Wallach, Janet. Desert Queen. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1996, .
223, 229
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Gertrude Bell | GB
met Harold Nicolson
and Vita Sackville-West
in Paris. Wallach, Janet. Desert Queen. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1996, . 223, 229 |
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, 1999. 327 |
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 | 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, 1989. 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... |
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, 1952. 133 |
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
,... |
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, 1984. 251 |
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 | 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 | 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... |
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, 1999. 355-7 |
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 | 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
. qtd. in Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton, 1976. 119 |
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