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Victoria Glendinning CBE (née Seebohm; born 23 April 1937) is a British biographer, novelist, critic, and broadcaster. Her biography Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions (1981) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.Two of her biographies, Vita: The Life of V.
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It was the patrician in Vita that first fascinated Mrs Woolf. The aristocratic manner, she noted, was like an actress's ...
In 1920, Mrs. Bennett, Edith, and Helen Rootham instituted the Anglo-French Poetry Society, largely as a platform for Mrs. Bennett's recitations.
He cannot be seen as an Enlightenment figure. What we think of as eighteenth-century, in terms of architecture, furniture, painting and the decorative arts, came mostly after his heyday. He died in 1745 and was isolated by deafness and dementia from the late 1730s.
Tom and his second wife, the principal family historians, both wrote that it was Mr Trollope's idea that Mrs Trollope should go to America. They may have been fudging the real issues here, just as they fudged the long association of Mrs Trollope with Auguste Hervieu.
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