Harold Nicolson

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 ,...

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...

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...

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...

Lord Lascelles , heir to the Earl of Harewood, a leading blue-blooded suitor, proposed to VSW (sometime after her first proposal from Harold Nicolson ).

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.

Against the wishes of her parents, VSW married Harold Nicolson , a diplomat, at Knole Chapel in Kent.

Harold Nicolson (VSW 's husband) left England to take up the post of Counsellor at Teheran in Persia.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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. Goldring was the first person to whom she...