Abyss, The (Yourcenar), 61, 89, 275, 297–298, 300, 318, 319–320, 321–322. See also Œuvre au Noir, L’ (Yourcenar)
Académie française, 333–334, 356–357
Acadia Institute of Oceanography, 318
Acadia National Park, 118, 227, 310
Acocella, Joan, xxiv
ADAM International Review, 264
adoption plans, 156–157, 158–159, 162. See also children
Ahlblad, Lynn, 258
Aignan, Count and Countess d,’ 301
Ainley, Muriel Crewe, 97
Alcestis (Euripides), 117, 122
Alenier, Karren LaLonde, 182
Alexis (Yourcenar), 73, 79, 178, 181, 191, 297, 307
Allen, Eleanor (Wallace), 19, 26
Allen, Henry J., 12
Almstedt, Regina, 30
Alpha Kappa Chi, 21
Amour défendu, L’ (Barney), 263–264
“Andalusia, or the Hesperides” (Yourcenar), 192
Andersen, Hans Christian, 115
Andersson, Kajsa, 222
“André Gide Revisited” (Yourcenar), 298
Angell, James Rowland, 25
Anna, Soror . . . (Yourcenar), 117
anti-deer hunting campaign, 277–279
Archives du Nord (Yourcenar), 318–319, 333
Ariane et l’aventurier (Yourcenar), 152
As Fine as Melanctha (Stein), 182
Asiatics, The (Prokosch), 68, 82
Association for Voluntary Sterilization, 162
Aswell, Mary Lou, 198
Auden, W. H., 110
Austin, A. Everett, Jr. “Chick,” 114–117, 126, 133–134, 139, 192, 213
Austin, Helen, 242
Autobiography (Cellini), 31–32
Axboe, Morton, 220
Bacon, May. See Frick, Alice May (Self) (mother)
Balderston, Katharine Canby, 21–22, 177
Ballade américaine (Brissac), 307–310
Balsam, Artur, 247
Barillet, Louis, 146
Barney, Natalie Clifford
correspondence with, xxv, 155, 183, 198, 201, 206–209, 210–211, 222, 232, 243, 268, 269, 272, 275–276, 281, 284, 303, 388n3
meeting, 180
Mémoires d’Hadrien and, 209–210
passport cancellation and, 205–206
Sappho and, 188
visits with, 192, 219, 285, 287
Barratin, Margaret, 204
Barrett, John D., 167, 173–174, 176
Barstow, Mary Louise, 8
Barstow School, 8
Bartlett, Phyllis “Phyll,” 21, 23–24, 28–29, 32–34, 38, 42, 55–56, 92, 144, 247, 312–313, 317
Bates, Katharine Lee, 17–18, 25
Baur, Mme Harry, 213
Baxter State Park, 249
Bay, André, 308
Beaumont, Germaine, 181, 281, 293
Belgian Royal Academy of French Language and Literature, 82, 193, 298, 300–301, 302
Belmont, Mrs. August, 244, 253
Bicher, Nadine, xxvii
Bigelow, William, 354
Birstein, Ann, 33
Bizardel, Yvon, 265
Black, Hugh M., 26
Blakely, Quincy, 104
Blanchet-Douspis, Mireille, 88
Bliven, Naomi, 322
Blood of a Poet (Cocteau), 126, 134
Bloom, Harold, 76
Blues et gospels (Yourcenar), 257
Bolling (later Smith), Millicent, 98, 101–102
Bollingen Foundation, 167, 173, 175–176
Book Club, Stephens College, 31
Bookstaver, May, 182
Borchgrave, Louise de, 218–219, 301
Bostonians, The (James), 182–183
Bottrall, Margaret, 48
Boudot-Lamotte, Emmanuel “Nel,” 80, 84, 86, 137, 158, 180, 187, 293, 356
Bowdoin College, 289, 293, 307
Brann, Ada, 8
Brée, Germaine, 298
Bridges, Robert, 37
Brietbach, Joseph, 180
Britt, James, 12
Bronne, Carlo, 301
Brontë, Anne, 202
Brontë, Emily, 202
“Brook (at Hysom’s Cabin), The” (Guthrie), 119–120
Brookside Cemetery, 314, 324–325
Brossollet, Marc, 281, 284, 293, 297, 299, 308
Brown, “Buddy,” 173
Brun, Georges, 216
Brzezinski, Emily, 306
Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 306
Bulkley, Mary, 128
Caillois, Roger, 190
Calas, Nicolas, 317
Calderon, Ventura Garcia, 82
Calkins, Mary, 18
Callan, John J., 25
Cannon, Annie Jump, 25
Carayon, Jeanne, 301, 313, 315–316, 318–319, 320, 321, 324, 326, 331, 334, 344
Carceri d’invenzione (Piranesi), 261
Carel, M. C., 69
Carlman, C. F., 220
“Carnets de notes de L’Œuvre au Noir” (Yourcenar), 275
Carpenter, M. Lucille, 8
Carson, Rachel, 248
Cartier de Marchienne, Fernande de, 313
Carton, Pauline, 293
Casadesus, Robert, 179
Cather, Willa, 67–68, 69, 74, 196–197
Cavafy, Constantine, 68, 86, 109–110, 111, 225
“Cerveau noir de Piranèse, Le” (Yourcenar), 261
Chalon, Jean, 265, 286–287, 293–294, 303, 308–309
Champlain, Samuel de, 173
Chancel, Jacques, xxv–xxvi, 147, 171, 346–348
Chanterie de Sainte-Anne, 179–180
Charités d’Alcippe, Les (Yourcenar), 234–235, 262
Chase, Mary Ellen, 256
Chat Cat, 28
Chauvel, Jean, 293
Cheney, Howell, 93, 95, 98, 102, 104, 118, 124, 125, 126–131, 132–135
children, 159, 162–165, 215, 227–228, 231, 254–255. See also adoption plans
Christomanos, Athanase, 84
Church of Christ, Scientist, 10, 22
Civil Rights Movement, 276
Clements, Robert J., 297
Clionians, 12
Coates, Mary Grace “M.G.,” 21, 24, 34
Cocteau, Jean, 87, 126, 134, 187, 190
Codman, Florence, xxix–xxx, 21, 24, 38, 63–64, 157, 190, 224, 226
Coffin, Ernest and Kitty, 175, 194
Coffin, Silas, 257
Colby College, 102, 113, 153, 307, 312
Colette, 193
“Commentary for Grace on the Prelude to Coup de Grâce” (Yourcenar), 238
Connecticut College for Women, 153
Converse, Florence, 17
Cook, Blanche Wiesen, 263
Coolidge, Calvin, 18
Coup de grâce, Le (Yourcenar), 78–80, 82, 178, 185, 188, 201, 225, 237–243, 245, 325–326
Corkran, Rusty and David, 317
Corovilles, Mrs. Michael, 99
Couronne et la lyre, La (Yourcenar), 184
Crayencour, Christine Brown-Hovelt de, 57, 78, 137, 138, 169
Crayencour, Fernande de, xxiv, 53, 78, 83, 193
Crayencour, Georges de, 301, 313, 348, 349, 350
Crayencour, Michel de (Yourcenar’s father), 53, 57, 58, 78, 83, 246, 354
Crayencour, Michel de (Yourcenar’s half-brother), 64, 138
Cuevas, George de, 190, 191, 193
Cuiller en forme de nageuse, 208
Curtiss, Louis S., 9
Curvers, Alexis, 215, 225, 234–235, 262
“D’après Dürer” (Yourcenar), 225
“D’après Greco” (Yourcenar), 58, 225
“D’après Rembrandt” (Yourcenar), 225
Dausset, Jean, 333
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Cather), 67–68, 69
Debs, Eugene V., 18
Dei, Robert, 216
DeJean, Joan, 183–184, 187–188
Delarue-Mardrus, Lucie, 183
Delétang-Tardif, Yanette, 181
Denier du rêve (Yourcenar), 108, 109, 261, 274–275, 281, 297, 302
Deprez, Bérengère, 65, 108, 249, 270
Deschamps, Guy, 284
DeVane, William C. “Clyde,” 42, 94
Dialogue dans le marécage (Yourcenar), 307
Diana, a Strange Autobiography (Frederics), 39–40
Dimaras, Constantine, 68, 83, 85, 90, 110, 112, 137, 187, 212, 242, 261
Dinsmore, Clem, 254
Discours de réception (Yourcenar), 302
Don, Nelly, 365n41
Dr. Faustus, 135
Dragoumis, Stephanos N., 60
Dragoumis, Zoé N., 60
Dramatis personae (Yourcenar), 185
Duckett, Eleanor, 256
Dudley, Louise, 30–31, 35, 36, 241
Dupré, Marcel, 180
Dyer, Edward, 14
Éditions Gallimard, xxiii, 178, 285
eggnog, 153, 174–175, 190, 215, 235, 243
Électre ou la Chute des masques (Yourcenar), 152, 201, 204, 206, 213, 215–216, 307
Elements of Magic, The, 115–116
Eliot, T. S., 73
Embiricos, André, 52, 56, 75, 317, 372n6
“Epitaph, Wartime” (Yourcenar), 91
Farley, Phyllis Rothschild, 147, 148
Farrar, John, 244
fasces, 374n43
Faucher, Françoise, 147, 307, 327
Fay, Gertrude, 244–245, 247, 253, 290, 318, 339–340, 343
Feast of Epiphany, 236
Fernald, Tom, 352
Fernhurst, Q.E.D., and Other Early Writings (Katz), 182
Feux (Yourcenar), 51, 71, 75, 178, 188, 220, 225, 241, 372n6
Fictions of Sappho, 1546–1937 (DeJean), 187
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 181
Fleur de Lis, High School French Club, 12
Fleuve profond, sombre rivière (Yourcenar), 69, 270, 277
Flinker, Martin, 215
“Forces du passé et forces de l’avenir” (Yourcenar), 109, 112
Four Saints in Three Acts (Stein), 192, 206
Fowlie, Wallace, 298
Fraigneau, André, 51, 54, 56, 80, 158, 175, 372n6
Freeman, Alice, 8
French Legion of Honor, 210, 303
Freund, Gisèle, 307
Frick, Alice May (Self) (mother), 3–4, 5, 6, 7–8, 53
Frick, Elisabeth, 81
Frick, Frederick Carleton (brother)
heroism of, in World War I, 6-7
second marriage of, 177
Frick, Gage Carlin (brother)
correspondence with, 312
on Frick’s social life, 16
Frick’s will and, 142
LaRue Printing Company and, 15, 40, 136
memorial service and, 354
visit from, 141
visits with, 317
Yourcenar and, 91
Frick, Grace
author’s initial interest in, xix
birthplace of, 3
burial of, 353
cancer of, 246–248, 271, 272, 295, 311, 313, 315–316, 317, 322–323, 324–325, 326–327, 342–343
Cavafy and, 110
changing attitude toward Christianity, 22
college courses taken by, 20, 22–23
conflicts with Yourcenar, 193–194, 196
early travels with Yourcenar, 56–60
early trips of, to France, 34–35
family’s view of Yourcenar, 91
financial situation of, 136, 139–141
first meeting with Yourcenar, xxvii–xxxi, 51–55
first trip to Europe of, with Yourcenar, 177–178
gardening and, 253
graduate work of, 28–29, 41–42
at Hartford Junior College, 92–104, 112–113, 118, 123–135
Hartford Wellesley Club and, 117
Memoirs of Hadrian and, 159–162
on Mississippi River, 257
on Mount Desert Island, 118–122, 151–153, 155–156
Nancy Gallagher and, xxvii–xxviii, 48–49
in Northeast Harbor, 171–173, 174–176, 197, 223–231, 233, 252–254, 275–276
in Paris, 34–35, 179–180, 190–191, 192–193, 303
parties and plays with children, 156, 163, 165, 215, 254, 318
Prix Femina reception of, 293–294
in Scandinavia, 203–204, 219–222, 259–260
in Scarsdale, 198
separation from Yourcenar, 74–81
translation work of, 198–200, 261–262, 321–322
treatment of, in biographies of Yourcenar, xxi–xxiii
Wadsworth Atheneum and, 114–115
Woolf and, 108
Yourcenar’s arrival in U.S. and, 63–66, 69
on Yourcenar’s passport cancellation, 205
Frick, John Henry (father), 3
Frick, Katharine “Kathie” (niece), 177, 229, 271, 283–284, 289, 328, 330, 354
Frick, Pamela (niece), 164, 177, 229, 295–296, 300, 354
Frick, Thelma (sister-in-law), 177, 246
Fricke, Carrie (aunt), 289, 363n1
Fricke, Frederick and Mary (grandparents), 4
Furbank, P. N., xxv
“Fur-Bearing Animals” (Yourcenar), 278
Gaddis, Eugene, 117
Galey, Matthieu, 59, 81, 88, 147, 222, 306, 341, 343–344, 381n36, 388n5, 413n41
Gallagher, Grace Marian “Nancy” (Sister Marie Yann), xxvii–xxviii, 8–9, 10, 15, 40–41, 44–47, 48–50, 136, 186
Gallagher, John J., 8, 9, 45–46
Gallagher, Patrick, 9
Gallimand, Claude, 333
Gallimard, Gaston, xxi, 178, 185, 186
Gandhi, Mahatma, 247
Gardiner, Henrietta, 254
Garrity, Robert and Mary Louise, 253, 341
Garsoïan, Ina, 144, 177, 201, 291
Gaskell, Elizabeth, 33
Gatch, Katherine Haynes, 66, 128, 144, 241–242, 356–357
Gelderman, Carol, 146
Genevoix, Marie, 301
Genevoix, Maurice, 301
George A. and Dolly F. LaRue Trust, 142
Geraldy, Paul, 209
Gildersleeve, Virginia, 87
Gilkes, Jane, 304
Gilpatrick, Emma, 172
Girls’ High School Club, 12
Gita Govinda, 261
Goode, Stephen, xxi
Goodwin, Mrs. Albert, 99
Goslar, Michèle, xxiii, 16, 52, 78, 107, 115
Gracq, Julien, 87
Graham, Billy, 194
Grand Prix de littérature, 333–334
Grand prix national de la culture, 307
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, 142
“Greek Flag” (Yourcenar), 91
Green, Anne, 181
Greenslet, Ferris, 68
Grekoff, Élie, 216–217, 218, 237–238, 248, 250, 333
Groves of Academe, The (McCarthy), 146
Guide to the Lakes (Wordsworth), 33–34
Guppy, Shusha, xxiv
Gurria-Quintana, Angel, 191
Gutsmansthal, Baron, 84, 378n14
Hadrian: Empire and Conflict, 199–200
Hahn, George and Esther, 318
Hall, Lucy, 335
Hall, Ruth
in college, 16
correspondence with, 59, 177–178
financial gifts and, 335
Frick’s inheritance and, 139–140, 141
gifts for, 289
visits with, 47, 63–64, 119, 184, 226, 312
Yourcenar and, 158, 168, 374n41
Haraldsen, Dr. and Mrs., 222
Harlingue, Albert, 52
Hartford Junior College, 92–104, 105–106, 112–113, 123–135
Harvard University, 7, 17, 19, 23, 25, 67, 74, 112, 114, 145, 182, 217, 341
Harwell, Richard, 283
Haynes, Dr., 326
Haynes, Mabel, 182
Hays, David M., 20
Hazard, Caroline, 25
Hazelton, Jean, xx–xxi, 185–186, 196, 225, 247, 287, 318, 337, 395–396n7
Hazelton, Roger, xx–xxi, 185, 225, 247, 287, 337
Healthy Steps Fund for Young Children, 142
Hemingway, Ernest, 190
Hernant, Michel, 307
Hill, Charles, 65, 93, 255, 256, 312
Hill, Heyward G., 86
Hill, Margot, 157
Ho, Nancy Kimball, 194–195, 392–393n14
Hoffherr, Frederick, 145
Hoffman, Malvina, 224, 237, 262
Hogan, William, 240
Holt, Jany, 213
Horner, Georgia. See Self, Georgia
Horner, W. R., 352
horseback riding, 29, 250, 258–259
Hovelt, Eulalie de, 169
Hughes, Thomas “Tommy,” 139
Humphrey, Hubert, 290
Immigration and Nationality Act (1952), 205
Irvine, Julia Josesphine, 25
Jacquemont, Maurice, 262
Jaloux, Edmond, 78, 137, 158, 181, 264, 373n19
James, Henry, 82, 179, 182–183, 253
Jardin entouré de murailles, Un (Lalonde), 237–238, 345
Jefferson, Thomas, 69
Jewell, Andrew, 69
Johnson, Lillie, 6
Johnson, Louise Pope, 25
Johnson, Lyndon B., 276
Johnson County (Kansas) Community College Metropolitan Performing Arts Series, 142
Jones, Samuel M., 3
Jordan, Mary, 337
Jordan, Ruth, 227
Jordan Pond and Jordan Pond House, 152, 159, 164, 227, 258, 297, 298, 335
Joseph and His Brothers (Mann), 225
Joyce, James, 181
“Kâli Décapitée” (Yourcenar), 71–73
Kaliss, Beth and Nathan, 277
Kanters, Robert, 293
Karagöz, 60
Kaschmann, Truda, 97, 116, 117, 122
Katz, Leon, 182
Kauffmann, Jean-Paul, 344
Kayaloff, Jacques, 115, 143, 144, 157, 244, 254–255
Kelley (later Renault), Elizabeth “Beth”, 345–346, 390n1
Kennebeck, Edwin, 240
Kennedy, John F., 268–269, 270
Kennedy, Robert F., 288
Kent, Raymond A., 29
Kermode, Frank, 320
Kimball, Daniel “Squire,” 172–173
Kimball, Hannah, 175
King, Hortense and Wyncie, 253
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 288
kings’ cake, 236
Kittredge, George Lyman, 135
Kneeland, Beatrice, 95, 104, 132
Koch, Stephen, 322
Koelb, Clayton, 355
Korkmadjian, George and Mary, 175, 224
Krans, Horatio S., 145
Kupferberg, Herbert, 239
Kyriakos, Lucy, 56, 82–86, 90, 234
Labyrinthe du monde, Le (Yourcenar), 300
Lagerlöf, Selma, 308, 319, 335
Lahovary, Mme, 293
“Lait de la mort, Le” (Yourcenar), 51
Lalonde, Robert, 229, 237–238, 345
Lamy, Marthe, 299
LaRue, Dolly Frances (Self), xxvii, xxviii, 4–5, 6, 9, 10, 15, 46–48, 50, 100–101, 136, 177, 289
LaRue, George A., xxvii, 4–5, 6, 9, 10, 15, 46–48, 128–129, 131, 136, 139–142
LaRue, George A. and Dolly Frances
charitable trust of, 142
LaRue Printing Company, 4, 10, 136, 139
Later, Paula, 102
Latham, Minor W., 93
Latimer, Tirza True, 17
Laurencin, Marie, 180
Le Corbusier, 115
Le Gallienne, Eva, 144
Lee, Canada, 144
“Legend of Krishna: Notes on Erotic and Mystical Themes, The” (Yourcenar), 261
Leningrad, 260
Leopold, Ellen, 248
lesbianism, 17–18, 38, 39–40, 148, 162, 180–184, 206–209, 230, 263–264, 363n11, 391n19
Letot, Albert, 293
Letot, Camille, 293
Levinsohn, Donna, 151
Levinsohn, Marianne (née Mosevius), 148–151, 158–159, 162, 389n29
Lewis, Edith, 69
Liambey, Nelly, 85
Lilar, Suzanne, 301
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 109
Linnaeus, Carl, 222
Lockwood, Laura, 23, 28, 93–94, 158, 177
Loewith, Ada, 145
Lonoff de Cuevas, Sue, 71, 73, 216, 220
Louÿs, Pierre, 208
Low, Jean, 175
Lowell, Abbott Lawrence, 25
Lowell, Amy, 37
Ludlow, 203
Lunt, Jean, 173
Lutwack, Ethel, 102
Lynd, Helen Merrell, 204
Macmillan, Mrs. Thomas D. (née Eva Adams), 125–126, 133
Magic Mountain, The (Mann), 225
Malcolm, Janet, xxiii
Malinowski, Bronislaw, 112, 274
“Man Who Loved the Nereids, The” (Yourcenar), 120
Manesse Codex, 207
Manguel, Alberto, 373n14
Mann, Erika, 110
Mann, Thomas, 187, 215–216, 224–225, 241, 264
Marcus, Jane, 382n12
Marguerite Yourcenar: Croquis et griffonnis (Lonoff de Cuevas), 71
Marguerite Yourcenar: Inventing a Life (Savigneau), xx–xxiii, 363n11
Marshall, Mary Hatch, 65–66, 102, 113, 136, 153, 158, 307, 312
Marston, John, 280
Martin, Eleanor Emma, 177
Martin du Gard, Roger, 186–187
Marzani, Charlotte Pomerantz, 148, 162
Massabuau, Joseph, 64, 66, 375n15
Mathewson, Mrs., 153
Mauriac, François, 190
Mazzolani, Lidia Storoni, 260
McAfee, Mildred, 134
McCarran-Walter Act, 205
McCarthy, Barbara P., 25
McCarthy, Eugene, 290
McCarthy, Joseph, 103
McCarthyism, 189, 204–206, 239, 255
McGarr, Shirley, 16, 175, 233, 234, 253, 258, 306, 350
McGiffert, Cushman, 365n40
McGovern, George, 310
McKay, Jean, 145
Melcher, Betsy, 247
Mémoires d’Hadrien [Memoirs of Hadrian] (Yourcenar), xxi, 107, 143, 159–162, 167, 169, 173–176, 178, 180, 185–188, 192, 198–201, 228, 240, 281, 292, 302, 316, 355
Mendenhall, Thomas, 256
Merton, Thomas, 270
Miller, Cecil, 63
Minear, Gladys, xx, xxi, 32, 34, 41, 57, 118, 167, 184, 185, 222, 225–226, 230, 233, 242, 244, 250, 269, 272, 294, 319, 327, 335, 340–341, 385n20
Minear, Larry, 277
Minear, Paul, xx, 32, 34, 41, 57, 118, 177, 225, 230, 233, 242, 250, 294, 319, 335, 385n20
Minear, Richard, 310
Mirah, 215
Mirat, Jean, 185
“Mirror-Games and Will-o’-the-Wisps” (Yourcenar), 275
Mohan, Amelia, 304
Monsieur Popover, 228–229, 243, 244, 246–247, 257, 268, 279–280
Montague, Gilbert H., 240
Monteret, Pierre de, 216, 217–218, 333
Montgomery, Helen Barrett, 25
Montgomery, Rusty, 23–24, 33, 34
Moore, Garry, 266
Moore, Marianne, 224
Morand, Paul, 307
Morison, Samuel Eliot, 266, 313
Morize, André, 145
Mort conduit l’attelage, La (Yourcenar), 178, 225
Mosevius (later Levinsohn), Marianne, 148–151, 158–159, 162, 389n29
Mount Desert Island, first trip to, 118–122. See also Jordan Pond and Jordan Pond House; Petite Plaisance; Seal Harbor, Maine
Mystère d’Alceste, Le (Yourcenar), 122, 152, 262, 307
National Youth Movement, 43–44
Nazarian, Juan, 97
Newhall, Harriet, 102
Nicola, Sherry, 283
Noe, Mr., 236
Nora, Pierre, 293
Nordon, Pierre, 376n25
Nos Secrètes Amours [Delarue-Mardrus], 183
“Notre-Dame-des-Hirondelles” (Yourcenar), 51
Nouvelle Eurydice, La (Yourcenar), 79, 178
Nouvelles orientales (Yourcenar), 71, 178, 262
Obscure Man, An (Yourcenar), 249
Ocampo, Victoria, 190
O’Connell, Geraldine, 130
Œuvre au Noir, L’ (Yourcenar), 262, 275, 281–288, 297, 300, 302, 317, 320–321. See also Abyss, The (Yourcenar)
Olivia (Bussy), 206
O’Neil, L. Peat, xxi
Orengo, Charles, 215, 281, 284, 299, 301
Oriental Tales (Yourcenar), 120
Oswald, Marianne, 87
“Our-Lady-of-the-Swallows” (Yourcenar), 120
Paddock, Laura, 247
Palmer, Eva, 155
Palmieri, Patricia Ann, 17, 23, 204
Parker, Alice, 65, 81, 95, 157, 177
Parris, Robert, 199
Parrot, Dr., 317, 327, 334, 335
Pasquale, Alfred “Alf,” 250, 253, 275, 325
Pearson, Adelaide, 247
Pecile, Jordan, 99
Peckham, David, 163–165, 223, 227, 231
Pellen, Françoise, 68
Pennell, Katharine (Crane) Self (grandmother), 4, 6, 8–9
Perón, Juan, 190
Peryam, Kathie, 310
Petite Plaisance, 173, 174–175, 223–224, 229
Phaedra (Racine), 183
Pierce, Bernice “Bunny,” 231, 246, 327, 374n41
Pierrot drawings, 216–217, 220–221, 348
Pindare (Yourcenar), 178
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 261
Pit of Loneliness, The, 207
Plon, 173, 175, 178, 180, 185, 215, 262, 281, 284, 297, 316
Poems (Villon), 339
Poems Written in Early Youth (Eliot), 73
Pompeii AD 79, 337
Pompon-Bailhache, Pierrette, 174
Poore, Charles, 239
“Portrait of a Non-Jamesian Lady” (Frick), 340
Portrait of a Seductress (Chalon), 286–287
Potter, Marie Warren, 24
Poupet, Georges, 173, 175, 178
Prescott, Peter S., 322
Présentation critique de Constantin Cavafy (Yourcenar), 204, 261
Prince Pierre de Monaco literary prize, 307
Prix Combat, 262
Prix Femina-Vacaresco, 192–193, 292–293
Prix Renée Vivien, 262
Prokosch, Frederic, 68, 70, 82
Q.E.D. (Stein), 182
Quellenec, Anne, 293
Qui n’a pas son Minotaure? (Yourcenar), 152, 262
Quoi? L’Éternité (Yourcenar), xxvi, 79, 237
race issues, 7, 30, 102, 269, 270
Racine, 183
Randall, Helen, 92
Reddish, Elaine Higgins, 121, 156
Redman, Ben Ray, 239
Reed, John H., 278
“Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian” (Yourcenar), 161, 224
Reid, Doris Fielding, 240
Renault, Mary, 321
Rendre à César (Yourcenar), 261, 262, 302
Reyghere, Lucienne de, 301
Robeson, Paul, 144
Rochefoucauld, Edmée de la, 301
Rockefeller, John D., 118
Rodriguez, Suzanne, 183
Ronsard, Pierre de, 306
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 394n23
Rosbo, Patrick de, 293, 298–300
Ross, Betty, 99
Roswell Park Memorial Institute, 342
Rothschild, Phyllis, 55
Rousseau, George, xxiii
Rowantrees Pottery, 247
Royère, Jean, 264
Rudolf, Max and Liese, 253
Rukeyser, Muriel, 204
same-sex relationships
Sandomenico, Ciro, 60
“Sappho ou le suicide” (Yourcenar), 188
Sarah Lawrence College, 123, 132, 145–151, 153, 204
Sarde, Michèle, xxiii, 54, 83, 107, 162, 193
Sarton, May, 301
Saturday Blues (Yourcenar), 69–70
Saussure, Jacques de, 78, 137, 184–185
Saussure, Marguerite de, 184
Savage, Charles K., 228
Savage, Mary, 348
Savage, Richard M., II, 228
Savigneau, Josyane
on book promotion, 292
on children, 162
Codman and, 38
Le Coup de grâce sources and, 78
on early relationship, 56
on first meeting, xxix–xxx, 52
on Frick’s translation, 198
on Hartford, 115
on Kyriakos, 83
on Saint Lucy’s Day, 234
on war years, 107
on Yourcenar’s “dissipation,” 363n11
on Yourcenar’s seductiveness, 148
on Yourcenar’s time in New Haven, 74
Schakowskoy, Hélène, 293
Schlöndorff, Volker, 325
“Scholar’s Dog, The” (Marston), 280
School for Barbarians (Mann), 110
Schünzel, Reinhold, 213
Scott, James T., 30
Scudder, Vida, 17
Seal Harbor, Maine, 118, 119, 156, 159, 160, 168, 171, 215, 231, 240, 266
Seeds of Destruction (Merton), 270
Self, Cora, 6, 10. See also Gallagher, Cora (Self)
Self, Georgia, 6, 47, 101, 159, 238
Self, Jasper N. and Katharine (Crane), 4
“Self-Commentary” (Yourcenar), 86
Senhouse, Roger, 198
Shackford, Martha Hale, 18, 23, 28, 93–94
Shakespeare Breakfast, 103–104
Sheehan, Diana Forbes-Robertson, 293
Sherwood, Margaret Pollack, 18, 23, 28
Sinclair, Dorothy, 200
Singopoulos, Alexander, 204
Skum, Nils Nilsson, 222
Smith, Ann, 343
Smith, Charlie, 174
Smith, Margaret Chase, 205
Soby, James, 113
social justice, at Wellesley, 18
Solidor, Suzy, 208
Solorzano, Alejandro, 258
Songes et les sorts, Les (Yourcenar), 70, 74–75, 178
Songs and Sonnets (Donne), 76
Songs of Bilitis, The (Louÿs), 208
Sous bénéfice d’inventaire, 261, 262, 335
Souvenirs indiscrets (Barney), 252, 263
Souvenirs pieux (Yourcenar), 313, 317
Souvestre, Marie, 394n23
Spiker, LaRue, 277
Spofford, Edward, 256
Sprigge, Elizabeth, 210
St. Phalle, Thérèse de, 333–334
Stein, Gertrude, 37–38, 73, 146, 182–183, 192, 206
Stephens College, 29–30, 35, 40
Straus, Roger, 244
Strauss, Richard, 351
Sturgis, Maisie, 181
Suez crisis, 232
“Survey Unit for the Study of English Literature, A” (Frick), 35–38
Sykes, Gerald, 199
Symons, Margaret “Daisy,” 63, 203
Tamagne, Florence, 363n11
Tarn, Pauline, 262
Taylor, Harold, 145
Taylor, Margaret “Peg,” 22
Taylor, Robert, 322
Teter, Elizabeth “Betsy,” 21, 23–24, 26
Théâtre I (Yourcenar), 302
Things as They Are (Stein), 182–183
Thoreau, Henry David, 65
Thrale, Hester Lynch, 22
Thraliana (ed. Balderston), 22
“Three Greek Myths in Palladian Perspective” (Yourcenar), 152
Three Guineas (Woolf), 108
Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks (Strauss), 351
Tilton, Elizabeth, 228
’Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Ford), 116–117
To the Lighthouse (Woolf), 37
Todd, Roberta, 198
Tompkins, Miriam, 160
Tour de la prison, Le (Yourcenar), 330
Trachtenberg, Stephen, 132
Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare, The (ed. Kittredge), 135
“Traversée sur le Bathory” (Yourcenar), 220, 272–274
Tree Day, at Wellesley, 24
Trinity College, 98
Truman, Harry S., 205
Tucker, Mary Lou, 126
Turner, Ramona, 324, 326, 328–329
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice (Malcolm), xxiii
“Two Lovers’ Promenade, The” (Hermite), 89–90
University of Kansas (Lawrence), 41
Valde, Pierre, 307
Valentine Lady, 282–283, 300, 301, 305–306
Vaxelaire, Baroness, 300
Verner, Elizabeth O’Neill, 90
Vertès, Marcel, 243
“viaggio di nozze” di Marguerite Yourcenar a Capri, Il (Sandomenico), 60
Vidal, J.-C., 295
Vietinghoff, Jeanne de, 78–79, 83, 158, 246
Vietnam War, 276–277, 285, 290
Villa Rocha, Marquis de la, 293
Villon, François, 339
“Visite à Virginia Woolf, Une” (Yourcenar), 52, 55
Vitelli, Maria Giulia, 337
Vivien, Renée, 262
Vollger, Erika, 131–132, 242, 244, 253, 291–292
von Trotta, Margarethe, 325
voter fraud, 44
Vous, Marguerite Yourcenar: La Passion et ses masques (Sarde), xxiii, 54
Voyages de Marguerite Yourcenar, Les (Bernier), 70
Wadsworth Atheneum, 114–117, 126, 133, 139
“Waiting for the Barbarians” (Cavafy), 109–110
Wajsbrot, Cecile, 68
Walker, Dugald Stuart, 24
Wallace, George C., 290
Walque, Jean de, 323
Wave of the Future, The (Lindbergh), 109
Waves, The (Woolf), 51, 68, 297
Weck, Alix de, 78
Welch, Anna, 6
Well of Loneliness, The (Hall), 38–39, 207
Wellesley College
English department, 23
Yourcenar lecture at, 242
Westphal, Ruth, 343, 346, 352, 355
Westport Crier (school paper), 12, 18–19
Westport High School, 10, 11–14
What Maisie Knew (James), 82, 179
White, Florence, 145
White, Lucille (Carpenter), 242
“Who Knows Whether the Spirit of Animals Goes Downward” (Yourcenar), 278
Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho, and Art (Souhami), 181–182
Wild Heart (Rodriguez), 183, 286
Wilder Hall, 24
Wilhelmy, Thelma, 177
Willems, Dominique, 301
William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, 290
Williams, Elizabeth, 97
Williams, Nesta, 32
Williams, Roger, 235
Willkie, Arlinda, 231
Willkie, Frederick, 231
Willkie, Julia, 231
Willkie, Wendell, 231
Wilson, Deirdre “Dee Dee,” 56, 91, 229, 343, 344–346, 349, 350–352, 354–355, 365n41, 413n41
Wilson, Jerry, xxix, 54, 103, 156, 292, 330, 336–337, 339
Winer, Honor, 32
Winged Soul, The (Potter), 24
With Open Eyes (Galey), 306
Witherspoon, Alexander, 42
Witt, Marion, 66, 144, 241–242
Wolfe, Humbert, 37
Wood, James M., 29
Woodbridge, Benjamin Mather, 301
Woolf, Virginia, 37–38, 51, 54–55, 68, 108, 181, 297
Woollcott, Alexander, 67
Writer’s Journal, A (Woolf), 181
Wyzewa, Isabelle de, 274
Wyzewa, Theodore de, 274
Yajanoto, Jim, 15
Yann, Sister Marie (Nancy Gallagher), xxvii–xxviii, 8–9, 10, 15, 40–41, 44–47, 48–50, 136, 186
Young, Ella, 352
Young Siren, The (Yourcenar), 58, 115–116
Yourcenar (Rousseau), xxiii
Yourcenar, Marguerite. See also individual works
adoption plans of, 156–157, 158–159, 162
archive of, at Houghton Library, 74
author’s time with, xix
Belgian Academy honor and, 300–301
in Canada, 103, 237–238, 329–332
citizenship application of, 118
conflicts with Frick, 193–194, 196
early relationship and, 56
early travels with Frick, 56–60
European lecture tour, 231–232
financial situation of, 51, 64, 66, 70, 91, 137–138
first trip to Europe of, with Frick, 177–178
Frick’s cancer and, 246–248, 272
on Frick’s childhood, 6
Frick’s family and, 65, 91, 100–101, 289
on Frick’s literary preferences, 14
on Frick’s religious beliefs, 22
Frick’s will and, 136, 289–290
on Grace’s inheritance, 141
Harlingue photographs of, 52–53
on Hartford, 115
at Hartford Junior College, 97, 99–100, 102–103, 105–106, 126
honorary doctorates of, 256, 289, 307
manuscript rights and, xxi
Midwestern lecture tour by, 95
on Mississippi River, 257
on Mount Desert Island, 118–122, 151–153, 155–156
naturalization of, 155
in Northeast Harbor, 171–173, 174–176, 197, 223–231, 233, 252–254, 275–276
in Paris, 179–180, 190–191, 192–193, 303
passport cancellation of, 204–206
at Sarah Lawrence College, 123, 132, 140–141, 145–151, 153
in Scandinavia, 203–204, 219–222, 259–260
in Scarsdale, 198
at Smith College, 298
Wadsworth Atheneum and, 114–116
Woolf and, 55
Yourcenar: “Qu’il eût été fade d’être heureux” (Goslar), xxiii
Zeno, 81