Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Blanche Warre Cornish | Molly
, Blanche's youngest child but one, married the literary journalist and critic Desmond MacCarthy
, and became a friend of Virginia Woolf
. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | Leonard Woolf was a close Cambridge
friend of Virginia's brother Thoby Stephen
and a member of the Apostles
. A Jew, with family roots in London and Amsterdam, he grew up in London, first... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Cynthia Asquith | She had a romantic friendship during the years 1918 and 1919 with Desmond MacCarthy
, who was less than ten years her senior and a member of the Bloomsbury group. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987. 235ff |
Friends, Associates | Vernon Lee | Back in Italy after the end of the First World War, VL
continued to read widely. She returned to Dante
, Shakespeare
, and Goethe
. She introduced herself to newer writings on philosophy, science... |
Friends, Associates | Isabella Ormston Ford | Besides the Ford sisters, other members of the UDC included founding member James Ramsay MacDonald
, executive committee member Helena Swanwick
, and Vernon Lee
, who was a good friend of IOF
's sister... |
Friends, Associates | Marie Belloc Lowndes | Her literary friends of a generation before her own included George Meredith
, Rhoda Broughton
, and Henry James
. She participated in the friendship of the two last-named by being regularly at Broughton's house... |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Early members of what VW
called Old Bloomsbury (to distinguish the original members of the group from later additions) included Virginia and Vanessa Stephen
, Leonard Woolf
, Clive Bell
, E. M. Forster
,... |
Friends, Associates | Hope Mirrlees | After her return from Paris, HM
was occupied with various friendships and interests. By now she could count Vivien
and T. S. Eliot
, Lytton Strachey
, Molly
and Desmond MacCarthy
, Duncan Grant
,... |
Friends, Associates | Julia Strachey | Shortly after the wedding, Julia became the charge of Alys Russell
, a suffrage and temperance activist who was also the aunt of Ray (Costelloe) Strachey
, sister of writer Logan Pearsall Smith
and Mary Berenson |
Friends, Associates | Dora Russell | During this period, the Russells' friends and associates included Sybil Thorndike
and Lewis Casson
, Ottoline Morrell
, T. S. Eliot
, W. B. Yeats
, G. B.
and Charlotte Shaw
, Desmond MacCarthy
... |
Friends, Associates | Enid Bagnold | Bagnold's biographer Anne Sebba
writes that try as [EB
] might to belong to the artists' milieu, she could not release her other foot from the smart set. Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. 148 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Agnes Hamilton | One of Lee's beliefs, pronounced that evening, was: Patriotism . . . is the power to be ashamed of your country. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944. 74 |
Literary responses | Vernon Lee | Lee's publication was panned in the Times Literary Supplement, but found strong support from Desmond MacCarthy
, writing as Affable Hawk in the New Statesman, and from G. B. Shaw
in the Nation... |
Literary responses | Rosamond Lehmann | Leonard Woolf
(in the The Nation and Athenæum on 10 September 1927), Desmond MacCarthy
, Arnold Bennett
, and Rose Macaulay
all had more or less serious reservations about the book: Macaulay used very readable... |
Literary responses | Virginia Woolf | VW
feared this would be thought a dull meticulous book. She declined to send Ethel Smyth
a copy, supposing that it would be puzzling and frustrating to someone who had not known its subject. She... |