Victoria Glendinning

This novel revolves around four meetings (spread over several years) between pianist Harriet Hume and politician Arnold Condorex, characters who come to represent opposing forces—art and politics, private and public life, femininity and masculinity.

The language is stilted an deliberately archaic. Victoria Glendinning describes the novel as baroque in manner and matter, and likens it to the Reynolds painting, The Three Graces Decorating a Statue of Hymen...

Victoria Glendinning , reviewing for the New York Times, wrote that in this invigorating selection, EWconstantly touches the painful place where literary critic and creative writer meet; she apparently finds the relation...

According to Vita Sackville-West's biographer Victoria Glendinning , DW in her later years (from about 1940) was frequently blind drunk, often outrageously so in public.

Reviews of the novel were mixed. Reviewers criticised authorial intrusions, question-and-answer dialogue, and role-typing, while praising solid construction, shrewdness, and authenticity. Victoria Glendinning in the Times Literary Supplementtraced the details about material objects and...

Reviewers divided over the question of how convincingly RT had impersonated her very young male hero. The Guardian reviewer admired the way that readers were led deep . . . into Lewis's consciousness, while some...

The novel's action is set in Oxford. There, Alexa meets Anne and quarrels with John over the truth of John and Anne's love affair and failed elopement. Alexa and John are reconciled...

Sackville-West and Woolf never read VT 's text: it did not appear in English until 1985, with Barbara Bray 's translation and Victoria Glendinning 's introduction. In a critical essay, Broderie Anglaise...

On 14 May 1918, four days after the end of her first romantic holiday with VT , Vita Sackville-West began writing her novel Challenge (titled Rebellion in its early stages). It is clearly based on...

According to biographer Victoria Glendinning , ES wrote in her later life: I was unpopular with my parents from the moment of my birth. She felt that she was a changeling, thought her...

ES had received crucial support from Rootham in establishing her life and writing; she returned the support both financially and emotionally during Rootham's ultimately unsuccessful struggles to make a career as a singer. In...

Sitwell was subject to dismissive antifeminist comment from such critics as Geoffrey Grigson and Harold Acton . The poets of the Movement were famously dismissive of ES . Al Alvarez published a notorious and...

The reviewer quoted above, Victoria Glendinning , saw Shuttle as an uncompromising explorer, digging away in the moist rabbit-hole of the subconscious, but unlikely to carry very many readers with her.

VSW became a debutante, entering the ritual season of fashionable parties which would launch her in society.

At thirteen VSW began attending a small day school run by Helen Wolff (whose name is variously spelled in various sources) in South Audley Street, off Park Lane. The staff were mostly male. Vita...