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NOTE: Works by Rose Tremain (RT) appear directly under title; works by others under author’s name
Abbot, Mr (Linkenholt dairyman), 5
Abbot, Douglas (son of above), 7–8, 11, 14, 27
Abel, Sir Frederick Augustus, 18n
Allen, June (née Thomson; Auntie June), 88
Allen, Miss (of Mon Fertile school), 169–70, 173, 187
Always a Clown (RT; play), 119
American Lover, The (RT; story collection), 69n, 115n
Amis, Martin, 122
Anita, Mademoiselle (of Paris school), 191–2
Ash, Bill, 138n
Ashbee, Felicity, 109–10, 118
Baines, Elizabeth (Crofton Grange headmistress), 101–3, 105, 117, 167
Barker, Fred, 145
Barker, Venetia (née Quarry), 143–5
Barrington-Coupe, William (‘Barry’), 164–6
Beddington, Elizabeth, 107
Bell, Sir Eastman, 17–18, 34
Big Heads and Tiny Bodies (RT; drawings), 87–8
Blackadder, Elizabeth (school friend), 107
Boody (dachshund), 132, 135
Borloz, Monsieur (ski instructor), 184, 188
Bostock, Jill (drama teacher at Crofton Grange), 117
Brett, Simon (engraver), 104
Brighton, 84
Brisley, Joyce Lankester: Adventures of Purl and Plain, 78–9
Buckley (now Taylor), Elsa: claims to see school ghost, 96; taught by Robbie, 107, 115; artistry, 110 & n; on visit to Masefield in Oxford, 111; RT draws, 113; and Suez crisis, 116; on diverting mind at school, 118; performs at Royal Festival Hall, 138; and RT’s painting Milton mural, 149
Butler, Jim, 126, 154–6
Butler, Mrs Jim, 133
Byrne, Kate (née Pitt; Jo’s daughter), 53
Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland, 79, 93
Carter, Mr (Linkenholt gamekeeper), 7, 13, 16
Central School of Art, London, 160
Churchill, Sir Winston, 23
Clara, Mademoiselle (of Mon Fertile finishing school), 169–71, 173, 187
‘Closing Door, The’ (RT; story), 69n
Collins, Nanny, 87–8
Constantine Bay, Cornwall, 58, 61
cordite, 18n
Corneille, Pierre, 176
Cornwall: summer holidays in, 58–61, 80
Crane, Lois, 69, 168
Crofton Grange (school), Hertfordshire: RT attends, 39, 48, 89, 95–8, 148, 154; school life and routine, 99–108, 112, 117; food and diet, 101–2; extramural activities, 112–13; current events test, 115–17; Joyce Hatto teaches piano at, 136–7; RT leaves, 167
‘Darkness of Wallis Simpson, The’ (RT; story), 52n
Daubeny, Mr (of Linkenholt), 24–5, 64
David’s Cottage, Linkenholt estate, 72
Dewar, Sir James, 18n
Diablerets, Les (Switzerland), 170, 180–2, 186, 189–90
Dogmersfield, Hampshire, 89
Dudley, Jonathan (RT’s cousin): at Linkenholt, 4, 8, 20–3, 72; on grandmother, 27; at RT’s Frilsham hop, 144; admits being afraid of Jane, 162; Winston, Churchill and Me, 23n
Dudley, Mabel (RT’s grandmother): at Linkenholt, 2–5, 7, 11, 14–15; death, 12, 28–9; unhappiness, 20; grandsons sing to, 21–2; watches family tennis, 24; stomach cancer, 26–7; RT’s view of, 27–8; relations with daughter Jane, 48–9
Dudley, Michael (RT’s uncle): killed in World War II, 4; good humour, 14, 22; affection for sister Jane, 53; absence in war, 72
Dudley, Robert (RT’s cousin): grandparents favour, 4, 22; helps build treehouse at Linkenholt, 8; fondness for Linkenholt, 20; character, 21, 23; sings to granny, 22; tennis-playing, 23; helps Mr Daubeny, 25; rides pony, 26; pictured as baby, 72; admits to being afraid of Jane, 162
Dudley, Roland (RT’s grandfather): at Linkenholt, 2–5, 10–13, 15; and death of dog, 13–14; shooting, 16–18; arguments with RT’s mother, 20, 30
Dudley, Roland (RT’s uncle), 4, 49
Eileen, Auntie see Trusted, Eileen
Elgar, Miss (Crofton Grange music teacher), 137
‘Extra Geography’ (RT; story), 115n
Fairfax-Lucy, Alison, 107, 149
Fitzgerald, Penelope, 121
Florence (Linkenholt cook), 5, 15, 51
Fosbury Manor, Hampshire, 16
Francis Holland School, Chelsea, 31, 39, 55, 78
Frilsham Manor, near Newbury, Berkshire, 125–6, 132–4, 142, 144
Gardner, Margery, 172
Gaul, Miss (Latin teacher), 158
Gee, Caroline, 139, 163, 164
Gershwin, George: Rhapsody in Blue, 163–4
Gillespie, Marilyn, 107
Gladys (‘Glad Eyes’; Trusteds’ nanny), 59–61
Grainger, Stewart, 28
Gray, Heather, 107, 113–15, 118, 149, 166
Gustav Sonata, The (RT; novel), 77n, 89n
Halloran, Dermot, 143–5
Halloran, Mike, 143, 145
Hatto, Joyce: teaches at Crofton Grange, 136–7, 139, 169, 175; plays at Royal Festival Hall, 162–4; marriage to William Barrington-Coupe (‘Barry’), 165; and Barry’s recording fraud, 165–6
Heath, Bertie, 172
Heath, Neville, 171–2
Hill, Dallas, 107
Hoare, Penelope, 193–4
Holmes, Richard: pilgrimages to Linkenholt, 12; and RT’s birthday difficulties, 131; on Ivo’s wariness of driving in fog, 143
Holroyd, Michael: Basil Street Blues, 84n
Howard, Jean, 114–15, 117
Hughes, Mrs (cook), 86
Jill (two spaniels), 3, 13–14, 30
Keats, John, 54, 107; ‘To Autumn’ (poem), 103–4
Kenninghall, Norfolk, 66
Kerr, Deborah, 28
King Solomon’s Mines (film), 28
Lathbury, General Sir Gerald, 183
Lathbury (now Arbuthnot), Virginia (Ginny): joins RT in Switzerland, 183–4; breaks leg skiing, 186–7, 190
Lawrence, D.H.: Essays (1922), 124
Leighton, Margaret, 33
Lelièvre, Mademoiselle (of Mon Fertile school), 178
Lightbody, Archie (RT’s grandson), 48
Lightbody, Eleanor (RT’s daughter)see Tremain, Eleanor
Linkenholt Manor, Hampshire: childhood visits to, 1–7, 13; Christmas, 9–11, 14–15; shooting, 16–18
Lowe, Jenny, 170, 172, 181
McKenzie, Jane: friendship with RT, 39–40; riding lessons, 63–5; cold parental send-off to school, 69; taught by Robbie, 107; on visit to Masefield in Oxford, 111; poor knitting, 112; plays in Mysteries of Udolpho, 118; performs at Royal Festival Hall, 137–8, 140–1; identifies Keith at Festival Hall, 140; and RT’s painting Milton mural, 149
McKenzie, Pam, 69, 141, 168
McKenzie, Malcolm 141
Mancroft, Diana, Lady (earlier Quarry), 145
Marshall, Doreen, 172
Masefield, John: friendship with Ida Robinson, 105; influence on RT’s stories, 108; dedicates book to RT, 109n; RT illustrates stories, 109–10; RT visits in Oxford, 110–11, 179; Lost Endeavour, 108; The Midnight Folk, 108
Masefield, Judith, 111
Meadows (Nan’s sisters’ cottage), 90–2
Mellish, Miss (Crofton Grange School ghost), 95, 101
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 148, 150
Michell, Annie (RT’s great-aunt), 66
Michell, Marie (RT’s great-aunt and godmother), 65–7
Michell, Violet (RT’s great-aunt), 15, 72
Milne, A.A.: It’s Too Late Now, 98; The Old Sailor’ (poem), 80
Milton, John: RT paints mural for school, 148–50; L’Allegro, 148, 194; Lycidas, 158; Il Penseroso, 194
Mon Fertile (Swiss finishing school), 169–70, 173–5, 179
Monod, Pierrette, 180–1, 187
Morges, Switzerland, 169–70, 174
Nasser, Colonel Gamal Abdel, 116
Nell Gwynn House, Chelsea, 84
Osborne, John: Look Back in Anger, 33n
Oxford University: RT’s hopes for admission denied by Jane, 152–3, 161–2
Paris: RT in, 191–2
Parker, Carol (née Thomson; RT’s stepsister), 41, 126–7, 168
Parker, Kate, 127
Parker, Commander Mike, 127
Peat, Nancy (née Phillpotts), 145–6
Peat, Robin, 145–6
Petersdorff, Elisabeth von, 139
Phillpotts, Julie, 107, 113
Phillpotts, Nancy see Peat, Nancy
Pitt, Guy (Jo’s son), 53
Pitt, Jo (née Thomson; RT’s sister): childhood visits to Linkenholt, 2, 4, 7, 13–15; curly hair, 10; never revisits Linkenholt, 12–13; accompanies shooters at Linkenholt, 17; painting, 19; wins prize for drawing of RT, 20; pretends to be French, 32; schooling, 39, 48; learns of mother’s remarriage, 45; and RT’s babyhood, 72; childhood trip to Switzerland, 74–7; early reading, 78; trip to Brighton, 84–5; unhappiness with new nanny, 87; adds to RT’s grotesque drawings, 88; respect for Ida Robinson, 107; prospective career as artist, 122; studies art in Paris, 142; falls in love in Paris and returns to England, 159; studies design at Central School of Art, 160, 168; marriage and later life, 160–1
Pitt, John (Jo’s husband), 160
Racine, Jean, 176
Radcliffe, Ann: The Mysteries of Udolpho, 117–19
Ray (tennis coach), 114
Reid, Miranda, 192
Reunert, Carol, 170–2, 178, 181–2, 184–5, 187, 190
Reunert, Liz (earlier Heath), 171–2
Reunert, Mike, 171
Reunert, Tricia, 172
Road Home, The (RT; novel), 181n
Robinson, Ida (‘Robbie’): teaches and inspires RT, 103–7, 109, 116, 122, 169, 194; asks RT to paint Milton mural, 148–52, 158; recommends RT for Good Citizenship Cup, 159; and RT’s leaving Crofton, 167
Royal Festival Hall: RT performs in concert, 137, 140; RT attends Joyce Hatto concert at, 164
Sabine (French pupil at Crofton Grange), 113–14
Sacred Country (RT; novel), 36n, 40n, 50n, 135n, 193
Sadler’s Birthday (RT; novel), 8n, 193
St Austell, Cornwall, 62
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de: Le Petit Prince, 176–8
St Monica’s school, Buckinghamshire, 47
St Peter’s Church, Linkenholt, 11–12
Sawrey-Cookson, Barbara (earlier Dudley; née Stern; Michael’s widow), 20, 72
Shakespeare, William: Romeo and Juliet, 105–6, 152, 158
Shepherd, Gillian, 107
Shrapnel, Frankie, 28
Shrapnel, John, 28
Simpson, Wallis (Duchess of Windsor), 51–2
Sissy (Nan’s married sister), 71, 89
Slaughter, Carolyn, 73–4, 93; Before the Knife, 73n
Sloane Avenue, Chelsea, 31
Stern, Bertie, 20
Stern, Jane, 107, 119
Stevenson, Robert Louis: A Child’s Garden of Verses, 80–1; ‘The Land of Counterpane’ (poem), 81–2
Sturt, Judy (Nan’s sister), 71, 85, 88–9, 91
Sturt, Lilian (Nan’s sister), 71, 85, 88–9, 91–2
Sturt, Vera (‘Nan’): as nanny to RT and Jo, 31–2; and RT’s parents, 35; and Keith’s departure, 37–9; and RT’s move to Crofton Grange, 39; sent to Dogmersfield, 39; and Sophie Whitmee, 42; returns to care for RT and Jo, 44; loving role in RT’s childhood, 45–6, 53, 57–8, 74, 84, 93–4, 190; friendship with nanny Gladys in Cornwall, 59; pleads for RT with mother, 62; and RT’s fear of riding, 65; background, 71–2; cares for Peter Taylor, 71–2, 80–1, 94; accompanies RT and Jo to Switzerland, 74–8; reads with children, 78, 80; RT and Jo sing to, 78; bedroom, 83; takes RT and Jo to Brighton, 84; called away to family troubles, 85; fortune told, 85; returns, 88; inherits sister Sissy’s cottage in Dogmersfield, 89; RT stays with while recovering from appendectomy, 90–2; invited to Frilsham Manor, 133–4; not invited to Festival Hall concert, 141
Suez crisis (1956), 116–17
Sumohadiwidjojo, Muhammad Subuh (Bapak, or ‘Father’ Subud), 189
Swanage, 129–30
Switzerland: RT visits as child, 74–8; RT attends finishing school in, 168–73
tar (word): associations for RT, 53–5
Taylor, Elsa see Buckley, Elsa
Taylor, Peter, 71–2, 80–1, 94
Tenniel, John, 79
Thomson, Carol see Parker, Carol, 127
Thomson, Sir Ivo (RT’s stepfather): memorial plaque in St Peter’s church, 12; Jane’s love affair with, 40, 42–4, 44; marriage to Jane, 45–6, 90, 129–30; buys Frilsham Manor, 125; fishing, 125; alarmed at RT’s dangerous rowing, 128; character and good nature, 128–9, 131–2; relations with RT and Jo, 128; kindness to Nan, 134; hates flies in Frilsham garden, 135; drives RT and Mawkie to local dances, 143; ignores RT’s hints at entering Oxford, 153; brings back Jo from Paris, 159
Thomson, Jane, Lady (née Dudley; RT’s mother): relations with parents, 4; at Linkenholt, 10, 20–1, 26; relations with daughters, 10, 129–30; memorial plaque at St Peter’s church, 12; arguments with father, 20, 30; tennis-playing, 23–4; affected by death of mother, 28–9; marriage to Keith, 34–5; love for Keith, 35, 44; Keith leaves, 36–9; love affair with Sir Ivo Thomson, 40, 42, 44; marriage to Ivo, 45, 90, 129; sent to school aged six, 47–8; mother’s coldness towards, 48–9; changes name from Viola Mabel to Jane, 49–50; cooking, 51; gynaecological problems, 52; chain-smoking, 53; lacks love, 53; plays game of cross-identity with RT, 55; rages and anger, 56–7, 130; holidays in Cornwall, 59, 61, 63, 80; forbids RT from visiting circus, 62–3; appropriates RT’s money gift from godmother, 66–7; throws away RT’s letters and papers, 67; envies and resents daughters, 68–9; sending-off indifference at Liverpool Street station, 69; emotional weakness, 70; death, 82; sits with RT convalescing for appendectomy, 90; RT fantasises about exchanging for Nan, 93; life at Frilsham Manor, 125–6, 133–4, 143; trout fishing, 125–6; fails to attend to RT’s first productions and publications, 138n; misses RT’s concert at Festival Hall, 138; and RT’s teenage dances and infatuations, 144; denies RT admission to Oxford, 153, 161–2; rescues Jo from Paris, 160; tyrannises family, 162; defaces RT’s final school report, 167; freedom from family, 168; and RT’s weight increase, 188; sends RT to school in Paris, 191; RT rebels against, 192–3
Thomson, Jocelyn (RT’s great-uncle), 18n
Thomson, Keith (RT’s father): playwriting, 32–3, 36, 117, 121; character, 33n, 34–5; relations with children, 33–5, 38; marriage, 34–5; piano-playing, 34, 139; awarded OBE, 36–7; falls for Virginia Wood and leaves Jane, 36–8, 41, 42; mocks cordon bleu cooking, 51; absence in war, 72; and care of children in Nan’s absence, 86–7; congratulates RT on play Always a Clown, 120; influence on RT as writer, 121; attends RT’s Festival Hall concert, 139–41; RT writes to from Switzerland, 188–9; follows Bapak Subud and renamed Stephen, 189
Thomson, Sir Mark (RT’s stepbrother; ‘Mawkie’): adds memorial plaque to Jane and Ivo in St Peter’s church, 12; hurt by parents’ divorce, 41; becomes RT’s stepbrother, 126; conversations with RT, 127; rowing at Frilsham, 128; and Jane’s swimming suit incident at Swanage, 130; on RT’s struggle with piano, 135; calls RT ‘Baitie’, 136; youthful parties in Berkshire, 142–3; teenage crushes, 144; and servants’ attack on Jane, 154–5; joins Fleet Air Arm, 168
Thomson, Mary (née Virginia Wood; RT’s stepmother), 36–37, 42, 189
Thomson, Sybil Marguerite, Lady (‘Tweets’; later Whitmee; Sir Ivo’s first wife), 41–3, 127
Thomson, William, Archbishop of York (RT’s great-grandfather), 129
Times, The, 19
‘tits to the valley’ (expression), 184–5
Tom (Linkenholt head gardener), 5
Toronto, 73–4
Tremain, Eleanor (later Lightbody; RT’s daughter): Christmas visits, 11; pilgrimages to Linkenholt, 12; Jane’s affection for, 53; RT’s love for, 93
Tremain, Rose: childhood in Linkenholt, 1–29, 71–3; earliest memory, 1, 72; drawn by sister Jo, 19; Jo’s drawing of wins prize, 20; loved and protected by Nan (Vera Sturt), 31–2, 37–9, 44–6, 53, 57–8, 74, 84, 93–4; schooling, 31–2, 39, 48, 95–101, 121, 148, 154; and father’s leaving, 35–9; shock at mother’s remarriage, 45–6; first name, 50; game pretending to be mother Jane, 55; knocks over glass cabinet in Liberty’s, 56–7; holidays in Cornwall, 59–60; sand sculpting, 61; forbidden from visiting circus, 62–3; blood vessel bursts in nose, 63; riding lessons, 63–5; mother appropriates money gift from godmother, 66–7; childhood trip to Switzerland with Nan, 74–7; reading, 78–81; illnesses as child, 81–3; makes mats with Knitting Nancy, 81–2; trip to Brighton with Nan, 84–5; resents new nanny, 87; appendicitis, 89–90; convalesces with Nan at Meadows, 90–2; handwriting, 104, 111; school drawings, 104, 113; knitting, 112; crush on female schoolteacher, 114–15; juvenile playwriting, 117, 119; origins of writing career, 121–4; rowing on river at Frilsham Manor, 128; birthdays spoilt by mother, 130–1; piano-playing, 135–7; performs in Royal Festival Hall concert, 137–40; teenage infatuation with Dermot Halloran, 143–5; prepares for O-levels and paints Milton mural, 148–51, 158; Jane denies admission to Oxford, 161–2; leaves Crofton Grange, 166–7; final school report, 167; attends Swiss finishing school (Mon Fertile), 168–75; speaks French in Switzerland, 170–1, 178; suspends writing at Mon Fertile, 179–80; learns to ski, 184–5, 188; sense of imperfection, 185; puts on weight in Switzerland, 188; ponders future, 190; spends time in Paris and resumes writing, 191–3; rebels against mother, 192; attends University of East Anglia, 193
Trespass (RT; novel), 131n
Trusted, Eileen (‘Auntie Eileen’), 58–9, 61–3, 80
Trusted, Johnnie, 59
Trusted, Susan and Sarah-Jane, 59
Trusted, Timmy, 59, 61–2
University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich, 193
Ure, Mary, 33
Vermidge, Miss (Crofton Grange history teacher), 103
Violet, Great-Aunt see Michell, Violet
Vista, Miss (dancing teacher), 39
Wainwright, Clare, 107
Walker, Deborah, 107
Walsh, John, 36n
Warburton, Mrs (daily cleaner), 86
Way I Found Her, The (RT; novel), 152n
‘Wedding Night’ (RT; story), 60n
Wengen, Switzerland, 74
Whitmee, Brian, 40–3
Whitmee, Sophie, 42
Whitmee, Vera, 40, 42
Wilson, Sir Angus, 121
Wisest Fool, The (RT; radio play), 138n
York mystery plays, 33, 36