Desmond MacCarthy

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 ,...

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...

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 .

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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

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

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.

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 ,...

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...

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...