Her biographer Victoria Glendinning
believes that her Anglicanism
was more than merely social, and cites her indignation over the modernising of services in the Book of Common Prayer, and her speaking up in support...
Cultural formation
Edith Sitwell
According to biographer Victoria Glendinning
, ES
wrote in her later life: I was unpopular with my parents from the moment of my birth.
She felt that she was a changeling, thought her...
Education
Vita Sackville-West
At thirteen VSW
began attending a small day school run by Helen Wolff
(whose name is variously spelled in various sources) in South Audley Street, off Park Lane. The staff were mostly male. Vita...
Friends, Associates
Edith Sitwell
ES
had received crucial support from Rootham in establishing her life and writing; she returned the support both financially and emotionally during Rootham's ultimately unsuccessful struggles to make a career as a singer.
Hill, Rosemary. “No False Modesty”. London Review of Books, Vol.
33
, No. 20, 20 Oct. 2011, pp. 25-6.
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In...
Health
Dorothy Wellesley
According to Vita Sackville-West's biographer Victoria Glendinning
, DW
in her later years (from about 1940) was frequently blind drunk, often outrageously so in public.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
306, 323
Intertextuality and Influence
Rebecca West
The language is stilted an deliberately archaic. Victoria Glendinning
describes the novel as baroque in manner and matter,
Glendinning, Victoria, and Rebecca West. “Introduction”. Harriet Hume, Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1980.
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and likens it to the Reynolds
painting, The Three Graces Decorating a Statue of Hymen...
Leisure and Society
Vita Sackville-West
VSW
became a debutante, entering the ritual season of fashionable parties which would launch her in society.
Her son Nigel Nicolson
dates this in June 1910, but biographer Glendinning
makes that date sound unlikely.
Nicolson, Nigel, and Vita Sackville-West. Portrait of a Marriage. Futura, 1974.
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Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
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Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
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Literary responses
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Victoria Glendinning
wrote in a New Statesman review: Howard writes most confidently and touchingly at very close range, about momentary doubts, unspoken anxieties, fleeting perceptions, intense good moments and equally intense bad ones, all inextricably...
Literary responses
Olivia Manning
In 1978 OM
was sued by surviving relations of Sir Walter Smart
, the original of a character in the novel who is shown in a disturbing and memorable scene attempting to feed the dead...
Literary responses
Eudora Welty
Victoria Glendinning
, reviewing for the New York Times, wrote that in this invigorating selection, EWconstantly touches the painful place where literary critic and creative writer meet; she apparently finds the relation...
Literary responses
Flora Macdonald Mayor
Critics have often bracketed The Third Miss Symons and The Rector's Daughter together as FMM
's masterpieces, in their terse prose style and resistance to stereotypes of spinsterhood. Victoria Glendinning
, reviewing Oldfield's life of...
Literary responses
Fay Weldon
Reviews of the novel were mixed. Reviewers criticised authorial intrusions, question-and-answer dialogue, and role-typing, while praising solid construction, shrewdness, and authenticity. Victoria Glendinning
in the Times Literary Supplementtraced the details about material objects and...
Literary responses
Rose Tremain
Reviewers divided over the question of how convincingly RT
had impersonated her very young male hero. The Guardian reviewer admired the way that readers were led deep . . . into Lewis's consciousness, while some...
Hill, Rosemary. “No False Modesty”. London Review of Books, Vol.
33
, No. 20, 20 Oct. 2011, pp. 25-6.
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The poets of the Movement were famously dismissive of ES
. Al Alvarez
published a notorious and...
Literary responses
Alison Fell
Victoria Glendinning
in the Times Literary Supplement (in AF
's only review to date in that prestigious journal) gave a muted welcome to this collection. To Fell's expressed desire to write ourselves some decent parts...
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Texts
Glendinning, Victoria, and Rebecca West. “Afterword”. Cousin Rosamund, Macmillan, 1985, pp. 287-95.
Glendinning, Victoria, and Rebecca West. “Afterword”. Sunflower, Virago, 1986, pp. 268-76.
Glendinning, Victoria. “Blood sisters”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3907, p. 97.
Trefusis, Violet, and Victoria Glendinning. Broderie Anglaise. Translator Bray, Barbara, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985.
Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.
Glendinning, Victoria, and Rebecca West. “Introduction”. Harriet Hume, Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1980.
Glendinning, Victoria, and Violet Trefusis. “Introduction”. Broderie Anglaise, translated by. Barbara Bray and Barbara Bray, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985.
Glendinning, Victoria. Jonathan Swift. Hutchinson, 1998.
Glendinning, Victoria. Rebecca West. Alfred Knopf, 1987.
Glendinning, Victoria. “Seeds of success”. The Guardian, p. Review 27.
Glendinning, Victoria. “Speranza: A Leaning Tower of Courage”. Genius in the Drawing-Room, edited by Peter Quennell, Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1980, pp. 101-16.
Glendinning, Victoria. “The gender test”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4470, p. 1339.
Glendinning, Victoria. “The Muswell Hill mob”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3889, p. 1199.