Ronald Firbank

Response to VSW 's writing has often been overshadowed, always blended, with response to her physical or social charisma, and the glamour of her family history. In 1923 Ronald Firbank portrayed her in The Flower...

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 story takes place at Geneva in Switzerland (transferred from the Italian scene of the real-llife original), on an estate owned by a Baron Klopstock, among characters of diverse national origins. The protagonist, Lister the...

One of the twelve sections is no more fifty words. The novel's decadent style inhabits the minds of several characters, particularly that of the tall, fragile, perpetually exhausted but secretly sexually voracious Antonia Mount. Her...

This novel, another treatment of suffering which looks back to the book of Job, begins when a film director, Tom Richards, falls from a crane on a film set and is taken to...

AL 's style and reputation are bound up with those of Oscar Wilde . Her biographer Charles Burkhart accepts that Wilde was the catalyst of her writing career, though he insists that she does not...

BB published Prancing Novelist, a sympathetic study of the sexually outrageous writer Ronald Firbank .

AC 's Self-Made Man, a radio play about Ronald Firbank (a character whose dandy panache she admired), was heard on air in 1984. A volume of her radio drama was published in 1985 as...

NC 's Thoughts about Ronald Firbank appeared in New York from the Albondocani Press , six years after her death.