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Friends, Associates | Lady Ottoline Morrell | LOM
continued to entertain in London, hosting such guests as Ethel Smyth
, Elizabeth Bowen
, Stephen Spender
, Max Beerbohm
, Hope Mirrlees
, Djuna Barnes
, Charlie Chaplin
, the novelist Henry Green |
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 |
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... |
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 |
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 |
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,... |
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... |
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... |
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 | 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, p. xxvii - xxxvii. xxxiv |
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 |
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 |
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. 254 |
Leisure and Society | Sylvia Beach | Ernest Hemingway
and Stephen Spender
gave the last readings held at SB
's Les Amis de Shakespeare and Company
. Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton. 370 |
Leisure and Society | Sylvia Beach | Hemingway
was scheduled to read alone but was frightfully anxious, so he asked Stephen Spender
, whom he had met in Spain, to come along and read too. Hemingway was still nervous on the... |
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