Harold Acton

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

Her pleasure in European travel included spending time with young friends: Harold Acton , Ronald Firbank , the Sitwellbrothers , and the young composer William Walton .

Harold Acton called it quite perfect, a wonderful piece of atmospheric conjuring!

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.

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...

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...

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...

Sitwell was subject to dismissive antifeminist comment from such critics as Geoffrey Grigson and Harold Acton . The poets of the Movement were famously dismissive of ES . Al Alvarez published a notorious and...

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...

For some, Stein's lectures sounded like Kant 's Critique of Pure Reason while others thought they were offensive and affronting.Harold Acton , British cultural critic, reported that nobody had heard anything like this before.

Alice Keppel purchased in 1924 a villa overlooking Florence, named Ombrellino. It had once been Galileo 's home; contemporary neighbours included Mabel Dodge and Harold Acton . By 1934 Ombrellino had become VT 's...

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 . She was repeatedly and unattractively portrayed...

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...

A key figure in his undergraduate homosexual period was his friend Harold Acton .

During his otherwise largely wasted time as an Oxford undergraduate, EW had some short stories published as well as having some success as a graphic artist. He put considerable effort into a novel about black...