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Ackland, Valentine, 247—8, 250, 252; Whether a Dove or a Seagull (with Sylvia Townsend Warner), 250
Ackroyd, Peter: Blake, 12, 14—15; Dickens, 14
Acworth, Dr James, 93
Aiken, Conrad, 189
Alain-Fournier (Henri Alain Fournier), 305—10, 354; Colombes Blanchet, 306; Le Grand Meaulnes, 305, 306—7; translated as The Lost Domain by Frank Davison, 305, 309—10
Albert, Stephen, 529
Aldington, Richard: enlists, 161; Images, 165
Allen, Walter, 52
Allston, Washington, 19
Amis, Sir Kingsley: correspondence with Larkin, 375, 377
Amory, Mark, 331
Andrews, Henry Maxwell, 315—17
Angier, Carole: Jean Rhys: Life and Work, 318—19
Annan, Noël, Baron, 277
Anscombe, Elizabeth, 356
Apollinaire, Guillaume, 167
Arbuckle, Roscoe (‘Fatty’), 467
Arkell, David: Alain-Fournier: A Brief Life, 1886—1914, 305, 308
Arnim, Elizabeth von, 149
Arts and Crafts movement, 129—33
Ashbee, Charles Robert: biography by Fiona MacCarthy, 129—33; From Whitechapel to Camelot, 129
Ashbee, Henry Spencer, 130
Ashbee, Janet (née Forbes), 131
Askwith, Betty: Two Victorian Families, 76
Asquith, Anthony, 327
Asquith, Herbert Henry, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, 188
Atherton, Gertrude, 229
Athill, Diana, 318
Atlantic Monthly, The, 24
Auden, Wystan Hugh: influence on MacNeice, 347, 352; John Lehmann publishes, 341; MacNeice travels with, 348
Augustine, St, 313
Austen, Jane: final illness, 5; on romantic imagination, 395; Emma, 5—11; Northanger Abbey, 10; Persuasion, 506—7
Austen-Leigh, James E. (Jane Austen’s nephew): memoir of Jane, 10
Austin, Alfred, 104
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, 44n
Bacon, Leonard, 169
Baker, Michael: Our Three Selves: A Life of Radclyffe Hall, 253—8
Baldwin, Louisa (née Macdonald), 105, 115, 137
Balfour, Arthur James (later 1st Earl), 145
Banks, Leslie, 483
Barbera, Jack and William McBrien (eds): Me Again: Uncollected Writings of Stevie Smih, 358—63
Barrie, Sir James Matthew: on attempting to grow up, 306; on Mrs Oliphant, 511; and Peter Pan statue, 189; visits dying Mrs Oliphant, 72; Peter Pan, 213
Basire, James, 13
Batemans (house), Sussex, 142
Batey, Mavis, 84
Batten, Mabel (‘Ladye’), 255—8
Battiscombe, Georgina: Christina Rossetti: A Divided Life, 97—100
Bawden, Edward, 168
Bayley, John, 502
Beach, Sylvia, 168
Beardsley, Aubrey, 139, 177
Beardsley, Mabel, 140
Beauman, Sally, introduction to Ada Leverson’s The Little Ottleys, 233—5
Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron, 315
Beck, Ian, 310
Beckett, Samuel, 414, 505, 525
Bedford College, London, 173—4
Bedford, John Russell, 4th Duke of, 453
Beerbohm, (Sir) Max, 233
Bell, Clive, 281, 283
Bell, Julian, 283, 338
Bell, Quentin, 275, 277, 289
Bell, Vanessa, 280—4, 289, 291
Bellow, Saul: Henderson the Rain King, 424; Ravelstein, 424—6
Benda, Simone, 306, 308; Sous les nouveaux soleils, 307
Bennett, Alan, 215
Benson family, 280
Benson, Arthur, 73, 75, 196
Benson, Edward White, Archbishop of Canterbury: biography by Geoffrey Palmer and Noel Lloyd, 73—8; and loss of eldest son, 281
Benson, Frederick, 73, 75, 280
Benson, Hugh, 73, 75—6, 280
Benson, Maggie, 73, 75
Benson, Martin, 75
Benson, Minnie (née Sidgwick), 73—5
Benson, Nellie, 73
Benson, W.A.S., 138
Bernhardt, Sarah, 139
Besant, Annie, 118
Bethlehem, 459
Betjeman, Sir John, 346, 445
Biala, Janice, 295
Blackwood, John (publisher), 32, 38, 40, 58, 67
Blackwood, Major (publisher), 40
Blackwood, Miss (John’s sister), 52
Blackwood, William, 61
Blackwood’s Magazine: Mrs Oliphant writes for, 40, 43, 57, 67, 70
Blake, Catherine (née Boucher; William’s wife), 13—14, 16
Blake, James and Catherine (William’s parents), 12—13
Blake, William, 12—16, 313, 358; ‘Schoolboy’, 168
Bloomsbury group, 277, 289
Blunden, Edmund, 354
Blunt, Anthony, 346, 348
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen: on Charlotte Mew, 178; on William Morris, 107; Love-Lyrics & Songs of Praise, 124
Boer War (1899—1902), 245
Boll, Theophilus, 179
Boos, Florence, 104
Bottomley, Gordon, 150
Bourget, Paul, 235
Bowen, Stella, 295
Bowra, Sir Maurice, 99
Boylan, Clare (ed.): The Agony and the Ego: The Art and Strategy of Fiction Writing Explored, 507
Brenan, Gerald, 289
Bridges, Robert, 166
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC): John Lehmann at, 342; MacNeice works for, 349, 351; Penelope Fitzgerald works for, 472—5
Brittain, Vera, 253
Brontë, Charlotte: Villette, 66
Brontë, Emily, 98
Brooke, Rupert, 157
Brooke-Rose, Christine: Amalgamemnon, 506—7
Brown, Ford Madox, 294
Brown, Frederick, 289
Burnand, Francis, 208
Burne-Jones family: at The Grange, 133—4
Burne-Jones, Christopher, 134
Burne-Jones, Sir Edward: death, 142; decline in popularity, 141; exhibits, 137—8; fears de Morgan’s wife, 126—7; at The Grange, 136—40; illustrates Kelmscott Chaucer, 124, 141; indulges granddaughters, 141; infatuation with Helen Gaskell, 141—2; Kipling visits, 101; liaison with Mary Zambaco, 108—9, 135, 145; marriage, 108—9; Mary Nicholson keeps house for, 117; meets George Eliot, 36; resigns from Academy, 139; stained glass, 137, 146; supports William Morris, 124; tours Italy, 137; watercolours reviewed (1993), 143—7; Golden Stairs, 138; ‘The Merciful Knight’, 144—5; Phyllis and Demophoön, 136, 145
Burne-Jones, Georgiana, Lady (née Macdonald): on Edward’s ‘The Merciful Knight’, 144; at The Grange, 135, 140—1; in local politics, 118; marriage, 108—9; on Morrises’ marriage, 117; on servant problems, 92, 139; settles in Rottingdean, 142; William Morris’s dependence on, 119
Burne-Jones, Margaret see Mackail, Margaret
Butler, John, 529
Butler, Samuel: Erewhon, 115
Butts, Thomas, 14
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron, 19—20
Cage, John, 529
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal): exhibition (New York 1990), 450—6
Cannan, Gilbert, 166
Carlyle, Thomas, 21
Carpenter, Edward, 130—1, 242—3
Carr, James Lloyd: The Harpole Report, 380, 386; A Month in the Country: Introduction to, 380—7
Carrington, Dora, 288—91
Carroll, Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson): biographies of, 80—6; deaconate, 193; Alice in Wonderland, 83; Sylvie and Bruno, 85; Through the Looking Glass, 83
Cartwright, Julia, 140, 142
Cather, Willa, 25
Cecil, Lord David, 327
Chalmers, Martin, 432—3, 436
Chang, Jung see Jung Chang
Chapbook (Harold Monro’s periodical), 160, 166—8, 170
Chapman, John (publisher), 37—8
Charles I, King, 446
Chaucer, Geoffrey: Kelmscott Press edition, 123, 141
Chelsea Bookshop, 162
Chelsea Broadsides, 162
Chipping Campden, 129, 131—2
Christ Church, Oxford: Lewis Carroll at, 81
Christian, John, 146
Christ’s Hospital (school), 19
Clarke, Revd James Stanier, 6
Cobden-Sanderson, Annie, 118
Cockerell, Kate, Lady, 182
Cockerell, Sir Sydney, 124, 171, 181—2, 188
Cohen, Morton N.: Lewis Carroll: A Biography, 80—5
Coldstream, Nancy, 348
Coleridge, Mary, 188
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 17—21; Biographia Literaria, 20; Notebooks, 20; Remorse (play), 19
Collins, Wilkie: The Woman in White, 57, 134
Coltman, Ella, 187—8
Compton-Burnett, Dame Ivy, 505
Connolly, Cyril: edits Horizon, 341 Conrad, Joseph: friendship with F.M. Ford, 295—6
Constable, John, 482
Conti, Italia see Italia Conti
Cooper, Barbara, 343
Cooper, James Fenimore, 21
Cornford, Frances: Monro publishes, 165; ‘To a Fat Lady Seen from a Train’, 170
Corvo, Baron see Rolfe, Frederick
Cottle, Joseph, 19
Coulton, Barbara: Louis MacNeice in the BBC, 349
Cournos, John, 272
Cox, Michael, 192
Craig, Edward Gordon, 167
Crane, Walter, 146
Crawford, Alan, 129
Crispin, Edmund see Montgomery, Bruce
Cronwright-Schreiner, Cron, 241, 244—5
Cross, John, 37, 39
Cuala Press, 227
Dahl, Roald: biography by Jeremy Treglown, 371—3; Boy, 371
D’Arcy, Ella, 177
Dartmoor, 446—9
David, Elizabeth: A Book of Mediterranean Food, 342
Davies, W.H., 149—50, 161, 277
Davin, Dan, 344
Dawes, ‘Toddy’, 380—1
Delafield, E.M.: Consequences, 268; Late and Soon, 260; Thank Heaven Fasting: afterword, 259—70
de la Mare, Elfrida (née Ingpen; Walter’s wife), 187—9
de la Mare, Florence (Walter’s daughter), 189
de la Mare, Jinnie (Walter’s daughter), 189
de la Mare, Walter: appearance, 184; and Edward Thomas, 148, 150; and Naomi Royde Smith, 189; poetic qualities, 251; readings at Poetry Bookshop, 184, 277; reputation, 277; supports Charlotte Mew, 182; Theresa Whistler’s biography of, 184—90; ‘Arabia’, 169; ‘The Huntsmen’, 170; The Listeners and Other Poems, 188; Memoirs of a Midget, 189; ‘The Old Man’, 189; Peacock Pie, 184, 188—9, 488; A Portrait, 189
Democratic Federation, 139
de Morgan, Mary Evelyn (née Pickering), 126—8
de Morgan, William: biography by Mark Hamilton, 125—8; Alice-for-Short, 128; Joseph Vance, 128
Denman, Gertrude Mary, Lady (née Pearson), 489
De Quincey, Thomas, 19
Derby, Edward Stanley, 12th Earl of, 87
Dick, Kay, 360
Dickens, Charles: Angus Wilson and, 371; death, 36; dialogue in, 505—7; fictional plots, 497; on lesbianism, 253; not admired by Mrs Oliphant, 57, 64; sets final novel in cathedral city, 45; William Morris cites, 106; A Christmas Carol, 46
Dickinson, Emily, 358
Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes, 130
Dickinson, Patric, 359
Digby, Kenelm: Broadstone of Honour, 112
Disraeli, Benjamin, 85, 205
Dodds, E.R., 344, 348
Dooley, Maura (ed.): Novelists at Work, 517
Douglas, James, 253
Doyle, Roddy: The Commitments, 406; The Snapper, 406; The Van, 406—10
Drabble, Margaret: Angus Wilson: A Biography, 367—71
Drinkwater, John, 157
Duffy, Maureen, 99
du Maurier, George, 206—8
Dun Emer Press, 168
Dunn, Douglas, 379
Dunn, Jane: A Very Close Conspiracy: Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, 280—4
Dürer, Albrecht: The Knight, Death, and the Devil, 112
Eastbourne, 491—2
Egoist, The (magazine), 179
Eliot, George: Georgiana Burne-Jones seeks advice from, 136; Karl’s biography of, 36—9; on Methodism, 54; Mrs Oliphant on life of, 70; Mrs Oliphant’s Salem Chapel attributed to, 58; on position of women, 31; on working in remote past, 525; Adam Bede, 38, 54; Autobiography, 70; Middlemarch, 28—35, 38, 115, 525; The Mill on the Floss, 31—3; Romola, 39; Scenes of Clerical Life, 44; Silas Marner, 38—9, 46, 511
Eliot, T.S.: edits Criterion, 167; on learning to care, 98; Monro rejects, 165—6; Pound promotes, 166; proposes toast to John Lehmann, 343; publishes MacNeice’s poetry, 348; reads to Oxford University Poetry Society, 354; takes French lessons from Alain-Fournier, 308; ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, 401; The Rock, 285; The Waste Land, 166, 304, 354
Ellerbeck, George: Literary Award, 380
Ellis, Henry Havelock, 242—3, 257
Ellman, Richard: James Joyce, 529
Elton, Oliver, 217
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 21, 239
Emma, Queen of the Sandwich Islands, 93
English Review, 295
Enright, D.J., 376
Epstein, (Sir) Jacob, 160 ‘Etherton, George’, 177
Eton Rambler (magazine), 194
Evans, Isaac (George Eliot’s brother), 37
Fairfield, Letitia (Lettie), 311
Farjeon, Eleanor: early happiness, 98; and Edward Thomas, 148; readings at Poetry Bookshop, 170, 184, 277
Farrell, J.G.: biography by Lavinia Greacen, 363—7; A Girl in the Head, 365; The Lung, 365; The Man from Elsewhere, 365; The Siege of Krishnapur, 366; The Singapore Grip, 366; Troubles, 365
Faulkner, Charles, 120
Fellowship of the New Life, 242
Felpham, Sussex, 13—14
fiction: plot in, 494—8; speaking and dialogue in, 498—507
Fields, Annie, 24
First, Ruth and Anne Scott: Olive Schreiner, 241
Fitzgerald, Edward, 95—6
Fitzgerald, Penelope: background and career, 467—80; childhood, 481—93; on writing, 508—19; At Freddie’s, 479; The Beginning of Spring, 480; The Bookshop, 476, 499; The Gate of Angels, 500, 511—19; Human Voices, 474—5; Innocence, 480; The Means of Escape (collection), 472n; Offshore, 478
Flaubert, Gustave, 84
Flint, Frank, 156, 159—60, 166—7; Cadences, 165
Flying Fame rhyme sheets, 168
Foote, Samuel, 203
Ford, Ford Madox: biography by Alan Judd, 294—8
Forster, Edward Morgan: accompanies Elizabeth von Arnim on caravan tour, 149; on Lydia Lopokova, 291; plot surprises, 399; and Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, 284; writes pageants, 285; A Passage to India, 498; A Room with a View, 268
Fortescue, Chichester, 89
Fouqué, H. de la Motte: Sintram, 112 & n
Fournier, Henri Alain see Alain-Fournier
Fowles, John, 310
Fraser, Lovat, 168—70, 180
Freud, Sigmund: Beyond the Pleasure Principle, 312
Friend, The ( journal), 18
Frost, Robert: Alida Klementaski detests, 153, 166; at Poetry Bookshop, 160; and Edward Thomas, 149—52; reads Ralph Hodgson’s ‘Eve’, 168—9; North of Boston, 151
Fry, Roger: death, 289; friendship with C.R. Ashbee, 130; Post-Impressionist Exhibition (1910), 289
Futurists, 155, 165
Gardner, Stanley, 15
Garnett, David, 249, 288, 290
Garnett, Edward, 150
Garrett, Tony, 369—70
Gaskell, Helen, 141—2
Gaudier-Bržeska, Henri, 158
George VI, King, 473
George, Prince Regent (later King George IV), 6
Georgian Poetry (series), 153, 157—8, 164, 166, 188
Georgian poets, 155, 165, 167
Gertler, Mark, 289—90
Gerzina, Gretchen: Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893—1932, 288—91
Gibson, Robert, 310
Gide, André, 188, 309, 529
Gilchrist, Anne, 95
Gillman, Dr James and Ann, 20
Giorgione: Europa and the Bull, 137—8
Girton College, Cambridge, 31
Gladstone, Catherine (née Glynne), 93
Gladstone, William Ewart: on accepting future, 33; on death of Edward White Benson, 78; indulges granddaughter, 84, 141; as Lewis Carroll’s Unicorn, 85; praises Minnie Benson, 75
Glasier, Bruce, 118
Gleeson, Evelyn, 227
Glendinning, Victoria: Rebecca West: A Life, 310—17
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 496
Golding, Sir William: Lord of the Flies, 364
Gollancz, Sir Victor, 272
Gonne, Maud: correspondence with Yeats, 219—25
Goodman, Elizabeth, 173
Gordon Riots (1780), 13
Gore-Booth, Constance (later Countess Markievicz), 224
Gore-Booth, Eva, 224
Gosse, Sir Edmund, 91
Grace (Thames barge), 477—9
Graham, Frances, 137
Graham, William, 137
Grahame, Kenneth, 215
Grange, The, North End, Fulham, 133—42
Grant, Duncan, 289
Graves, Robert, 165
Gray, Tony: A Peculiar Man: A Life of George Moore, 228—32
Greacen, Lavinia: J.G. Farrell: The Making of a Writer, 363—7
Green, Arthur Romney, 156, 159, 163
Green, Roger Lancelyn, 82
Green, Romney, 130
Greene, Graham, 332
Greener, Amy, 174
Gregory, Augusta, Lady, 217, 219
Grigson, Geoffrey, 347
Grossmith, George and Weedon: The Diary of a Nobody, 208
Grosvenor Galleries: Burne-Jones exhibits at, 137—8
Guild of Handicrafts, 129—30, 132—3
Guthrie, James, 153
Guy, Revd F.B., 111
‘Gyp’ (i.e. la comtesse S.G.M.R. de Martel de Janville), 235, 500
Haggard, Sir Henry Rider, 297
Haight, Gordon, 36—7
Hall, Radclyffe (‘John’): Michael Baker’s biography of, 253—8; Adam’s Breed, 255; Unlit Lamp, 255; The Well of Loneliness, 253—4, 258
Hallam, Arthur, 92
Hamilton, Ian, 149
Hamilton, Mark: Rare Spirit: A Life of William de Morgan, 125
Hampstead, 471—2, 481—6, 490—1
Hardwick, Joan: The Yeats Sisters: A Biography of Susan and Elizabeth Yeats, 226—8
Hardy, Florence, 18, 173, 182
Hardy, Thomas: fictional plots, 497; promotes Charlotte Mew, 173, 178, 182, 184; Jude the Obscure, 527—8; Under the Greenwood Tree, 115
Harland, Henry, 176—7
Harman, Claire (ed.): Sylvia Townsend Warner: Collected Poems, 246, 250—2
Harrison, Lucy, 173—5, 177
Hart, Ruth, 217
Hart-Davis, Sir Rupert, 258; Hugh Walpole, 370
Hartley, Enid, 327
Hartley, George, 375
Hartley, Leslie Poles: biography by Adrian Wright, 326—9; on F.W. Myers, 320; praises The Well of Loneliness, 253; The Go-Between, 329, 525
Hartley, Norah, 326—7
Heaney, Seamus, 378
Heath-Stubbs, John: Hindsights, 343
Heeley, Wilfred, 134
Herbert, George: ‘Hope’, 393
Hersey, John, 205
Hicks family, 470
Hicks, Edward Lee, Bishop of Lincoln (Penelope Fitzgerald’s grandfather), 91, 470
Hill, Miranda (‘Andy’), 280
Hill, Octavia, 31, 79—80, 173, 280
Hill, Polly and Richard Keynes (eds): Lydia and Maynard: Letters Between Lydia Lokopova and John Maynard Keynes, 1918—1925, 288, 291—3
Hitchman, Janet: Such a Strange Lady, 271
Hodgson, Ralph: ‘Eve’, 169
Hogarth Press: John Lehmann works at, 338, 340, 342; publishes Eliot, 166
Holliday, Catherine, 17
Holmes, Richard: on the Apocrypha, 194; Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804—1834, 17—21
Holroyd, Michael: Lytton Strachey, 277; Unreceived Opinions, 380
Holt, Charlie, 328
Holy Land, 456—61
Hone, Joseph: edits J.B. Yeats letters, 216; life of George Moore, 228
Honour, Hugh, 451
Hood, Thomas: Song of the Shirt, 205
Hooton, Harry, 150
Horizon (magazine), 341
Housman, A.E., 190, 201; Last Poems, 190—1
Housman, Laurence, 132
Howard, Rosalind, 109
Howell, Charles Augustus, 135
Hueffer, Ford Madox see Ford, Ford Madox
Hughes, David, 342
Hughes, Ted, 352, 378
humour, 202—3
Hunt, Violet, 295
Hutchinson, Sara, 18
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 198
Hyde, Douglas, 230
Hynes, Samuel, 311
Iles, Frank, 126
Imagists, 155, 165
Inklings (Oxford group), 355
Ionides, Constantine, 108 & n
Irving, Edward, 55
Isherwood, Christopher: relations with John Lehmann, 339, 341, 343
Ishiguro, Kazuo: A Pale View of Hills, 502—3; The Remains of the Day, 421; The Unconsoled, 420—2
Italia Conti (theatrical school, London), 479
Jackson, Moses, 190
Jacobs, W.W., 513
James, Henry: on Ada Leverson, 234; on Charles Keene and George du Maurier, 206—7; and dialogue, 505; on E.W. Benson’s ghost account, 78; visits The Grange, 139; The Aspern Papers, 456; The Awkward Age, 269, 500
James, Montague Rhodes: life, career and writings, 192—3, 195; Eton and King’s, 193, 198; The Haunted Doll’s House and Other Stories: Introduction, 192—200
James, William, 12
Jameson Raid (1895), 244
Jameson, Storm, 189, 310—11
Jammes, Francis, 306
Jay, Elisabeth: Mrs Oliphant, ‘A Fiction to Herself’: A Literary Life, 69—72
Jeffares, A. Norman, 221, 224
Jeffrey, Francis, 68
Jerusalem, 457—9
Jewett, Sarah Orne: background and career, 22—4; death, 27; novels and stories, 22—7; A Country Doctor, 23; ‘Miss Tempy’s Watchers’, 26; The Country of the Pointed Firs, 22, 24—6
Jews: in Nazi Germany, 432—8
John Lehmann Ltd, 341—2
Jones, David, 168
Jones, Jo Elwyn and J. Francis Gladstone: The Red King’s Dream, or Lewis Carroll in Wonderland, 80, 85—6
Jones, Monica, 374—5
Jowett, Benjamin, 94—5
Joyce, James: on art, 222, 530; epiphanies, 208; and Ford Madox Ford’s liking for women, 298; and language, 529; on romantic imagination, 395; Finnegans Wake, 529; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 222, 405, 414, 516; Ulysses, 286, 497, 527
Joyce, Stanislaus, 527
Judd, Alan: Ford Madox Ford, 294—8
Jung Chang: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, 427—31
Kafka, Franz, 314; The Trial, 501
Kallin, Anna, 358
Karl, Frederick R.: George Eliot, Voice of a Century: A Biography, 36—9
Katzman, Charles, 348
Kauffer, McKnight, 162—3, 168
Keats, John: on Coleridge, 21; in Hampstead, 471, 482—3
Keats, Tom, 482
Keble, John, 98, 111
Keene, Charles, 206—8, 212—13
Kelman, James, 407
Kelmscott Manor House, 107, 134, 528
Kelmscott Press, The, 122—5, 141
Kendall, H.E., 172
Kennedy, Richard: A Boy at the Hogarth Press, 284
Kermode, Frank, 30, 38
Keynes, John Maynard, Baron: correspondence with Lydia Lopokova, 288, 291—3
King, Cecil, 342
King, Edward, Bishop of Lincoln, 77
King, Francis: Yesterday Came Suddenly, 370
King, Gunning, 208
Kingsley, Charles, 86
Kingsley, Henry, 86
Kipling, Alice, 135
Kipling, Rudyard: Angus Wilson and, 371; with Burne-Joneses at The Grange, 136, 140, 142; meets William Morris, 101—3, 136; praises Sarah Orne Jewett’s Country of the Pointed Firs, 26; Something of Myself, 136
Klementaski, Alida (Mrs Harold Monro): and Charlotte Mew, 180—2; and Poetry Bookshop, 153, 158—9, 161—7, 170
Klemperer, Eva (née Schlemmer), 432, 435, 437
Klemperer, Victor: I Shall Bear Witness (transl. Martin Chalmers), 432—8
Knox family, 469
Knox, Dillwyn (Penelope Fitzgerald’s uncle), 469
Knox, Revd Edward (Penelope Fitzgerald’s grandfather), 469
Knox, E.V. (Penelope Fitzgerald’s father): on difference between journalism and literature, 202, 495; edits Punch, 201, 209, 468; homes and family life, 468, 482, 486, 491; writes for Punch, 201—2, 468, 471, 482, 486; In My Old Days: foreword, 210—12
Knox, Rawle (Penelope Fitzgerald’s brother), 468, 485, 488—9; The Work of E.H. Shepard, 214
Knox, Monsignor Ronald (Penelope Fitzgerald’s uncle), 333, 469—70
Knox, Revd Wilfred (Penelope Fitzgerald’s uncle), 469—70
Kocmanova, Jessie: The Maturing of William Morris, 104
Lamb, Charles, 19
Lane, Allen, 341—2
Lane, John, 177
Lanza, Clara, 229
Larkin, Philip: The Less Deceived, 375; Selected Letters, 1940—1985 (ed. Anthony Thwaite), 374—9; ‘The Whitsun Wedding’, 377
Latham, David and Sheila, 102
Lawrence, D.H.: dialogue in, 504—5; lives in Well Walk, 482; at Poetry Bookshop, 160; Rebecca West and, 313; The Captain’s Doll, 504; Kangaroo, 504; Sons and Lovers, 417, 503; Women in Love, 504
Lear, Anne (Edward’s sister), 87
Lear, Edward, 93—4; Excursions in Italy, 87—8
Leavis, F.R., 36, 152
Lee, Alice, 174
Lee, Hermione: Virginia Woolf, 275—9, 338
Leech, John, 206
le Gallienne, Richard, 235
Legrand, Edy, 168
Lehmann, Beatrix, 337
Lehmann, Helen, 337
Lehmann, John: biography by Adrian White, 336—44; ‘A Dream of Winter’, 341; In the Purely Pagan Sense, 337, 340; The Whispering Gallery, 340
Lehmann, Rosamond: place in family, 337; relations with brother John, 342; on Rose Macaulay, 299; Dusty Answer, 253, 338
Lehmann, Rude, 337
Leighton House, London, 126
Lemon, Mark, 204—5
Leonard, Mrs (medium), 256
Leonardo da Vinci: Mona Lisa, 450
lesbianism: Radclyffe Hall and, 253—7
Lessing, Doris: The Golden Notebook, 364
Leverson, Ada: The Little Ottleys, 233—8
Leverson, Ernest, 233—4, 236
Levi, Peter: Edward Lear: A Biography, 86—90
Lewes, George Henry, 36—8
Lewis, Clive Staples: biography by A.N. Wilson, 353—7; A Grief Observed, 357; Surprised by Joy, 356
Lewis, George, 140
Lewis, Joy (née Davidman), 355
Lewis, Katie, 84
Lewis, Warren Hamilton (‘Warnie’), 354—6
Lewis, Wyndham, 146
Liddell, Alice, 82—4
Liddell, Henry George, Dean of Christ Church, 82
Liddell, Lorina (née Reeve), 82
Liddon, Henry Parry, Canon of St Paul’s, 81
Lincoln, Bishops of see Hicks, Edward Lee; King, Edward
Links, J.G., 452
Lissine, Alexis, 342—3
Locke, John, 20
Loize, Jean, 308
London Magazine, 342—3
London Mercury, The (periodical), 167
Longfellow, Alice, 24
Lopokova, Lydia: correspondence with J.M. Keynes, 288, 291—3; effect on Bloomsbury, 291
Lowell, Amy, 169
Lucas, Miss (later Green; teacher), 483, 485
Lushington, Frank, 89
Lutyens, Sir Edwin, 444—6
Mac Liammoir, Micheál, 220
Macaulay, (Dame) Rose: convictions, 310; on poetry intoxication in 1920s, 162; The World My Wilderness: Introduction to, 298—305
MacBride, John, 221—2
McBryde, James, 193
McBryde, Jane, 193
MacCarthy, Fiona: The Simple Life: C.R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds, 129—33
MacDonald, George: Phantastes, 85
Macdonald, George (church minister), 55
McGahern, John: Collected Stories, 403—5; Introduction to J.B. Yeats letters, 216—18; The Dark, 405; The Leavetaking, 405
McGibbon, James, 361
Mach, Ernst, 512
Mackail, John W. (‘Jack’), 106—7, 110, 116, 139
Mackail, Margaret (née Burne-Jones), 134, 139, 141—2
Macmillan, Harold (later 1st Earl of Stockton), 333
MacNeice, Dan, 348
MacNeice, Elisabeth, 345
MacNeice, Hedli (née Anderson), 350
MacNeice, John, Bishop of Belfast, 345, 347, 352
MacNeice, Louis: biography by Jon Stallworthy, 344—53; Autumn Journal, 349, 351; ‘The Casualty’, 350; ‘Charon’, 352—3; ‘Memoranda’, 353; ‘The Taxis’, 352; ‘Valediction’, 348
MacNeice, Marie (née Ezra; Louis’ first wife), 347—8
MacNeice, William, 345—6
Malta, 17—18
Manet, Édouard, 229
Mann, Thomas: ‘Death in Venice’, 456
Mansfield, Katherine, 486
Mao Zedong, 425—6, 428
Marinetti, Emilio Filippo Tommaso, 165
Markievicz, Constance, Countess see Gore-Booth, Constance
Marsh, Sir Edward: and Edward Thomas, 153; and Georgian Poetry, 153, 164—5, 188; and Harold Monro, 157
Martin, Francis, 74
Masefield, John: and Ashbee, 132; standing, 277; supports Charlotte Mew, 182
Maurice, Frederick Denison, 86, 96
Maxwell, William (ed.): Sylvia Townsend Warner: Letters, 246—52
May, Phil, 206, 213
Men and Women’s Club, 243
Meredith, George, 241
Merriman, John Xavier, 245
Methodism, 54
Mew, Anne (Charlotte’s sister), 182—3
Mew, Charlotte: appearance and personality, 171—2, 176—7, 181; Civil List pension, 181; death, 183; early happiness, 98, 172—3; early writing, 176; homosexuality, 180; influences on, 175; life and works, 171; Monro publishes, 165; poetry, 177—8; and Poetry Bookshop, 161—2, 180—1; ‘The Changeling’, 170; Collected Poems and Prose (ed. Val Warner): reviewed, 171—84; ‘The Farmer’s Bride’, 178, 180—1; The Farmer’s Bride (collection), 161, 180; ‘Fin de Fête’, 173, 179; ‘In Nunhead Cemetery’, 171, 175, 178; ‘Ken’, 175; ‘On the Asylum Road’, 178; ‘Passed’ (story), 176; The Rambling Sailor, 183; ‘Saturday Market’, 178; ‘The Shade Catchers’, 182
Mew, Fred (Charlotte’s father), 172, 174, 176
Mew, Mrs Fred (Charlotte’s mother), 176—7, 182
Mew, Freda (Charlotte’s sister), 175
Mew, Henry (Charlotte’s brother), 175
Mexico, 494
Mill, John Stuart, 239
Millais, Sir John Everett, 86
Millevoye, Lucien, 219—20, 222
Milne, A.A., 209, 214
Milton Abbot, west Devon, 241—7
Minton, John, 342
Mitford, Nancy, 332
Mizener, Arthur: The Saddest Story, 296
Modern European Library (published by John Lehmann), 341
Monro, Alida (Harold’s wife) see Klementaski, Alida
Monro, Harold: and Alida Klementaski, 158—9; Alida recites Charlotte Mew’s ‘Farmer’s Bride’ to, 180; background and career, 154—5, 157; commissions illustrators, 168; death, 164; disavows Georgians, 165; drinking, 163—5; and Edward Thomas, 153; in First World War, 162; homosexuality, 159; launches second Bookshop, 163—4; marries Alida, 162; pessimism, 344; and Poetry Bookshop, 154, 156—60, 170; publishing, 160, 165—70; Collected Poems, 166; One Day Awake, 167—8; ‘Overheard on a Saltmarsh’, 170
Monroe, Harriet, 166
Montgomery, Bruce (Edmund Crispin), 375
Moore, George: biography by Tony Gray, 228—32; and Yeats’s relations with Maude Gonne, 220; Esther Waters, 228—30
Moore, Janie (née Askins), 355
Moreau, Gustave, 235
Morgan, John and Mary (née Brent), 19—20
Morrell, Lady Ottoline, 181, 328
Morris, Isabella (William’s sister), 119
Morris, Jane (née Burden): D.G. Rossetti and, 107, 109n, 120; disturbed by handicapped daughter, 117; embroidery, 117; on Mackail’s life of William Morris, 116; marriage relations, 119—20; and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 124
Morris, May, 118, 126, 227
Morris, William: death, 142; as designer, 117—18; finds solace in work, 110; at The Grange, 103, 136—7, 141; health problems, 122, 124, 141; inspires Guild of Handicrafts, 130; and Kelmscott Press, 122—5; on power of art, 530; rages, 110; relations with Burne-Jones, 139, 142; religious inclinations, 111; sexual attitudes, 107—8; and woman question, 116—21; Child Christopher, 105; The Defence of Guenevere, 103; A Dream of John Ball, 119; The Earthly Paradise, 103—4, 106, 112, 115—16; Fair Goldilind, 105; The Golden Legend, 124; Killian of the Closes, 105, 108; Love is Enough, 110; News from Nowhere, 107—8, 118—19, 528; The Novel on Blue Paper (unpublished): Introduction to, 105—16; The Pilgrims of Hope, 119; Poems by the Way, 124; Sigurd the Volsung, 104; Songs of Proteus, 124; The Story of the Glittering Plain, 104; The Well at the World’s End, 113
Mosley, Diana, Lady, 334
Motion, Andrew, 374, 379
Muggeridge, Malcolm: on A.A. Milne, 214; edits Punch, 209
Murdoch, Dame Iris: The Bell, 364
Murphy, William M.: Family Secrets: William Butler Yeats and His Relations, 226—7
Murray, Gilbert, 303
Myers, Frederic William, 319—20
Myers, Leopold Hamilton: The Root and the Flower: Introduction to, 319—26
Nash, John, 168
Nash, Paul, 167—8, 289
Nash’s (magazine), 496
National Trust, 79
Nazism: and persecution of Jews, 432—8
Neal, Patricia, 372
Neame, Mrs (of Southwold), 476
Neo-Pagans, 149
Nerval, Gérard de, 496
Nevinson, C.W., 289
New Signatures, 339
New Verse (magazine), 347
New Writing see Penguin New Writing
New Yorker, The (magazine), 204—5, 209, 246, 251
Newbolt, Sir Henry: domestic and married life, 187—8; Monro publishes, 166; publishes Walter de la Mare’s poetry, 187; as Theresa Whistler’s grandfather, 185
Newbolt, Margaret, Lady (‘Lad’), 187
Newman, John Henry, Cardinal, 66, 111
Nicholl, W. Robertson, 54
Nicholson, Mary, 117
Nicholson, William: Shadowlands, 355
Nicolson, Benedict, 286
Nightingale, Florence, 31
Nightingale (secretary of Sanderson’s wallpapers), 30
Noakes, Vivien: Edward Lear: The Life of a Wanderer, 86—7
Noble, James Ashcroft, 149
North End, Fulham see Grange, The
Norton, Charles Eliot, 137
O’Donovan, Gerald, 299, 301
old age: and writers, 525—9
Old Watercolour Society, 136, 143—5
O’Leary, John, 219
Oliphant, Francis (Margaret’s husband and cousin), 42—3, 44n
Oliphant, Frank (Margaret’s brother), 43
Oliphant, Maggie (Margaret’s daughter): death, 67
Oliphant, Margaret: biography by Elisabeth Jay, 69—72; life and career, 40—2, 52—3, 510—11; literary earnings, 57—8, 67; nature of writings, 43—4, 47, 52, 57, 65, 68; on organized religion, 44—5, 47, 54—5, 58—9, 61—6; travels, 67; writes in instalments, 67; ‘Chronicles of Carlingford’ (series), 41 & n, 44—69, 71; The Doctor’s Family, 41n, 48—52, 61, 70; ‘Eleanor and Fair Rosamond’ (story), 71; ‘The Executor’, 41n; Hester, 51; Margaret Maitland, 68; ‘The Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow’ (story), 71; ‘The Open Door’ (story), 51; The Perpetual Curate, 41n, 61—9; Phoebe Junior, 44; The Rector, 41n, 46—8, 51, 54, 61, 64, 69; Salem Chapel, 41n, 48, 52—61, 67, 69; ‘Sensation Novels’ (article), 57
Oliphant, Willie (Margaret’s brother), 42—3
Olson, Stanley, 315
Ormrod, Richard: Una Troubridge, 258
Orwell, George: on Housman, 190; and Stevie Smith, 361; ‘Shooting an Elephant’, 341
Owen, Wilfred, 160, 344
Oxford Movement, 45, 111
Packer, Lona Mosk, 99
Palestine see Holy Land
Palmer, Geoffrey and Noel Lloyd: Father of the Bensons, 73—8
Pasternak, Boris, 527
Pater, Walter, 104
Paulin, Tom, 408
Pear Tree Press, 153, 154—70
Pearson, Karl, 242—4
Pearson’s (magazine), 496
Péguy, Charles, 167
Penguin New Writing (earlier New Writing), 340, 342
Peterson, William S.: The Kelmscott Press: A History of William Morris’s Typographical Adventure, 122—5
Pissarro, Camille, 309
Plomer, William, 169
Poetry Bookshop, 153, 154—70, 180, 277, 471
Poetry and Drama (magazine), 157, 160, 166—7
Poetry Review, 157
Pollexfen family, 226
Polunin, Oleg and Anthony Julian Huxley: Flowers of the Mediterranean, 457
Polyanthus, HMS, 349—50
Poor Folk Upon the Moors (society), 447
Post-Impressionist Exhibition (1910), 289
Potter, Beatrix, 215
Pound, Ezra: on Ford Madox Ford, 294; influence in England, 155; prints Charlotte Mew poem, 179; promotes Eliot, 166; Des imagistes, 165
Powell, Anthony, 333
Prentis, Terence, 167
Prickett, Miss (governess), 84
Pringle, Alan, 376 printing: William Morris and, 122—5
Pritchett, Sir Victor S., 480
Pryce-Jones, Alan, 309
Punch (magazine): E.V. Knox works for and edits, 201—2, 209, 471, 482, 486, 491; history and character of, 201—10
Purnell (company), 341—2
Pusey, Edward Bouverie, 98
Pym, Barbara: Larkin encourages, 379; A Few Green Leaves, 393—8; Jane and Prudence, 395; Less Than Angels, 398; No Fond Return of Love, 396; Quartet in Autumn, 395; The Sweet Dove Died, 395
Quièvrecourt, Yvonne de, 305, 308
Quinn, John, 217
Rackham, Arthur, 215
Re, Arundel del, 155—6, 158, 162
Reeves, James (ed.): Georgian Poetry, 186
Reid, Forrest: Illustrators of the Eighteen-Sixties, 206
Repton, Humphry, 448
Reynolds, Barbara: Dorothy Sayers: Her Life and Soul, 271—4; The Passionate Intellect, 271
Rhodes, Cecil, 243—5
Rhys, Jean: biography by Carole Angier, 318—19; Ford Madox Ford and, 295; Good Morning, Midnight, 319; The Wide Sargasso Sea, 318—19
Ricardo, Halsey, 127
Richards, Grant, 165, 190; Memories of a Misspent Youth, 234
Richardson, Samuel, 134
Richmond, George, 14
Ricks, Christopher, 94
Ridley, Revd Roy, 273
Rive, Richard (ed.): Olive Schreiner: Letters, Vol.1: 1871—1899, 238—45
Rivière, Alain, 308
Rivière, Isabelle (née Fournier), 305, 307—9
Rivière, Jacques, 307—9
Roberts, Michael, 338—9
Robertson, Graham, 137; Time Was, 36, 138
Rolfe, Frederick (‘Baron Corvo’), 177, 455—6
Rooke, Thomas, 137, 140—1, 143
Ross, Alan, 342
Ross, Harold Wallace, 204—5
Ross, Robert H.: Georgian Revolt, 211
Rossetti, Christina: biography by Georgina Battiscombe, 97—100; ‘Goblin Market’, 98—9, 280
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel: on Christina, 99; at Kelmscott Manor with Morris, 107; paints in watercolours, 103, 143—4; relations with Jane Morris, 107, 109n, 111; temperament, 98; Golden Head by Golden Head (drawing), 280
Rossetti, Maria, 98—9
Rossetti, William Michael, 95, 98
Rottingdean, 140, 142, 146—7
Rushdie, Salman: Haroun and the Sea of Stories, 422—3
Ruskin, John: Ashbee on, 131; and C.A. Howell, 135; on Canaletto’s Venice paintings, 453, 455; helps Burne-Jones’s admission to Old Watercolour Society, 143; influences Edward Hicks, 470—1; on Octavia Hill’s dowdiness, 80; and small girls, 84; on women’s education, 119; Of Queen’s Gardens, 119
Rutherford, Ernest, 1st Baron, 512
Rutherston, Albert, 168
Rylands, George (‘Dadie’), 343
Sackville-West, Edward, 327
Salinger, J.D.: The Catcher in the Rye, 501
Sambourne, Linley, 206
Samurai (movement), 154
Sarzano, Frances, 413
Sassoon, Siegfried, 237
Saurat, Denis, 309
Saxton, Nathalie, 189
Sayers, Dorothy L.: biography by Barbara Reynolds, 271—4; ‘The Haunted Policeman’, 271; The Man Born to Be King, 272; The Mind of the Maker, 273; The Nine Tailors, 273
Schelling, Friedrich, 20
Schiller, Friedrich, 496
Schreiner, Gottlob, 239
Schreiner, Olive: Letters, Vol.1: 1871—1899 (ed. Richard Rive), 238—45; The Story of an African Farm, 240—1, 243—4
Schreiner, Theo, 239
Schreiner, Will, 243—4
Scott, Ann see First, Ruth and Ann Scott
Scott, Gilbert, 45
Scott, William Bell, 42, 99
Scott-James, R.A., 152
Seaman, Sir Owen, 208—9
Sellwood, Revd Henry, 92
Shakespear, Olivia, 223
Shakespeare & Co. (bookshop), 168
Sharp, Evelyn, 177
Shaw, George Bernard: on William de Morgan’s novels, 128; on William Morris, 107, 110
Shepard, Ernest Howard, 212—15, 346
Shepard, Graham, 346—7, 349—50
Shields, Carol: Mary Swann, 417; The Republic of Love, 415; The Stone Diaries, 414—20
Shrimpton, Ivy, 272
Sinclair, Andrew: My Friend Judas, 364
Sinclair, May: and Charlotte Mew, 178—81; on genius, 313; and Rebecca West, 312; The Combined Maze, 179
Sitwell, Dame Edith, 182
Sitwell, Sir Osbert, 167, 170
Skelton, Robin, 351
Smith, Agnes, 279
Smith, Constance Babington: Rose Macaulay, 303n
Smith, Leslie Tilden, 318
Smith, Logan Pearsall, 158
Smith, Naomi Royde, 189
Smith, Stevie: Scorpion and Other Poems, 359; Uncollected Writings, 358—63
Smyth, Dame Ethel, 76
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander: Matyona’s House, 382
Somerville, Edith Oenone and Martin Ross (Violet Florence Martin), 226
Souline, Evgenia, 257—8
Southwold, Suffolk, 475—6
Spark, Dame Muriel: The Abbess of Crewe, 399—400; The Ballad of Peckham Rye, 399; The Comforters, 398; The Girls of Slender Means, 399; Memento Mori, 399; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 399—400; Reality and Dreams, 398—402
Sparling, Henry Halliday, 123
Spencer, Herbert: and George Eliot, 36; First Principles, 239
Spender, Sir Stephen, 279, 339, 341
Squire, Sir John C., 167
Stallworthy, Jon: Louis MacNeice, 344—53
Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, Dean of Westminster, 86
Stannard, Martin: Evelyn Waugh: The Later Years, 1939—1966, 330—5
Stead, William Thomas, 244
Steer, Philip Wilson, 289
Stephen, Julia, 282
Stephen, Sir Leslie, 278—9, 281
Stern, G.B., 180
Sterne, Laurence, 203
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 139, 297, 330
Stirling, Wilhelmina (née Pickering), 127—8
Stone, Reynolds, 250
Stoppard, Sir Tom: The Invention of Love, 190
Strachan, W.J. (ed. and transl.): Henri Alain Fournier: Towards the Lost Domain, Letters from London 1905, 305, 309
Strachey family, 277, 280
Strachey, Lytton: and Dora Carrington, 288, 290; on M.R. James, 193
Strand, The (magazine), 496
Strang, Patsy, 376
Stravinsky, Igor, 332
Stuart, Daniel, 19
Stucley, Peter, 259
Sullivan, Sir Arthur, 255
Sunday Express, 253
Sutton, Jim, 375, 379
Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver’s Travels, 500
Swinnerton, Frank, 288; The Georgian World, 273
Sykes, Christopher, 331
Syrett, Netta, 177
Tanner, Robin, 123
Tate Gallery: Burne-Jones watercolours exhibition (1993), 143
Tate, Sir Henry, 143
Tavistock, Devon, 443, 445—9
Taylor, Martin, 337
Tenniel, Sir John, 85
Tennyson family, 81
Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron: marriage, 92—3, 95; qualities as poet, 90—1; Idylls of the King, 103
Tennyson, Emily, Lady (née Sellwood): life by Anne Thwaite, 91—6
Tennyson, Hallam, 91, 94—5
Tennyson, Lionel, 94—5
Terry, Ellen, 84
Thackeray, William Makepeace: and Punch, 201, 203, 205—6
Thirkell, Angela (née Mackail): Three Houses, 140
Thirkell, Lance, 137
Thomas, Dylan, 351
Thomas, Edward: army service, 152—3; character and behaviour, 148—9; Monro rejects, 165—6; poetry, 151—2; reputation, 277; and Walter de la Mare, 186, 188; works for Monro, 166; Selected Letters, ed. R. George Thomas, 148—55
Thomas, Helen, 148—50, 153, 166; As It Was, 152
Thomas, R. George, 148—50, 152—3
Thomas, R.S., 378
Thompson, E.P.: William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary, 102, 119
Thwaite, Anne: Emily Tennyson: The Poet’s Wife, 91—6
Thwaite, Anthony (ed.): Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940—1985, 374—9
Ticehurst, Mrs (of Balcombe), 487, 489
Times Literary Supplement, The: on Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness, 253
Tolkien, J.R.R., 355—6
Tolstoy, Lev, Count: Resurrection, 526—7, 530; War and Peace, 502
Tompkins, Joyce M.S.: William Morris: An Approach to the Poetry, 101—5
Tonks, Henry, 229, 289
Tractarians, 62, 111
Transatlantic Review, The, 295
Treglown, Jeremy: Roald Dahl: A Biography, 371—3
Tremain, Rose, 370
Trevelyan, G.B.: Victorian Devotional Poetry, 100
Trevor, William: Excursions in the Real World: Memoirs, 410—14; The Old Boys, 413; Two Lives, 412
Trollope, Anthony: Mrs Oliphant compared with, 68, 71; on organized religion, 45; Can You Forgive Her?, 68; Framley Parsonage, 61n; He Knew He Was Right, 68
Troubridge, Admiral Sir Ernest, 256, 258
Troubridge, Una, Lady, 253, 256—8
Truro, Cornwall, 77
Tschaikovska, Vera, 170
Turner, Joseph Mallord William, 96
Twain, Mark, 497
Untermeyer, Louis, 161
Uzzell, Dad, 149
Vaughan, Keith, 342
Velázquez, Diego de Silva y: Hilanderas, 452
Venice: Canaletto pictures of, 450—6
Victoria, Queen: Emily Tennyson meets, 95; and Mrs Oliphant, 41
Vorticists, 155
Wain, John, 342
Walker, Emery, 122, 124
Ward, Stephen, 314
Wardle, Thomas, 117
Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 169, 246—52; Collected Poems, 250—2; Lolly Willowes, 246—7; Whether a Dove or a Seagull (with Valentine Ackland), 250
Warner, Val: ed. Charlotte Mew: Collected Poems and Prose, 171—84
Warrell, Ian, 145
Watts, Mary (née Fraser Tytler; G.F. Watts’s second wife), 91
Waugh, Evelyn: biography by Martin Stannard, 330—5; plot surprises, 399; Brideshead Revisited, 330, 332; Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox, 333; The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, 331; Put Out More Flags, 332; Sword of Honour (trilogy), 332
Waugh, Laura, 331—2, 334
Wavell, Field Marshal Archibald Percival, 1st Earl: Other Men’s Flowers, 165n
Webb, Beatrice and Sidney (Baron and Lady Passfield), 132
Wedd, Nathaniel, 199
Well Walk see Hampstead
Wells, Herbert George, 296, 314—15
West, Anthony, 325
West, Dame Rebecca: biography by Victoria Glendinning, 310—17; on May Sinclair and Charlotte Mew, 179; on Olive Schreiner, 238; Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, 313, 317; The Meaning of Treason, 313, 316; Return of the Soldier, 312—13; The Thinking Reed, 313—14
Westminster Review, 38
Whistler, James Abbot McNeill, 144, 451
Whistler, Theresa: Imagination of the Heart: The Life of Walter de la Mare, 184—90, 277
White, Adrian: John Lehmann: A Pagan Adventure, 336—44
White, Anna and A. Norman Jeffares (eds.): ‘Always Your Friend’: The Gonne-Yeats Letters, 1893—1938, 219—25
White, Ethelbert, 167
Wickham, Anna, 161, 165
Wilde, Oscar: friendship with Ada Leverson, 233—4; rows Katie Lewis on Thames, 84; The Importance of Being Earnest, 238
Wilkinson, Mrs (servant at The Grange), 139
William Morris Today exhibition (1984), 121
Wilson, A.N.: C.S. Lewis: A Biography, 353—7
Wilson, Sir Angus: biography by Margaret Drabble, 367—71; Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, 368—9; Hemlock and After, 368, 370; The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot, 368; The Wild Garden, 370; The Wrong Set, 368
Wilson, T.P. Cameron: Magpies in Picardy, 5
Wimbush, Mary, 351
Windsor, The (magazine), 496
Winzer, Charles, 168—9
Withers, Percy, 188
women: William Morris’s views on, 116—21
Woodcock, Dr Patrick, 329, 370
Woolf, Leonard: at Rodmell, Sussex, 530; childlessness, 284; in Hermione Lee’s biography of Virginia Woolf, 276; and John Lehmann at Hogarth Press, 338, 340, 342; publishes Eliot’s poetry, 166; on Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness, 253; Beginning Again, 248
Woolf, Virginia: on Arundel del Re, 155; at Hogarth Press, 338, 340; biography by Hermione Lee, 275—9; and Charlotte Mew, 178, 181; childlessness, 284; on Christina Rossetti, 99; and critics, 531; on Lydia Lopokova and Keynes, 291; on old age, 526; on power of art, 530; publishes Eliot’s poetry, 166; and Vanessa Bell, 280—4; and visual art and artists, 283—4; Between the Acts, 285—7, 530—1; Freshwater (play), 95; Mrs Dalloway, 292; A Room of One’s Own, 278—9; Three Guineas, 278—9; To the Lighthouse, 278, 282—4, 286; The Waves, 287
Woolmer, Howard J.: The Poetry Bookshop: A Bibliography, 170
Wordsworth, Tom, 19
Wordsworth, William, 19—20
Wright, Adrian: Foreign Country: The Life of L.P. Hartley, 326—9
Wyatville, Sir Jeffry, 448
Wycombe Abbey (school), 492
Wylie, I.A.R.: Life with George, 256
Wyndham, Francis, 234, 318
Yeats, Elizabeth Corbet (‘Lolly’), 216—18
Yeats, George (née Hyde-Lees; WBY’s wife), 218
Yeats, Jack, 216
Yeats, John Butler: and Maud Gonne, 220; Letters to His Son W.B. Yeats and Others, 1869—1922 (ed. Joseph Hone), 216—19
Yeats, Susan Mary (‘Lily’), 216—17
Yeats, Susan (née Pollexfen), 216
Yeats, William Butler: correspondence with Maud Gonne, 219—25; letters from father, 216—17; poetry, 189; readings at Poetry Bookshop, 162; on walking naked, 347; on women in politics, 118; Reveries over Childhood and Youth, 218
Yellow Book: Ada Leverson writes for, 234, 236; publishes Charlotte Mew story, 176
Yevtushenko, Yevgeni, 359
Yonge, Charlotte Mary: Heir of Redclyffe, 111—12, 114
Yugoslavia: Rebecca West writes on, 317
Zambaco, Mary, 108—9, 135—6, 145