Over on Vulpes Libris I am wading through the 800 letters that Michael Carney used to construct his biography of Hilda Matheson. She was the BBC’s first Director of Talks, and Vita Sackville West’s lover (one of them) between 1929 and 1931. Her letters to Vita have ensured that her heroic struggles as a lesbian feminist operating at the top of the broadcasting hierarchy in its febrile, formative years have survived for proper appraisal.
Kate Macdonald 