Creighton, Joanne V. Margaret Drabble. Methuen, 1985.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Bussy | 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, 1985. 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, 2 Dec. 2007, p. D3. D3 Kennedy, Maev. “Doris Lessing dies aged 94”. theguardian.com, 17 Nov. 2013. Sage, Lorna. “Doris Lessing obituary”. theguardian.com, 17 Nov. 2013. |
Literary responses | Violet Trefusis | Sackville-West
and Woolf
never read VT
's text: it did not appear in English until 1985, with Barbara Bray
's translation and Victoria Glendinning
's introduction. Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997. 257 Glendinning, Victoria, and Violet Trefusis. “Introduction”. Broderie Anglaise, translated by. Barbara Bray and Barbara Bray, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985. v, xvi |
Literary responses | Lady Cynthia Asquith | D. H. Lawrence
blamed LCA
's class-consciousness on the basis of her diaries. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987. 127 |
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, 1990. 138 |
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 | 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... |
Literary responses | Violet Trefusis | |
Literary responses | Violet Trefusis | Graham Greene
observed that this novel's style was rather consciously spangled with felicities. qtd. in Holroyd, Michael. “A Tale of Three Novels”. London Review of Books, Vol. 32 , No. 3, 11 Feb. 2010, pp. 31-2. 31 Holroyd, Michael. “A Tale of Three Novels”. London Review of Books, Vol. 32 , No. 3, 11 Feb. 2010, pp. 31-2. 31 |
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 | 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... |
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, 1989. 165, 275 |
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... |