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Material Conditions of Writing | Vita Sackville-West | In Paris while her husband
worked on the Armistice, VSW
planned with Michael Sadleir
the joint editorship of a journal to be called The Critic; the journal never came into existence. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 102 |
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 | 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... |
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... |
Residence | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
and Harold Nicolson
bought Sissinghurst Castle in Kent for £12, 375. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 224 |
Residence | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
and Harold Nicolson
moved into Sissinghurst Castle. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 235 |
Residence | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
and Harold Nicolson
rented a house at 182 Ebury Street, Pimlico, London. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 74 |
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 | 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 | 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, 1984. 337 |
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
had written these poems during her affair with Mary Campbell
. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 220 |
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. qtd. in Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 58-9 |
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... |
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