Desmond MacCarthy

This idiosyncratic autobiography incorporates entertaining sketches of Frank Harris , Walter Sickert , H. G. Wells , Desmond MacCarthy and several other friends and acquaintances. She was candid about her struggles with writing and her...

Of the fourteen poets invited to read four were women: Edith Sitwell , Kathleen Raine , Dorothy Wellesley , and Ridler. Sitwell and T. S. Eliot sat on either side of the Chair of the evening, Desmond MacCarthy .

Desmond MacCarthy had launched Life and Letters in June 1928; it issued its last number this month, and Bryher's new publication first appeared in September. It merged it with the London Mercury after May 1939...

AW was assistant editor for Life and Letters, a journal newly founded and edited by Desmond MacCarthy .

Thackeray had decreed that she must not participate in a biography about him, so her notes and introductions to her father's work eschew chronological organisation. This suited her well since she had no mind for...

This book was three times reprinted by January 1942. Its full title was I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia: A Record of Love and of Childhood. MBL seems to have been planning this...

Desmond MacCarthy published AW 's story The Saint in Life and Letters.

In November 1928 SJ was one of many authors (including E. M. Forster , Virginia and Leonard Woolf , and Desmond MacCarthy ) prepared to testify in defence of Radclyffe Hall 's lesbian novel The...

It featured such speakers as Vera Brittain , Ethel Mannin , Naomi Mitchison , Marie Stopes , Desmond MacCarthy , Bertrand Russell , and G. B. Shaw . Papers given included DR 's Marriage and...

VW published in The New Statesman two letters on The Intellectual Status of Women. She was responding to views expressed by Desmond MacCarthy , the Affable Hawk, in a review of Arnold Bennett 's Our Women 1920.

LOM met with Fry and Desmond MacCarthy in Paris in October 1910 to review the paintings that Fry would be bringing to London. She also spent the riotous first day of the exhibition at...

Fry travelled to Paris with Clive Bell, Desmond MacCarthy , and Lady Ottoline Morrell to select the paintings. On 6 November 1910, RF launched the Manet and the Post-Impressionists exhibition at the Grafton Gallery, which...

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...

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...

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...