Lesley Blanch

Nicholas Jenkins of Stanford University formerly maintained on his website at http://www.stanford.edu/~njenkins/ a section called W. H. Auden. Family Ghosts, designed to show how Auden's family, despite his claims to ordinariness, sprang from a...

HW 's book was dubbed a disgusting and gross prostitution of the press the same year in A Commentary on the Licentious Liberty of the Press, by a Student of the Inner Temple...

Hope's papers are believed to be held by her grandson, Malcolm P. Nicolson . Her son, Malcolm Josceline Nicolson , showed an unpublished memoir to Lesley Blanch during the 1960s, but further researchers have been...

The newly married couple settled in Madras (now Chennai). Biographer Lesley Blanch argues that Hope loved living in India, and that much of the ardour of her poetry is the incarnation of her passion...

The adventurous aspects of LH 's life in India dominate many accounts of it. Her son is reported to have said that probably no woman, outside a novel, has lived so adventurously in peace time...

Hope's motivation for writing is unclear: Lesley Blanch rather floridly suggests that she wrote organically, for herself, for love of love, of India, in an explosion of emotion, a process of internal combustion.