She was cremated and her ashes interred at Rottingdean. At a memorial service held in November, John Gielgud
read the lesson and Vita Sackville-West
's son Nigel Nicolson
gave the address. EB
's papers...
Family and Intimate relationships
Violet Trefusis
Though far more experienced sexually, Sackville-West figured Trefusis as her seductress in the confession which her son Nigel Nicolson
later published as Portrait of a Marriage: I might have been a boy of eighteen...
Family and Intimate relationships
Vita Sackville-West
VSW
's younger son, Nigel
, was born, quite quickly and easily, in the Nicolsons' Ebury Street house.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
83
Friends, Associates
Enid Bagnold
Bagnold's biographer Anne Sebba
writes that try as [EB
] might to belong to the artists' milieu, she could not release her other foot from the smart set.
Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986.
148
Bagnold's friends included socialist...
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.
57
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
37
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
31
Publishing
Rose Macaulay
She began writing this as a book of 40,000 words on a contract from Weidenfeld and Nicolson
for a series called Pleasures and Treasures. When it got too long for the series, Nigel Nicolson
Residence
Enid Bagnold
EB
moved to Chelsea to live with her friend and fellow art student Dolly Tylden
. This was an escape from the conventionally respectable life of her parents,
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
in the later judgement of Nigel Nicolson
.
Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986.
31
Textual Production
Vita Sackville-West
VSW
began this work while alone in the country with her children, but still deeply affected by the turbulent after-life of her affair with Violet Trefusis
. She finished it on 28 March 1921. Nigel Nicolson
Textual Production
Penelope Mortimer
Besides reviewing television, PM
wrote both plays and screenplays for the small screen. She adapted for television both Colette
's Ripening Seed (a novel, translated into English by Roger Senhouse
, about a teenage boy's...
Textual Production
Virginia Woolf
Nigel Nicolson
and Joanne Trautmann
edited and published the first volume in a collection of VW
's letters, The Flight of the Mind: The Letters of Virginia Woolf 1888-1912, from the Hogarth Press
.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1976
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production
Violet Trefusis
VT
often wrote privately about her intimate experiences and perceptions. When, during the summer of 1920, in the midst of the controversy surrounding her relationship with Vita Sackville-West
, she was sent to Scotland with...
Travel
Iris Murdoch
IM
's early travel was mostly political: Geneva for the League of Nations
summer school, Brussels, Bruges and Antwerp in the intoxicating postwar moment of personal reunions and renewed intellectual freedom. Even her delighted...
Wealth and Poverty
Vita Sackville-West
VSW
loaned her younger son, Nigel
, £4,000 to capitalize the new publishing house of Weidenfeld and Nicolson
.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
355
Timeline
17 May 1945: A British order was made for forcible repatriation...
National or international item
17 May 1945
A British order was made for forcible repatriation of dissident Yugoslavs who had fought against Marshall Tito
's Communist partisans; repatriation lasted till the end of the month.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002.
241
1949: George Weidenfeld and Nigel Nicolson founded...
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
338
Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
128
1955: Copies of Molloy by Samuel Beckett and Lolita...
Writing climate item
1955
Copies of Molloy by Samuel Beckett
and Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
(both published in France) were seized by British Customs.
Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin, 1962.
112
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
391-2
Texts
Sackville-West, Vita, and Nigel Nicolson. Challenge. Collins, 1974.
Nicolson, Nigel, and Vita Sackville-West. “Foreword”. Challenge, Collins, 1974, pp. 7-11.
Woolf, Virginia. “Introduction”. A Change of Perspective: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, 1923-1928, edited by Nigel Nicolson, Chatto and Windus, 1977, p. 3: xv - xxii.
Woolf, Virginia. “Introduction”. A Reflection of the Other Person: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, 1929-1931, edited by Nigel Nicolson, Chatto and Windus, 1978, p. 4: xiii - xxi.
Nicolson, Nigel, and Vita Sackville-West. Portrait of a Marriage. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973.
Nicolson, Nigel, and Vita Sackville-West. Portrait of a Marriage. Futura, 1974.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1980, 6 vols.
Sackville-West, Vita, and Harold Nicolson. Vita and Harold. Editor Nicolson, Nigel, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1992.
