Glendinning, Victoria. Edith Sitwell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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Literary responses | Edith Sitwell | It proved another of her best-sellers. Glendinning, Victoria. Edith Sitwell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 346 Hill, Rosemary. “No False Modesty”. London Review of Books, Vol. 33 , No. 20, pp. 25-6. 26 |
Friends, Associates | Edith Sitwell | Beginning her editorship of Wheels, ES
made other friendships, including those with Nancy Cunard
, Nina Hamnett
(whom she describes as generous and courageous), Walter Sickert
(whose generosity and sense of fun she celebrates),... |
Literary responses | Edith Sitwell | Sitwell later wrote, the attitude of certain of the audience was so threatening that I was warned to stay on the platform, hidden by the curtain, until they got tired of waiting for me and... |
Literary responses | Dodie Smith | The play was a critical success—the Times, the News Chronicle, and the Telegraph all thought it Smith's best to date, and DS
agreed with them. Noël Coward
wrote to her and her producer,... |
Literary Setting | Muriel Spark | The novel is set in the country of MS
's now long-established residence, in Italy at Nemi, centre of the cult of the goddess Diana. It opens with radio news of the death of... |
Friends, Associates | G. B. Stern | One of GBS
's close friends was Sheila Kaye-Smith
, with whom she collaborated in works about Jane Austen
. Another was Noël Coward
, who met her after sending her a fan letter, introduced... |
Leisure and Society | G. B. Stern | In Berkshire she participated in local activities, like a Brains Trust in Wantage in aid of some good cause. Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery. 62 |
Literary responses | G. B. Stern | See-Saw brought GBS
a fan letter from Noël Coward
, written from a hospital bed where he was the next-door neighbour of Geoffrey Holdsworth Lisle
(whom GBS
married five years later). Stern, G. B. Monogram. Chapman and Hall. 68 |
Residence | Amabel Williams-Ellis | Until a fire destroyed it in December 1951, the Williams-Ellises lived mainly at his family home, Plâs Brondanw in Portmeirion, North Wales, the village which Clough was recreating in the Italianate style. Guests at... |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | By the time of the move to Tavistock Square, VW
began to socialize more than she had in years. She circulated with Bloomsbury familiars and (re)acquainted herself with Rebecca West
, Rose Macaulay
,... |
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