Harold Nicolson

Standard Name: Nicolson, Harold
Used Form: Sir Harold George Nicolson

Connections

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Travel Vita Sackville-West
VSW and Harold Nicolson began a lecture tour of the United States, where she enjoyed a great popular success.
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 34. Gale Research.
34: 261
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
254-5
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Vita Sackville-West
It included many poems about her own life and feelings. She wrote of her engagement to Harold Nicolson : I followed him into the sun / And laughed as he desired.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
58-9
On her wedding...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Vita Sackville-West
Writing in the third person about herself as the eponymous heroine, she details her emotional relationships with her parents and her so far unconsummated love-affairs. In this text her marriage to Harold Nicolson and first...
Textual Production Rosita Forbes
In her first volume of autobiography RF describes (in a paragraph which also says that all her writing and public speaking during the 1920s was with the hope of interpreting the Arabs to the Anglo-Saxon...
Textual Production Vita Sackville-West
VSW and her husband, Harold Nicolson , jointly edited and published Another World Than This, a poetry anthology drawn from many cultures.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
337
Textual Production Violet Trefusis
VT and Vita Sackville-West corresponded frequently throughout their early friendship and love affair. Denys Trefusis burned Vita's letters to his wife in a fit of rage in July 1920; Violet later informed Vita, though, that...
Textual Production Penelope Mortimer
Besides reviewing television, PM wrote both plays and screenplays for the small screen. She adapted for television both Colette 's Ripening Seed (a novel, translated into English by Roger Senhouse , about a teenage boy's...
Textual Production Vita Sackville-West
VSW had written these poems during her affair with Mary Campbell .
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
220
VSW consulted her husband, Harold Nicolson , about the desirability of publishing them (on account of their lesbian element). He advised firmly...
Residence Vita Sackville-West
VSW and Harold Nicolson rented a house at 182 Ebury Street, Pimlico, London.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
74
Residence Vita Sackville-West
VSW and Harold Nicolson bought Sissinghurst Castle in Kent for £12, 375.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
224
Residence Vita Sackville-West
VSW and Harold Nicolson moved into Sissinghurst Castle.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
235
politics Rosamond Lehmann
Through all the unwelcome publicity, many friends continued to offer support and sympathy to the Lehmanns—among them author and diplomat Harold Nicolson . Spender's friendship with John Lehmann was restored in time, as were relations...
politics Virginia Woolf
The event was organized in part by Pippa Strachey ; other guests included Vanessa Bell , Cicely Hamilton , Laura Knight , Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson , and T. S. Eliot . Here Woolf...
politics Virginia Woolf
On 10 May Germany had invaded Holland and Belgium. In the event of an invasion of England, they could indeed expect a terrible personal fate, on account of their anti-war politics, Leonard's anti-war career and...
politics Lady Cynthia Asquith
LCA tried to remain oblivious of the increasingly threatening situation during the 1930s of international politics. When war was declared she felt that the two decades intervening since the previous world war had been merely...

Timeline

By October 1926: The BBC named Hilda Matheson as its first...

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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.
23
as her biographer puts it.

27 October 1931: In the general election, the National Coalition...

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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.

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.