It is unclear when the couple met, but they fell in love when Dorothy nursed Simon at the Strachey home after an accident at his studio. Their engagement stirred controversy and disapproval in the Strachey...
Family and Intimate relationships
Margaret Drabble
MD
married author and biographer Michael Holroyd
.
Creighton, Joanne V. Margaret Drabble. Methuen.
25
Family and Intimate relationships
Margaret Drabble
In 2015 MD
's husband, Sir Michael Holroyd
, went public in an interview about his romantic friendship with critic Susannah Clapp
. He said (mentioning his medical condition following bowel cancer) that the relationship...
Friends, Associates
Doris Lessing
Her old friends included Naomi Mitchison
(who shared her love of Africa), the composer Philip Glass
, and her biographer and executor Michael Holroyd
.
Murphy, Kim. “Lessing will have the last word”. Edmonton Journal, p. D3.
D3
Kennedy, Maev. “Doris Lessing dies aged 94”. theguardian.com.
Once they were published, Roger Fulford
in the Times Literary Supplement anticipated that the upper-class lifestyle depicted in the diaries might...
Literary responses
Dora Carrington
Mary Ann Caws
asserts that Carrington has the art and the genius of personalizing everything, and calls her personal art . . . at once disquieting and convincing.
Caws, Mary Ann. Women of Bloomsbury: Virginia, Vanessa, and Carrington. Routledge.
138
Michael Holroyd
describes her as principally...
Literary responses
Antonia Fraser
Peter Portado
says that Fraser has done a fine job of promoting history. Fellow-biographers like Michael Holroyd
and Amanda Foreman
have praised her. Foreman notes that she deserves a place in the history of history...
Literary responses
Violet Trefusis
Jullian
noted improvements in VT
's writing style since Sortie de secours.Écho was better received than the first novel, and proved even something of a best-seller.
Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton.
74
In 2009 Michael Holroyd
wrote that...
Literary responses
Violet Trefusis
Graham Greene
observed that this novel's style was rather consciously spangled with felicities.
Holroyd, Michael. “A Tale of Three Novels”. London Review of Books, Vol.
32
, No. 3, pp. 31-2.
31
Michael Holroyd
, agreeing with Greene, thought it witty but not one of her better novels.
Holroyd, Michael. “A Tale of Three Novels”. London Review of Books, Vol.
Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo.
257
Glendinning, Victoria, and Violet Trefusis. “Introduction”. Broderie Anglaise, translated by. Barbara Bray and Barbara Bray, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
v, xvi
In a critical essay, Broderie Anglaise...
Literary responses
Antonia White
Callil
felt that this novel (a classic—funny, wonderfully written, which was pressed into her hands by Michael Holroyd
in 1977) was the first to cast light on her own convent upbringing in Sydney, Australia...
Occupation
Antonia Fraser
While bringing up her children, AF
persevered with the writing career she had already launched. As the wife of a wealthy man, she did voluntary work of various kinds, chairing the Prison Committee
and, for...
Reception
Dora Carrington
Carrington's exhibited works did not often sell during her lifetime, though interest in and prices paid for them have increased since then.
Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray.
165, 275
She was pleased when she sold a painting for £5.8.0 in...
Reception
Violet Trefusis
Michael Holroyd
suggests in the Afterword to A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters—Absent Fathers, 2010, that scholarly interest in Vita Sackville-West
created a biassed climate for the reception of VT
. Whatever vessel set...
Textual Production
Beryl Bainbridge
In Watson's Apology, published in November 1984, BB
based a historical novel on actual documents dating from December 1844 to 1884, about events which took place at Stockwell in Surrey. Reciprocal hatred and...
Timeline
May 1978: Virago Press issued its first Virago Modern...
Women writers item
May 1978
Virago Press
issued its first Virago Modern Classics, a historically important series most though not all of which were novels.
1984: The Authors' Foundation was set up to make...