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Travel | W. H. Auden | From autumn 1928 WHA
lived for nearly a year at Berlin in Germany, at first with a comfortably bourgeois family selected by his own, then in a poor district selected by himself. He chose... |
Textual Production | Olivia Manning | New Stories also published Pamela Hansford Johnson
, Dylan Thomas
, and Stephen Spender
. OM
's title, which is challenging in a way that was characteristic for this stage of her career, comes from... |
Textual Production | Frances Cornford | Stephen Spender
and Frances Cornford
published their joint translation of Eluard, Paul, and Marc Chagall. The Dour Desire to Endure. Translators Spender, Stephen and Frances Cornford, The Trianon Press. 96 |
Publishing | W. H. Auden | An earlier, private edition of Poems was hand printed by Stephen Spender
in 1928, in an edition of probably fewer than 45 copies. Spears, Monroe K. The Poetry of W.H. Auden. The Disenchanted Island. Oxford University Press. 4 |
Publishing | Storm Jameson | SJ
also wrote for the Times Literary Supplement and Left Review (launched in October 1934 by Amabel Williams-Ellis
and others), as well as for Fact (a journal whose editors included Stephen Spender
). Her changing... |
politics | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Stephen Spender
includes in his autobiography a passage that biographer Wendy Mulford
terms a vitriolic personal attack Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora. 99 |
politics | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
knew Guy Burgess
in the late 1930s through Goronwy Rees, and she knew early on that he was a Comintern
agent. When the news came in June 1951 that he had gone to Russia,... |
politics | Valentine Ackland | Stephen Spender
's later autobiography incorporates a vitriolic personal attack Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora. 99 |
politics | Virginia Woolf | Through the 1930s, Woolf struggled to define herself and her work against the rise of Fascism in Europe, to chart the relationship between artistic and political tasks. She and her Bloomsbury friends began to be... |
Occupation | Dorothy Wellesley | |
Occupation | Rebecca West | RW
was one of the judges (along with Stephen Spender
, Frank Kermode
, David Farrer
, and W. L. Webb
) for the award of the first-ever Booker Prize. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (24 April 1969): 438 “Tears, tiffs and triumphs”. Guardian Unlimited. |
Occupation | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Women contributors ranged widely: Rebecca West
, Stella Benson
, Cicely Hamilton
, Members of Parliament Lady Nancy Astor
and Ellen Wilkinson
, Virginia Woolf
, Naomi Mitchison
, E. M. Delafield
, Rose Macaulay |
Literary responses | E. J. Scovell | Stephen Spender
and Geoffrey Grigson
both praised this volume. Grigson called EJS
somewhat inscrutably the purest woman poet of our time—meaning, apparently, that her technique was unobtrusive or transparent. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge. 123 |
Literary responses | Frances Cornford | In the translator's note Spender
praised Cornford's abilities, calling her one of the best translators living. Eluard, Paul, and Marc Chagall. The Dour Desire to Endure. Translators Spender, Stephen and Frances Cornford, The Trianon Press. 59 |
Leisure and Society | Rosamond Lehmann | Stephen Spender
thought RLone of the most beautiful women of her generation. Lehmann, Rosamond. Rosamond Lehmann’s Album. Chatto and Windus. 51 |