Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown, 1983.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Dorothy Wellesley | Horses, having gone forward into Poems of Ten Years, 1924-1934, was selected by W. B. Yeats
for The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, 1935, and by Philip Larkin
for The Oxford Book... |
Education | Julia Strachey | Her schooldays spanned most of the first world war. Her (predominantly unhappy) experiences at Bedales informed the autobiographical fiction she wrote later in life, which John Lehmann
published in 1942. Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown, 1983. 80 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lettice Cooper | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ménie Muriel Dowie | Another cousin, Rudolph Chambers Lehmann
(whose mother, also MMD
's aunt, was born Nina Chambers
), was a journalist and oarsman. He was on the editorial board of—and published in—Punch. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Rudolph Chambers Lehmann |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rosamond Lehmann | Their brother John
, the youngest of the family, came to wield great influence as a publisher. Rosamond's relationship with John remained close though sometimes stormy. She resented his over-idealization of their childhood in his... |
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... |
Literary responses | May Sinclair | MS
herself judged this novel probably in some ways the only decent thing I've ever done or shall do. qtd. in Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000. 213 |
Literary responses | Rosamond Lehmann | Auberon Waugh
likened A Sea-Grape Tree to pulp romance, The Times thought it unintentionally absurd, and Lorna Sage
called the main characters paper people. Thoughtful and positive comments from Elizabeth Jane Howard |
Occupation | Virginia Woolf | VW
signed an agreement with John Lehmann
, selling her share in the Hogarth Press
for £3,000; from now on Lehmann was Leonard
's partner in the press. Gaither, Mary E., and J. Howard Woolmer. “The Hogarth Press: 1917-1938”. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1938, Hogarth Press, 1976, pp. 3-24. 3 |
Occupation | Virginia Woolf | Once the press was repaired they printed their handbill. Their first book (Two Stories, containing Virginia's The Mark on the Wall and Leonard's Three Jews) had to be set up and printed... |
Occupation | Rosamond Lehmann | When in 1946 RL
's brother John
set up his own publishing firm, John Lehmann Limited
, she became a shareholder and director, and also reader and consultant, until the company collapsed in late 1952. Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus, 2002. 256, 326 |
politics | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
and her brother
were hounded by members of the press for information about Communist agent Guy Burgess
(who with Donald Maclean
had defected from the British Foreign Office to Russia). Lehmann, John. In My Own Time. Little, Brown, 1969. 475-7 |
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... |
Publishing | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
's short story The Red-Haired Miss Daintreys was published in Folios of New Writing, edited by John Lehmann
for the Hogarth Press
. Woolmer, J. Howard, and Mary E. Gaither. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1946. Woolmer/Brotherson, 1986. 161 |
Publishing | Iris Murdoch | Publisher John Lehmann
rejected IM
's translation of Raymond Queneau
's existentialist novel Pierrot mon ami, which she had been working on since the spring. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002. 232 |