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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Helen Waddell | Friends from HW
's time at Somerville
included Maude Clarke
, whom she had known as a child and whose Oxford position had been one of the incentives to go there, and archaelogist Helen Lorimer |
Friends, Associates | Edith Sitwell | ES
had many friendships, and there were few notables in the artistic world whom she did not meet. Her friendships were quite volatile, with frequent quarrels, sometimes caused by the practical jokes and the heightened... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Margaret Sackville | LMS
became, according to Mary Agnes Hamilton
, one of those [e]verybody who was anybody in the anti-war movement, who gathered around Lady Ottoline Morrell
. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 78 |
Literary responses | Lady Margaret Sackville | Whitney Womack
has recently written that LMS
's war poetry should be read alongside the war poetry of Rupert Brooke
, Edward Thomas
, Wilfred Owen
, Siegfried Sassoon
, and Isaac Rosenberg
, as... |
politics | Maude Royden | Even after this, MR
remained active in the peace movement until the outbreak of the second world war. During the 1930s she worked perseveringly for peace in Palestine. When Italy invaded and appropriated Abyssinia... |
Textual Production | Naomi Royde-Smith | In another selection of poetry some years later, A Private Anthology, 1924, NRS
offered a prefatory Apology on her critical opinions and personal experience as a poetry reader. She divided the poems among twelve... |
Friends, Associates | Laura Riding | Graves and Riding were touchy as friends, between their sense of literary mission (they saw Graves's biography of T. E. Lawrence
as a somewhat demeaning potboiler, not part of his real work at all) and... |
Friends, Associates | Ruth Pitter | RP
knew T. S. Eliot
well enough to enjoy a courtly encounter with him at a bus stop, but she felt his great innovations had not necessarily been a good thing for English poetry, and... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Ottoline Morrell | Along with its owners, the manor was frequently full of guests: writers and artists among them included Katherine Mansfield
, D. H. Lawrence
, Aldous Huxley
, Siegfried Sassoon
, W. B. Yeats
, and... |
Textual Production | Lady Ottoline Morrell | LOM
began work on her memoirs in 1919, and returned to them more seriously in 1925. Seymour, Miranda. Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale. Farrar Straus Giroux. 316, 345 |
Textual Features | Viola Meynell | Correspondents represented in the volume include Freya Stark
, as well as Bernard Shaw
, Siegfried Sassoon
, and Walter de la Mare
. This volume was adapted for television by the BBC
in 1988, without crediting VM
. MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen. 349 |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Mew | In 1919 another admirer of CM
's poetry, Sir Sydney Cockerell
(Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum
at Cambridge), introduced her to Siegfried Sassoon
, who became a champion of her work. Fitzgerald, Penelope. Charlotte Mew and Her Friends. Collins, p. 240 pp. 170, 174, 197 Mew, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Collected Poems and Prose, edited by Val Warner, Carcanet and Virago, p. ix - xxii. xi |
Friends, Associates | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
was also a great success with the art-historian Bernard Berenson
. Among a younger generation of artists and writers whom she often welcomed as guests were Siegfried Sassoon
, W. H. Auden
, Christopher Isherwood |
Textual Production | Jackie Kay | JK
's first volume of poetry published as Makar of Scotland included Threshold (written for the opening of the Scottish parliament in 2016) and was titled from a poem about her grandfather (by adoption, not... |
Textual Production | Storm Jameson | SJ
published a novel entitled Farewell to Youth, about the First World War. This was the year of Edmund Blunden
's war memoir and of the first, pre-war volume of Siegfried Sassoon
's... |
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