Desmond MacCarthy

Molly , Blanche's youngest child but one, married the literary journalist and critic Desmond MacCarthy , and became a friend of 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...

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. MacCarthy, however, then...

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

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...

One of Lee's beliefs, pronounced that evening, was: Patriotism . . . is the power to be ashamed of your country.MAH credits Lady Ottoline with holding the pacifist movement together; many meetings took...

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 ,...

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...

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 ,...

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...

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. Bagnold's friends included socialist...

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 ...

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...