Noël Coward

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 ,...

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...

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...

In Berkshire she participated in local activities, like a Brains Trust in Wantage in aid of some good cause. She was an amateur painter. I once painted a picture of Noël Coward painting a...

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).

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...

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,...

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),...

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...

It proved another of her best-sellers. It was the means of restoring her old friendship with Noel Coward , who wrote to congratulate her on it.

Neighbours and guests of CADS in Cornwall included J. D. Beresford , Dorothy Richardson , and E. M. Delafield . Noël Coward came for a miserable weekend, when he was ostracized by the family because...

Another play about the theatre that she wrote, The Managing Director, brought her an overall bad experience. Its leading character was based on Fritzi Massary , an Austrian operetta diva who had fled from...

A battle of the sexes similar to those of Noel Coward in its self-conscious theatricality, the drama centres on two stars competing for attention by insulting one another's performances.

On the publication of London War NotesNoël Coward wrote to tell MPD that her evocation of the city in wartime, nearly thirty years in the past, was so well done that he felt sodden...

In 1915 EN was granted a Civil List pension of sixty pounds a year. She was pleased but not overwhelmed at this honour, and thought it ought not to have been taxed. She evidently...