Once more, into the breach

[Francis Muir]

Frank Maloney writes:

I'm sitting here trying to remember the name of the diarist,
whose diaries were published beginning in the mid-Sixties,
ah! Harold Nicolson, I believe. He was one of those
Establishment types who knew all the people who now
populate the history of the period, including Churchill.

Harold Nicholson was really more Bloomsbury than Establishment, as
was his wife, the talented, eccentric and aristocratic Victoria
Sackville-West. Joann Zimmermann has recently reminded us of that
excellent biography, "Portrait of a Marriage", by their son, Nigel
Nicholson.

Fido

[Joann Zimmerman]

In article <1990Sep11.1...@morrow.stanford.edu> fra...@hanauma.stanford.edu (Francis Muir) writes:

>Harold Nicholson was really more Bloomsbury than Establishment, as
>was his wife, the talented, eccentric and aristocratic Victoria
>Sackville-West. Joann Zimmermann has recently reminded us of that
>excellent biography, "Portrait of a Marriage", by their son, Nigel
>Nicholson.

Fido, having invoked my name, however poorly spelt, must now be
reminded that Whitehall remains at a distance of around two miles from
Bloomsbury. While Vita Sackville-West was indeed somewhat Bloomsbury
in persuasion if not actual residential address, Harold Nicholson was
a member of the Diplomatic Service, an MP, a CMG, and eventually an
Undersecretary to the Minister of Information - in short, the very
model of a modern Establishmentarian.

- Atque inter silvas academi quaerere verum
- Misce stultitiam consilis brevem: dulce est desipere in loco
- Horace
...!cs.utexas.edu!walt!jzimm

[Mike Harrison]

In article <1990Sep11.1...@morrow.stanford.edu> fra...@hanauma.stanford.edu (Francis Muir) writes:

>...

>Harold Nicholson was really more Bloomsbury than Establishment, as
>was his wife, the talented, eccentric and aristocratic Victoria
>Sackville-West. Joann Zimmermann has recently reminded us of that
>excellent biography, "Portrait of a Marriage", by their son, Nigel
>Nicholson.
>

A dramatised serialisation of "Portrait of a Marriage" starts on BBC
television next week.

Mike,

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