Baldwin, Dean, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 139. Gale Research, 1994.
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Percy Buck
Standard Name: Buck, Percy
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Although she had a long-lasting love-affair with a man (musicologist Percy Buck
) and shared affectionate, long-term, non-sexual relationships with men (for example with David Garnett
), her thirty-nine-year lesbian relationship with Valentine Ackland
(which... |
| Dedications | Sylvia Townsend Warner | STW
's first published book, The Espalier, was an unusually large collection of poetry written from 1922 to 1924 and dedicated to P. C. Buck
. Buck, a musicologist who taught at Harrow, had... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Before she was twenty STW
embarked on a lengthy affair with distinguished musicologist Dr Percy Buck
, music master at Harrow School
, which lasted until 1930. Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora, 1988. 14 |
| Literary responses | Sylvia Townsend Warner | The book was well-received, but the success of Warner's novels by this time overshadowed that of her poetry. Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Editorial Materials”. Sylvia Townsend Warner: Collected Poems, edited by Claire Harman, Carcanet New Press, 1982, pp. xi - xxiii; 275. xix Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1989. 79 |
| Occupation | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Until 1929 she was an editor (and the only female editor) of the ten-volume Tudor Church Music, under the general editorship of Dr Percy Buck
and published by Oxford University Press
from 1922 to 1929. Wilson, Katharina M. et al., editors. Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997. 520 Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora, 1988. 14 OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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