Mortimer, Penelope. About Time Too: 1940-1978. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Dedications | Iris Murdoch | It was dedicated to the poet Stephen Spender
and his wife Natasha
. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emily Spender | ES
's sister-in-law, the former Lily Headland
, became first an essayist as the Rev. L. Spender, then a novelist as Mrs John Kent Spender or Mrs Lily Spender. She was also grandmother... |
Friends, Associates | Penelope Mortimer | When PM
met Stephen Spender
, he was groaning about someone raving about some trash which she immediately identified as [m]y book. Mortimer, Penelope. About Time Too: 1940-1978. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993. 198 |
Friends, Associates | Julia Strachey | Their friends included in Newcastle Quentin
and Anne Olivier Bell
, Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown, 1983. 228, 230-1 Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown, 1983. 208, 252 |
Friends, Associates | W. H. Auden | It was during his undergraduate years that WHA
formed close friendships with his near-contemporary and fellow writer Christopher Isherwood
and with fellow poet Stephen Spender
. For a while these three were seen as a... |
Friends, Associates | Christopher St John | Audience members included Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
, Stephen Spender
, William Plomer
, Raymond Mortimer
, Eddy Sackville-West
, and Eardley Knollys
. |
Friends, Associates | Edith Sitwell | In Paris ES
frequented Sylvia Beach
's bookshop. She saw more than before of Gertrude Stein
, whom she liked for her personal qualities but called the last writer whom any other writer in the... |
Friends, Associates | Edith Sitwell | During her first visit to the USA, ES
met Charlie Chaplin
, Greta Garbo
, and Marianne Moore
. A press party at the Gotham Book Mart
in New York was attended by ES
... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Bowen | Frequent guests at Bowen's Court (where, says Victoria Glendinning, they ate and drank royally) Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. 254 |
Friends, Associates | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
was rather apt to turn her friends into lovers. She also developed a strong rapport with more than one man with whose wife she was sexually involved: Denys Trefusis
and later Roy Campbell
... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Cornford | Frances Cornford
met the poet Stephen Spender
and his wife Natasha
. Cornford, Hugh et al. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, 1996, p. xxvii - xxxvii. xxxiv |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Jane Howard | Her friends during the 1950s included Stephen
and Natasha Spender
, Alec Waugh
, Margaret Lane
, Malcolm Sargent
, and Joyce Grenfell
. She also met Cyril Connolly
, Olivia Manning
, Stevie Smith |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Jennings | She had a remarkably catholic talent for friendship. During her student days she became a friend of Philip Larkin
and Kingsley Amis
. Her correspondents at this and later periods of her life included her... |
Friends, Associates | Amabel Williams-Ellis | Her political activities kept AWE
at the centre of London's socially-conscious literary circles. Guests at The Well of Loneliness tea-party included Virginia Woolf
, Rose Macaulay
, Vita Sackville-West
, G. B. Shaw
, and... |
Friends, Associates | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
was also a great success with the art-historian Bernard Berenson
. Among a younger generation of artists and writers whom she often welcomed as guests were Siegfried Sassoon
, W. H. Auden
, Christopher Isherwood |