Speedie, Julie. Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson. Virago, 1993.
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Fictionalization | Vita Sackville-West | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Ada Leverson | Her pleasure in European travel included spending time with young friends: Harold Acton
, Ronald Firbank
, the Sitwellbrothers
, and the young composer William Walton
. Speedie, Julie. Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson. Virago, 1993. 256-7 Wyndham, Violet. The Sphinx and Her Circle: A Biographical Sketch of Ada Leverson 1862-1933. A. Deutsch, 1963. 87 |
Friends, Associates | Ada Leverson | 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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Brigid Brophy | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Muriel Spark | 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... |
Textual Features | Muriel Spark | This novel, another treatment of suffering which looks back to the book of Job, Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009. 514 |
Textual Production | Ada Leverson | 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... |
Textual Production | Brigid Brophy | BB
published Prancing Novelist, a sympathetic study of the sexually outrageous writer Ronald Firbank
. British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987. 1973 Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. 6th ed., St James Press, 1996. 156 |
Textual Production | Angela Carter | 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... |
Textual Production | Nancy Cunard | NC
's Thoughts about Ronald Firbank appeared in New York from the Albondocani Press
, six years after her death. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
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