Friends whom HSW
regularly entertained at her weekly receptions in Gloucester Place included Iris Barry
, Helen Saunders
(one-time honorary secretary of Blast), Storm Jameson
, and others.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970.
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Literary responses
Ethel Sidgwick
The Times Literary Supplement dismissed this novel as tedious, though Iris Barry
praised its picture of village life.
qtd. in
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Literary responses
Laetitia Pilkington
Wordsworth
chose from her works eleven melancholy and religious couplets from Sorrow, for inclusion in his manuscript anthology presented to Lady Mary Lowther
at Christmas 1819. He omitted the later part of the poem...
Occupation
Harriet Shaw Weaver
Writer and suffragist Iris Barry
, summarizing a general admiration for HSW
on the part of Soho writers (Pound, Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, Violet Hunt
, and others), coined the phrase, the lion-hearted Miss Weaver who...
Timeline
22 June 1925: The Film Society was incorporated in London,...
Building item
22 June 1925
The Film Society
was incorporated in London, where it operated until 1939.
Maclean, Caroline. “Gloomy Sunday Afternoons”. London Review of Books, Vol.