Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Vita Sackville-West | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
seems to have first met Hilda Matheson
just before the latter took over the role of central player in Vita Sackville-West
's love-life. But Matheson (director of talks for the BBC
, soon to... |
Literary responses | Vita Sackville-West | On its publication this book was somewhat eclipsed by that of Woolf's Orlando. Hilda Matheson
made a point of telling VSW
how much she liked it. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 208 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Susan Tweedsmuir | This was one of a series conceived by Hilda Matheson
, during the desperate conditions of the second world war, offering information about Britain and its colonies (this series was a smaller subset of Britain... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Kate O'Brien | One in Hilda Matheson
's series entitled Britain in Pictures a project for gaining sympathy abroad for Britain, beleaguered in the early years of World War Two, KOB
's contribution was reprinted in 1944 and... |
Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | The head of the Corporation, Sir John Reith
, is one of those whose character she draws in her memoirs. She mentions that women drew the same salary as men at the BBC, and compliments... |
Occupation | Dorothy Wellesley | At Penns during the Second World WarDW
wrote of her fear—An explosion. I thought of my son. (Oh, don't think!) I thought of Hilda
(she is safe)—but also of solitude, of her... |
Publishing | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
's introductions are largely biographical. After these first books she got her series taken on by Collins for The English Poets, a subset of their series Britain in Pictures (of whose editorial committee... |
Publishing | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
published English Country Houses, illustrated both in colour and black-and-white, in Collins
's Britain in Pictures series, the brainchild of her lover Hilda Matheson
. British Book News. British Council. (1941): 765 Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 416 Carney, Michael. Stoker. Published by the author, 1999. 126-31 |
Publishing | Elspeth Huxley | EH
published East Africa for Collins
's British Commonwealth in Pictures series, launched by Hilda Matheson
and Dorothy Wellesley
. Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002. 151 |
Residence | Dorothy Wellesley | She said the house's little faĉade was perfect, and the rocks were real, large, and primeval. It had once belonged to Guglielma Penn
, wife of the famous Quaker William Penn
and daughter (though Wellesley... |
Textual Production | Edith Sitwell | |
Textual Production | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
presented for the BBC
the first broadcast of A Week in Westminster, a radio programme designed by Hilda Matheson
to educate the electorate (especially the newly-enfranchised female part of it) about politics. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. “Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour. |
Textual Production | Rose Macaulay | RM
's Life Among the English, 1942, was the second-highest seller in the beautifully designed and illustrated series Britain in Pictures, conceived by Hilda Matheson
(who had died in 1940) as a riposte... |
Travel | Dorothy Wellesley | She also writes of visiting Sicily with Hilda Matheson
. She found it a place of exquisite wild flowers in profusion. It was Sicily that held my heart, and will forever. . . . Why... |
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