Michael Holroyd

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...

MD married author and biographer Michael Holroyd .

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...

Her old friends included Naomi Mitchison (who shared her love of Africa), the composer Philip Glass , and her biographer and executor Michael Holroyd .

D. H. Lawrence blamed LCA 's class-consciousness on the basis of her diaries. Once they were published, Roger Fulford in the Times Literary Supplement anticipated that the upper-class lifestyle depicted in the diaries might...

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.Michael Holroyd describes her as principally...

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...

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. In 2009 Michael Holroyd wrote that...

Graham Greene observed that this novel's style was rather consciously spangled with felicities.Michael Holroyd , agreeing with Greene, thought it witty but not one of her better novels.

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. In a critical essay, Broderie Anglaise...

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...

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...

Carrington's exhibited works did not often sell during her lifetime, though interest in and prices paid for them have increased since then. She was pleased when she sold a painting for £5.8.0 in...

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...

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...