Harold Acton

Its working title was Untoward Incidents. It was rejected as obscene by Duckworth before Waugh turned to his father's firm. It is dedicated in Homage and Affection to EW 's Oxford friend and mentor Harold Acton .

Several of AL 's literary friends—Harold Acton , Osbert Sitwell —left more or less fictionalised portraits of her; but these turn much more on her character and public image than on her writing.

A key figure in his undergraduate homosexual period was his friend Harold Acton .

ES had many friendships, and there were few notables in the artistic world whom she did not meet. Her friendships were quite volatile, with frequent quarrels, sometimes caused by the practical jokes and the heightened...

By the 1920s most of AL 's earlier friends were either dead or living abroad. But she was sought out by the novelists Somerset Maugham and Ronald Firbank , and by Wilde's younger son, Vyvyan Holland

Her pleasure in European travel included spending time with young friends: Harold Acton , Ronald Firbank , the Sitwellbrothers , and the young composer William Walton .

The couple travelled together: in January 1936, for instance, they went to Beijing, where they met such people as the English writer Harold Acton and Chinese watercolour artist Qi Baishi . LS read fiction...

For some, Stein's lectures sounded like Kant 's Critique of Pure Reason while others thought they were offensive and affronting.Harold Acton , British cultural critic, reported that nobody had heard anything like this before.

Sitwell was subject to dismissive antifeminist comment from such critics as Geoffrey Grigson and Harold Acton . The poets of the Movement were famously dismissive of ES . Al Alvarez published a notorious and...

Harold Acton called it quite perfect, a wonderful piece of atmospheric conjuring!

Persuaded by Edith Sitwell and Harold Acton , GS agreed to a small lecture tour. She lectured about grammar and literature. She was apparently inspired to explicate her ideas on composition, rhythm, repetition and identity...

Some resemblances to VT also emerge in Lady Montdore of Love in a Cold Climate, one of the best-known works by her friend Nancy Mitford . She was repeatedly and unattractively portrayed...

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...

During his otherwise largely wasted time as an Oxford undergraduate, EW had some short stories published as well as having some success as a graphic artist. He put considerable effort into a novel about black...

The book developed a complex history in its path to publication and its links to LS's life. During her writing process LS noted the challenging contrast between the production of a coherent autobiographical volume and...