Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Harold Acton
Standard Name: Acton, Harold
Connections
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Dedications | Evelyn Waugh | |
Fictionalization | Ada Leverson | Several of AL
's literary friends—Harold Acton
, Osbert Sitwell
—left more or less fictionalised portraits of her; but these turn much more on her character and public image than on her writing. Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne, 1973. 27-9 |
Friends, Associates | Edith Sitwell | ES
had many friendships, and there were few notables in the artistic world whom she did not meet. Her friendships were quite volatile, with frequent quarrels, sometimes caused by the practical jokes and the heightened... |
Friends, Associates | Ada Leverson | By the 1920s most of AL
's earlier friends were either dead or living abroad. But she was sought out by the novelists Somerset Maugham
and Ronald Firbank
, and by Wilde's younger son, Vyvyan Holland |
Friends, Associates | Ada Leverson | Her pleasure in European travel included spending time with young friends: Harold Acton
, Ronald Firbank
, the Sitwellbrothers
, and the young composer William Walton
. Speedie, Julie. Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson. Virago, 1993. 256-7 Wyndham, Violet. The Sphinx and Her Circle: A Biographical Sketch of Ada Leverson 1862-1933. A. Deutsch, 1963. 87 |
Friends, Associates | Ling Shuhua | The couple travelled together: in January 1936, for instance, they went to Beijing, where they met such people as the English writer Harold Acton
and Chinese watercolour artist Qi Baishi
. LS read fiction... |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Waugh | A key figure in his undergraduate homosexual period was his friend Harold Acton
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Edith Sitwell | Sitwell was subject to dismissive antifeminist comment from such critics as Geoffrey Grigson
and Harold Acton
. Hill, Rosemary. “No False Modesty”. London Review of Books, Vol. 33 , No. 20, 20 Oct. 2011, pp. 25-6. 26 |
Literary responses | Ada Leverson | Harold Acton
called it quite perfect, a wonderful piece of atmospheric conjuring! qtd. in Wyndham, Violet. The Sphinx and Her Circle: A Biographical Sketch of Ada Leverson 1862-1933. A. Deutsch, 1963. 94 |
Literary responses | Gertrude Stein | For some, Stein's lectures sounded like Kant
's Critique of Pure Reason qtd. in Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday, 1975. 117 Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday, 1975. 114-17 qtd. in Brinnin, John Malcolm, and John Ashbery. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and her World. Addison-Wesley, 1959. 283 |
Occupation | Gertrude Stein | Persuaded by Edith Sitwell
and Harold Acton
, GS
agreed to a small lecture tour. She lectured about grammar and literature. She was apparently inspired to explicate her ideas on composition, rhythm, repetition and identity... |
Reception | Violet Trefusis | Some resemblances to VT
also emerge in Lady Montdore of Love in a Cold Climate, one of the best-known works by her friend Nancy Mitford
. Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997. 303 Sharpe, Henrietta. A Solitary Woman: A Life of Violet Trefusis. Constable, 1981. 162 |
Reception | Violet Trefusis | Michael Holroyd
suggests in the Afterword to A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters—Absent Fathers, 2010, that scholarly interest in Vita Sackville-West
created a biassed climate for the reception of VT
. Whatever vessel set... |
Textual Production | Ling Shuhua | The book developed a complex history in its path to publication and its links to LS's life. During her writing process LS noted the challenging contrast between the production of a coherent autobiographical volume and... |
Textual Production | Evelyn Waugh |
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