broadcast meeting with Lord David Cecil : she was on Finding a Voice and the very popular Desert Island Discs, which is always...
Literary responses	Lady Cynthia Asquith	Lord David Cecil , a literary historian and a correspondent of LCA , thought her letters just as amusing and charming and individual as those of Dorothy Osborne , Lady Sarah Lennox , Jane Welsh Carlyle , or Emily Eden . qtd. in Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987. 313
Literary responses	Elizabeth Gaskell	Early twentieth-century critics represented EG as a thoroughly domestic and womanly woman—Lord David Cecil in Early Victorian Novelists described her as the typical Victorian woman: gentle, domestic, tactful, unintellectual, prone to tears, easily...
Literary responses	Iris Tree	In his introduction Betjeman calls the poem strangely haunting, and judges that It belongs to the age of the 1920's [sic] and early 30's [sic], both in phraseology and outlook. According to him, it is...
Reception	Barbara Pym	BP was the only living writer named as under-rated by two people, Philip Larkin and Lord David Cecil , in a list compiled by the Times Literary Supplement of the most over- and under-rated authors...
Reception	Flora Thompson	Discovered only a few years before she died, FT was then rediscovered almost before she had been forgotten. Margaret Lane 's article in Cornhill Magazine awakened an interest in her which led to further publication...
Textual Production	Iris Murdoch	IM dedicated to Lord David and Rachel Cecil her novel entitled The Nice and the Good. British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987. 1979 Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002. 507

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Texts

Church, Richard et al. “A Superb Craftsman”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, 1969, pp. 46-9.

Cecil, Lord David. Early Victorian Novelists: Essays in Revaluation. Constable, 1934.

Parker, Derek et al. “Echo and Eclogue”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, 1969, pp. 98-102.

Russell, Arthur et al. “Faithful to Delight: A Portrait Sketch”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, 1969, pp. 19-40.

Cecil, Lord David, and Mary MacCarthy. “Foreword”. A Nineteenth-Century Childhood, Constable, 1985, pp. 5-13.

Marsh, Ngaio et al. “From Gratitude”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, 1969, pp. 96-7.

Morrell, Lady Ottoline, and Lord David Cecil. Lady Ottoline’s Album. Editor Heilbrun, Carolyn, Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.

Lewis, Naomi et al. “Rare Bird”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, 1969, pp. 83-91.

Arlott, John et al. “The Cool Clear Voice”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, 1969, pp. 41-4.

Grenfell, Joyce et al. “The Strawberry Tray”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, 1969, pp. 55-7.

Kizer, Carolyn et al. “Thralldom”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, 1969, pp. 79-80.