Her biographer says that at Shooters Hill EBturned . . . from [her] artistic friends to society friends.
qtd. in
Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986.
46
In fact, however, the upper-class society to which she now made approaches through a new...
Occupation
Elinor Glyn
EG
announced her intention to direct and produce this film in October 1929, provoking from Film Weekly the question, Can Women Direct Films?
qtd. in
Etherington-Smith, Meredith, and Jeremy Pilcher. The "It" Girls. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986.
248
She did this work through the production company she had financed...
Performance of text
Arnold Bennett
AB
's Milestones, written with the US dramatist Edward Knoblock
, opened at the Royalty Theatre
in London: it proved one of his most successful plays.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Drabble, Margaret. Arnold Bennett: A Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1974.
185, 189
Performance of text
Vita Sackville-West
She began to work on it in June 1929 (starting the first chapter in the railway restaurant at Cologne) and finished it the next March.
Nicolson, Nigel, and Vita Sackville-West. Portrait of a Marriage. Futura, 1974.
222
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols.
4: 109n3, 148
She intended to shock: I...
Textual Production
Elinor Glyn
EG
accepted the contract partly to revive her waning popularity and partly because, as always, she needed the money. Lasky also hired Somerset Maugham
, Edward Knoblock
, Maurice Maeterlinck
, Sir Gilbert Parker
...