The pagination of this electronic edition does not match the edition from which it was created. To locate a specific passage, please use the search feature of your e-book reader.
Works by Iris Murdoch appear under title; works by others under author’s name
Above the Gods see Acastos
Acastos(IM; earlier Above the Gods), 342, 548
Accidental Man, An (I M): US character in, 247; dedicated to Kreisel, 265; cottage in, 411; mishaps in, 426; writing of, 432, 468–9, 540; themes and characters, 540–1
Adam Smith, Janet, 292
Adelphi (magazine), 152, 172, 551n
Adler, Bettina, 339, 342
Adler, Gertrud, 321
Adler, Hans Gunther, 321, 324, 338–9, 341, 353, 358–60, 371; Theresienstadt 1941–45, 359
Adler, Jeremy, 342, 582n, 585
Adorno, Theodor W., 320
Ady, Peter, 284, 291, 294–5, 395, 583
Aeschylus: Agamemnon, 115–16, 120–1, 184, 454–5
‘Against Dryness’ (IM; essay), 406, 500, 519
Aldiss, Brian: The Twinkling of an Eye, 316n
Aldwinckle, Stella, 307–8
Aldwych Theatre, London, 531
Alexander, General Harold (later Field Marshal Earl), 241
Alexander, Samuel, 310
Alexandre, Maxime, 231
Allott, Miriam (née Farris), 39n, 40–2, 45–7
Amis, (Sir) Kingsley, 131, 270, 385, 428n, 512; Lucky Jim, 497
Amis, Martin, 540, 552, 559
Anand, Mulk Raj, 158, 169
Anglo-Catholicism, 223, 247, 249–51, 275–6, 298, 493
Anglo-German Fellowship, 89
animism, 277&n, 558
Annan, Gabriele, Lady, 526, 558, 563
Annan, Noel, Baron, 563
Anscombe, Elizabeth: Catholicism, 249, 382; taught and influenced by Wittgenstein, 263, 265–6; despoils IM’s room, 264; IM praises, 273–4; relations with IM, 275, 284–5, 310; character and qualities, 283–4; philosophical stance, 302; at Socratic Club, 307; invited to Paris with Kreisel, 315; Steiner visits with IM, 330; in IM’s journal, 490; on virtue ethics, 492; untidy house, 581
Aragon, Louis: Crève-Coeur, 154
Ardili, Ella (née Isabella Jane Shaw Murdoch; IM’s aunt), 6, 9, 21, 51, 445
Ardili, Willy, 9
Arena 3 (magazine), 484
Arendt, Hannah: Eichmann in Jerusalem, 455
Aristotelian Society: IM gives paper to, 304
Armitage, Joan, 41–2, 47
Arnold, Matthew, 536
Art and Eros (IM), 120
Arts Council: IM goes on writer’s tour for, 498
Ascoli Piceno, Italy, 567
Ashton, John, 300, 517–18
Atholl, Katharine Marjory, Duchess of, 277
Attlee, Clement (later 1st Earl), 211
Auden, W.H.: visits Badminton School, 77–8; Bayley writes on, 396; on unachievable perfection, 569; ‘The Horatians', 556; ‘It’s no use raising a shout', 405; ‘The Novelist', 173; ‘September 1, 1939', 73; ‘Soldiers Coming', 106; ‘A Summer Night', 92, 105
Augustine, St, 300
Auschwitz: Bayleys visit, 566; Canetti claims to visit, 584
Austin, John, 112, 266, 303
Austria: IM works for UNRRA in, 212, 225–6, 232, 235–9, 242–3
Avebury, Diana, Lady, 438n, 561
Ayer, (Sir) Alfred Jules, 265, 302–4, 378, 474, 526
Bacon, Francis, 470
Badminton School: Quakerism, 15; IM attends, 33, 50, 57–79; Marija Jancar works at, 278
Badminton School Magazine, 74–5, 134
Bailey, Paul, 500
Bain, Ethel M., 38–42, 44, 46, 48
Bainbridge, Beryl, 588
Baker, Beatrice May (‘BMB’): as Headmistress of Badminton, 57–60, 62–71, 79; political views, 63, 76; IM’s poem to, 72–3; and Chitra Rudingerova, 134n; IM names as referee, 206; intimidates Marija Jancar, 278; IM visits, 327, 489; John Bayley meets, 388, 395; offended by old man in Bruno’s Dream, 439; and death of Miss Rendali, 488–9
Baker, Josephine, 384
Baker, Kenneth (later Baron), 499, 573
Baker, Richard St Barbe, 43
Bakhtin, Mikhail: Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics, 529
Baldwin, Stanley, 1st Earl, 262
Ballymullan House, Hillhall, County Down, 4–5, 8
Balogh, Thomas (later Baron): at Oxford, 127; teaches Philippa Foot, 127, 485; anti-Communism, 146; friendship with IM and Philippa in London, 166–7, 169, 220; wartime work, 167; affair with IM, 177–9, 185, 205, 220, 222, 245, 329, 373; Philippa borrows Oxfordshire cottage, 177; IM ends affair with, 205, 491; marriage, 209; supports Labour Party, 211; IM writes of to Hicks, 220–1; at Oxford fancy-dress party, 294; Steiner on, 329; as father-figure to IM, 522
Baran, Paul, 494
Barbier, Mme (French teacher), 42
Barrie, Sir James Matthew: Peter Pan, 543
Barrington, Sir Jonah, 18
Barth, Karl, 256, 422n
Barton, Revd A.W., 19
Basch, Ruth, 112n, 209
Baum, Fritz, 318
Bayley, Agnes (David’s wife), 581
Bayley, David (John’s brother), 403, 581
Bayley, Frederick (John’s father), 395
Bayley, John: first sees and meets IM, 3, 376–8; stammer, 15, 397; on IM’s birth, 21, 48; at Hughes’s funeral, 28; shares private mythology with IM, 34, 37, 61, 136, 513–14; impressed by June Duprez, 44; on IM’s parents’ marriage, 49; on sublimated love, 50; on Hughes’s respect for BMB, 58; on BMB’s beliefs, 64; on IM’s width of interests, 75; on Lucy Klatschko, 83; as Oxford undergraduate, 88; and IM’s relations with Noel Eldridge, 156; marriage to IM, 193, 282, 399–406, 456, 534–7, 562; on IM’s friendships and love-affairs, 201, 491; writes regimental history with Nigel Nicolson, 240; visits USA, 247; fury at Kreisel and Anscombe’s intrusion into IM’s room, 264; on IM’s universal compassion, 278; on vamps, 279; IM watches touching object, 287; and IM’s feminine demonstration in China, 316n; early relations with IM, 328, 379, 386, 394; on Canetti’s dominance, 358, 374; rescues IM from Canetti, 374; university teaching, 376; character and qualities, 377–9, 402, 534–6; Canetti intervenes over relations with IM, 386–9, 504; on publication of Under the Net, 386; accepted by Canetti, 393; engagement to IM, 394; teaches IM to drive, 395; delicate health, 396–7, 414; New College Fellowship, 396; upbringing, 396–8; military service, 397; family and background, 403; as literary critic, 403, 405; polymathy, 403; breaks leg (three times), 405, 426; literary influence on IM, 405; buys and occupies Cedar Lodge, 409–15; cooking and entertaining, 414–15; The Sandcastle dedicated to, 415; affected by The Bell, 424; contributes to and helps with IM’s novels, 432, 434, 534; reads IM’s novels before publication, 432; on origins of IM’s fictional characters, 442; visits Ireland with IM, 444; talks on Pushkin in Ireland, 445; cuts IM’s hair, 451; and Carolyn de Ste Croix’s suicide, 453; and IM’s attachment to St Anne’s colleague, 457–8; alters and enlarges Cedar Lodge, 461; on importance of physical self-satisfaction to Tolstoy, 480; supports student protesters, 495; on IM’s novels, 501; Lord David Cecil and, 507, 509; writes on Hardy, 509; amuses Janet Stone, 510; dress, 511; Janet Stone portrait photograph of, 511; social manner, 518; writes on Pushkin, 535; IM’s poem on, 536; visits Japan with IM, 545; and Bill Pease, 562; in France with IM, 562–3; on British Council lecture tours, 570; and IM’s mother’s decline and death, 576–7; moves back to Oxford with IM, 578, 580; wins Newdigate Prize, 579; purloins food, 581; and IM’s illness, 590; in Radnorshire, 590–1; The Characters of Love, 403; ‘Eldorado’ (poem), 579; In Another Country, 397, 415; Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch (in USA as Elegy for Iris), 83, 280, 395n, 398n, 400, 591; Romantic Survival, 396; Tolstoi and the Novel, 418, 480
Bayley, Brigadier Michael (John’s brother), 396, 403–4, 437–8, 465, 514, 581, 591
Bayley, Olivia (née Heenan; John’s mother), 35, 395–6, 398
Beales, Lance, 473
Beaton, (Sir) Cecil, 556
Beauvoir, Simone de, 151, 214, 255, 272–3, 290; The Second Sex, 309
Beazley, Sir John, 87
Becher, Denys, 104–5
Beckett, Samuel, 517; Murphy, 168&n, 384
Bednarowska, Dorothy, 291
Beecham, Audrey, 295–6, 395
Beer, Patricia, 10n
Beginner’s Guide to Iris Murdoch, The, 587
Belfast: IM visits, 80
Bell family, 445&n, 463n
Bell, Alan ('Tom'), 24
Bell, Gertrude {née Richardson; IM’s aunt), 14, 20, 577n
Bell, John Effingham, 24
Bell, Quentin, 510
Bell, The (I M): character of Toby in, 45, 378; soldier-figure in, 151; Mailing Abbey depicted in, 250, 420; tormented gay male-seekers in, 256; physical touch in, 286; on the good, 374; written in country, 410; air display in, 411; publication and reception, 418, 423, 425, 427, 435; themes and characters, 418–24, 451, 542; dedicated to John Simopoulos, 421; Platonism in, 422; John Bayley’s contribution to, 432, 534; research for, 437; social range, 443; Burgess praises, 460; A.S. Byatt on, 501; epiphany in, 546
Bell, Thomas (Rene’s brother-in-law), 20, 24
Bell, Victor, 20, 24
Bellini, Giovanni, 210
Bellow, Saul, 270, 354; Herzog, 360
Belvedere, Robert Bellfield, 1st Earl of, 448
Benedikt, Ernst Martin, 347
Benedikt, Friedl ('Anna Sebastian'): relations with Canetti, 347–8, 352, 355, 357, 359, 361–3, 366, 505–6, 523; death, 363–5; character, 372; The Dreams, 364; The Monster, 365, 369
Benedikt, Susie see Ovadia, Susie
Benjamin, Walter, 173
Benny, Mark, 169
Bergman, S.H., 318
Berlin, Aline, Lady, 516
Berlin, Sir Isaiah, 200, 302, 304, 402–3, 470, 507, 516, 585
Bernard, Jeffrey and Anna, 316
Berry, Colonel, 49n
Berryman, John, 536
Best, Marshall, 417, 457n, 459–60
Betjeman, (Sir) John, 385, 470, 510
Beveridge plan and report (1943), 155
Bicester, Sybil, Lady, 104, 289
Biggs-Davidson, John, 130
Binding, Paul, 512
Bird, Marjorie (later Howard), 73&n
Black Paper 3 on Education, 499
Black Prince, The (IM): cites Treasure Island, 34; and sublimated love, 50; pigeon-shooting in, 63; personal betrayal in, 178; allusions to Frank Thompson in, 195; physical touch in, 286; dedicated to de Marchi, 309; on masochism, 358; on writing and marriage, 401; style, 405; newsagent’s shop in, 447; Golding praises for modern setting, 449; on strangeness of writers, 488; Freudians attacked in, 494, 537; themes and characters, 518–23, 584; satirises IM’s earlier novels, 520, 546; on sense of identity, 529; adapted for stage, 531; film prospects, 533; John Bayley’s advice on, 535; on letter-writing, 569; IM reads from in Vienna, 582; human consciousness in, 587
Blackpool: IM’s parents in, 141, 577
Blake, Peter, 475
Blin, Roger, 255
Bloom, Claire, 533
Bloom, Harold, 519, 595
BMB see Baker, Beatrice May
Bond, Miss (head gardener, Badminton), 60
Book and the Brotherhood, The (IM): Fraenkel portrayed in, 120, 483; on Ireland, 466; politics in, 499; reviewed, 558; themes and characters, 559, 574; on future, 561; publisher’s advance on, 561; publication, 574
Booker, Hylan, 474
Booker Prize: awarded to IM for The Sea, The Sea, 526
Bookmark (BBC TV programme), 570
Bosanquet, Marion see Daniel, Marion
Bosanquet, Philippa see Foot, Philippa
Bosley, Miss (Froebel teacher), 48
Boulton, Marjorie: at Oxford, 134n; asks IM about membership of Communist Party, 144–5&n; letter from IM in Europe, 212–13; IM writes to in Esperanto, 528; social background, 539; helps in IM’s final years, 590
Bourne, Captain, 103
Bowen, Elizabeth: on Anglo-Irish, 23, 25, 462; Irish identity, 26, 29, 448; writes to assuage loneliness, 46; on war years, 201n; IM visits in Ireland, 398, 415; marriage, 398–9, 441; offended by old man in Bruno’s Dream, 439; view of England, 444; on IM’s quietness, 512; Eva Trout, 398
Bowes & Bowes (publishers), 356
Bowra, Sir Maurice, 294, 296, 445, 496
Bradbury, (Sir) Malcolm, 500, 526, 541, 571, 595
Braithwaite, Richard, 268, 419
Brazil, Angela, 82
Brethren (Plymouth Brethren), 9–11, 15, 54, 251, 592n
Breton, André, 231
Bridge, Ann (Lady O’Malley), 438
Briggs, Asa (later Baron): at Oxford fancy-dress party, 295; signs IM’s plaster-cast, 339; comforts IM, 372; relations with IM, 378–9; on IM’s Under the Net, 385; on origins of IM’s fictional characters, 438; meets IM’s Irish cousins, 445
British Council: lecture tours, 570–1
Britten, Benjamin (later Baron), 510
Broad, Charles Dunbar, 262
Broadie, Fred, 309–10
Brod, Max, 227, 253, 318
Broderick, Dulcibel (later MacKenzie), 60, 77
Bronowski, Jacob, 307
Brook, Peter, 259
Brook Green, Hammersmith, 27, 30, 36
Brooke, Rupert, 100, 443
Brophy, Brigid, 50, 395–6, 428, 486–90, 518; Hackenfeller’s Ape, 486
Brown University, Rhode Island, 587
Browning, General Sir Frederick ('Boy'), 179
Bruno’s Dream (IM): Wittgenstein cited in, 263; research for, 432, 481; recycled character in, 433; marriage in, 438; old age in, 439; Stephen Gardiner portrayed in, 439; IM’s boredom with, 468; and David Morgan, 475; ambivalence in, 480–1; Seaforth life portrayed in, 485; and Simone Weil, 502; satirised in The Black Prince, 520; and idea of evil, 545
Brussels: IM in, 212–14, 216
Bryan-Brown, Armitage Noel, 116
Buber, Martin, 226
Buddhism, 382, 544–6, 553, 597
Buddhist Society, London, 545
Bukovsky, Vladimir, 77, 342, 498
Bulgaria: Frank Thompson’s mission in, 186–90, 192
Bultmann, Rudolf, 306
Burcot Grange, Oxford, 294
Burdett, Miss (Froebel schoolteacher), 38, 42, 44
Burgess, Anthony, 460
Burns, Emile, 129
Buruma, Ian, 377n
Buscot Park, Berkshire, 103, 106
Buxton, John, 32, 400
Byatt, Dame Antonia S.: encourages Arthur Green, 16; writes on IM as novelist, 500–1, 518; on IM’s frightening manner, 515; British Council pamphlet on IM, 518; relations with IM, 518–19; on IM’s centrality, 570; writing influenced by IM, 595; Degrees of Freedom, 500, 518
Caldwell, Erskine, 232
Callil, Carmen, 560–1
Cambridge: IM’s life in, 260, 261–5, 268; IM’s The Three Arrows performed in, 531; see also Newnham College
Cameron, Alan, 398, 441
Cameron, Rory, 563
Campbell, Clare, 96, 113, 122n, 157, 158n, 593
Campbell-Purdie, Wendy, 295
Camus, Albert, 214, 270; The Plague, 260
Canetti, Elias: on Hughes’s character, 52; and IM’s capacity to love, 201; IM introduces Julian Chrysostomides to, 298; friendship with Steiner, 320, 334, 345, 358–9, 505; disparages English and England, 324, 360, 371, 583; at Steiner’s funeral, 338; IM’s relations with, 344–6, 348–9, 351–2, 357–8, 361–4, 368–9, 372–3, 378, 386–7, 403, 449, 504, 581; and myth, 346, 357, 361–2, 365, 548; background and career, 347–8; and Friedl Benedikt, 347–8, 352, 355, 357, 361–6, 505–6, 523; and ‘transformations', 349–50, 353; wins Nobel Prize, 349; influence on IM, 350, 367–8, 372, 374, 434–5, 442, 452, 454–5, 460, 477, 503, 519, 523; on Steiner’s death, 350–1; character and qualities, 352–6, 358, 360, 368–9, 506; invites confidences, 352; portrayed in IM’s fiction, 352–3, 365, 371, 374, 390–1, 442, 503–7, 523–4, 585; friends and ‘apostles', 354–5; on God and religion, 354, 373, 455; and Veza’s death, 361; portrayed in Friedl’s The Monster, 365, 369; attitude to women, 366–7, 584; portrayed in Nassauer’s The Cuckoo, 367; IM translates, 370; and Angus Wilson’s comment on Under the Net, 385; and IM’s attachment to John Bayley, 386–9; IM wins freedom from, 392–3; accepts John Bayley, 393; on IM’s literary conversations with John Bayley, 405; IM asks for help with writing, 429; and IM’s The Unicorn, 454–5; favours Epic of Gilgamesh, 478; Canetti, Elias – cont. on modem novel, 500; Golding and Joll disparage, 505; as father-figure to IM, 522; on self as discontinuous, 548; letters from IM, 581; moves to Zürich, 582; records memories of IM, 582–5; jealousy, 584; death and burial, 585; Aufzeichnungen, 367, 581; Auto da Fé (German original: Die Blendung), 347, 349, 352, 356, 506, 584; The Comedy of Vanities (play), 370; Crowds and Power, 354, 359–61, 37 455, 506, 585; The Numbered (play), 584; The Play of the Eyes, 366; Voices of Marrakesh, 392
Canetti, Hera (formerly Buschor; Elias’s second wife), 355
Canetti, Johanna (Elias’s daughter), 355, 585
Canetti, Venetiana (Veza; née Taubner-Calderon; Elias’s first wife), 346–8, 355, 357, 359, 361, 363–4, 366, 369, 389
Caradon, Hugh Foot, Baron, 59
Carpenter, Gary, 531
Carr, Sir Raymond, 89, 552n, 572
Carritt, Anthony, 91, 172
Carritt, Gabriel, 154, 210n
Carson, Edward, Baron, 11
Carter, Angela, 596
Cary, Joyce, 295
Cascob, Radnorshire, 590–1
Casson, Sir Hugh, 474
Cavell, Stanley, 303
Cecil, Lord David, 292, 310, 398, 402, 439. 444. 507–9. 518
Cecil, Hugh, 508, 510, 539
Cecil, Jonathan, 539
Cecil, Laura, 221
Cecil, Rachel (née MacCarthy; Lady David Cecil), 398, 507–9, 513
Cedar Lodge, Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire: Bayleys buy and occupy, 409–15, 461, 511, 532; Bayleys leave and sell, 578
Celan, Paul, 320
Chamberlain, Neville, 81, 89
Chandler, Raymond, 470
Chaning-Pearce, Melville Salter ('Nicodemus'), 172–3
Chapman, Cleaver (IM’s cousin): on IM’s mother, 21, 51–2; and Hughes’s love of animals, 32; holidays in Portrush, 54; on IM’s crying at returning to Badminton, 62; friendship with James Henderson Scott, 80; IM stays with, 248; religious ideas, 251; IM visits, 445; writes to IM encouraging return to Christ, 592
Chapman, Muriel (IM’s cousin), 11, 54. 249. 4M. 445
Chapman, Sarah (née Murdoch; IM’s aunt), 5–10, 54
Chapman, William (Willy), 9–10, 54, 248
Charlbury Road, Oxford, 580
Charlton, Maurice, 280&n
Chatto & Windus (publishers): and IM’s family background, 16; publish IM, 368, 386, 417, 423, 560, 580; IM asks to publish Yorick Smythies, 382; publish Christopher Hood, 418; publish IM’s collected plays, 531; IM requests return of poems, 579; I M’s instructions to, 580
Chernyshevsky, Nikolai Gerasimovich: What is to be Done?, 464
Cherwell (Oxford magazine), 25, 102, 104, 130, 556
Chevalier, Jean-Louis, 556
Chicago, University of, 587
China: IM visits, 316, 536–7
Chinese Medical Aid Fund, 78
Ching P’ing Mei, 387
Chiswick see Eastbourne Road
Christiansen, Eric, 415, 438
Chrysostomides, Julian, 298, 385, 394, 416, 445, 521, 590
Chrysostomides, Nikos, 298
‘Chumman, the’ (unidentified woman friend), 457–8, 491, 518
Churchill, (Sir) Winston S., 190, 211, 234n, 240
Clark, Charlotte (née Murdoch; William’s daughter), 5
Clark, Sir Kenneth (later Baron), 210, 470, 510
Clark, Ossie, 471, 474
Claud Lorrain, 210
Clayre, Alastair, 547
Clement, Dick, 533
Clements, John, 47
Cleveland, Grover, 128
Clive, George, 514, 562
Clive, Lady Mary, 562
Cloake, Anne (later Jackson), 84, 89, 112, 128, 158
Coates, Dorothy, 41
Cobbe, Anne, 127, 165
Cohen, Mr (Hughes’s neighbour), 28
Cohn-Bendit, Daniel, 497
Cole, G.D.H., 134
Colebrook, Miss (Badminton School secretary), 59, 61
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 301, 356
Collet, Ernest, 213, 231, 269
Collins, Michael, 31
Coltart, Nina: Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 587
Colville, Alex, 557
Communist Party: IM’s membership of, 69, 78, 89, 128–31, 172, 246, 275–6; IM praises, 76; Frank Thompson in, 93, 130, 190–1; summer school, 98; view of World War II, 109–11; strength at Oxford, 129–31; attacked in Oxford march, 132; IM’s wartime connections with, 144–5; IM’s disillusionment with, 210–11; in Yugoslavia, 234
Compton-Burnett, Dame Ivy, 443, 450n
Connolly, Cyril, 154
Connolly, Deirdre, 512
Connolly, James, 25, 462
Conquest, Robert, 130, 189n
Conrad, Joseph, 540
Conradi, Peter J., 302n, 593
‘Conversation’s with a Prince’ (IM; poems), 579
Convictions (collection), 497
Cookson, Christopher, 320
Cooper, Douglas, 562–3
Cornford, Christopher: death of brother John, 88; IM meets, 469–70; at Royal College of Art, 470–2, 481; encourages Samson, 481; on IM’s account of human nature, 501
Cornford, Frances, 510
Cornford, John, 88, 469
Cornford, Lucy, 469
Cornwall Gardens, South Kensington (London), 537
Cornwell, Mr (UNRRA area director), 242
Corsellis, John, 242, 244; Slovenian Phoenix, 242
Cosman, Milein, 97, 354, 356
Coutts, Jean (later Austin), 112
Coward, Sir Noël, 517
Cramp, Rosemary, 280, 308–9, 401
Cranborne, Dorset, 508
Crane, Vera (née Hoar), 48, 123, 125n, 129, 158, 162, 169, 424, 457n
Crombie, Ian, 306
Crosbie, Nick, 117
Crosland, Anthony, 131–2, 241, 294
Crossman, Richard H.S., 294n
Cruikshank, Andrew, 548
Crusaders (Christian organisation), 53–4, 54n, 248, 446, 463
Dacre Press, 248
Daily Worker. IM sells, 87, 106
Dalai Lama, 553
Dalby, Father, 285
Dalton, Hugh (later Baron), 294n
Dalton, Robin, 533 ‘dancing economists', era of, 294
Dane, Miss (Froebel teacher), 48
Daniel, Marion (née Bosanquet), 128, 142, 166, 212, 250, 289
Daniel, Peter, 289
Daniel, Samuel: ‘Love is a Sickness', 101
Dante Alighieri, 313–15
Danzig, 106&n
Darbishire, Helen, 84
Darell, Brigadier-General, 13
Dart, Canon, 248n
Darwin, Robin, 470–1, 474
David, Gwenda, 354, 367, 368, 393, 417, 457n, 460
Davie, Donald, 428n
Davies, Major Mostyn, 183–4
Davin, Dan, 169, 295
Davin, Win, 295
Dawson, Jennifer, 292, 299
Day Lewis, Cecil, 510, 531
Day Lewis, Jill (Balcon), 510
Degras, Jane, 169
de Grunne, Dominic, 6, 279, 469, 473, 492
de la Mare, Walter, 43, 499
Delany, Mary, 448
Demant, V.A., 306n
Denny, Barbara [née Roberts), 38, 40–1, 43–4, 47
de Ste Croix, Carolyn: suicide, 452–3 de Ste Croix, Geoffrey, 281&n, 452
Diamond, Cora, 303, 587
Dichev, Dicho, 190n Dick, Ray, 268, 353
Dickens, Charles, 277, 568, 585, 596
Dilthey, Wilhelm, 208
Dimitrov, Georgi, 192
Dipple, Elizabeth: Work for the Spirit, 549
Dirac, Gabriel Andrew, 315–16 Dix, Dom Gregory, 248
Djemboulate, Persian Princess, 226
Dodds, E.R., 87
Dostoevsky, Fedor, 272, 277, 290, 529, 536, 596; The Brothers Karamazov, 353n; Crime and Punishment, 462; The Devils (The Possessed), 208, 424, 439; The Idiot, 529, 566; Notes from Underground, 405
Douglas, Mary, 97, 323, 343; Purity and Danger, 433
Dover, Kenneth, 116, 122n
Downshire, Marquesses of, 6
Dreyer, Carl, 364
Drum Manor (Manor Richardson), Co. Tyrone, 16–17, 28, 444, 462
Dublin: IM’s mother’s upbringing in, 19–21; IM’s mother house-hunts in, 426–7; in The Red and the Green, 462–3; see also Trinity College Dublin
Dufferin and Ava, Serena, Marchioness of, 445
Duffy, Maureen, 486, 490
Dugdale, Rose, 291
Dummett, Anne, 338
Dummett, Michael, 249, 302–3, 338
Dumont, Louis, 351
Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, 53, 55, 445, 446, 462, 589
Dunbar, Moira, 104, 107
Dunbar, Scott, 491
Duncan-Jones, Katherine, 414
Duprez, June, 44
Dury, Ian, 471
Dyson, Hugo, 301
Earle, Hazel, 66
Eastbourne Road, Chiswick: IM’s family move to, 36; life at, 48, 51; bombed in war, 141; house sold, 430
Easter Rising (Ireland, 1916), 461–4
Eddington, Paul, 461
Edward VIII, King (later Duke of Windsor), 70
Eldridge, Lilian, 113, 131, 156
Eldridge, Noel, 113, 156–7, 207
Eliot, George, 64, 451, 596
Eliot, T.S., 138, 170, 292, 325; ‘Burnt Norton', 113; Murder in the Cathedral, 91
Elizabeth, Sister (of Mailing Abbey), 250
Emmet, Dorothy, 419
Encounter (magazine), 406
Ensor, R.C.K., 116
Epiphany Philosophers (Cambridge), 419
Euan-Smith, Dame Magdalene Mary, 247–8, 250, 420
Euripides: IM translates Hippolytus, 245
European Voluntary Workers scheme, 136n, 245, 277
Evans-Pritchard, Edward, 323, 333
Eveleigh, Leila, 60, 73
Everett, Barbara, 436
Existentialism: IM’s interest in, 213–15, 226–7, 250, 253, 273, 493; exaltation of individual, 251; IM expounds and criticises, 269–71, 273n, 290, 552n; in IM’s characters, 272
‘Existentialist Hero, The’ (I M; broadcast talk), 290
Existentialists and Mystics (IM), 273n, 552n
Fairly Honourable Defeat, A (IM): on finding substitutes, 165; selfish idealisation in, 257; Kreisel supposedly portrayed in, 265; promiscuity in, 286; on hoping for love, 287; violation in, 363; Jewish character in, 371; Canetti portrayed in, 372, 438, 503; on happy marriage, 405; writing of, 432, 501; research for, 437; and modern world, 450; goodness in, 479; and Philippa Foot, 486; and Platonism, 502; reproduces Much Ado About Nothing, 502–3; themes and characters in, 503–5, 523; purloined letters in, 507; dedicated to Reynolds and Janet Stone, 510; satirised in The Black Prince, 520; bi-location in, 525; film rights, 533; art in, 546; physical intervention in, 569–70; on beauty of plants, 588; gay partnership in, 596
‘Fairyfield’ (house), Kinsale, Co. Cork, 448
Faith and Logic: Oxford Essays in Philosophical Theology (ed.? . Mitchell), 306
Falconetti, Renée, 364
Faringdon, Alexander Gavin Henderson, 2nd Baron, 103, 294
Farlough Lodge, Co. Tyrone, 17–18
Farnell, Vera, 82–3
Farrell, J.G., 444
Farrer, Austin, 305, 307
Farris, Miriam see Allott, Miriam
Faulkner, William, 232
Faulks, Sebastian, 560
Fedden, Mary (Trevelyan), 57, 65
Fenner, Rachel, 474, 481, 522
Field, Pamela, 504n
Finland, 110, 131
Fire and the Sun, The: Why Plato Banished the Artists (IM; lecture and book), 546–8, 597
Firth, Sir Raymond, 322
Fisher, Frances Elizabeth (née Richardson; IM’s great-great-aunt), 17–18
Fisher, Nancy, 85
Fitzalan-Howard, Miles (later 17th Duke of Norfolk), 404
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 527
Fitzherbert, Katrin, 293
Flaherty, Robert, 79
Fletcher, Tom, 101, 103–5, 107
Flight from the Enchanter, The (I M): Board workers in, 136; letting down hair in, 140; refugees in, 241; Riches’ yellow sapphire in, 261; ‘Master’ figure in, 263; Canetti portrayed in, 352–3, 365–6, 371–2, 390, 391, 504; dedicated to Canetti, 364; writing of, 388; Steiner portrayed in, 389–90; themes and characters, 389–93, 451–2; London setting, 410; reception, 435; IM’s affection for, 441; evil in, 504; film prospects, 533
Floud, Jean, 313
Foot, Michael (politician), 573
Foot, Michael Richard Danieli (M.R.D.): friendship with IM, 85, 253, 288; at Oxford, 94, 96–7, 99; and Leonie Marsh, 94, 96, 175; called up for military service, 106; petitions against conscription, 110; disparages bureaucracy, 134n; on IM’s Treasury work, 137; sends Aragon’s Crève-Coeur to Frank Thompson, 154n; in love with IM, 157, 175; letter of despair from Frank Thompson, 161; affair with IM, 176–8, 219, 252, 373; IM writes poem for, 177; affair with and engagement to Philippa, 178–9, 222; joins SAS, 179; Frank Thompson predicts literary future for, 185; on risks to SOE agents, 192; reported missing in action, 193; warns Frank Thompson against suicidal risks, 200; marriage to Philippa, 209, 220; on IM’s The Sandcastle, 257; IM lodges with in Oxford, 288–9, 485; separates from Philippa, 430; portrayed in The Red and the Green, 439
Foot, Philippa (née Bosanquet): and IM’s happy family life, 33; at Oxford with IM, 85, 97, 127–8; works with Nuffield Social Survey, 134; and IM’s work in Treasury, 135; in wartime London, 141n; shares IM’s London flat, 142, 146–7, 165–8, 177, 220, 222; letters from IM, 157–8, 201, 237, 252, 575; works at Chatham House, 165; and IM’s writing ambitions, 170–1, 583; friendship with IM, 174, 253–4, 268, 288–9, 484–6, 516; stays in Balogh’s Oxfordshire cottage, 177; affair with and engagement to M.R.D. Foot, 178–9, 220, 222; learns of Thompson’s being missing, 193; marriage to Foot, 209, 220; IM’s estrangement from, 223; sees IM after rejection by Hicks, 228; and IM’s religious ideas, 248; and IM’s visit to Mailing Abbey, 250; reads Existentialist essays, 253; in IM’s journal, 274, 490; sends details of St Anne’s philosophy tutorship to IM, 288; philosophical reputation, 302; attends Austin’s and Ayer’s discussion meetings, 303; on IM’s Under the Net, 385; on IM’s marriage, 401, 534; IM resumes intimacy with, 430–1; separates from Michael, 430; The Red and the Green dedicated to, 439; IM’s affair with, 485; portrayed in The Nice and the Good, 485; academic posts in USA, 486; on virtue ethics, 492; and IM’s fondness for wicked fictional characters, 506; and IM’s ‘train-fever', 521; and IM’s later political views, 572; on IM’s finding nobody boring, 584; declines IM’s Festschrift contribution, 586; entertains IM in last years, 590; on IM’s death, 593; obituary notice of IM, 597
Forbes, Allan, 363, 365–7, 505, 523–4, 583n
Forster, E.M., 282, 470, 561
Foster, Michael, 306&n
Foster, Roy, 10n, 26n, 28, 201n, 277n
Fraenkel, Eduard: at Oxford, 87, 97, 114–22, 482; commentary on Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, 120–1; portrayed in IM’s novels, 120, 171, 454, 479, 559; IM’s Poem on Agamemnon seminar, 121–2, 222; IM names as referee, 206; IM introduces Julian Chrysostomides to, 298; Steiner discusses with IM, 328; IM quarrels with over novels, 435, 483; IM’s reconciliation with, 483–4; daughter’s suicide, 484; The Time of the Angels dedicated to, 484; student hostility to, 495; death, 496; as father-figure to IM, 522; IM destroys correspondence from, 578
Fraenkel, Ruth, 119, 496
France: attraction to IM, 213–15, 562, 590; see also Paris
Franco, General Francisco, 98
Frank, Katherine, 58n, 75n
Frankfurter, Felix, 246
French, Percy, 31
Freud, Sigmund, 267, 271, 493, 537, 548
Frink, Elisabeth, 470
Froebel, Friedrich, 37
Froebel Demonstration School, Colet Gardens, London, 36–48, 50, 480
Frost, Honor, 319–21, 336
Furbank, Philip Nicholas, 460
Gadney, Reg, 471
Gaitskell, Hugh, 246&n, 294
Galitzine, Princess Natalya, 84
Gandhi, Indira (née Nehru): at Badminton School, 57–8, 66, 70, 75n, 571
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, 322&n
Gardiner, Margaret, 348, 505
Gardiner, Patrick, 373, 376
Gardiner, Stephen, 439, 491–2 Gardiner, Susan, 395
Garrett, Tony, 405
Geach, Peter, 249, 284
Gellner, Ernest: Words and Things, 302
Geneva, 68–9, 75
Germany: pact with USSR (1939), 77, 106, 110&n; as threat (pre-1939), 88–9; invades Poland (1939), 105, 107; invades USSR (1941), 132
Gianetti, Antonia, 399
Gifford lectures (1982): IM delivers, 42, 113, 248n, 287, 501–2, 556, 561, 564–6
Gilgamesh, Epic of, 478 Gill, Eric, 559
Glendinning, Victoria, 440, 514
Glenstal Abbey, Co. Limerick, 587
Glock, Clement, 354, 369–70 Glock, William, 354
Gluckmann, Max, 321
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 54–5, 338
Golding, John, 504–5
Golding, (Sir) William, 249, 270, 449, 597; Lord of the Flies, 342
Goldman, Willy, 366
Gollancz, (Sir) Victor, 57
Gomme, A.W., 139
Gonne, Maud, 314
Good Apprentice, The (IM): Louisa Murdoch depicted in, 5; innocence in, 222; physical touch in, 287; Canetti represented in, 362; balloon in, 450; goodness in, 479; dedicated to Brigid Brophy, 487; psychotherapy in, 494; levitation in, 525; themes and characters, 559; language, 561; on modern living, 561; on icons, 566
Goode, John, 405
Gordon-Walker, Patrick (later Baron), 89
Graham, Katharine, 247
Graham-Harrison, Carol see Stewart, Carol
Grant, Duncan, 510
Grant, Mother, 297–8
Grantham, Mr and Mrs (of Steeple Aston), 410
Graz, Austria, 238, 242–3
Greco, Juliette, 255, 384
Greece: Frank Thompson’s admiration for, 181
Green, Arthur, 14, 15n, 16, 27
Green, Henry: Loving, 449
Green Knight, The (IM): fraternal tensions in, 5, 49; and Richardson family motto, 16; Gothic element in, 48; dog in, 438n; modern machinery in, 450; and IM’s attempted telekinesis, 525; theatre scenes in, 530; and idea of evil, 546; themes and characters, 559, 566–8; on ‘sedan chair life', 563; and fate of rare ferret, 589
Greene, Graham, 270; The Third Man, 237
Greenwich Theatre, 530
Greeves, Tom, 254
Griffeths, Elaine, 339, 376
Grigg, John (earlier 2nd Baron Altrincham), 399, 414, 438n, 452, 469
Grigg, Patsy, 414, 452
Grimond, Joseph (later Baron), 207n
Gross, Bettina (later Adler), 321
Gunn, Thom, 428n
Haffenden, John, 588
Haines, George, 590
Halifax, Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of, 106
Hamburger, Anne, 355–6, 505
Hamburger, Michael, 322, 355, 505
Hamilton Road, Oxford, 578, 580
Hammond, Annie (née Gould), 21n, 56
Hammond, Harry, 21n
Hammond, Rae, 21n
Hammond, Richard Frederick, 21n, 56
Hampshire, Stuart, 302, 304, 398, 403, 414–15, 491, 494–5, 562
Handbook of Marxism, A (ed. Emile Burns), 129
Hardy, Robert, 461
Hare, Richard, 305–6
Harris, Mr (head of Badminton Junior School), 63
Harrisson, Tom, 95n
Hart, Jenifer, 71, 291–3, 312
Hart, Josephine, 531, 593
Hartley, Leslie Poles, 510
Hartley, Mildred, 86–7, 117, 530
Harvey, Andrew, 552–3, 593
Hawkes, Jacquetta: marriage to J.B. Priestley, 386
Hayle, Edward, 139
Hayter, Revd Michael, 410
Healey, Denis, Baron, 95n, 102, 111, 130, 168n, 246n
Healey, Edna, Lady (née Edmonds), 95
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 253
Heidegger (IM; unpublished), 586
Heidegger, Martin, 306, 586; Sein und Zeit, 303
Hemingway, Ernest, 270
Henderson, Isobel (née Munro): sets Oxford entrance exam paper, 71; teaches IM at Oxford, 86, 114–15; celebrates IM’s degree success, 133; IM names as referee, 206; and Honor Smith, 289; and Momigliano, 313
Henri, Adrian, 498
Henry and Cato (IM): innocence in, 222n; themes and characters, 543
Herbert, Sir Alan P.: The Water Gypsies, 39n
Herder, Johann Gottfried, 253
Hergé (Georges Rémi), 517
Hevesy, Jan, 473
Heywood, Christopher, 395n
Hicks, Barney (David’s son), 228
Hicks, David: later relations with IM, 85, 228–9; romance with and engagement to IM, 96, 157, 203–4, 213, 216–18, 223–5; letters from IM, 154n, 201n, 204, 207, 214, 218–21, 223–5, 229, 252, 317, 338, 450, 529, 569; character and style, 202–3, 217–18; ends engagement with IM, 202, 227, 231, 245, 485; religious scepticism, 223; marriages, 228; IM asks to help Pardanjac, 236; and IM’s wish to be loved, 283; and IM’s desire for children, 398n; and IM’s estimate of own novels, 450; praises IM, 556
Hicks, Greg, 548
Hicks, Katherine (née Messenger; David’s second wife), 228
Hijab, Wasfi, 261–5, 268, 288, 553
Hill, Derek, 511
Hill, Susan, 239, 526
Hillblom, Marianne, 233
Hilton, Robin, 474
Hinde, Ida, 61; At the Edge of a Dream (poems), 79
Hitler, Adolf: totalitarianism, 59, 78–9; invades Rhineland, 69; rise to power, 74; Munich agreement with Chamberlain, 81, 89; annexes Sudetenland, 88–9; and invasion of Poland, 106n; orders shooting of clandestine agents, 151; influence, 359–60; and Flight from the Enchanter, 392; effect on IM’s philosophy and fiction, 597
Hoar, Vera see Crane, Vera
Hobsbawm, (Sir) Eric, 98
Hobson, (Sir) Harold, 421–2, 441, 404&n
Hockney, David, 470–4
Hogg, Quintin McGarel (later Baron Hailsham), 89–90, 92
Hollinghurst, Alan, 595
Home Rule (Ireland), 11, 465
Hood, Christopher, 418
Horizon (magazine), 138
Horsfall, Miss (Badminton English teacher), 74
‘House of Theory, A’ (IM; essay), 422, 427
Housman, Alfred Edward, 119
Howard, Elizabeth Jane, 512
Howard, Maurice, 73n
Hughes, Gerry, 300
Hughes, Philip and Psiche, 590
Huntingdon, Gladys, 354
Hutchinson, Jeremy (later Baron), 210n
Huxley, Aldous, 155, 400
Huxley, Sir Julian, 470, 510
Ibsen, Henrik, 540
India: IM travels to, 571–2, 574
Innsbruck, 225, 227, 231–2, 235–6
IRA (Irish Republican Army), 25, 465
Ireland: religious differences, 9–11, 15; Home Rule, 11, 465; Protestant gentry in, 18, 25; Anglo-Irish in, 23–5, 27–8, 461; IM’s identification with, 22–9, 102–3, 180, 398, 445, 447, 449, 462–6; political disorder in, 27, 31–2; IM’s holidays in, 53–6, 80; in IM’s novels, 427, 433, 444, 447–9, 461–5; IM revisits, 444–5; IM and John Bayley visit with Stones, 511
Irish Club, Oxford, 462
Irish Peace Movement, 498
Isherwood, Christopher, 77–8
Israel: IM visits, 538
It Can Happen Here (OULC play), 92, 96–7, 354
Italian Girl, The (IM): innocence in, 222n; research for, 437; themes and characters, 459, 559; weaknesses, 459–60; dramatised, 531; screenplay, 533
Iverus, Ivar, 366
Jaboor, Margaret, 238, 244
Jacklin, Bill, 474
Jackson, Dr Bobby, 21n
Jackson’s Dilemma (IM), 444n, 589
Jacobson, Dan, 354, 435
Jaffé, Michael, 434, 473
James, Henry, 154, 200, 341, 371, 443–4, 508, 596; The Golden Bowl, – 247, 405; The Wings of the Dove, 565
James, Hugh Vaughan, 102–5, 107
James, Lieut-Col. Lionel (Jimmie'), 13
James, Mervyn, 169
James, William, 305
Jameson, Storm, 440
Jancar, Jože: in Britain, 126n, 245, 277–8, 459; on IM’s appearance, 228; IM pays for medical studies, 239, 278; background and career, 240–2, 245, 278; at refugee camp, 242–4; ill with TB, 244; re-arrested, 244; children, 278
Jancar, Marija (née Hribar): in Britain, 136n, 245, 277; friendship with IM, 136n, 228, 239, 244; background and career, 240–1, 245; at refugee camp, 244
Jancar, Sonja, 278&n
Japan: IM visits with John Bayley, 545, 571
Jarrett-Kerr, Father Martin, 249
Jay, Douglas (later Baron), 294n Jeffery, Miss (Badminton classics teacher), 74
Jenkins, Roy (later Baron), 131–2, 572
‘Jerusalem’ (IM; abandoned novel), 427–8, 433, 456, 499
Jews: IM’s admiration for, 43, 99–100, 256, 308–9, 325, 332, 437, 538; in IM’s novels, 371, 437; Barth on, 422n; Arendt on, 455
Joad, Cyril Edmund Mitchinson, 172, 307
Joanna, Joanna (IM; play), 468, 495, 531
Job: Prophet of Modern Nihilism’ (IM; talk), 447
Job (Biblical figure), 447
John-Paul II, Pope, 564
Johnson, D., 214n Johnson, Samuel, 500
Johnson, Stowers: Agents Extraordinary, 194
Joll, James, 504–5 Jones, Ernest, 521
Jones, John and Jean, 295, 339, 581
Joseph, Peggy, 222
Jowett, Benjamin, 86
Joyce, James, 18, 201, 446, 585; The
Dead', 22, 447; Ulysses, 11, 19–20, 112
Julian of Norwich, Dame, 267&n, 522, 555
Kafka, Franz, 227, 253, 267, 290, 318, 333, 335, 359, 382; Letters to Milena, 334
Kaldor, Nicholas (Mer Baron), 151, 166–7, 169, 206, 245, 281, 539
Kant, Immanuel, 253, 489
Kastner, Elliott, 516
Keats, John, 145, 280
Keegan, Mr (sports teacher), 38
Keenan, Sandra, 473
Keiller, Alexander, 77
Kellaway, Kate, 580
Keller, Hans, 354
Kenmare, Enid, Countess of, 563
Kenny, Anthony, 301
Kermode, Frank, 33, 423, 480, 495, 515
Khrushchev, Nikita S., 508
Kierkegaard, S0ren, 252, 253, 472–3
Killen, Mary, 581
King, Francis, 450n, 488, 526
Kingsbury, Ruth (later Mills), 76, 104, 146, 169&n, 556
Kirchbaum, Fraülein von, 256
Kitaj, R.B., 472, 474
Kitchen, Paddy: A Fleshly School, 476
Klagenfurt, Austria, 237–8
Klatschko, Lucy (later Sister Marian): at Oxford with IM, 82, 202; portrayed in Nuns and Soldiers, 286; enters Church, 343–4, 420–1; on sex imbroglios in IM’s novels, 423; letters from Honor Tracy about IM, 497, 528, 561, 570; letter from IM on Primo Levi, 560n
Koestler, Arthur, 169; Darkness at Noon, 129, 210; The Yogi and the Commissar, 210–11, 213n
Kotseva, Todorka, 189n
Kraus, Karl, 355
Kreisel, Georg, 262–5, 315–16, 505, 515, 559
Krishnamurti, Jiddu, 545
Krzyprowna, Emilia, 186n
Kullman, Michael, 200
Kun, Bela, 146
Kustow, Michael, 548
Labour Party (British): and Communism, 130; IM supports, 210–11, 486; policy on Northern Ireland, 466; IM believes too left-wing, 572–3
Laforgue, Jules, 203n
Lambert, Jack Walter, 379
Landor, Walter Savage, 455
Langley, Esmé Ross, 484, 518
Larkin, Philip, 133, 445
Lascelles, Mary, 85
Laski, Harold, 92
Lawrence, David Herbert, 270, 302n
Lawrence, Thomas Edward, 151, 160, 170, 321
Lazarov, Stoian, 190n
Leach, Bernard, 57
Leach, Sir Edmund, 321
League of Nations, 68–9, 75, 78
League of Nations Union, 42, 76–7, 119n
Leavis, F.R., 500
Lebowitz, Al and Nay, 247
Lecky, W.E.H., 462
Lee, Arnold, 447
Lee, Billy, 21n, 49&n, 53, 87, 445, 447, 530
Lee, Eva (née Robinson): lives with Mrs Walton, 2on, 53, 446–7; birth, 49n, 53, 447; on IM’s dress, 87, 530; attends revivalist meetings, 248, 446; gives New Testament to I? , 248n; Chrysostomides meets, 445; secretarial work, 447; IM visits, 462; on Black and Tan raid, 463; tells story to IM, 589
Leech, Ann, 59, 79
Lehmann, Alastine (née Bell), 204
Lehmann, George, 204
Lehmann, John, 232
Lenin, Vladimir Ilich, 172, 361; State and Revolution, 129, 296
Lepe, Hampshire, 562
Lepper, Miss (Oxford landlady), 112
Leslie Stephen lecture, Cambridge (1967), 492
Lessing, Doris, 214, 249
Levey, (Sir) Michael, 486–8
Levi, Primo, 560
Levinson, Deirdre, 293
Levy, Penny, 278n, 590
Lewis, Clive Staples, 307; The Allegory of Love, 96, 451
Lewis, Mrs (of UNRRA), 236, 238
Lewis, Wyndham, 440
Lichtheim, George, 309
Lidderdale, Hal: relations with IM, 85, 96, 161; war service, 157, 161–2; as prospective writer, 185; letters from IM, 202, 216; IM meets in Brussels, 213; IM describes Sartre to, 215; and IM’s broken engagement with Hicks, 227–8; IM tells of meeting Queneau, 231; and IM’s pessimism, 246; introduces IM to Geoffrey de Ste Croix, 281n; and IM’s relations with Robson, 311; wishes to marry IM, 311; and IM’s marriage, 401
Lidderdale, Jane, 292
Lindsay, Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, 1st Baron ('Sandy'), 89–90, 92
Lintott, Margaret, Lady (née Orpen), 60, 62, 64, 67, 75, 80–1
Litakovo, Bulgaria, 187–9, 190n, 260
Little, Ian, 294
Lively, Penelope, 296
Livingston, Reggie, 15&n, 28, 34, 465
Livingston, Sybil (née Chapman; IM’s cousin): on Louisa’s laundering practices, 7; marriage, 15&n; gains party frock from IM, 26; on IM’s Irish family, 26; at Festival of Britain, 34; on English unawareness of Irish differences, 35; on Hughes’s equanimity, 50; on Hughes’s domestic duties, 50–1; childhood holidays, 54; James Scott falls for, 80; on IM taking grandmother to ‘high’ church, 249; at John Bayley’s talk on Pushkin, 445
Lloyd-Jones, Frances, 590
Lloyd-Jones, Hugh, 115–16, 484
Locke, Marjory (Sister Ann Teresa), 442
Lodge, David, 596
London: IM’s holidays in, 80–1; IM works and lives in during war, 135, 137–48, 155, 166–9, 218; wartime social conditions, 146; bombed, 151, 166; fog in, 351; IM’s life in as RCA teacher, 471; IM’s attachment to, 537, 585
London Library, 387
Longford, Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of, 25, 539
Lowe, Douglas, 92, 93–4
Lowell, Robert, 536
Lucy, Sean, 464
Luke, David, 495, 569
Luthi, Ann Louise (née Wilkinson), 293
Lyne, Richard, 374
Lyttelton, George, 512
McCarran-Walter Act (USA), 246
McDowell, John, 303
McGrath, John, 498
MacKinnon, Donald: teaches at Oxford, 114, 123–8, 167; portrayed in IM novels, 125n, 171, 257, 440, 559; radicalism, 130; maintains relations with IM and Philippa, 167, 179; and IM’s reviewing for Adelphi, 172; and IM’s religious ideas, 174; informs Philippa of Frank Thompson’s being missing, 193; IM names as referee, 206, 246, 254; IM writes of to Hicks, 220–1; estrangement from IM, 222–3, 255–6, 352; suggests IM visit Mailing Abbey, 248; in IM dream, 251, 555; suggests IM apply to Bangor for post, 253; IM resumes relations with, 256–8; IM’s affection for, 256–8, 421; appointed to professorships at Aberdeen and Cambridge, 258; in IM’s journal, 274, 490; supports Broadie, 310; and Carolyn de Ste Croix, 453; teaches Philippa Foot, 485; The Problem of Metaphysics, 248
MacKinnon, Lois, 255–8, 440
McNab, Jane Brown (Mrs Noel Eldridge), 157n
MacNeice, Louis, 444
McWilliam, Candia, 595
magic and the paranormal, 277, 451; in The Sea, The Sea, 525–6; see also animism; tarot divination
Magpie Players, 101–5, 107
Mahler, Anna, 348
Making of a Mystic, The (TV programme), 553
Malcolm, Norman, 262n, 284, 381
Malinowski, Bronislaw, 319
Mailing Abbey, Kent, 247–8, 250, 252, 259, 420, 428
Man and Society (magazine), 497, 538
Man of Aran (film), 79
Mann, Thomas, 519; Death in Venice, 434; ‘Mario and the Magician', 390
Mannerheim, General Carl von, 131
Manning, Olivia, 229n, 444, 488
Manov, Georgi, 190n Mantegna, Andrea, 210
Mantel, Hilary, 552n Manus, Max, 515
Marcel, Gabriel, 226, 252, 269–70, 304, 472
Marchi, ‘Tino’ de, 309
Marian, Sister see Klatschko, Lucy
Markievicz, Countess Constance, 462
Mars-Jones, Adam, 580
Marsh, Father Denis, 275
Marsh, Leonie see Platt, Leonie
Martin, Carol (or Gracie; née Nethersole), 112n
Martin, Noel: in IM’s journal, 85; at Oxford, 97, 99; infatuation with IM, 97, 157; agricultural work, 111, 112n; marriage, 112n; proposes to IM, 112; attends Fraenkel’s seminar, 115, 122n; meets IM in Brussels, 213, 245; sends Charles Morgan quotation to IM, 377; visits IM at Cedar Lodge, 401
Marxism, 276, 493
Mascall, Eric, 305
Masterman, Margaret, 419
Mathew, Revd Gervase, 251
Mathias, William, 531
Maxwell, Sir Aymer, 355, 363, 366, 369–70, 583
Maxwell, Gavin, 355
Maxwell, Thomas, 9
May, Derwent, 526
Medcalf, Stephen, 300–1, 566
Medlin, Brian, 316n
Mehta, Ved, 551n
Men of the Trees, The, 42–3
Menuhin, Yehudi (later Baron), 517
Merton, Thomas, 545
Message to the Planet, The: US character in, 247; Kreisel as character model for, 265, 559; themes and characters in, 559–60; dedicated to Villers, 567
Metaphysicals (High Anglican group), 304, 372
Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (I M; Gifford lectures), 248n, 272n, 285, 501–2, 559, 565, 597
Meyer, Edward, 47
Meyer, Madame, 346
Meyers, Jeffrey, 246n, 441
Midgley, Mary (née Scrutton): at Oxford with IM, 83–6, 95, 117, 122n, 216n; on IM’s championing USSR, 113; on MacKinnon, 126; lends money to Anne Cloake, 128–9; on Communist Party members, 129; joins Oxford Democratic Socialist Club, 132; gains first-class degree at Oxford, 133; joins civil service in war, 134; and IM’s London flat, 147; visits Paris with IM, 254; friendship with IM, 268; loses philosophy tutorship to IM, 288; disagrees with IM over Ireland, 465; Beast and Man, 587
Mill, John Stuart: Utilitarianism, 472–3
Miller, Henry, 255, 296
Milne, AA., 39
Minkus, Peter, 262n
Minton, John, 470
Mishima, Yukio, 487
Mitchell, Barbara, 141n, 338
Mitchell, Basil, 305–6
Mitchell, Julian, 498
Mitchell, Juliet, 494
Mitchison, Naomi, 57
Momigliano, Anna-Laura, 313
Momigliano, Arnaldo: on Jewish aspects of Fraenkel’s thought, 121n; IM introduces Julian Chrysostomides to, 298; relations with IM, 313–15, 339, 372–3, 378, 387, 522; IM dedicates The Philosopher’s Pupil to, 315; jealousy of Steiner, 326; IM sees in Italy, 327; Canetti watches with IM, 368; and The Message to the Planet, 560
Momigliano, Gemma, 313, 315
Montagu of Beaulieu, Edward John Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron, 424
Moore, George Edward, 469
Moore, Henry, 510
Morgan, Charles, 154, 436, 595; The Fountain, 377
Morgan, David, 475–6
Morrison, Blake, 428n
Morrison, Kirsty, 292
Mortimer, Raymond, 416
Motesiczky, Marie-Louise von, 348, 355, 374, 389, 506
Motion, Andrew, 560
Motz, Hans, 281&n, 309, 399
Mouloudji, Marcel, 255
‘Movement’ poets, 428&n
Moynihan, Rodrigo and Anne, 563
Munich agreement (1938), 81, 89–90, 319
Munro, J.A.R., 114
Murasaki Shikibu: Tale of Genji, 545
Murdoch family, 4–5, 15
Murdoch, Annie (I M’s great-aunt), 5
Murdoch, Brian (IM’s cousin), 15
Murdoch, Charlotte Isabella (née Neale; Elias’s wife), 11, 15n
Murdoch, Charlotte (William’s wife), 5
Murdoch, Don Douglas (Elias’s grandson), 20
Murdoch, Elias ('Uncle'), 15&n
Murdoch, Harold (Elias’s son), 11, 15, 445
Murdoch, (Wills John) Hughes (IM’s father): marriage, 3, 14, 20; birth, 4, 463; free-thinking, 6, 11; childhood and schooling, 7, 9; love of horses, 8, 12–13; civil service career, 11, 16, 27, 30, 52; moves to London (1906), 11; swimming, 11, 30–1; appearance and character, 12, 35, 52; serves in Great War, 12–13; voice and accent, 23; returns to England, 27; death and funeral, 28, 51, 425–6, 521; home and family life, 30, 33–5; pets, 32; reading, 33–4; portrayed in IM’s fiction, 35, 559; relations with IM, 35, 50, 62–3, 117, 521; marriage relations, 49, 51–2; and IM’s schooling at Badminton, 57–8, 60, 62–3; religious indifference, 57; letters to IM, 63; supports IM at Oxford, 83; moves to Blackpool in war, 141; and IM’s relations with Pliatzky, 156; rebukes IM for giving up UNRRA post, 246; in IM dream, 251, 555; Wallace Robson meets, 311; pride at IM’s Under the Net, 385; IM and John Bayley take out to dine, 395; operation for cancer of lung, 396, 400; retirement activities, 425
Murdoch, Irene Cooper Alice (née Richardson; IM’s mother; ‘Rene'): marriage, 3, 14, 20; and IM’s birth, 14, 21, 27, 48–9; singing, 14, 18, 21–2, 31, 51; birth, 19; childhood and upbringing, 19–21; character and qualities, 21–2, 52, 54–5; accent, 23, 35; Irishness, 24; and husband’s death and funeral, 28, 51–2, 426; home life in London, 30, 35; and IM’s upbringing, 30–1, 36; appearance, 36, 52; IM asks Miriam Allott to visit, 45n; family, 49n; marriage relations, 49–52; housekeeping, 51–2; holidays in Ireland, 53–4; religious indifference, 57; relations with IM, 62, 77; watches cricket match at IM’s school, 77; moves to Blackpool in war, 141; and IM’s relations with Pliatzky, 156; Wallace Robson meets, 311; IM and John Bayley take out for evening, 395; at IM’s wedding, 400; smoking, 425; house-hunting in Dublin, 426–7; sells Eastbourne Road house, 430; visits Ireland with IM and John, 444; lives in Barons Court, 471; decline and death, 575–7
MURDOCH, (DAME JEAN) IRIS
— Beliefs and Ideas: idealism, 6; religious faith and ideas, 9, 64, 172–4, 223, 247–52, 275–6&n, 278, 298, 335; on sexual love, 49–50; confirmed into Anglican Church, 64; Communist Party membership, 69, 76, 78, 89, 111, 114, 128–30, 172, 246, 275–6; pacifism, 78, 111; political activities at Oxford, 88–92, 130–2; wartime connections with Communist Party, 144–5; Anglo-Catholicism, 223, 247, 249–51, 275–6, 298, 493; on refugees, 239; on Existentialism, 269–70; on moral philosophy, 269–72; interest in paranormal, 277, 336–7, 451, 525–6; and idea of soul, 283; and idea of evil, 373; Platonism, 422, 450. 459, 492–3. 502. 549; on suicide, 453; denies belief in God, 456; hostility to psychoanalysis, 493–5; supports student protesters, 495–6; political activism and writings, 497–8; advocates educational reform, 498–9; votes Conservative, 499; drawn to Buddhism, 544–6, 553, 597; public duties and campaigns, 568; changing political views, 572–3; and Tory educational policies, 573–4; denounces promiscuity and bohemianism, 580; on loss of religion, 587–8
— Honours and Awards: made Dame of British Empire, 48, 571; honorary degrees, 59, 445, 466, 571–2; wins League of Nations Union essay prizes, 76, 78; wins Open Exhibition to Somerville, Oxford, 78, 85; wins Booker Prize, 526; wins Whitbread Prize, 543; awarded CBE, 575
— Interests and Activities: painting, 54, 112, 538; fondness for jazz and dancing, 74, 83, 254; amateur theatricals and performing, 75–6, — 91, 98, 101–5, 530, 539; learns Russian, 139, 153, 471; skiing, 225–6, 230, 233; learns to drive, 395; swimming, 409, 412, 563–4, 581, 588–90; gardening, 413, 427; buys paintings and art, 474, 557; social life and manner, 513–18; language-learning, 528
— Literary Life: juvenile writings, 46, 55, 61, 74–5, 77–9; writing ambitions, 56; poem to BMB, 72–3; poetry, 72–3, 98–9, 104, 112–13, 121, 141, 176, 178, 196, 204, 222, 370–1, 374, 378–9, 428, 430, 556, 579; journal, 101–2, 106, 273–5, 280–2, 305, 316n, 317, 327, 367, 395, 400, 452, 490, 493, 501, 515, 527, 529, 549, 557, 579, 588; begins reviewing and novel-writing, 152, 170–4, 229–30; wartime reading, 153–5, 168, 208; translates Queneau, 232, 380, 518; translates Euripides’ Hippolytus, 245; and Orestes myth, 259; translates Canetti play, 370; dealings with publishers, 417–18, 459–60, 579; fame and success, 423–5, 461, 570; judges Prix Formentor, 423; introduces homosexual characters into novels, 424; suffers writer’s block, 427–9; writes on incest, 430, 435; working methods for novels, 431–4, 560; origins of fictional characters, 437–42; and criticism of novels, 459–60; plays and theatre work, 460–1, 530–2; sales and literary earnings, 461, 560–1; writes plays, 468; manuscripts sold to Iowa University, 487; theory and practice of novel-writing, 500; lists influential books, 524n; film rights and options, 532–3; Poem on John Bayley, 536; love of writing, 540; editorial approach to, 560–1; sorts and destroys letters and papers, 578–9; achievements and influence, 595–7
—Personal Life: birth, 14, 21, 27, 48; family background, 15–16; Irishness, 22–9, 102–3, 180, 398, 445, 447–9, 462–3, 466, 596; voice and accent, 23, 140; and father’s death and funeral, 28, 426; childhood and upbringing, 29–32, 33, 36, 48; love of animals, 32–3, 557–8, 563; schooling, 33, 36–43, 45–6, 50, 57–79, 82; early reading, 34; private expressions and mythology, 34, 37, 61, 136, 513–14; appearance and dress, 45, 85–7, 90, 95–7, 119, 139–40, 166–7, 228, 244, 288, 292, 295, 299, 302, 451, 512–13; imaginary siblings, 45–6, 49; housekeeping, 51, 368, 414, 581; equanimity, 54; attends League of Nations Summer School in Geneva, 68–9, 75; life as Oxford undergraduate, 82–5, 88–98, 100; portraits of, 97–8, 374, 424, 511, 515, 570; and outbreak of war, 106–8; in wartime Oxford, 111–12; gains first-class degree, 133, 204; life in London, 135, 137–48, 155, 164–9, 218; energy and vitality, 140–1, 229; finds and occupies London flat, 141–4, 146–8, 155, 166–7; contracts jaundice, 154; confesses losing virginity, 155–61, 164; stays in Balogh’s Oxfordshire cottage with Philippa, 177; marriage intentions, 193, 282, 393–4, 446; letter-writing, 201–2, 569; attachment to France and French, 213–15; knowledge of French language, 232; helps Jože Jancar with cheque for medical studies, 239, 278; pessimism and depression, 246–8, 258–259, 427–9; refused US entry visa, 246–7; visits Mailing Abbey, 247–8, 250, 252, 259; life in Cambridge, 260–5, 268; as godmother, 278&n; universal compassion, 278, 280; on touch, 286–7; life in Oxford as tutor, 288–9, 294–5, 317, lodges with Foots in Oxford, 289; sprains ankle, 339; proclivity for masochism, 357–8, 362; confesses to lies and deceit, 372–3; remains childless, 398n; buys and occupies Cedar Lodge, 409–15; entertaining, 414–15; glandular fever, 414; social range, 443–6, 539, 541; emotional susceptibility, 451–3, 529; alters and enlarges Cedar Lodge, 461; deafness, 482&n; identifies with male homosexuals, 522; and sense of identity and knowing others, 527–30, 538–9, 551, 570; arthritis, 532; in Cornwall Gardens, London, 537; meditates, 546; spiritual grace and reputation as ‘lay saint', 551–5; dreams, 554–5; love of praise, 556; and mother’s decline and death, 575–7; leaves Steeple Aston to return to Oxford, 578, 580; suffers from Alzheimer’s Disease, 588–91; death and cremation, 592; estate and will, 593
— Professional Career, delivers Gifford lectures (1982), 42, 113, 248n, 287, 501–2, 556, 561, 565–6; studies Classics ('Mods and Greats') at Oxford, 85–7; takes second in ‘Schools', 113; MacKinnon tutors, 114, 123–4, 126–8; taught and influenced by Fraenkel, 114–21; wartime civil service career in Treasury, 134, 135–41; works for UNRRA in Brussels and Austria, 206–8, 210, 212, 225–6, 229, 235–44; applies for academic appointments, 245–6; resigns from UNRRA and returns to England, 245; studies at Newnham, Cambridge, 245, 254; resumes reading philosophy, 253–4; approach to philosophy, 268; philosophy tutorship and teaching at St Anne’s, Oxford, 288, 292–3, 296–301; gives broadcast talks on Third Programme, 290; stance and reputation as philosopher, 302–8; resigns St Anne’s Fellowship, 456; teaches at Royal College of Art, 457, 469, 471–6, 480; delivers Leslie Stephen lecture (Cambridge, 1967), 492; lectures at University College London, 492; delivers Romanes lecture (1976), 546–7; on British Council lecture tours, 570–1; Brown University conference on philosophy of (2001), 587; University of Chicago conference on philosophy of, 587
— Relationships: John Bayley first sees and meets, 3, 376–8; with father, 35, 50, 62–3, 117, 521; with mother, 62, 77; first romance with James Henderson Scott, 79–80; lasting friendships, 85; Frank Thompson’s infatuation with, 90–4; seeks guru figures, 117–18; friendship with Philippa Bosanquet, 128; intimate correspondence with Frank Thompson, 147–50, 152–5, 162, 164, 176, 308; weeps over ‘love business', 163; affair with M.R.D. Foot, 175–6, 219, 252, 373; affair with Balogh, 177–9, 185, 205, 220, 222, 245, 329, 373; learns of Frank Thompson’s death, 193; marriage to John Bayley, 193, 282, 399–406, 456, 534–7, 562; reaction to Frank Thompson’s death, 193–6, 199–200, 338, 341; Hicks breaks engagement with, 202, 227, 231, 245, 485; romance with David Hicks, 203–4, 213, 216–18; affair with Wormser, 205; engagement to Hicks, 216–17, 223–4; confesses infidelity to Hicks, 227; affection for MacKinnon, 256–8; flirtatiousness and casual affairs, 278–83; homosexual feelings and attachments, 279, 295, 395, 457–9, 484–5, 491, 538; friendships and romantic relationships, 308–14, 317, 339, 372–3, 491–2; with Momigliano, 313–15, 339, 372–3, 378, 386–7, 522; with Steiner, 317–18, 325–37, 372; and Steiner’s death, 337–43, 350–1, 361, 384; love-affair with Canetti, 344–6, 348–9 351–2, 357–8, 361–4, 368–71, 372–3, 378, 386–7, 403, 449, 504, 581; Canetti’s influence on, 349–50, 367–8, 372, 374, 434–5, 442, 452, 460, 477, 503, 519, 523; engagement to John Bayley, 394; with John Bayley’s family, 395, 403–4; with Brigid Brophy, 486–90; arguments with David Cecil, 508–9; friendship with Reynolds and Janet Stone, 509–11, 514; later relations with Canetti, 581–2; Canetti records memories of, 582–5
— Travels: visits to Paris, 254–5, 264, 298, 553; visits China, 316, 536; feminine demonstration in China, 316n; visits to Japan, 545, 571; holidays in France, 562–4, 590; British Council trips, 570–1; visits India, 571–2, 574; holidays in Scotland and England, 581
Murdoch, Isabella Jane Shaw (IM’s great-aunt), 5–6, 8
Murdoch, James (IM’s great-uncle), 5
Murdoch, Lilian (Wills’s daughter), 5
Murdoch, Louisa (née Shaw; IM’s grandmother): marriage, 3; character, 5; children, 5, 7–8; devotion to son Hughes, 7; name, 7; religion, 9, 249; widowhood, 9; and Hughes’s war service, 13; on IM’s childhood, 32; and IM’s birth, 48; on Hughes’s domestic duties, 50–1; gives Bible to I? , 248n
Murdoch, Margaret (IM’s great-aunt), 5
Murdoch, Richard (IM’s great-greatgrandfather), 4, 6
Murdoch, Richard (IM’s great-uncle), 4–5
Murdoch, Richard (I M’s greatgrandfather), 4
Murdoch, Samuel (IM’s great-uncle), 5
Murdoch, Sarah (IM’s great-aunt), 5, 7–8
Murdoch, William (I M’s great-great-uncle), 5–6
Murdoch, William John (Wills’s uncle), 4
Murdoch, Wills Hughes (I M’s grandfather), 3–4, 8
Muroya, Y. and P. Hullah, 574n
Murray, Gilbert, 119&n, 246
Murry, John Middleton, 71, 172
Musgrave, Thea, 482
Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita, 434
Nassauer, Rudi, 354, 367, 505; The Cuckoo, 367
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 402
National Theatre, 548
Nazism, 59, 88, 359
Neale, Charles, 15n
Neale, Mariette, 15n
Neale, Sarah, 15n
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 571
Neill, Bishop Stephen, 249–50
Nemes, Endre, 363, 365–6, 506
New College, Oxford, 396, 403
New Statesman: IM writes in, 499
Newman, John Henry, Cardinal, 80
Newman, Paul, 533
Newnham College, Cambridge: IM studies at, 245, 254, 260
New York: IM visits with John Bayley, 474
Nice and the Good, The (I M): innocence in, 222n; on selfishness and evil, 222; Wittgenstein and, 285; Steiner portrayed in, 343; style, 405; writing of, 433, 468; Philippa Foot portrayed in, 439; modern world in, 450; themes and characters, 478–80; tide, 480, 508; Simopoulos criticises, 495; dedicated to Cecils, 507; flying saucers in, 525; borrows from Tale of Genji, 545; and idea of evil, 545
‘Nicodernus’ see Chaning-Pearce, Melville Salter
Nicolson, Nigel, 240–1, 397
Nin, Anaïs, 296
Nineham, Dennis, 54n, 125&n, 305–6
Nolan, Anna (née Kidd) see Richardson, Anna
Nolan, Annie, 49n
Nolan, William, 49n
Normandy landings (1944), 206
Norris, Senator David, 497
North, Sir George, 425
Northern Ireland: religious differences in, 9; opposition to Home Rule, 11, 465; IM’s family holidays in, 54; religious evangelicism in, 248–9; violence and Troubles in, 465–6
Northleach, 103–4
‘Nostalgia for the Particular’ (I M; paper), 304
‘Novelist as Metaphysician, The’ (I M; broadcast talk), 290
Nuns and Soldiers (I M): cites Kim, 34; innocence in, 222n; dream in, 251, 555; Wittgenstein in, 263–4; promiscuity and goodness in, 286; character of Polish ‘Count’ in, 438; on leaving convent life, 442; artist in, 546; on goodness, 558; themes and characters in, 559, 565; canal tunnel in, 564; dedicated to Spenders, 564; grief in, 584
Nussbaum, Martha, 303, 553, 587
Nuttall, Anthony David, 300–1
Oakeshott, Michael, 311–12, 426, 491, 522
O’Brien, Conor Cruise, 461
Observer, 474
O’Connell, Daniel, 461
O’Faolain, Sean, 464
Ogilvie, Mary Helen, Lady, 291–2, 457
O’Hart, John: History of Old Irish Families, 16–17, 26n
O’Malley, Sir Owen, 438
One Alone, The (IM; radio play), 531
O’Neill, Jim, 438n, 590
Optima, Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, 592
O’Regan, Patrick, 24, 96, 141n, 151–2, 217, 249, 451
Orpen, Margaret see Lintott, Margaret, Lady
Orwell, George, 76, 146, 173, 499–500
Orwell, Sonia, 354
Osborne, Charles, 488
‘Our Lady of the Bosky Gates’ (I M; abandoned novel), 296, 380
Ovadia, Susie (née Benedikt), 347n, 355, 302–3, 365–7, 523
Owen, Wilfred, 100, 155
Oxford: by-election (1938), 89–92; wartime refugees in, 112, 118; IM lives in as philosophy tutor, 288–9, 294–9, 317; IM considers returning to from Steeple Aston, 531; IM and John Bayley return to live in, 578, 580; Canetti’s scorn for, 583–4
Oxford Forward (magazine), 88, 98
Oxford University: IM wins Open Exhibition to Somerville, 78, 85; IM’s undergraduate life at, 82–5, 88, 91–8; IM studies Classics ('Mods and Greats') at, 85–7, 114–16; Labour Club (OULC), 95, 130–2, 149; Jowett Society, 96; in wartime, 109, 112; Democratic Socialist Club, 131–2; philosophy at, 253, 296, 301–3, 587; Philosophical Society, 304; Socratic Club, 307, 333; see also St Anne’s College
Oxford University Refugee Appeal Fund, 101
Paisley, Ian, 465
Palmer, Mr (Oxfordshire builder), 412
Pardanjac, Dragomir (Draga), 236
Pardee, Ruth, 321
Paris: IM visits, 254, 264, 298, 553
Parkin, Miss (Latin teacher, Badminton), 73
Parnell family, 10
Parsons, Ian, 368
Partisan Review, 427
Partridge, Frances, 308, 508–10, 513
Passion of Joan of Arc, The (film), 364
Patterson, Lindsay (née Lynch), 112
Paul, Phyllis, 440
Pears, David, 119–20, 124, 126, 301, 304, 399, 450, 493–4
Pearse, Padraic, 462–3
Pease, Bill, 562
Pease, Elizabeth, 562
Pernišek, Franc, 243
Perpetua, Sister (of Mailing Abbey), 250
Petter, Annette, 68
Phillips, Adam, 279
Phillips, D.Z., 492
Phillips, Tom, 515, 570
Philosopher’s Pupil, The (I M): MacKinnon portrayed in, 125n, 440; dedicated to Momigliano, 315; Smythies portrayed in, 382; foxes in, 414; dog in, 438n; IM’s attitude to characters in, 553; themes and characters in, 559; editing of, 560
Piaf, Edith, 255
Piero della Francesca: Resurrection, 400
Pinney, Betty, 175
Piper, John, 510
Pitt-Rivers, Julian, 325
Pitt-Rivers, Michael, 424
Plato: IM despises, 87, 172; IM rediscovers, 260; Simone Weil on, 260, 454, 547; cave allegory, 371, 399, 450, 493; on art and artists, 546–8; on sexual love, 547–8; in IM dialogues, 548, 561; Phaedrus, 547; Republic, 299, 547; Symposium, 547–8
Platonism: in IM’s novels, 422, 454–5, 502; IM’s, 450, 459, 492–3, 502, 549
Platt, Leonie (née Marsh): at Oxford with IM, 84–5, 91–7; M.R.D. Foot’s infatuation with, 94, 96, 175; membership of Communist Party, 129; on IM in wartime London, 144; relations with Pliatzky, 156; believes IM virginal, 158; marriage, 164; writes to Frank Thompson in Sicily, 180
Platt, Tony, 175
Platts, Mark, 303
Pliatzky, (Sir) Leo: at Oxford with IM, 85, 92, 94–7, 99; on World War II, 110; and Frank Thompson, 122n; leaves Communist Party, 132; as IM’s lover, 156; meets Frank Thompson in North Africa, 157; writes to Thompson of IM, 162; letter from Thompson, 183; Thompson predicts literary future for, 185; fears for Thompson’s foolhardiness, 200; and IM’s broken engagement with Hicks, 227; and IM’s attachment to Balogh, 245; on Hughes’s criticism of IM for giving up UNRRA post, 246; at Treasury, 437, 471; helps IM with information for novels, 437; disputes with IM over Vietnam War, 497; and IM’s social life, 517; on IM’s sense of tragic, 558; and IM in later life, 568
Plumer, Eleanor Mary, 288, 292
Plymouth Brethren see Brethren
Podmore, Frances, 91n, 104
Poet Venturers (poetry collection), 78
Poetry London (magazine), 169, 320
Poland: invaded (1939), 105, 106n, 107
Potter, Beatrix, 46
Potts, Paul, 146–7, 169
Pound, Ezra, 392
Powell, Anthony, 414, 562, 580
Powell, Lady Violet, 413–14
Powledge, Tabitha, 571
Powys, John Cowper, 487
Prévert, Jacques, 255
Price, Henry, 302
Prichard, Harold Arthur, 216&n
Priestley, J.B., 386, 439, 453; dramatisation of A Severed Head, 461, 530–1, 533
Priestman, Barbara, 48
Prix Formentor: IM judges, 423 ‘Protestant magic', 28; see also animism; magic and the paranormal; tarot divination
Proust, Marcel, 154, 168, 171, 443, 490
Psychoanalytical Society, 494
Puch, Austria, 236&n Purchase, Molly, 225
Pushkin, Alexander, 445, 535
Pyke-Lees, Peggy (née Stebbing), 135, 139, 146
Pyke-Lees, Walter, 139, 146
Pym, Barbara, 512
Quakers, 7, 15&n
Queneau, Janine, 233
Queneau, Raymond: IM’s meetings and friendship with, 128, 231–4, 245, 254–5, 518–19; letters from IM, 129n, 248, 262–3, 296, 327, 339; on IM’s politics, 211; IM translates, 232, 380; IM dedicates Under the Net to, 234, 384, 579; jealousy over IM’s admiration for The Plague, 260; and IM at Cambridge, 262–3; IM describes Elizabeth Anscombe to, 285; IM loses contact with, 289; as ‘metaphysical novelist', 290; and IM’s teaching at Oxford, 296; on IM’s walk, 396; and friendship in Under the Net, 518; death, 579; Pierrot mon ami, 231–4, 282, 380, 384, 518
Quentin, Cecil, 105
Quinton, Anthony (later Baron), 294, 301, 414, 515
Quinton, Marcelle (née Wegier; later Lady), 294
Radcliffe-Brown, A.R., 322
Raine, Kathleen, 350, 353, 354–6, 369, 373; Living in Time, 258
Raine, Pat, 10n
Rake, Margaret (later Vintner), 60, 65–6, 71
Ramsey, Peggy, 530, 533
Raphael, Frederic, 533
Razgradlian, Sashka, 189
Red and the Green, The (IM): wartime fighting in, 12; and forced marriage, 14; Irish and Ireland in, 23, 26, 28, 53, 444, 461–6; and Crusaders’ meetings, 54n; on living out history of heart, 141; soldier-figure in, 151; allusions to Frank Thompson in, 195; personal intensity satirised in, 256; promiscuity in, 282, 286; IM denies MacKinnon portrayed in, 440; IM finishes writing, 447; ending criticised, 460; themes and characters, 461–4; IM studies Gaelic for, 528
Redfern, Walter, 233
Reeves, Marjorie, 437
Rembrandt, 210, 237, 582
Renault, Mary, 522
Rendali, Lucy J. ('LJR'): at Badminton, 61, 63, 65, 67; death, 488
Rhineland: Germany invades (1936), 69
Rhodes, Zandra, 471, 474
Rhys, Keidrych, 169
Ribbentrop-Molotov pact (1939), 77, 106, 110&n
Richardson family, 15–18, 25&n, 31, 464
Richardson, Alexander (17th century), 16, 17
Richardson, Alexander (1705–71), 17
Richardson, Alexander (1758–1827), 18
Richardson, Alexander (William’s son), 17
Richardson, Major-General Alexander Arthur, 26
Richardson, Anna (née Kidd; then Nolan; Robert Cooper R’s second wife), 49n Richardson, Archibald (William’s son), 17
Richardson, Effingham Lindsay (cousin of IM’s grandfather), 19
Richardson, Effingham Lynch (I M’s maternal grandfather), 16, 19, 21
Richardson, Elizabeth Jane (née Nolan; IM’s maternal grandmother; ‘Bessie'), 19, 21n, 49n, 53, 447, 448
Richardson, Gertrude Anna Cooper (IM’s aunt), 19–21, 575–6
Richardson, Gloria, 581, 590, 592
Richardson, Hannah (Effingham’s mother), 19
Richardson, Hannah (née Lindsay; John’s wife), 17
Richardson, Henry Handel (pseud. of Ethel Florence Lindesay
Richardson), 18, 26n Richardson, James (William’s son), 17
Richardson, John, of Farlough (1727–85), 17
Richardson, Margaret (née Goodlatte; Alexander 2's wife), 17
Richardson, Mary (née Erskine; William’s wife), 17
Richardson, Mary (née Swan; James’s wife), 17
Richardson, Sir Ralph, 517
Richardson, Robert Cooper (I M’s maternal great-grandfather), 16, 18–19
Richardson, Robert Lindesay (I M’s maternal great-great-grandfather), 19
Richardson, Tony, 532, 539
Richardson, Walter Lindesay ('Henry Handel Richardson’s’ father), 18
Richardson, William (Alexander’s son), 17
Riches, Father Pierre, 261
Ricks, Christopher, 500
Ridler, Ann, 155
Riley, Bridget, 474
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 208, 230, 325
Roberts, W.C., 163
Robinson, Eva see Lee, Eva
Robson, Anne (née Moses), 291, 311, 313
Robson, Wallace, 291, 310–13, 317, 325–6, 339, 490, 530
Romanes lecture (1976), 546
Rosen, Stanley, 586
Ross, Sir William David, 216&n Rossi-Landi, Ferruccio, 280&n, 339, 375
Rowse, A.L., 133
Royal College of Art, London: IM teaches at, 457, 469–76, 480; character and life, 470–4 Royalton-Kisch, Mrs (London landlady), 141
Rubens, Bernice, 354, 367, 505, 588
Rubens, Peter Paul, 210
Rudingerova, Chitra, 134n, 515
Russell, Bertrand, 246, 272, 469
Ruysbroeck, Blessed Jan van, 251&n Ryle, Gilbert, 302–4; Concept of Mind, 271
Sacher-Masoch, Count Leopold von: Venus in Furs, 358
Sackville-West, Edward (later 5th Baron), 398
Sacred and Profane Love Machine, The (IM): love-triangle in, 416; Rebecca West offended by, 439; social range, 444; and modern world, 450; strangling in, 452; attacks psychotherapy, 494; themes and characters, 542–3; wins Whitbread Prize, 543; dream in, 554
Sage, Lorna, 521, 595
St Anne’s College (earlier Society), Oxford: IM’s philosophy tutorship at, 288, 292–3, 296–301; character, 291–2; IM resigns Fellowship, 456, 458, 469
St Antony’s College, Oxford, 376–9
St Ives, Cornwall, 254, 352, 356
Ste Croix see de Ste Croix
Salisbury, Robert Cecil, 6th Marquess of ('Bobbity'), 508
Salisbury-Jones, Eulalia (John Bayley’s godmother; ‘Aunt John'), 404
Salzburg, 225
Samson, Frederic, 325, 479, 481–3, 488, 492, 496
Sandcastle, The (IM): Rembrandt in, 237; threat to marriage in, 257; Julian Chrysostomides portrayed in, 298; IM’s motor car in, 395, 416–17; writing finished, 396; suburban setting, 410; dedicated to John Bayley, 415; themes and characters, 415–17, 538, 543; social range, 443, 445; politics in, 499; on knowing others, 530; film rights, 532
Sandpiper, The (film): and IM’s
Sandcastle, 532
Sartre, Jean-Paul: on Spanish Civil War, 211; IM meets and admires, 215–16; Existentialism, 226, 269, 300; derided at Oxford, 253; and Simone de Beauvoir, 255; IM sees as ‘romantic', 260; IM reads, 269; IM writes on and criticises, 269–72&n 290, 301, 356; IM’s tutorials on at RCA, 472; The Flies, 259; Huis Clos, 253; Nausea (La Nausée), 267, 272, 384, 482
Sartre, Romantic Rationalist (IM), 271, 301, 303, 356, 376
Sassoon, Siegfried, 100, 499
Saunders, James, 531, 533
Saunders, Vernon, 169
Scargill, Arthur, 572
Scott, Revd Henry G.W., 16
Scott, James Henderson, 79–80, 201, 558, 569
Scott, Sergeant Kenneth, 186–7
Scott, Olive (née Marron), 80
Scott, Winnie, 368
Scrutton, Mary see Midgley, Mary
Sea, The Sea, The (IM): IM’s father depicted in, 35; hero-narrator’s low sex-drive in, 49; tide, 74; soldier-figure in, 151; on reunions, 213, 230; obsessional love in, 217; on Tibet, 296; dedicated to Rosemary Cramp, 308; Canetti portrayed in, 351, 366, 423–4; male first-person narrative, 380, 445; on picnics, 402; social range, 445; on Irish suffering, 466; themes and characters, 523–6; reception, 526; on good as unimaginable, 528; on judging people, 529; and theatre, 530; IM adapts for stage, 531; marriage in, 534; Buddhism in, 545
Seaforth Place, London, 142–4, 165–7, 212, 219–20, 222, 259
Sebastian, Anna see Benedikt, Friedl
‘Second Front’ (wartime): demands for, 132, 168
Seneca, 588
Senhouse, Roger, 272
Servants, The (opera adapted from The Servants and the Snow), 531
Servants and the Snow, The (I M; play), 367, 516, 531
Severed Head, A (IM): fraternal tensions in, 5; and IM’s Irishness, 24; Georgie Hands in, 34; promiscuity in, 286; quotes Dante, 314; fog in, 351; character of Honor Klein in, 367, 433, 435, 438, 457, 530, 533, 579; names in, 367, 427; style, 405, 519; characters borrowed from ‘Jerusalem', 427, 433; themes, 434–5; as comic novel, 435–6; reception, 435–6; research for, 437; marriage in, 438; IM’s affection for, 441; social range, 443–4; initial Irish background, 444, 447; lesbian happiness in, 459; dramatised, 460–1, 530–1; psychoanalysis attacked in, 494; film version, 533
Sewell, Elizabeth, 261
Shah, Kanti, 262–5, 268, 288, 326
Shakespeare, William: Keats on receptivity of, 145, 280; accused of masochism, 358; creation of characters, 405; and gentility, 444; John Bayley on, 456; fantasy and realism in, 464n; IM re-reads and studies, 467-g; comedies recalled in IM’s novels, 478–9; influence on IM’s novels, 501, 523, 536, 596; elusiveness, 537; on music, 556–7; Antony and Cleopatra, 181–2; As You Like It, 522; Hamlet, 521, 525; Julius Caesar, 186; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 259; Much Ado About Nothing, 502–3; The Tempest, 524–5
Sharova, Raina, 187, 189n
Sharp, Evelyn (later Baroness), 136
Shaw, Pat see Trend, Lady
Short, Gladys, 37, 41, 48
Sicily: Frank Thompson serves in, 177, 179–80
Simmel, Georg, 325
Simopoulos, John, 399, 401, 421, 495, 517
Sinclair, Hilary, 209
Sing, Jack, 577
Slade, Margaret (Friedland), 70
Smallwood, Norah: reads Under the Net, 368; IM’s dealings with, 417–18, 560; baffled by The Italian Girl, 459–60; and ending of The Red and the Green, 460; IM deposits poems with, 579
Smith, Honor, 289
Smith, Prue, 289–90
Smith, Reggie, 229n Smith, Stevie, 169
Smythies, Yorick, 263, 266, 284, 381–3, 427, 435, 439, 442
Snowdon, Antony Armstrongjones, 1st Earl of, 424
Social Democratic Party, 572
Socrates, 548
Solomon, Flora, 354–5 Solomon, Harold, 493
Somerville, Edith and Martin Ross: The Real Charlotte, 20
Somerville College, Oxford, 568
‘Something Special’ (IM; story), 53, 446–7
Sonne, Abraham, 349
Sontag, Susan, 349, 434n
Sovereignty of Good, The (IM), 126, 275, 303, 423, 477, 492, 496, 501–2, 546n, 547–8, 597
Soviet Union (USSR): IM admires and champions, 76–7, 106, 110, 113; pact with Nazi Germany (1939), 77, 106, 110&n; invades Finland, 110, 131; Germans invade (1941), 132; IM’s disillusionment with, 210–11
Spanish Civil War, 88, 90–1, 211, 464
Spark, (Dame) Muriel, 249, 270, 342, 440, 443, 597
Spear, Ruskin, 474
Spearman, Diana, 354
Special Air Service (SAS): M.R.D. Foot serves with, 179&n, 209
Special Operations Executive (SOE), 151, 161, 181, 186 Spectator, 428 Spencer, Stanley, 57
Spender, Humphrey, 482
Spender, Natasha, Lady, 526, 562–3, 564, 590
Spender, Sir Stephen, 90, 320, 514, 526, 562–4 Spoleto, Italy, 567
Srinivas, Professor, 319
Stalin, Josef, 76, 78, 191, 360, 597
Staminov, Naku, 189–90 Stanbrook Abbey, 420, 428
Stanier, Margaret, 132, 156, 170
Starkie, Enid, 295
Stead, Christopher, 306
Stebbing, Peggy see Pyke-Lees, Peggy Stebbing, Susan, 139&n Steedman, Mabel, 310
Steen, Malvina, 139
Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire see Cedar Lodge
Steiner, Franz Baermann: relations with IM, 201, 317–18, 325–37, 372; IM speaks of Balogh to, 245; Canetti and, 269, 320, 334, 345, 358–9, 505; background and career, 317–25, 360, 479; and sister’s death, 320, 340; heart condition, 322–3, 330, 333–6, 391; journal, 328–9, 336; death and funeral, 337–8, 350–1; IM idealises memory, 340–2, 384, 482; influence on IM, 342–3; commends IM’s early writings to Canetti, 367; portrayed in IM’s novels, 389–92, 442, 479; IM inscribes poem to, 428; as father-figure to IM, 522; goodness, 597; ‘Prayer in the Garden’ (poem), 322, 342; Taboo, 323, 433
Steiner, George, 126, 419, 470
Steiner, Suse, 320, 340
Stenchev, Angel, 190n
Stewart, Alice, 317
Stewart, Carol (later Graham-Harrison), 83, 202, 354–5, 370, 391
Stewart, Frances (née Kaldor), 539
Stewart, Margaret, 222
Stoianov, Captain, 190n
Stone, Janet, 509–12, 516
Stone, Reynolds, 437, 509–12, 514, 516, 544
Stopes, Marie, 49
Stoppard, (Sir) Tom: Jumpers, 124 Storr, Anthony, 524
Stoye, Enid, 127
Strachey, John: Why You Should be a
Socialist, 129 Strawson, (Sir) Peter, 301; Individuals, 308
‘Stream of Consciousness, The’ (I M; paper), 304 ‘Sublime and the Beautiful Revisited, The’ (IM; talk and article), 424, 500
‘Sublime and the Good, The’ (IM; essay), 273n Sudetenland, 88–9 Summerson, Sir John, 470 superstition: among Protestant Irish, 26n, 28, 277n Surrealism, 231, 396
Sutherland, Graham, 97
Synge, John Millington: The Aran Islands, 448
Tale of Genji see Murasaki Shikibu
Tambimuttu, James Meary, 169, 219, 269, 320
tarot divination, 336–7, 451, 525; see also magic and the paranormal
Taylor, Charles, 303, 587, 595
Taylor, Gabriele, 293, 379
Taylor, Joyce, 104, 106
Temple, Minnie, 341
Thalis, Maroula, 186n
Thatcher, Margaret, Baroness, 572
Thom, Dorothy, 169
Thomas, Dylan, 169, 268
Thompson, Dorothy, 134n, 146–4, 589
Thompson, Edward Palmer: reputation as historian, 91; and Frank’s Aeschylean suffering, 122; on Frank’s optimism for post-war world, 183; at Frank’s reburial, 189n; and Frank’s political ideals, 191; on connivance at Frank’s death, 192; letters from IM, 194–5, 235; on Mary Wollstonecraft, 199; visits Bulgaria, 260; accompanies IM to India, 571–2, 574; death, 589; Beyond the Frontier, 190, 194
Thompson, Frank: and IM’s view of Ireland, 25; at Oxford with IM, 85, 90–4, 96–7, 99–100, 111; and Spanish Civil War, 90, 464; and It Can Happen Here, 92, 97, 354; Leonie Marsh’s infatuation with, 94, 175; socio-political activities and beliefs, 99–100, 129–30, 161, 181–2, 191; poems, writings and translations, 100, 147, 150, 152–3, 174; and IM’s view of 1930s, 108; and IM on wartime Oxford, log; war service, 109, 111, 133, 137, 147–9, 177, 179–82; and Communism, 110–11, 114, 129, 190–1; petitions against conscription, 110; on Noel Martin, 112n; world view, 115; IM dedicates ‘The Agamemnon Class’ to, 121 -2&n; idealises Agamemnon, 122; letters from and to IM, 123, 133–4, 137, 141, 143, 147–50, 152–5, 158–60, 162, 164, 170, 173, 176–7, 180–6, 245, 308; disparages bureaucrats, 134n; letters from M.R.D. Foot, 134n, 137; and IM’s Treasury work, 137; joins SOE, 151, 161; linguistic facility, 153, 183; reading, 153–4; contracts jaundice, 154; IM confesses loss of virginity to, 155, 158–61, 164; dislikes Noel Eldridge, 157; sexual ideals, 159–60, 164; and IM’s writing ambitions, 170–1; portrayed in IM novels, 171–2, 230, 439; religious ideas, 174, 180; and IM’s affair with M.R.D. Foot, 175–6; IM writes poem for ('For WFT), 176&n, 196; mission in Serbia and Bulgaria, 183–7, 192; romances, 185–6; captured and executed, 187–90, 192, 509; effect of death on IM, 193–6, 199–201, 207, 338, 341–2; biographies of, 194; family plans memorial publication for, 194; character and personality, 196, 597; takes excessive risks, 200; IM writes of to Hicks, 207, 220; continence, 245; memorial ceremony for (1947), 259–60; meets Evans-Pritchard, 323; IM inscribes poem to, 428; enthusiasm for Bakhtin, 529; IM’s later belief in being engaged to, 538; letter from Pliatzky on IM’s sense of tragic, 558; ‘Polliciti Meliora', 174, 194
Thompson, Theo (Frank’s mother), 189n, 194, 246, 259–6o, 572
Thompson,? .J. and E.P.: There is a Spirit in Europe, 194, 245
Thorndike, Dame Sybil, 58
Thorpe, Thomas, 344
Three Arrows, The (IM; play), 468, 531
Tibet: IM’s interest in, 296, 524–5, 545
Time of the Angels, The (I M): BMB depicted in, 59; dedicated to Fraenkel, 120, 484; and wartime London, 147; fog in, 351; recycled character in, 433; writing, 467; and David Morgan, 475; immorality in, 476–8; and Philippa Foot, 485; Platonism in, 502
Times, The, 497–8
Titian, 210; The Flaying of Marsyas, 570
Tito, Josip Broz, 234&n, 240–1, 243–4
Todd, Olivier, 281, 373, 515
Todd, Richard, 570–1
Toderova, Svetlana, 189n
Tolkien, J.R.R., 569
Tolstoy, Count Leo, 405, 480
Tomov, Boris, 190n
Topencharov (Bulgarian Director of Press), 189n
Tosh, Catherine, 43–4
Toulmin, Stephen, 262n
Toynbee, Philip, 436; Friends Apart, 129
Tracy, Beau, 23–4
Tracy, Honor: relations with IM and John Bayley, 22–3, 484; and IM’s Irishness, 27, 449; and Lucy Klatschko, 421, 497, 528, 561, 570; Irish settings, 448; dislikes The Italian Girl, 460; on Northern Ireland Troubles, 465; and IM’s campaigning for homosexual law reform, 497; IM visits with Stones, 511; on IM’s complexity, 528; on advent of Days of Wrath, 561; on IM’s fame, 570
Traherne, Thomas: Meditations, 556
Treasury: IM works at, 134, 135–7, 139–40; Pliatzky at, 437, 471
Trend, J.B., 133
Trend, Patricia, Lady (née Shaw), 135, 140
Trenet, Charles, 216
Trickett, Rachel, 282
Tricycle (US magazine), 553
Trinity College Dublin: IM addresses Philosophical Society, 447; grants honorary D.Litt to IM, 466
Trotman, Jack, 107
Trunski, Slavcho, 189n, 195; Grateful
Bulgaria, 194 Tupankov, Ilia, 190n Turgenev, Ivan, 439
Turner, Jane, 560n Tusmore Park, 104 Under the Net (IM): ‘Little Grange’ house in, 68; published, 170, 368, 379’ 384–5; influenced by and dedicated to Queneau, 232–4, 384, 579; on Paris life, 255; ‘Master’ figure in, 263; solipsism in, 270; Anscombe portrayed in, 284; promiscuity in, 286; IM lends manuscript to Steiner, 327–8; Canetti praises, 365; hospital conversation in, 377; reception, 379, 385, 435–6; first-person narrative, 380, 445; self-portrait in, 380, 384–5; themes and characters, 380–5, 419, 451, 518, 567; proposed film of, 382, 532; on incongruity of counterparts, 399; London setting, 410; cuts for US edition, 417; Smythies portrayed in, 439, 442; social range, 444–5; and modern world, 449–50; IM gives manuscript to Brigid Brophy, 487; theatre scenes in, 530; on film world, 532; unworldliness in, 544; on stories as lies, 549
Underwood, Garth, 39n, 131
Underwood, Leon, 39
Unicorn, The (IM): character of Effingham Cooper in, 18; Gothic element in, 48, 501; Fraenkel portrayed in, 120, 454, 483; physical contact in, 287; on idealising absence, 341; on power and victims, 371; self-portrait in, 372; on good, 374, 454, 480; Lady Ursula Vernon supposedly portrayed in, 398, 440–1; innocence in, 423; Irish landscape in, 433, 444, 448–9, 460; dog in, 438n; dedicated to Pears, 450; themes and characters, 450–1; Canetti and, 454–5; reception, 456; lesbian character in, 459; Cornford designs cover for, 469–70; Fraenkel criticises, 483; film option on, 532, 539; on spiritual life, 549; mysticism in, 592
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), 205–8, 210, 212, 225, 229, 235–9, 243–5
United States: IM refused access visa to, 246–7; IM’s attitude to, 246–7; see also New York; Yale University
University College London: IM lectures at, 492
Unofficial Rose, An (I M): and Richardson family, 16; soldier-figure in, 151; style, 405; research for, 432, 437; Angus Wilson dislikes, 443; Irish references in, 444; and modern world, 450; lesbian character in, 459; virtue in, 480; sense of identity in, 527
Updike, John, 435
USSR see Soviet Union Ustinov, Sir Peter, 533
Vale, The, Oxford (nursing home), 592
Valentine, Miss (Badminton School cook), 61
Valéry, Paul, 455
Vassar College, New York State, 246–7, 253
VE-Day, 209
Vernon, Stephen, 448
Vernon, Lady Ursula, 398, 440, 444, 448
Veto, Nicolas, 456
Victor, Ed (IM’s agent), 16, 560, 579
Vienna, 236–8, 582
Viking Press (USA), 368, 417, 460
Villers, Audi, 567–8, 590
Villers, Borys, 567–8
Vinelott, (Sir) John, 262n
Virgil: Aeneid, 558n
‘Vision and Choice in Morality’ (I M; essay), 529
VJ-Day, 212
Wade-Gery, Henry Theodore, 116
Wain, John, 374, 428n
Wainwright, Janice, 473–4
Waissman, Friedrich, 263, 341
Waissman, Tommy, 341
Walpole, Hugh, 440
Walton, George Henry, 49n
Walton, Mrs (of Belfast and Dun Laoghaire), 53, 446–7
Warner, Marina, 595
Warner, Rex, 90
Warnock, (Sir) Geoffrey, 304
Warnock, Mary (later Baroness), 115, 122, 272, 294–5, 301, 304, 515; A Memoir: People and Places, 584n
Washio, Ryuko, 545
Watts, Charlie, 471
Waugh, Evelyn, 443, 595
Webb, W.L., 463
Webb-Johnson, ‘Ski’ (Badminton music mistress), 65, 67
Wedgwood, Dame Veronica, 349
Weight, Carel, 475
Weil, Simone: MacKinnon compared with, 125; interest in T.E. Lawrence, 151; religious/political passions, 173; intellectual influence on IM, 260, 271–2, 434, 454, 501–2; and Plato, 260, 454, 547; influence on The Unicorn, 454–5; on goodness, 546; mysticism, 592n; Waiting on God, 299
Weinberger, Harry, 557, 588
Wells, Dee (later Lady Ayer), 378, 474
Wells, H.G., 440
Werfel, Franz, 318
West, Dame Rebecca, 436, 439–40
Whitbread Prize: IM wins for The Sacred and Profane Love Machine, 543
White, Patrick, 270
Whitfield (house), Herefordshire, 562
Widerberg, Bo, 532
Wignall, Anne, 444
Wilde, Gerald, 295
Wildeblood, Peter, 424
Wilkinson, Endymion Porter, 571
Willett, Anne, 254–5, 367
Willett, John, 96, 269, 354, 367
Williams, Alun Vaughan, 531
Williams, (Sir) Bernard, 302
Williams, Ilse, 37
Williams, Raymond, 78
Williams-Ellis, Amabel, Lady, 96
Williams-Ellis, Charlotte, 85, 95–7, 129
Williams-Ellis, Sir Clough, 96
Williams-Ellis, Susie, 95, 129, 158
Wills, Maud, 65
Wilson, A.N.: on IM’s joining Communist Party for ‘religious’ reasons, 172; on IM-John Bayley marriage, 402, 404; Bayleys entertain, 414; on award of Booker Prize to IM, 526; on IM’s novels, 542; and IM’s destroyed journal, 549; on IM as ‘lay saint', 552n; bequest from IM, 593; writing influenced by IM, 595
Wilson, (Sir) Angus, 255, 364, 385, 405, 413, 443–4
Wilson, Harold (later Baron), 486
Wilson, John Cook, 216&n
Wisdom, John, 262, 265
Wittgenstein, Ludwig: war service, 13; at Cambridge, 239, 262–3, 284; in IM novels, 263–4, 285, 381; IM on, 263–4, 271, 396, 586; IM meets, 265–6, 269; influence on IM, 266–7; and Elizabeth Anscombe, 284–5; little-known in Oxford, 301; suspicion of inner life, 304; and Smythies’ death, 382; Tractatus, 384
Wollheim, Anne, 506
Wollheim, Richard, 301, 472, 492, 495
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 199
Woodward, Joanna, 533
Woolf, Leonard, 510
Woolf, Virginia: on highbrows and lowbrows, 74; IM writes on, 102; IM reads, 154; on slaves and power, 371; social setting, 443; Cecils and, 508; love of London, 585
Word Child, A (IM): style, 405; writing of, 433; plagiarises Joanna, Joanna, 468; on female origins, 528n; on snobs, 539; themes and characters, 542; Czech word in, 582
World War II: outbreak, 106–8; ends in Europe, 209–10; finally ends, 212
Wormser, Olivier: affair with IM, 205
Worsthorne, (Sir) Peregrine, 192
Worswick, David, 294–5 Wright, David, 320
Wright, Max (IM’s second cousin), 10, 415, 592n
Wright, Peter, 181
Wyndham, Francis, 540
Xenophon: Anabasis, 74
Yale University: IM gives talk at, 424, 433
Year of Birds, A (I M and Reynolds Stone), 511
Yeats family, 10
Yeats, John Butler (WBY’s father), 283
Yeats, William Butler, 18, 26, 29,-314, 396, 448, 462, 569
Yugoslavia: rival partisans and factions in, 234–6, 240; dissidents repatriated, 241–3
Zealand, Pat, 71
Zoschenko, Mikhail, 134n