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MISS BRITTAIN'S WAR AGAINST THE FATES

... the writer returned to London and set up house with Winifred Holtby (see Testament Of Friendship). G. used to join them in Chelsea when on vacation. Tributes to this singularly unselfish man occur, rightly, throughout Testament Of Experience. So do testimonials ...

Published: Wednesday 17 July 1957
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1227 | Page: 29 | Tags: Review 

IRRESISTIBLE FORCE: The Life of Dame Ninette de Valois; Impressions of Italy, Greece, Persia and Japan; Lord ..

... tourism. Having gone to Persia to see its landscape, its architecture, its flowers and its people, presumably in that order, he owns himself rather dis appointed with the flowers, though the mosques and the mountains were more beautiful than he had dared ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1957
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1704 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

THE HEIGHT OF TRUTH

... their chronicler, for Mrs. Tovey is a very funny writer, swift, simple, technically admirable. The drawings, by Maurice Wilson, show perfectly the Siamese individuality in grace and occasional awkwardness; and in a charming introduction Michael Joseph points ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1958
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1457 | Page: 41 | Tags: Review 

Books

... autobiography, with 1914 war letters to his wife and other personal papers, edited by Herbert Read. It shows a Kensington boy hood merging into Slade School, Chelsea aspirations, and friend ship with men like Rothenstein, Tonks, Selwyn Image, Gordon Bottomley ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1906 | Page: 72 | Tags: Review 

SOLDIER, POET AND QUEEN: Three Biographical Studies; Memoirs of a Great Music-Hall Star; Lord Jowitt Reminisces ..

... thought to have insulted a fellow C.B. But he was still great, and one of the clear objects of Lord Elton's biography is to show him as an object of admiration onH in rlirprP and pointed contrast to the denigrations of Lytton Strachey's study. I found ...

Published: Saturday 30 October 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1706 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

Books

... memories can read without a lump in the throat. It takes me back to my boyhood when I would leap up the gallery steps of the Chelsea Palace to adore Gertie Gitana in her white topper HAD Georgian London possessed music halls, some of the sons of George III ...

Published: Thursday 01 March 1951
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1577 | Page: 84 | Tags: Review