Trefusis, Violet. “Introduction”. Violet to Vita, edited by Mitchell A. Leaska, Methuen, 1989, pp. 1-52.
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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 | 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, John Nova Phillips, Violet Trefusis, and Vita Sackville-West. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton, 1976. 32-3 |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
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 | 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
... |
Literary responses | Molly Keane | At this time Hugh Walpole
called her one of the best half-dozen younger women writers now writing in England. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Rosamond Lehmann | Given both the nature of the central event—a ball—and Olivia's youthful enthusiasm, the novel has been compared to Katherine Mansfield
's short story Her First Ball. It was an immediate success with the reviewers... |
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