Trefusis, Violet. “Introduction”. Violet to Vita, edited by Mitchell A. Leaska, Methuen, 1989, pp. 1-52.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Dedications | Richmal Crompton | She dedicated this book to her sister, Gwen
, and quoted Hugh Walpole
as her epigraph. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | Violet Keppel (later VT
) and Vita Sackville-West
went together to Polperro in Cornwall. They stayed at a fisherman's cottage lent to them by novelist Hugh Walpole
. Trefusis, Violet. “Introduction”. Violet to Vita, edited by Mitchell A. Leaska, Methuen, 1989, pp. 1-52. 20-1 |
Fictionalization | Virginia Woolf | Versions of VW
appeared in many writings by other authors both during and after her own lifetime. On 8 March 1928, Vita Sackville-West
informed her that Phyllis Bottome
(a popular author and great Woolf fan)... |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Since VW
moved in a variety of social circles, her range of literary acquaintance was very wide. Her associates included such established, celebrated writers as Thomas Hardy and Henry James
, popular authors such as... |
Friends, Associates | Naomi Royde-Smith | NRS
was a close friend of Rose Macaulay
, with whom in the immediate postwar period she shared entertaining duties at her flat, in something similar to a salon. They apparently met through Macaulay contributing... |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Richardson | During her first visit to Cornwall DR
met and became friendly with novelist Hugh Walpole
, who was there on holiday. Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press, 1977. 63 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth von Arnim | At Nassenheide, her home in Germany, EA
employed the first of a series of Cambridge
tutors for her children, who famously included future writers E. M. Forster
and Hugh Walpole
. Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head, 1986. 96, 102, 120 |
Friends, Associates | Violet Trefusis | Violet Keppel (later VT
) became acquainted, initially through her mother
's connections, with Diaghilev
, Nijinsky
, and Russian prima ballerina Tamara Karsavina
, as well as authors George Moore
and Hugh Walpole
. Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton, 1976. 32-3 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth von Arnim | Of the tutors Charles Erskine Stuart
became her admirer; E. M. Forster
discussed novel-writing with her; and Hugh Walpole
became her life-long friend. She invited Forster to Nassenheide on the recommendation of her nephew Sydney Waterlow |
Friends, Associates | Nina Hamnett | At this time NH
also became acquainted through a mutual friend with the writer Arthur Ransome
; he fondly nicknamed her Ham or Mademoiselle de Jambon. Hamnett, Nina. Laughing Torso. Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc., 1932. 23 Hooker, Denise. Nina Hamnett: queen of bohemia. Constable and Company Limited, 1986. 23 |
Friends, Associates | Violet Hunt | VH
entertained here frequently: her sometimes piquantly mixed invitation lists included the names of H. D.
, D. H. Lawrence
, Ezra Pound
, Joseph Conrad
, Wyndham Lewis
, Walter de la Mare
... |
Friends, Associates | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | Through her early mentor W. Pett RidgeGHS
met various literary men: W. W. Jacobs
, Barry Pain
, Jerome K. Jerome
, Hugh Walpole
, and Ernest Temple Thurston
. Pett Ridge (P... |
Friends, Associates | Clemence Dane | After the death of Ethel M. M. McKenna
(editor of The Woman's Library, 1903), CD
became the closest woman friend of the novelist Hugh Walpole
. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Merry Wives of Westminster. Macmillan, 1946. 143 |
Literary responses | Vita Sackville-West | George Moore
and Hugh Walpole
both praised Heritage before publication; Walpole discerned the influence of Joseph Conrad
and Emily Brontë
.Again VSW
's mother
weighed in as self-appointed publicist, and her husband
envisaged for her... |
Literary responses | E. H. Young | One review discerned a possible influence from Dorothy Richardson
, but thought EHY
(whom it supposed to be male) a saner person than Richardson (whom it knew to be female). Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol. 27 , No. 3, Sept. 2001, pp. 303-31. 316-17 |
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