Nicolson, Harold

Harold Wilson, A Prime Minister on Prime Ministers (London Weidenfeld and Nicolson Joseph, 1977), p.326. 

Harold Nicolson, Peacemaking (London Constable, 1933), diary entry for 24 March 1919, 236. 

Woolf s social critique of the media comes from the pen of one who writes an alternative discourse and finds that discourse itself to be suppressed. Sometimes her protest was directed against legislated censorship at the institutional level she appeared, for example, as a witness (only to be dismissed) at the Radcliffe Hall trial for obscenity in 1928, and added her signature to a 1931 letter to The Times protesting against radio censorship on the occasion of the enforced expurgation of mention of Ulysses or Lady Chatterley s Lover in a talk by Harold Nicolson on the At other... 

I These adjectives refer, respectively, to a phone coversation with Harold Nicolson noted in Woolf s diary (D4, p. 47) to Winifred Holtby s Virginia Woof/ (London Wishart, 1931, p. 195) Frank Swinnerton s review of the novel in the Evening News (9 October 1931) and H. C. Harwood s in The Saturday Review (10 October 1931). 

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