Jul 21, 2025 / 2:27PM
Links from Growing Up and Transatlantic Modernities:
The Acton Photograph Archive Finding Aid
Villa La Pietra Digital Exhibitions
Project: Search of Lost Guests
Resources, References & Books on Display
Acton, Harold.
—. An Indian Ass. Duckworth, 1925.
—. Aquarium. Duckworth, 1923.
—. Cornelian: A Fable. Chatto & Windus, 1928.
—. Five Saints and an Appendix. Robert Holden & Co., Ltd., 1927.
—. Humdrum. Chatto & Windus, 1928.
—. Memoirs of an Aesthete. Methuen, 1948.
—. More Memoirs of an Aesthete. Methuen, 1972.
—. Nancy Mitford: A Memoir. Harper & Row, 1975.
Braggiotti Etting, Gloria. Born in a Crowd. Thomas Y. Crowell, 1957.
Chaney, Edward & Ritchie, Neil, Oxford, China and Italy: Writings in Honour of Sir Harold Acton on His 80th Birthday. Passigli Editori, Firenze 1984.
Green, Martin. Children of the Sun: A Narrative of “Decadence” in England after 1918. 1927. Basic Books, 1976.
Hollis, Christopher. Oxford in the Twenties: Recollections of Five Friends. William Heinemann Ltd., 1976.
Howard, Brian, editor. Eaton Candle. Volume I. Spottiswoode, Ballantyne and Co., 1922.
Lancaster, Marie-Jaqueline. Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure. Anthony Blond Ltd., 1968.
Placci, Carlo. In Automobile. Treves, 1908.
Scarfoglio, Antonio. ‘Round the World in a Motorcar. Translated by J. Parker Heyes, M. Kennerley, 1909.
Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder. Chapman & Hall, 1945.
A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography. Chapman & Hall, UK 1964.
Periodicals:
The Anglo-Italian Review. Vol. 1, no. 2, 1918; vol. 3, nos. 10–11, 1919; vol. 4, nos. 13–14, 16, 1919; vol. 5, nos. 17–21, 1919; vol. 6, no. 24, 1920; no. 13/19, double issue.[LAP SER]
Broom. Vol. 5, nos. 3–4, 1923.[LAP SER]
The Cherwell. 1923, nos. 1–3; 1926, no. 7. [LAP SER]
Foreign Affairs. Vol. 5, no. 1, Oct. 1926. [LAP SER]
La Vita Britannica: Rivista Bimestrale Edita dall’Istituto Britannico di Firenze. 1919, nos. 3/4, 6. [British Institute Florence]
The Transatlantic Review. Vol. 1, nos. 1 and 4, 1924; vol. 2, no. 5, 1924.[LAP SER]
Vogue. Late Feb. 1925. La Pietra Library, New York University. [LAP SER]
—. “Parisienne Chic Fashion.” Early June 1925. [LAP SER]
Youth: An International Quarterly of Young Enterprise. Summer 1924. [LAP SER]
Websites Consulted:
Dalrymple, William. “The Road to Inspiration.” The Guardian, 8 Nov. 2003, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/nov/08/featuresreviews.guardianreview5. Accessed Apr.–May 2025.
McLaren, Duncan. “Evelyn Waugh.” EvelynWaugh.org.uk, https://www.evelynwaugh.org.uk/styled-145/index.html. Accessed Apr.–May 2025.
“100 Years of the Hypocrites.” TheArticle, 2023, https://www.thearticle.com/a-hundred-years-of-the-hypocrites-farewell-to-a-oxfords-most-notorious-club. Accessed Apr.–May 2025.
Platzer, David, In quest of Harold Acton (1904–1994), The British Art Journal , Winter 2021/22, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 57-63 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/48736160
—. Harold Acton Part V, The British Art Journal , Summer 2023, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 49-60
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/48760497
—. Harold Acton Part 6, The British Art Journal , Autumn 2023, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 50-56
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/48760520
“Peter Quennell.” Poetry Foundation, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/peter-quennell. Accessed Apr.–May 2025.
Pamphlets / Ephemera / Manuscripts;
Playbill of Facade Sitwells. Unpublished pamphlet.
Roberts, Mark. Writers at Villa La Pietra. Feb. 2006. Internal manuscript.
Maps on Display. Planisphere World Map. Institut Géographique Kümmerly and Frey, Bern. Inter-War Period Atlas-Wandkalender (Calendrier Atlas Calendar Map), ca. 1920. (VLP CO)