A | B | C | D | E
F | G | H | I | J
K | L | M | N | O
P | Q | R | S | T
U | V | W | Y | Z
(A-M novels refers to Aubrey-Maturin novels.)
Across the River and into the Trees (Hemingway), 154
Against Saint-Beuve (Proust), xviii
Aldington, Lord, Brigadier Toby Low, 296, 328
Alexander and Campaspe (Lyly), 75
Alison, Barley, 98
Allenby, Viscount, 123
Almack, William, 319
Alouge, Rene, 143
Amherst, Lord, 297
Amory, Mark, 355
Anatomy of Melancholy (Burton), 329
Anne of Cleves, 36
Anson, Admiral George, 25, 36, 159-60, 178-79, 324
Anson-Cartwright, Emma Frances, 25
Ashmore, Mrs., 27
Atlantic Monthly, 353
Atxer, Fifine, 139
Atxer, Mimi, 139
Atxer, Monsieur, 179
Aubrey, “Lucky” Jack (character)
career mapped out, 240
creation of, 197-99
and dog-watch pun, 212
framing of, 263-65
loss of mother, 24
naval career drives novels, 198
relationship with father, 171
relationship with Sophie, 250-51
self-destructive side, xiv
Aubrey, Sophie (character), xiii
Aubrey-Maturin novels
animals in, 55
arcane inventions in, 58
cease to be published in U.S., 218-19, 248, 248
covers redone by Hunt, 284-85, 289-90
created, xii
culinary companion book, 349, 359-60
discretion, as virtue in, 95-96, 198
dog-watch pun, 212
drug dependence theme, 198, 211, 232
duck-billed platypus, sting of, 298
historical research for, 198, 218, 236-37, 241
lucidity and stylistic range of, xv
male friendship theme, 192
mapped out after fourth book, 238-41
as one extended novel, 282
positive aspects of life in, 217-18
praised by Snow in pivotal review, 309
reissued by Collins, 261
presaged in Richard Temple, 185-87
Pyrenees in, 149
reissued by Norton, xiv
reputation rises among critics, xiv-xv
solitude and privacy in, 17
and Temple, 221
themes of love and friendship in, xv
Aubrey-Maturin novels (cont’d)
virtues extolled in, 70
vision in, 224
see also O’Brian, Patrick; and specific titles
Aubrey-Maturin relationship, xii-xiv
compared to great literary tandems, 197
essence of, xii-xiii
first meeting conceived, 198-99
and male friendship, xvii
O’Brian’s life as prism for, xvii
in Post Captain, 208-9
preceded by early stories, 69-70
Austen, Jane, xv, 209, 211, 237, 270, 293, 313, 344
“Author I’d Walk the Plank For, An” (Snow), 307
Bailey, Captain Richard, 350
Bair, Deirdre, 299-300
Balcome, Stephen Brown, 14
Banco (Charrière), 212
Banks, Dorothea Hugessen, 273, 276
biography written, 270-76, 321
Banks, Sophia, 273
Banks Letters, The, 273
Bardot, Brigitte, 212
Barnes Foundation, 226
Barr, Donald, 175
Barrow, Tobias (character), 179, 180, 197
Barthelme, Donald, 191
Battle at Algeciras, 198
Battle at Strait of Gibraltar, 198
Battle of Cape St. Vincent, 196
Battle of the Nile, 196
Battle of Trafalgar, 196, 202, 237
Battle of Trafalgar. A Heroic Poem, The (Drummond), 283-84
Bayley, John, 237-38, 247, 259-61, 263, 282, 307, 321, 332
BBC
documentary of 1998, xv-xvi, 39, 49, 368
war propaganda, 86, 87, 88, 96
Beasts Royal (Russ), 171
critical reception, 56
published, 55-56
Beauvoir, Simone de, xii, 135, 192-93, 201, 212, 256, 258, 259, 299
Beck, Dr. Leslie, 86, 96, 97, 211
Becker, Stephen, 238, 304, 306, 342
Belles Images, Les (Beauvoir), 192
Bennett, Stuart, 219, 276-80, 283-84, 289, 332, 335
Binyon, T. J., 236, 237, 249, 253, 256, 260, 309, 333-34
Birt, Jose, 66
Bishop, 307
Blaine, Sir Joseph (character), 211
Blake, William, 38
Bligh, Captain William, 240, 275
Blue at the Mizzen (20th A-M novel), 208, 368
Bodard, Lucien, 193
Bombard, Renaud, 361
Bonden, Barrett (character), 199, 253
Book of Voyages, A (O’Brian), 317
anthology collected, 107-8
published in 1947, 116-17
sold, 100
Borchardt, Anne, 306
Borchardt, Georges, Agency, 238, 248
Borges, Jorge Luis, 191
Boston Globe, 315
Boswell, 329
Boutet, Odette, 136-39, 140-41, 142, 149, 215, 227
Boyce, Sir Michael, 363
Brandi, Linda, 153
Braque, Georges, 147
Brenton, Edward, 95
British Foreign Office, 98
British Medical Association, 18
British Public Record Office, 198, 245
Brooking, Charles, 180
Brown, Albert Curtis, 99
Brown, Beatrice Curtis, 117
Brown, Spencer Curtis, 99-100, 117, 130, 131, 140, 146-48, 150, 190
Buffet, Bernard, 164
Bugliosi, Vincent, 304
Burgess, Guy, 291
Burke, Helen Lucy, 223-24, 256
Burns, Robert, 257
Burton, 329
Bush House, 86
Butler, Sir Robin, 363
Byatt, A. S., 310-11
Byrne, Jane Dunn, 99
Byron, Jade (character), 179, 197
Byron, John “Foul-Weather Jack,” 179
Byron, Lord, 179
Cabanne, Pierre, 229-30
Cacafuego (frigate), 199
Caesar (Russ), xvi
critical reception of, 48
foreword to 1999 reprint of, 72
success of, 50
techniques displayed in, 47-48, 51
Callaway, Alice (great-aunt), 26
Callendar, Newgate, 307-8
Campbell, John, Lord, 319
Campbell, Peter, 282, 289, 295
Carson, Rachel, 324
Cary, Joyce, 205
Castlereagh, Viscount, 265
Catalans, The (O’Brian)
critical response to, 162-64
father-son relationship in, 171
published in England as The Frozen Flame, 177
written and published, 156-59
Catlin, George, 121
Catullus, 293
Cavalcade (Coward), 53
CBS News Sunday Morning, 334
Center, William, 29
Center, Zoe, 29. See also Russ, Zoe Center
Cérémonie des adieux (Adieu: A Farewell Sartre) (Beauvoir), 256
Chamberlain, Neville, 75, 76, 77
Chapman, Ian, 247-48, 260, 294
Chapman, Marjorie, 260
Charles de Gaulle (Lacouture), 288
Charmed Circle (Mellow), 230
Charrière, Henri, 205-6, 212-13
Chattanooga Times, 204
“Cheetah” (Russ), 63-64
Chesapeake (ship), 239, 240, 246, 250
Chesterfield, Lord, 353
“Chian Wine, The” (O’Brian), 222-23
Chian Wine and Other Stories, The (O’Brian), 222, 223-24
Chichester, Sir Francis, 203
Christian Science Monitor, 358
Christie, Agatha, 49
Churchill, Winston, 29, 98, 207, 351
Clancy, Tom, 315
Clarissa Oakes (15th A-M novel)
published, 320-21
written, 312-15
see also Truelove, The
Clark, Sir Kenneth, 231
“Clockmender, The” (O’Brian), 174
Clouzot, Georges, 221
Coca Leaf Papers (Freud), 332
Cochrane, Thomas, 194, 196-200, 240, 263, 265, 310, 358
vs. Aubrey, 196-97
Cole, Olive Elizabeth Russ (sister), 38, 45, 91, 169
See also Russ, Olive Isobel
Cole, Paddy, 61
Cole, Reginald, 38
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 38, 216, 324
Coleridge: Early Visions (Holmes), 324
Collected Short Stories (O’Brian), 340
Colley, Linda, 276
Collingwood, Vice Admiral Cuthbert, 236
Collins, William “Billy,” 202, 223, 228
Collins, William, publishers, 201-3, 218, 221, 247, 253, 255, 260-61, 284, 290, 293
Collioure, France, 88, 254, 368
decision to move to, 126
degradation of lifestyle in, 269, 356, 369
filming of Le Petit Baigneur, 194-95
move to in 1949, 135-41
in O’Brian’s fiction, 222
Picasso visits, 161-62
planning commission and building permit, 195
Colman, George, the Younger, 244
Colman, Padeen (character), xvii
Colvin, Sidney, 38
Comes the Reckoning (Lockhart), 85, 92, 97
Commodore, The (17th A-M novel)
critical reception of, in U.S., 347-53
published, 343-45
written, 338-39
Commodore, The (Forester), 125
Commonweal, 174
Conan, Neil, 350-51
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (De Quincey), 211
Conquest of Venereal Diseases, The (Charles Russ), 27
Constitution (ship), 239, 246, 248
Cook, Captain James, 236, 273, 274
Cooper, Eliza (great aunt), 26
Coriano (matador), 167
Country Contentments (O’Brian), 130.
See also Last Pool and Other Stories, The
Coward, Noel, 53
Cowley, Malcolm, 164
Cowper, William, 324
Craven, Lady, 107-8
Cromwell, Thomas, 36
Cronkite, Walter, 368
Crowe, Admiral William J., Jr., 363
Culme-Seymour, Sir Michael, 266-67, 299
Cunningham, A. E., 332
Curtis Brown Agency, 99
Cwm Croesor, Wales, 104-17
decision to leave, 125-26
move to Moelwyn Bank house, 118-19
in Richard Temple, 184-85
Daily Life in the Time of Jesus (Daniel-Rops), 183
Daily Life of the Aztecs on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest, The (Soustelle), 183
Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., 236
Daniel-Rops, Henry (Jules Charles Henri Petiot), 183
Darwin, Charles, 236, 237, 274
“Dawn Flighting, The” (O’Brian), 177
Defoe, Daniel, 121
de Gaulle, General, 121
De Gaulle: The Rebel (Lacouture), 292
Derain, Andre, 136
Desolation Island (5th A-M novel), 225, 253
publication and reception, 244-45, 248
written, 241-42
Dhéry, Robert, 194
Dil (character), 216-17
Dillon, James (character), 199
Ditler, Chelsea, 352
Ditler, Eva, 352
Ditler, Jack Aubrey, 352
Don Juan (Byron), 180
Douceur de vieillir, La (The Delights of Growing Old) (Goudeket), 191-92
Douglas-Home, Margaret, 117
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 49
“Drawing of the Curranwood Badgers, The” (O’Brian), 127, 131, 222
Drink Versus Prohibition (Charles Russ), 34
Drummond, William Hammond, 283
Druon, Maurice, 221
Dufy, Raoul, 145
Dunlea, William, 174-75
Dunsany, Lord, 144
Durrell, Lawrence, 62
Duthuit, Marguerite, 227
Eastes, Dr. G. L., 18
East of Eden (Steinbeck), 153-54
Eco, Umberto, xiv
Edwardian Brooks’s (Ziegler and Seward), 318
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The (Wolfe), 207
Eliot, T.S., 181
Emery, Vice Admiral G. W., 348
Emma (Austen), 278-79, 280, 329
Empress of Canada (ship), 25, 28
Empress of India (ship), 28
Empress of Russia (ship), 25
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1810 edition), 289, 317, 329
English Education, An (Ollard), 270
Essex (ship), 259
Eton, 270-71
Faerie Queen (Spenser), 38
Farrell, J.G., 247
Farrer, David, 147
Far Side of the World, The (10th A-M novel), 283
publication and reception of, 260-62, 268
wrinkle in time for, 262
Faulkner, William, xiv
Fay, Bernard, 193
Femme rompue, Une (The Woman Destroyed) (Beauvoir), 192
Financial Times, 59
Flanagan, Thomas, 296
Forester, C. S., xi, 125, 159, 195, 196, 200, 204, 207, 214, 219-20, 237, 253, 263, 305, 307, 349, 361
Fortune of War, The (6th AM novel), 239
American publisher not found, 248
cover, 290
written and researched, 245-246
Fox, Joe, 260
Fox, Justina, 360
Fraser, George MacDonald, 247, 262, 315
Freud, Sigmund, 332
Frozen Flame, The (O’Brian)
published in England, 177
written, 157-58
see also Catalans, The (U.S. title)
Gallardo, Manolo, 194
García Márquez, Gabriel, 207
Gardiner, Rob, 241
Garnett, Richard, 201
Garrett, George, 350
Garrick, David, 319
George V, king of England, 31
George VI, king of England, 79
Gerson, Vic, 87
Gibbon, Edward, 36, 244, 272, 293, 329
Gibbs, Wolcott, Jr. “Tony,” 200-1, 203, 207, 218, 261, 334
Gibson, Wilfrid, 75
Gide, André, 130
Gill, Brendan, 164
Glorious First of June, 94, 196
Goddard, Cecil (uncle), 20, 80
Goddard, Emma Anson-Cartwright (aunt), 25
Goddard, Ernest (grandfather), 20
Goddard, Grace (aunt), 25
Goddard, Mabel (aunt), 20
Goddard, Mary (grandmother), 20
Goddard, Molly (cousin), 25
Goddard, Morse (uncle), 20, 24-25, 28
Godine, David R., 321
Goëau-Brissonnière, Armand (“Gerard” or “Renelière”), 87-88, 96-97, 127-28
Goëau-Brissonnière, Jean Yves, 87, 88-89
Goëau-Brissonnière, Yvette, 88
Goebbels, Joseph, 85-86
Golden Ocean, The (O’Brian), xi, 201, 260, 320
characters provide model for Aubrey and Maturin, 197
and proposal for Master and Commander 196
publication and reception of, 177-79, 180
Spartan boy story in, 120
written, 159-60
Goldwyn, Samuel, Jr., 351
Gonorrhoea Treated by Electrolysis (Charles Russ), 27, 35
Goon Show, The (radio show), 122
Goudeket, Maurice, 191-92, 346
publishes Caesar, 46
publishes “Twelve Animal Stories,” 55
Grady, James, 304
Grant, Sir Alistair, 363
Great-Heart (magazine), 52
Green, Vivien, 208, 259-60, 293, 304, 306, 354
“Green Creature, The” (O’Brian)
reprinted in Harper’s Bazaar, 153
written in Wales, 128
Greenway, Susan, 94
Greenway, Walter, 65, 93-94, 124-25
Griffith, Reverend, 37
Grossman, Anne Chotzinoff, 349-50, 360
Guardian (newspaper), 343
Guardian (ship), 241
Guerre d’Indochine, La (Bodard), 193
Gun, The (Forester), 200
Hakluyt, Richard, 36
Half-Mad Lord, The (Nikolai Tolstoy), 225
Hall, Eric, 61
Hamilton, Captain Edward, 215
Hamilton-Paterson, James, 336, 344
“Happy Despatch, The” (O’Brian), 127
Harcourt, Brace, 152, 159, 163, 172
Hardy, Robert, 365
Harlech, Lord, 121
HarperCollins, 293, 312, 333, 340
Harper’s Bazaar, 153, 159, 164, 165, 174, 177, 191
biographies of O’Brian, 165, 176
Harrison, John, 360
Hart-Davis, Rupert, 99, 159, 169, 177-78, 180, 181, 183
Harvill, Clarissa (character), 313-14
Hass, Robert, 351
Hastings, Max, 318, 338, 344, 362, 363
Hayers, Georgette, 262
Helter Skelter (Bugliosi), 304
Hemingway, Ernest, xii, 154, 163, 307
Hemlock and After (Wilson), 154
Hermitage Museum, 226-27
Heston, Charlton, 266, 300, 332, 339, 350-51, 352
Heston, Fraser, 300
Hickey, William, 283
Hidden Power (Charles Russ), 51
Himmler, Heinrich, 86
Histoire générale des voyages (Prevost), 23, 317
Histoire parallèle des États-Unis et de l’U.R.S.S. 1917–1960 (Maurois), 190
Hitler, Adolf, 57, 75, 76, 83, 86
H.M.S. Surprise (3rd A-M novel), 216, 217
Hunt cover, 290
last book published by Lippincott, 218-19
publication and reception of, 219-20
written, 215-19
Hobbes, Thomas, 79
Hobbs, Major H, 71
Hodgson, Godfrey, 340
Holmes, Richard, 324
Home and Van Thal, 100, 116-17, 130
Horace, 293
Horatius, 121
Hornblower novels, 196, 200, 203
Aubrey-Maturin compared to, 207, 307
O’Brian introduces Greenway to, 125
Horowitz, Mark, xv, 303-4, 308, 328-31, 334-35
Housewife magazine, 178
Howe, Lord, 94
Howe, Richard, 196
Hubbard, Joanna, 369
Hume, David, 319
Hundred Days, The (19th A-M novel), xvii 216, 367
Hunt, Geoff, 284-87, 289-90, 306, 321, 333
Hussein: An Entertainment (Russ), xvi, 104
critical reception of, 71, 72-75
out of print, 79
reprint of, 72
written and published, 70-72
Hutchison, Percy, 73
Idwal (kennel master), 123
Independent, 217, 299, 309, 320, 321, 340
India
fascination with, 46, 49, 63-64
first stories published on, 53-55, 56
in Hussein, 71
International Hygiene Exhibition, 18, 359
Internet groups and page, 337, 346-47, 361
Ionesco, Eugene, 191
Ionian Mission, The (8th A-M novel)
publication and reception of, 255-56
written, 255
Irish Times, 144, 214, 262, 344
Irish Uprising of 1798, 199
“Is This the Best Writer You Never Heard Of?” (Ringle), 321-22
“It Must Have Been a Branch, They Said” (O’Brian), 119, 131
Jackson, Shirley, 223
James, William, 94, 196, 236, 290
Japan, 248
J. B. Lippincott, xi, 195-96, 200, 204, 215, 219-20, 238, 304, 306
J. Day and Company, 177-78
Jerome, Jerome K., 35
Jervis, Admiral Sir John, 196, 309
John Keats (Colvin), 38
Johnson, Samuel, 34, 36, 237, 244, 268, 292, 293, 353
Jones, Captain John “Jack,” 122-23
Jones, Elizabeth (first wife). See Russ, Elizabeth Jones; le Mee-Power, Elizabeth Russ
Jones, Welton, 352
Jonquères D’Oriola, Christophe, 242
Jonquères D’Oriola, Claude, 242-43
Jonquères D’Oriola, Philippe, 241–42, 329
Joseph Banks (O’Brian), 171
published and reviewed, 282
published in U.S., 321
written, 270-76
“Journey to Cannes, A” (O’Brian), 175
Joyce, James, 222
Judd, Alan, 324-25, 330, 351, 356
“Just a Phase I Am Going Through?” (O’Brian), 159n, 179, 341-42
Kahn, Mark, 219
Katahn, Dr. Martin, 304
Keith, Admiral Lord, 268
Keith, George, 196
Keith, Queenie, 268
Kent, Alexander, 247, 258, 281, 361
Killick, Preserved (character), 199, 253
King Must Die, The (Renault), 203
Kipling, Rudyard, 35-36, 49, 53, 71, 73
Knopfler, Mark, 363
Lackstead, Geoffrey, 46
Lacouture, Jean, 288
Lady Day Prodigal (Barney Russ), 30, 38
La Farge, Oliver, 152
Laniel, Joseph, 160
“Last Pool, The” (O’Brian), 127, 177, 223
Last Pool and Other Stories, The (O’Brian)
critical reception, 144-45
and Goëau-Brissonnière, 88
published in U.S., 172
stories reprinted, 153
written in Wales, 126-29
Lavery, Brian, 332
Lawrence, Starling, 238, 304-8, 330, 334, 336, 346-47, 348, 349, 352, 363
Léger, Fernand, 147
Lehman, John, 336
le Mee-Power, Elizabeth Russ, 141, 189
le Mee-Power, John Cowper, 129, 141
Letter of Marque, The (12th A-M novel), 312
cover, 285
death of Aubrey’s father in, 171
name of Senhouse used, 151
plot mapped, 238-39
publication and reception of, 289-90
publication and reception of, in U.S., 293, 306-7, 309
written, 382-84
Levin, Martin, 204
Lewis, Michael, 304
Liar’s Poker (Lewis), 304
Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, The (Sterne), 94
“Life in the Day of Patrick O’Brian, A” (O’Brian), 159n, 295, 322
Life of Johnson (Boswell), 329, 353
Lilly Library at Indiana University, 238
L’lndependant, 167
“Little Death, The” (O’Brian), 88, 127-28, 131
Liverpool Daily Post, 186
Living in Croesor (O’Connor), 103
Lloyd, Christopher, 265
Lockhart, Robert Bruce, 85, 92, 97
London Daily Telegraph, xvi, 338, 344, 362, 368
London Evening Standard, 310, 333
banquet honoring O’Brian, 361-66
London Review of Books, 282, 288, 289, 295, 307, 320, 323, 338
London Sunday Mirror, 207
London Sunday Telegraph, 333, 340
London Times, 151, 153, 162, 258, 281
“Long After Eden” (Schwarz), 153-54
“Long Day Running, The” (O’Brian), 124-25, 128, 223
Longitude (Sobel), 360
Lord Cochrane (Lloyd), 265
Lord Hornblower (Forester), 125
“Lottery, The” (Jackson) 223
Low, Brigadier Toby, 296
Low, Valentine, 362
Lying in the Sun and Other Stories (O’Brian)
biography on jacket, 176
published and reviewed, 174-77
see also Walker and Other Stories, The (British title)
“Lying in the Sun” (O’Brian), 176
Lyly, John, 75
Lyon, David, 241
Lyons, Israel, 272
Lysaght, Averil, 272
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 121, 268
Maclean, Donald, 291.
MacLehose, Christopher, 237-38, 247-48, 260-61, 267, 323, 342
MacLeish, Archibald, 95
McWilliam, Katherine, 242
Mailer, Norman, 228
Manchester Guardian, 75
Mandel, Georges, 87
Mann, Jessica, 333
Mann, Thomas, 130
Mansfield Park (Austen), 278
Mariner’s Chronicle, 224
Marryat, Captain Frederick, 196, 237
Martin, Admiral Byam, 236
Mary, Princess of England, 58
Mary, Queen of England, 58
Master and Commander (1st A-M novel), 236, 310
Aubrey-Maturin relationship in, xiii, 198-99
British publisher found for, 200-3
commissioned, xi-xii, 196-97, 198
characters created, 197-98
critical reception of, 203-31, 205, 207-8
discovered by cogniscenti, 238
film rights sold, 351
French translation published, 361
manuscript traded, 278-79
new cover helps sales, 262-63
plot and subplot created, 199
published in Japan, 248
published in Spain, 339
reissued by Norton in U.S., 293, 305, 306
reissued in 1984, 261-63
rejected by Macmillan, xii
Renault reads, 203
researched, 198
secrecy and discretion themes in, 95-96
sequels dropped by Lippincott, xii
setting, 198-99
written, 197-98
Matisse, Henri, 136, 147, 226-27
Maturin, Charles Robert, 197
Maturin, Diana (character), xiii, 367
Maturin, Stephen (character), 211, 216-17, 266
animal keeping, 55
and Aubrey’s reversal, 264-65
and Clarissa Oakes, 313-14
creation of, 197-99
and discretion, 95
fantasy walk in Pulo Prabang, 291-92
mother, 24
Patrick’s resemblance to, xvii, 39, 89
previewed in Catalans, 157-58
saves daughter Brigid, xvii
secretive nature, xv
self-destructive side, xiv
and Villiers, plot mapped, 240-41, 250, 251
Maugham, Somerset, 50, 181, 197
Mauritius, 235
Mauritius Command, The (4th A-M novel), 235-36, 242
written, 235-36
Maurois, André, 191
Maxwell, Captain, 297
Mediterranean Fleet. 198
name used in Post Captain, 34, 209
Mellow, James R., 230-31
Men at Arms (Waugh), 154
Men-of-War (O’Brian), 218, 224
Merlin (schooner), 239
Milligan, Spike, 122
M’Leod, John, 297
Moore, Henry, 181
Mort très douce, Une (A Very Easy Death) (Beauvoir), 192
Mowett, James (character), 199, 253, 254, 266, 283
Mozart, 289
Mucha, Willy, 136, 142, 147, 148, 150, 151, 161, 165
Mucha, Yolande, 142
Müller, Emily Russ (aunt), 12, 21
Müller, Fritz, 12
Munday, John, 285
Munich or the Phoney Peace (Noguères), 190
Murdoch, Iris, 237-38, 247, 259-61, 263, 310, 321, 323
Murdoch, Rupert, 293
Mystery of Picasso, The (Clouzot), 221
Nagle Journal, The, 338
Name of the Rose, The (Eco), xiv-xv
“Naming Calls” (O’Brian), 126-27
Napoleonic wars, 196, 200, 214, 261-62
Nikolai Tolstoy writes about, 224-25
Narrative of a Voyage in his Majesty’s Late Ship Alceste (M’Leod), 297
Nation, 162
National Maritime Museum (Greenwich), 198, 241, 245
Natural History (Pliny), 75
Natural History (Wood), 31
Naval Chronicle, The, 224-25, 237
Naval History of Great Britain from 1783 to 1822 (Brenton), 95
Naval History of Great Britain from the Declaration of War by France in 1793 to the Accession of George IV (James), 95, 290
Naval Records Society, 236-37
“Navigating Through Stormy Genres” (Spufford), 321
Nelson, Horatio, xiii, xiv, 196, 200, 207, 224, 309, 350
Newton, Mrs., 27
New Treatment of Gonorrhoea, A (Charles Russ), 22
New Yorker, The, 164, 175, 191, 288, 344
New York Herald Tribune, 48, 73, 74
Book Review, 152, 175, 204, 290
New York Times, The, 164, 175, 230, 307, 337
Book Review, xiv, 73, 152, 163, 215, 219, 276, 296, 309
Nigger of the Narcissus (Conrad), 218
Noguères, Henri, 190
“No Pirates Nowadays” (Russ), 79
Norfolk (ship), 259
North American Indians (Catlin), 121
Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (Austen), 260, 276
Northern Echo, 253
“Noughts and Crosses” (Russ)
watershed story about male friendship, 64-65
Nutmeg of Consolation, The (14th A-M novel), 216
critical reception of, 309-11
critical reception of, in U.S., 315-16, 337
published, 306
revenge of platypus in, 52
Oakes, Clarissa (character), 313-14, 313
O’Brian, Mary Wicksteed Tolstoy (second wife), xiii, 215, 354, 357
accidents, 242-43, 244-45, 261
at banquet honoring Patrick, 364
and children, 216-17
in Collioure, 137-39, 141, 142-43, 146-47, 187-89
correspondence, 359-60
in Cwm Croesor, 104-6, 108, 112-15, 125
and death of father, 218
and death of mother, 292-93
entertains at Collioure, 278, 279, 330-31
health of, in later years, 276, 291, 314-15, 322, 327, 367
and hunting at Ynysfor, 123
land in Catalan, 172
marries Patrick and changes name, 6, 99-100
and move to southern France, 129-30
and Picasso, 161
and Patrick’s fame, 341
and Patrick’s son Richard, 120-21, 122, 174, 188-90
Russian Orthodox wedding, 182
and Testimonies, 148
translating, 182-83
and Treason’s Harbor, 257
travels around Iberian Peninsula, 156
travels for Picasso research, 226, 227
travels to Cornwall with Richard and Patrick, 168-69
travels to Pyrenees, 148-49
travels to U.S. to publicize books, 336, 347, 348, 351-56
types manuscripts, 211, 217, 241
visits mother, 258-59
see also Tolstoy, Countess Mary
O’Brian, Patrick
abandons children, xvii
accident in Leicestershire, 242-413
agent and editors change in 1990, 293
A-M series reissued in U.S., 300
American publisher, difficulty finding, 248, 258, 293
animals, fascination with, 31, 40, 54, 35
appendicitis, 119
arcane language, 63, 201, 236, 315
autobiographical misinformation, xvi, xviii, 144, 153, 159, 175-76, 322, 331, 361
autobiographical novel, Richard Temple as 183-85
autobiography reflected in Aubrey-Maturin relationship, xvii
awarded CBE for literature, 355, 357
awarded Heywood Hill Literary Prize, 355
Barney’s autobiography offends, 294
book collecting, 276-80, 289, 329
book reviewing, 282, 288, 299, 315, 323-24
breaks with Russ family, xvi-xvii, 189-90, 285-89
breaks with Senhouse, 150-51
breaks with son Richard, xvi, 174, 189-90, 289
British cogniscenti become aware of, 237-38
British Library biography on, 332, 340-41
and Brooks club, 316-20
and Catalan culture, 138-39
changes name, 3-6
childhood, xvi (see also Russ, Richard Patrick)
children in writing of, 216-17, 223, 229-30, 276
Collioure, moves to, from Wales, 129-30, 135-55
Collioure home and entertaining, 187-88, 195, 266, 325-26
Collioure house built by, 172-74, 193
companion book to A-M novel prepared, 346
in Cwm Croesor, 103-17
death of father, 169-71
death of Mary, 367
death of mother, xvii (see also Russ, Richard Patrick)
depression brought on by Reverse, 265-66, 268-69
and drug-use theme, 211
as elite author in old age, 360-61
and fame in old age, 341-42
family background of, xvii, 9-14
father-son relationships in fiction of, 171
and father and venereal disease, xvii, 19, 27
financial problems of, 322-23
first book published as O’Brian, 144
and fishing and hunting in Pyrenees, 140, 141
and friendship theme, 313
and gardening, 121-22
granddaughters never met by, xvi
hated travel, 317-18
and historical detail, xii, 215, 236-37, 241, 245-46, 253
as historical vs. literary novelist, xii, 207, 247, 308, 309
honored by banquet on publication of Yellow Admiral, 361-66
honored by Royal Society of Literature, 317
Hunt covers, 290
identity discovered in 1990s, xv-xvi, 368
interviewed by Horowitz, 328-31, 334-35
interviewed by Spufford, 320, 321
interviewed on Talk of the Nation, 350-51
interviewers, difficulty with, 320-22, 324-25, 334-35, 353-63
learns how much first editions are worth, 317
Lippincott contracts, to write sea novel (Master and Commander), 195-96
literary reputation builds, xiv-xv
love themes of, xv, 198, 250-51, 313-14
maps ideas for series after delivering Mauritius Command, 238-39
Mary Renault, 203
and models for Aubrey and Maturin, xvii, 197-98
at Moelwyn Bank, 118-31
moral themes of, explored in Maturin, 198
motives for transforming life to fiction, xvi
and music, xiv, 49, 58, 122, 198, 346
name change and marriage after war, xvi, 99-100 (see also Russ, Richard Patrick)
nature theme, 54
and Nikolai’s libel suit, 296-97
and Nikolai’s work on Pitt, 224-25
novels commissioned then dropped, xi-xii
personality of, 17, 157-58, 259-60, 368
and photographs, 165
and Picasso, 161-62
Picasso biography commissioned, 220-22, 225-31
plans end of A-M novels, 310-12, 344-45
plans Gothic novel, 294, 298, 332-33
popularity reaches new heights, 346-47
poverty of, in childhood, xvii
poverty of, in France, 137, 139-41
priests, in stories of, 54, 70, 128
and publicity tours, 347-54, 367-68
publisher Warburg sends encouraging letter, 151
publishes Book of Voyages, 116-17
publishes Collected Stories, 340-41
publishes Last Pool, 130-31
publishes Richard Temple, 183-87
publishes Road to Samarcand, 169
reaction of, to reviews of Last Pool, 144-45
refuses to acknowledge Russ books, xvi
rejects friends for small slights, 335
relationships in fiction of, 65, 67-68, 69
relationship with brother Barney, 314
relationship with father reflected in Catalans, 157
relationship with Ollard, 213-14
relationship with son Richard, 157, 171, 174
Russian Orthodox wedding to Mary, 182
sailing adventures as adolescent, 45-46
sails Mediterranean on Andromeda la Dea 354-55
secretive nature of, xv-xvi, 368
social connections in old age, 299, 356
stories inspired by hunts at Ynysfor 124-25
stories published, 153, 222-24
translates Charrière, 205-6, 212-1
translating, xii, 150, 182, 190-92, 2
travels to Andorra and eastern Pyrenees 148-49
travels to Cornwall with Richard and Mary, 168-69
travels to England for Nikolai’s wedding 213
travels to Iberian Peninsula, 156
travels to London in 1995, 357
travels to U.S. and Soviet Union for Picasso research, 226-27
travels to U.S. to publicize books, 3, 37, 368
vineyard and vendange in Collioere 143-44, 158, 179, 182, 194, 246, 267, 278-80
vineyard burns, 266
vineyard sold, 342-43
walks out on first wife and children (see also Russ, Richard Patrick), xvi
work discovered in America, 303–311, 312
works reprinted by Collins, 261
writes Banks biography, 270-76
writes Catalans, or Frozen Flame 156-59
writes Clarissa Oakes, 312-15
writes Commodore, 338
writes Desolation Island, 241-42
writes Far Side of the World, 258-59
writes Fortune of War, 245-46
writes Golden Ocean, 159-60
writes H.M.S. Surprise, 215-20
writes in Cwm Croesor, 117
writes Ionian Mission, 254-55
writes Letter of Marque, 282-84
writes Master and Commander, 194-204
writes novel and stories influenced by Wales, 126-29
writes novel involving Sullivan and Ross from early Russ story, 65
writes Nutmeg of Consolation, 294, 296-98
writes Post Captain, 208-12
writes Reverse of the Medal, 263-66
writes Road to Samarcand, about Sullivan, Ross, and orphan Derrick, 166
writes stories in Collioure, 148-49
writes Surgeon’s Mate, 249-53
writes Testimonies; 145-48
writes Treason’s Harbour, 256-57
writes Unknown Shore, 179-80
writing habits and method, 68, 146, 187, 199, 209, 210-11, 215, 245-46, 254
writing style, xii, 48, 128-29, 154-55, 211, 253
see also Aubrey-Maturin novels; Russ, Richard Patrick; and specific works
O’Brian, Richard Francis Tudor (son, formerly and later Richard Russ)
in Collioure, 141-42, 160, 166
estrangement from father, 174
and grandfather’s death, 171
and mother’s remarriage, 129, 141-42
relationship with father, 157, 171
in Royal Navy, 173-74
takes name Russ and marries, 188-89
trip to Cornwall with Patrick, 168-69
in Wales with Patrick as child, 106-7, 110, 114-15, 120-25
O’Brien, Michael “Mike” (brother, formerly and later Michael Russ)
changes name, 52
and Patrick’s son Richard, 90-91
O’Bryan, William, 52
Observer, 144, 162, 207, 214, 256, 258, 282
O’Connor, Flannery, 191
O’Connor, Philip, 103
Office of War Information (OWI), 95
Of Human Bondage (Maugham), 50
O’Hara, John, 164
Old Man and the Sea, The (Hemingway), 154
Olivier, Fernande, 227
Ollard, Richard, 201-3, 208, 213-14, 218, 222, 223, 227-28, 235, 238, 241, 242, 246-47, 249-52, 255, 257, 259, 261, 266, 270, 291-92, 315, 326
relationship with O’Brian, 259, 271-72, 316, 318, 332, 354
Ollard, Richard
O’Mara, Sean, 197
“One Arctic Summer” (Russ), 69-70
One Hundred Years of Solitude (García Márquez), 207
“On the Bog” (O’Brian), 223, 340
“On the Wolfsberg” (O’Brian), 223
Operation Sea Lion, 77
Orwell, George, 130
Osmond, Melbury, 33
Ovid, 266
Oxford Annual for Boys, 54, 63, 64, 69, 79
Oxford Annual for Scouts, 53, 54, 63
Oxford Book of the Sea, The review by O’Brian, 323-24
Oxford University, 272
Oxford University Press, 130
encourages Patrick to write novel set in India, 69
publishes Hussein, 73
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (O’Brian), 167, 181, 211, 220-22, 225-27, 270, 361
children in, 229-30
misogyny in, 228-30
reception of, 230-31
written, 229-30
Pakenham, Edward, 225
Palau, Jean, 138
Papillon (Charrière), xii, 205-6
Paris Review, 342
Parkinson, C. Northcote, 207, 247, 258
Parotte, Jean, 188
Parotte, Mimi, 188-89. See also Russ, Mimi Parotte
Partisan Review, 153-54
“Passage of the Frontier, A” (O’Brian), 223
Passage to India, A (Forster), 181
Patrick O’Brian: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography (British Library), 159, 178-79, 219, 340-41
Patrick O’Brian Newsletter, 346, 361
Pepys, Samuel, 235
Perkins, Tom, 350, 354, 355, 363, 364
Perpignane, Madame, 136-37
Petit Baigneur, The (film), 194
Philips, Hayden, 363
Picasso, Maya, 166-67
Picasso, Pablito, 221
Picasso, Pablo, xv, 161-62, 166-68, 190
O’Brian biography of, 167, 181, 211, 220-22, 225-31, 270, 361
Piozzi, Hester Lynch Thrale, 268
Pitt, Thomas, second Baron Camelford, 224-25
Pitt, William, the Younger, 319
Pliny, 75
Plumb, Sir John, 318
Plutarch, 268
Political Intelligence Department (PID), 85, 127, 211
Political Warfare Executive (PWE), 85-87. 96
Pope. Dudley. 196, 224, 247, 258, 284, 324
Porter, Captain David, 259, 312
Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man (Mailer), 226
Post Captain (2nd A-M novel), xiv, 254, 277
fantasy in, 291
Melbury Lodge in, 34
plot complexity, 211
publication and reception of, 214-15, 236
Pyrenees in, 149
reissued, in 1984, 261-62
written, 208-14
Pous, Jojo, 269
Pride and Prejudice (Austen), 209, 260, 277
Priestley, Joseph, 270
Proffitt, Stuart, 260, 275, 298, 328, 333, 354
Proust, Marcel, xv, 217, 237, 293, 345
Providence Journal, 164
Publishers Weekly, 214, 258, 305, 306, 369
Puckridge, Barbara, 114-15, 182, 187
Puckridge, James, 114, 115, 182, 187-88
Puckridge, Justina, 187-88
Pullings, Thomas (character), 199, 253
Punch, 117
Quand prime le spirituel (When Things of the Spirit Come First) (Beauvoir), 236
Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, 38
Raban, Jonathan, 323-24
Radiation Cookery Book (Fox), 360
Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (Wolfe), 207
Ramage (Pope), 196
Read, Herbert, 62
Renault, Mary, 203, 204, 208, 235
“Rendezvous, The” (O’Brian), 223
Rendezvous and Other Stories, The (O’Brian), 340
Renwick, Sir Robin, 363
Reunion Island, 235
Reverse of the Medal, The (11th A-M novel), 358-59
pillory scene, 266, 305, 352-53
publication and reception, 281-82
read by Norton editor, 304-5
written, 263-66
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 107
Richardson, Samuel, 36, 237, 242, 313n, 329
Richard Temple (O’Brian)
critical reception of, 186-87
father-son relationship in, 171
Fifine model, 143
France in, 137
London in, 103
written, 182
Rifleman Dodd (Forester), 200
Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Coleridge), 321
Ringle (fictional Baltimore Clipper), 322
Riou, Captain Edward, 225, 241, 244
Rivoyre, Christine de, 183
Road to Samarcand, The (O’Brian)
critical reception of, 174-77, 178
written and published, 79
“Roast Beef of Old England, The” (song), 349
Roberts, Alan, 105
Roberts, Bessie, 105, 113, 116, 121
Roberts, Gynfor, 105
Roberts, Harry, 105-7, 109-11, 115-16, 119, 127
Roberts, Kate, 105
Roberts, Robert, 105
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 121
Roche, Primrose Buchan-Hepburn, 123
Rodger, N. A. M., 332
Rodi, 285
Rogers, Byron, 334
Romance of the Calcutta Sweep, The (Hobbs), 71
Rotation Diet, The (Katahm), 304
Rountree, Harry, 47
Roussillon, 136
Roussillon Ornithological Society, 257
Royal Air Force (RAF), 59
Royal Amateur Orchestral Society, 58
Royal Navy and the Slaves, The (Ward), 338
Royal Society of Literature, 317
Royal Society of Medicine, 18
Russ, Bernard “Barney” “Bun” (brother), 37, 48, 57, 77, 83, 190, 226, 268-69, 285-86, 288-89, 294
in Australia, 39, 41, 45, 52, 57
autobiography Lady Day Prodigal, 16, 30
childhood, 16, 18, 20-26, 28, 34
education and father’s bankruptcy, 35, 37-38
and facts of life, 49
Patrick denies relationship, xvi
and Patrick’s education, 35
on Patrick’s sailing experience, 46
Russ, Bertha (aunt), 21
Russ, Carl “Charles” Gottfried (grandfather), 8, 9-13
Russ, Charles (cousin), 97
Russ, Charles (father), 45, 84
birth of, 10
death of, 170-71
death of father, 12-13
death of first wife, Jessie, 23, 24
death of mother, 26
death of sister Lena, 14
and depression, 51
difficulties with children, 28-29, 32-34, 38, 97
education of, 12
financial problems of, 13, 23, 34-35, 37-38
London home of, 15-16
marries Jessie, 17-18
marries Zoe, 29
medical career and inventions, 17-19, 22-23, 26-29, 34-35, 37, 58
and Patrick’s childhood, 20, 22, 39
and publication of Caesar, 46-47
and World War II, 77
writes play, 51
Russ, Charles Godfrey (brother), 16, 18, 21, 24, 26, 28, 32-33, 36, 45, 89
disapproves of Patrick leaving wife, 78
marries, 52
Russ, Connie (Godfrey’s wife), 78, 89
Russ, Connie (sister), 18, 20, 28, 31, 33, 80
marries Richard Russell, 80
Russ, Edith (aunt), 21
Russ, Elizabeth Jones (first wife), 66, 72, 75
and death of Jane, 89
divorces Patrick, 92-93
in London during WW II, 89-90
marries le Mee-Power, 129
in Patrick’s literature, 159
separation from Patrick, 75-76, 78
see also le Mee-Power, Elizabeth Russ
Russ, Elizabeth (niece), 226, 288-89
Russ, Emil (uncle), 12, 21, 49, 70
Russ, Emily (aunt). See Müller, Emily Russ
Russ, Emily Callaway (grandmother), 8, 10, 11, 13, 26
Russ, Ernest (uncle, later Ernest Russell), 12, 21
Russ, Frederick (uncle), 12, 15, 21
Russ, Jane Elizabeth Campaspe Tudor (daughter), xvii, 75, 91
Russ, Jessie Naylor Goddard (mother), 16-25
and birth of Patrick, 16-17
death of, 23-24
Russ, Joanna (granddaughter), 204
Russ, Mary Priestley (aunt), 23, 97
Russ, Mary (second wife)
name changed to O’Brian, 4
see also O’Brian, Mary Wicksteed Tolstoy; Tolstoy, Countess Mary Russ, Michael, 16, 18, 24, 26, 27, 28, 31, 33, 35, 36
in Australia, 38-39, 45, 52, 57
changes name to O’Brien, 32, 52
death of, 91
as model for Jack Aubrey, 197
see also O’Brien, Michael
Russ, Mimi Parotte (daughter-in-law), 204, 368
Russ, Nora (sister), 18, 28, 31, 32, 33, 66, 91, 285
Russ, Olive Isobel (sister), 18, 20-21, 25, 28, 31, 32, 33, 35, 38. See also Cole, Olive Elizabeth Russ
Russ, Paulina “Lena” (aunt), death of, 13-14, 159
Russ, Richard Francis Tudor (son), xviii, 369
birth of children, 204
changes name to Russ and marries, 188-89
name changed to O’Brian, 5, 99
Patrick denies, 289
and Patrick’s divorce from his mother, 92-93
Patrick walks out on, 78
see also O’Brian, Richard Francis Tudor
Russ, Richard Patrick (original name)
adventures as adolescent claimed, 45-46
birth of, 16-17
birth of daughter Jane, 75
books written under name of, xvi
brother Michael moves to Australia, 39
changes name to Patrick O’Brian, xvi, 3-6, 32
childhood, after death of grandmother, 26-29
childhood, at Walden, 17, 19-22
as child prodigy writer, 6
and Christmas at Melbury Lodge, 32-34
and clocks, 94
death of brother Michael, 91
death of mother, 23-24
drives ambulance in WW II, 81-82, 84
and Dylan Thomas, 62-63
father marries second wife, Zoe, 29
first book written at fourteen, 24
first wife is orphan, 24
friendship with Walter Greenway, 93-95
illnesses, 76
intelligence work during war, 4, 85-89, 95-97
last fiction published under Russ name, 79
late adolescence after publication of Caesar, 48-51
leaves first wife and son, 78, 89-90
marries Mary Tolstoy and changes name, 4, 99-100
meets and falls in love with Mary Tolstoy, 84, 93-94
meets and marries Elizabeth Jones, 62-63, 65-66, 76-77
military service attempt, 58-59
moves to Lewes as child, 36-37
naval history studies by, 94-95
as novelist vs. Patrick O’Brian’s first novel Testimonies, 144
offered post in Paris embassy after war, 98
and RAF pilot officer training, 59-61
reading as adolescent, 35-36, 49-50
research skills acquired, 65
and sea tales of Uncle Morse, 25
and secrecy, 95
and smoking, 53
and stepmother, Zoe, 30-31, 36
stories published in Oxford annuals, 63-65
and World War II, 5, 76-77, 80-82
writes and publishes Beasts Royal, 55-56
writes and publishes Caesar at age 14, 39-41, 46-48
writes and publishes Hussein, 70-75
writes first sea story, 50-51
writes first story about male friendship, 64-65
writes stories and novel after birth of son, 66-75
writes stories as adolescent, 50-55
see also O’Brian, Patrick
Russ, Sidney “Beany” (uncle), 12, 16, 19, 23, 26, 28, 97, 169, 197
Russ, Sylvia Joan (sister), 23-24, 28, 31-35, 37, 46, 49, 50, 53, 77, 190, 285, 288
bids good-bye to Michael, 91
daughter Frances, 190
letters, 57, 77, 83, 84-85, 268
Patrick breaks with, 190
writing, 50
Russ, Victor (brother), 16, 18, 21, 24-25, 26, 28, 32-33, 45, 49, 80
Russ, Victoria (granddaughter), 204, 369
Russ, Walter (uncle), 12
Russ, William (uncle), 12, 15-16, 21, 27
Russ, Zoe Center (stepmother), 29, 30-33, 35, 38, 51, 77, 84, 97
Caesar dedicated to, 46
death of, 190
and death of Charles, 171
Russell, Ernest (uncle, formerly Russ), 21, 80
Russell, Richard (cousin), 80
Russell (ship), 29
Russia, 59
Rutherford, Ernest, 19
Ryan, Alan, 335-36
Sabartes, Jaime, 225
Sabatier-Leveque, Jean-Marc, 225-26
Sailor’s Word-Book (Smyth), 212, 236
St. Isidore of Seville Western bestiary, 65, 82
used in Testimonies, 145
Saint-Simon, 329
“Samphire” (O’Brian), 159
Samphire (O’Brian story collection), 149, 151
San Diego Union-Tribune, 352
Saturday Review of Literature, 74, 152
Saumarez, Admiral Sir James, 198, 236
Sayers, Dorothy L., 49
Schwartz, Delmore, xii, 153-54
Scotch Annie (nanny), 27
Scout magazine, 174
Sea Around Us, The (Carson), 324
Secker and Warburg, 98, 130, 145, 147, 148, 150, 151
Secombe, Harry, 122
“Second Thoughts” (O’Brian essay), 227
Secret Betrayal, The (Tolstoy), 296
Sellers, Peter, 122
Senhouse, Roger, 131, 138, 140, 144, 146-48, 150-51, 152, 155
Sense and Sensibility (Austen), 277
Serres, John and Thomas, 306
Settle, Mary Lee, 355
Seward, Desmond, 318
Sheil Land, 304
Shilling, Jane, 340
Ship of the Line (Forester), 203
Siege at Khrishnapur, The (Farrell), 247
Simon, Richard Scott, 190, 200, 202, 206, 213, 218, 220, 221, 248, 258-60, 284, 292, 293
Sitwell, Edith, 62
Six Days of the Condor (Grady), 304
“Slope of the Mountain, The” (O’Brian), 165
Smiles, Samuel, 73
Smith, John Saumarez, 316-17, 355
Smith, Stevie (Florence Margaret), 162, 164
Smith, Sydney Whitehead, 119
Smyth, Admiral William Henry, 212, 236
Snow, Richard, 290, 303-304, 308-9, 349
“Snow Leopard, The” (Russ), 63-64
Soames, Nicholas, 363
Sobel, Dava, 360
Solander, Daniel, 274
Sophie (ship), 198
Soto, Hernando de, 326
Soustelle, Jacques, 183
South Asian Review, 71
South China Morning Post, 186
Southwards from Swiss Cottage (Brown), 116-17
Spartan (ship), 282
Special Operations Executive (SOE), 87
Spectator, 144, 162-64, 219-20, 334, 344, 355
Spencer, Stephen, 62
Spufford, Francis, 217, 310, 320, 321, 335
Stalin, Joseph, 296
Stallings, Sylvia, 152
Steel, Danielle, 363
“Steep Slop of Gallt y Wenallt, The” (O’Brian), 124-25, 128
Stein, Gertrude, 230
Stein and Day, 238, 248, 258, 303, 306
Sterne, Laurence, 94
Stevens, George, 218
Stone, Reynolds, 237
Stoppard, Tom, 355
Strand (magazine), 49-50
Sugrue, Thomas, 74
Sum of All Fears, The (Clancy), 315
Supervia, Conchita, 58
Surgeon’s Mate, The (7th A-M novel), 225
publication and reception, 253-54
written, 249-53
Surprise (fictional ship), 215-16, 239, 258, 265
Swenson, Eric, 304
Swift, Jonathan, 36
Symons, Julian, 219
Taaffe, Edward H., 66
“Tale About a Great Peregrine Falcon, A” (Russ), 52-52, 55
Talk of the Nation (radio program), 350-51
Taranaki Herald, 214
Targ, Roslyn, 222
Tarka the Otter (Williamson), 55-56
Tauber, Richard, 58
Taylor, Robert, 315-16
Teacher, James, 344
Templiers, Les (Pous family restaurant), 269
Testimonies (first novel as O’Brian), 163, 223, 292, 307
connection of, with Master and Commander, 200
critical reception of, in America, 151-55
critical response to, 156
Croesor as setting for, 111, 112, 113
editing and revision, 147-48
misanthropic feelings expressed in, 119
published, and influence of Wales on, 126
title changed to Three Bear Witness, 150-51
written, 145-48
Third Ear (radio program), 324
Thirteen Gun Salute, The (13th A-M novel)
plot mapped, 238-40
publication and reception, 295-96
voyage begun in, revitalizes series, 311
written, 291-92
Thomas, Evan, 304
Thomas, Lisa Grossman, 349, 350, 360
Thoreau, Henry David, 30, 118, 235, 365-66
“Thoughts on Pudding,” 346
Thraliana: The Diary of Mrs. Thrale, 268
Three Bear Witness (O’Brian), 126
critical reception, 151-55
published, 150-52
published in U.S. as Testimonies, 152-55
title produced by publisher, 150-51
see also Testimonies
Three Men in a Boat (Jerome), 35
Time, 312
Time and Tide magazine, 174
Time Regained (Proust), 345
Times Literary Supplement, 56, 73, 144, 152, 162, 163, 174, 177, 178, 180, 183, 186, 190-91, 193, 203, 206, 224, 236, 249, 281-82
Tito, 296
Tolkien, J. R. R, xiv, 203, 346
Tolstoy, Countess Mary (second wife)
divorce settled, 92
drives ambulance during Blitz, 82-84
life with Patrick during war, 93-94, 97
marries Patrick and name change, 100
works for intelligence during WWII, 85-89
see also O’Brian, Mary Wicksteed Tolstoy
Tolstoy, Dimitry (step-grandson), 323
Tolstoy, Georgiana Brown, 213, 297
Tolstoy, Leo, xv, 237, 256, 309
Tolstoy, Natalie “Natasha” (stepdaughter), 84, 92, 182, 369
Tolstoy, Nicholas “Nikolai” (stepson), 84, 92, 181, 182, 187-88, 213, 224-25, 323, 328, 369
Tolstoy Miloslavsky, Count Dimitry Mihailovich, 82, 84, 92, 129, 159, 182, 213
Tonkin, Peter, 307
Tonson, Jacob, 278
Treason’s Harbour (9th A-M novel), 255
written, 256-57
Treasure Island (film), 300
Tremain, Rose, 363
Trial of Jane Leigh-Parrot, The, 278
Trip to the Hebrides (Boswell), 329
Truelove, The (15th A-M novel), xv, 95-96
see also Clarissa Oakes
Tunnicliffe, Charles, 55-56
Turner, Eva, 58
“Twelve Animal Stories” (Russ), 55
“Two’s Company” (Russ), 69
Two Years Before the Mast (Dana), 236
Uncommon Reader, The (Morris), 191
Unknown Shore, The (O’Brian), xi, 179, 201, 260
characters as basis for Aubrey-Maturin, 197
publication and reception of, 180
written, 179-80
“Valise, The” (O’Brian), 220. See also “Walker, The”
Vancouver, George, 225
Vega, Garcilaso de la, 326
Victory (Nelson’s ship), 198
Vieillesse, La (Beauvoir), 212
Vigée-Lebrun, Elisabeth, 107
Villiers, Diana (character), 239, 240-41, 247, 250, 251, 252, 263-64
death of, xvii
inspiration for, 107-8
presaged in Richard Temple, 185-86
Virgil, 293
“Virtuous Peleg, The” (O’Brian), 128, 223
Vlasto, Lu, 187
“Voluntary Patient, The” (O’Brian), 174
Voyage of the Beagle, The (Darwin), 237
Waakzaamheid (fictional ship), 241
Wager (ship), 179-80
Waldegrave, Caroline, 363
Waldegrave, Katie, 363
Waldegrave, William, 333, 363, 365
Wales
in Testimonies, 146
stories written about, 126-29
“Walker, The” (O’Brian), 164-65, 191, 222
Walker and Other Stories, The (O’Brian),
biography in, 153
publication and reception of, 174-76
see also Lying in the Sun and Other Stories (U.S. title)
Waller, Augustus, 17
Wallis, Samuel, 236
Wall Street Journal, 336
Walpole, Horace, 319
Walter, Reverend, 36
Walter, Richard, 324
“Wang Khan of the Elephants” (Russ), 53-54
Warburg, Fred, 130-32, 138, 149-51, 328
Ward, W. E. F„ 338
Warner, Oliver, 174
War of the French Revolution, 200
Washington Post, 315, 321-22, 335, 337
Watson, Michael Saunders, 299
Watts, Nigel, 296-97
Weekend Telegraph, 179, 179, 341
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 98, 183, 190, 192
Welch, Bertha (aunt), 24, 26, 28, 31, 32
Welch, Christine (cousin), 28, 32
Welch, Frank (uncle), 24, 28, 31, 32, 38
Welch, Margaret (cousin), 28, 32
Wellington, duke of, 299
Wells, H. G., 130
West, Jolyon, 332, 336, 338, 347, 361
“White Cobra, The” (Russ), 54-55, 72
Whitley, May, 99
Wicksteed, Frieda Mary (Mary’s mother), 93, 100, 131, 218, 292-93
Wicksteed, Howard (Mary’s father), 93, 100, 131, 218
William III, king of the Netherlands, 209-10
Williams, Edgar, 110, 111, 112, 113-16, 118, 119, 122, 123, 125, 127, 129-30
Williams, Gwilym, 129
Williams-Ellis, Sir Clough, 104
Williams family (characters), 209-10, 211
Williamson, Henry, 55
“Will They Set Sail Again?” (Hastings), 362
Wilson, A. N., 362
Wilson, Angus, xii, 130, 154, 307
Wine-Dark Sea, The (16th A-M novel)
publication and reception of, 332-38
Wishart, Peter, xiv
Wogan, Louisa (character), 240, 247
Wolfe, Tom, 207
Wood, Rev. J. G., 31
Wood, Sir Henry, 58
Wordsworth, William, 38
World War II, 75, 76-78, 98-99
Wray, Andrew (character), 256-57, 264, 291
Wreathed Head, The (Rivoyre), 183
Wright, Almroth, 17
Wright, Paul, 284
Wrong Set, The (Wilson), 130
W. W. Norton, 321, 328, 334, 361
reissues A-M novels in U.S., 293, 304-7, 308-9
O’Brian’s work comes to attention of, 238
Yeats, W. B., 155
Yellow Admiral, The, (18th A-M novel)
animals in, 39
critical reception of, 358-59
Dripping Pan, models for, 36
Eton in, 271
publication and reception of, 361-66
Tolstoy’s lawsuit reflected in, 296-97