Hamnett, Nina. Laughing Torso. Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc., 1932.
prelims
Harold Nicolson
Standard Name: Nicolson, Harold
Used Form: Sir Harold George Nicolson
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| death | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
posthumously received tributes from colleagues and some of those who had benefitted from her programmes. Harold Nicolson
gave high praise to her character and activities in the 11 January issue of The Spectator... |
| Dedications | Nina Hamnett | She dedicated it, in September 1931, to Harold Nicolson
and Douglas Goldring
, without whose kindness and encouragement, she says, she would never have written it. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Vita Sackville-West | Against the wishes of her parents, VSW
married Harold Nicolson
, a diplomat, at Knole Chapel in Kent. Nicolson, Nigel, and Vita Sackville-West. Portrait of a Marriage. Futura, 1974. 58 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Vita Sackville-West | Harold Nicolson
(VSW
's husband) left England to take up the post of Counsellor at Teheran in Persia. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 145-7 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
seems to have first met Hilda Matheson
just before the latter took over the role of central player in Vita Sackville-West
's love-life. But Matheson (director of talks for the BBC
, soon to... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Vita Sackville-West | Having contracted venereal disease from a male lover (not for the first time), Harold Nicolson
told VSW
about his homosexual relationships, of which she had had no idea. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 86-7 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | This was Sackville-West's first trip away from her husband, Harold Nicolson
, and it strained their marriage. Harold was often hostile towards Violet, referring to her from time to time as that swine Violet... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | Unrealistically, she expected that Sackville-West
would somehow rescue her from this marriage, but when Vita stayed on with her husband Harold
at Versailles instead of intervening to stop the wedding, Violet wrote to her, [y]ou... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | Trefusis also made peace with one of her great loves, Vita Sackville-West
. Sackville-West visited St Loup with her husband Harold Nicolson
in 1950 and 1951; she went by herself to stay at Ombrellino in 1952. Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997. 298 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
sought to emulate her mother, who fed her stories about the number of eligible proposals of marriage she had formerly received. In Italy the Marchese Orazio Pucci
fell in love with her. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 31, 36 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Vita Sackville-West | Her mother strongly favoured her marrying Lascelles (who would make Vita a countess and the mistress of Harewood House) in preference to Harold Nicolson
, who had upper-middle-class parents and a diplomatic career. Marriage... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Blackwood | Through her father, CB
was descended from the writer Frances Sheridan
, though the Sheridan blood was thought of in the family as bad blood, and CB
's biographer seems to associate it solely... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Vita Sackville-West | Lord Lascelles
, heir to the Earl of Harewood, a leading blue-blooded suitor, proposed to VSW
(sometime after her first proposal from Harold Nicolson
). Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 48 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | It is much remarked that VW
referred to Leonard as a penniless Jew. Was she anti-semitic? She married a Jew in an anti-semitic culture, and she wrote to him candidly before they were married... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
, talking intimately to Harold Nicolson
at a ball, felt convinced that she would marry him, though she refrained from telling him she loved him. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 43-4 |
Timeline
By October 1926: The BBC named Hilda Matheson as its first...
Building item
By October 1926
The BBC
named Hilda Matheson
as its first Director of Talks, one of the most highly paid jobs for a woman in any organisation at that time,
Carney, Michael. Stoker. Published by the author, 1999.
23
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Carney, Michael. Stoker. Published by the author, 1999.
29, 23
27 October 1931: In the general election, the National Coalition...
National or international item
27 October 1931
In the general election, the National Coalition Government won a landslide victory (a majority of nearly five hundred seats over the combined opposition) but became much more Conservative
in tone than it had been. Most...
4 December 1931: The BBC announced the resignation of Hilda...
Writing climate item
4 December 1931
The BBC
announced the resignation of Hilda Matheson
, its director of talks, which she had actually submitted in October. This was the climax of a long-running struggle over a series of talks by Harold Nicolson
1955: Copies of Molloy by Samuel Beckett and Lolita...
Writing climate item
1955
Copies of Molloy by Samuel Beckett
and Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
(both published in France) were seized by British Customs.
Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin, 1962.
112
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
391-2
Texts
Sackville-West, Vita, and Harold Nicolson. Another World Than This. Michael Joseph, 1945.
Sackville-West, Vita, and Harold Nicolson. Vita and Harold. Editor Nicolson, Nigel, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1992.