As the love cooled between VSW
's parents, her mother began a series of probably platonic relationships with older, wealthy men. Her long-time companion Sir John Murray Scott
(known to her and Vita as Seery...
Family and Intimate relationships
Constance Lytton
The younger sister, Emily
, married the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens
. When CL
had been arrested for the first time and bailed for the night (with the rest of the deputation) before their trial...
Residence
Enid Bagnold
Sir Edwin Lutyens
worked on the interior design. Altogether, EB
had about eighteen servants for both households at this time.
Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986.
97
Residence
Frances Hodgson Burnett
After this second divorce FHB
consoled herself by taking a lease on her dream house in England: Maytham Hall at Rolvenden in Kent (since remodelled by Sir Edwin Lutyens
and subsequently converted into retirement flats)...
Timeline
1900: Gertrude Jekyll published her influential,...
Building item
1900
Gertrude Jekyll
published her influential, highly personal Home and Garden, which describes the creation of her famous cottage garden at Munstead Wood in Surrey.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
March 1906: A company was set up, largely through the...
Building item
March 1906
A company was set up, largely through the efforts of Henrietta Barnett
, for the development of Hampstead Garden Suburb just north of London, as a community including people of all classes and income levels.
1913: Edwin Landseer Lutyens was appointed to join...
Building item
1913
Edwin Landseer Lutyens
was appointed to join Herbert Baker
as architects to design from scratch the city of New Delhi as capital of colonial India.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
11 November 1920: Two years after the end of the Great War,...
National or international item
11 November 1920
Two years after the end of the Great War, Britain commemorated with the unveiling of the Cenotaph in Whitehall and the state funeral of an unidentified soldier in Westminster Abbey.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
359
Weinreb, Ben, and Christopher Hibbert, editors. The London Encyclopaedia. Papermac, 1987, http://4-22.
132, 133
Bradshaw, David. “Mrs. Dalloway’s Forgotten Fronts: Figuring the War and Memorializing the Dead”. Voyages Out, Voyages Home: The Eleventh Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, Bangor, 15 June 2001.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
10 November 2008
1925: Architect Edwin Lutyens, famous for his architectural...
Building item
1925
Architect Edwin Lutyens
, famous for his architectural work in New Delhi, completed construction of the British Medical Association
building at Tavistock Square, London.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.