Harold Nicolson

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

Connections

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Friends, Associates Freya Stark
After her long recovery, FS continued to enjoy her popularity in London society. Sir Sydney Cockerell , director of Cambridge 's Fitzwilliam Museum , became a friend. She was introduced to Virginia Woolf , Rose Macaulay
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.
327
Friends, Associates Gertrude Bell
GB met Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West in Paris.
Wallach, Janet. Desert Queen. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday.
223, 229
Friends, Associates Edith Craig
In the early 1930s—when the persecution of lesbians in general and Radclyffe Hall in particular was raging in the wake of The Well of Loneliness trial—EC , Christopher St John , and Clare Atwood
Friends, Associates F. Tennyson Jesse
There they spent time with journalists broadcasters, actors, and writers like Alexander Woollcott , Greta Garbo , Alfred Lunt , Lynn Fontanne , Noël Coward , Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson , Sam Behrman ,...
Friends, Associates Dorothy Wellesley
In Rome during the First World War, DW became a friend of two scholars, Geoffrey Scott , and Gerald Tyrwhitt, later Lord Berners .
Wellesley, Dorothy. Far Have I Travelled. James Barrie.
133
In the years after the war she formed her important...
Friends, Associates Virginia Woolf
VW , dining at Clive Bell 's, met Vita Sackville-West (and her husband Harold Nicolson ) for the first time.
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan.
73
Friends, Associates Dora Russell
Sylvia Pankhurst enrolled her son as a day-boy at Beacon Hill, and lived nearby while writing The Suffragette Movement; Beatrice and Sidney Webb , and G. B. Shaw also visited. The school hosted annual...
Leisure and Society Christopher St John
John Gielgud and Peggy Ashcroft performed in Twelfth Night in the Barn Theatre; it was on this night that CSJ first met her new neighbours Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson .
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
251
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 Freya Stark
John Jock Murray and Sir Sydney Cockerell initially advised Stark against writing this book, urging her to remain in the travel genre rather than attempt philosophical writing. However, they apologized for their opinions when the...
Literary responses Freya Stark
The text was praised by Arnold Toynbee and Harold Nicolson , but it disappointed most of FS 's established audience.
Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House.
355-7
Literary responses Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
The Conversations established Marguerite Blessington's literary popularity, and has remained the work for which she is remembered. It has been praised by modern writers on Byron, among them Harold Nicolson , André Maurois , Iris Origo
Literary responses Violet Trefusis
Don't Look Round was given a largely positive review in The Spectator by Harold Nicolson , who maintained one reservation: [a]fter all. . . this is the world of the Ritz .
Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton.
119
Philippe Jullian
Literary responses Vita Sackville-West
This volume was well reviewed in The Observer and the Morning Post, though her husband warned VSW that reviewers were covering war poems only. Harold wrote of these poems: Oh my darling clever little...

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