INDEX

Ackerley, J. R., 63

Acton, Harold, 206–207

Adelphi, 110, 268

À la recherche du temps perdu, Marcel Proust, 193

Ancient Melodies, Ling Shuhua Chen, 202

Angell, Sir Norman, 169

Anrep, Helen, 83

Apostles, the, 6–7, 11, 49, 53, 72–73, 119, 121, 123, 126, 131, 142, 154, 193, 257

Art, Clive Bell, 13

Artists International Association, 245

Asheham, Sussex, 23

Aspects of the Novel, E. M. Forster, 56

Auden, W. H., 59, 60, 108, 110, 113, 124, 196, 207, 259

Baishi, Qi, 206

Barger, Harold, 90, 162,

“Le Bateau,” Rimbaud, 164

Beerbohm, Max, 1

Bell, Angelica, 4, 5, 15, 20, 24, 26, 30, 82, 102, 104, 133, 203, 204, 225, 255, 265

Bell, Clive, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 13, 14, 20–21, 25, 30, 38, 65, 82, 128, 131, 193, 261, 265, 286

belonged to two different communities in Cambridge, 11

did not fit into the Stephen inheritance, 14

influence of G. E. Moore on, 8

influence on Julian, 25

marries Vanessa Stephen, 2, 6

pacifism of, 21

Bell, Julian Heward: affair with Anthony Blunt, 70–6

affair with Antoinette Pirie, 165–167, 177–178

affair with Helen Souter (Morris), 77–78, 80–81, 83–84, 87–92, 99, 100, 101, 133–140

affair with Lettice Ramsey, 140–149

affair with Ling Shuhua (Sue) Chen, 198, 200–205, 207–211, 215–216, 225, 230, 231, 232–237, 242, 246, 253

becoming a poet, 41

birth of, 2, 15

as concealed romantic, 132

connection between his poetry and the paintings of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, 44, 46, 96

connection to mother, 15–18, 20, 131, 185, 258

active in Cambridge Union, 51–52

courses and authors taught at Wuhan University, 192–193

death of, 278–279, 285–286

decides to go to Spain to fight fascism, 241–245, 247–248, 250–253

deprecates Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 195

early poems, 42, 45–46, 49, 59, 63

elected to, and participation in, Apostles, 53–54, 55, 58

exposure to Bloomsbury rationality as child, 18

happiness in Spain, 267

importance of Bloomsbury Group on, 2–3

intention of his essays, 257

interest in war and military strategy, 23, 263, 285

at King’s College, Cambridge, 45–46, 49, 50, 117

at Leighton Park School, 32–38, 51, 71

love of Charleston, 24, 27

love of countryside, 19–20

love of discussing his affairs, 197

love of home, 38

life of mind versus life of action, 19

at Owen’s School, 30–32

parodying Virginia Woolf’s writing style, 38

passion for astronomy and history, 18

as poet, 92–109

on political career, 256

political involvements, 149–162, 168–169

political pragmatism of, 228, 224, 235

psychological reasons for going to China, 185–186

rationalist view of life and art, 66

rebels against Bloomsbury, 64–65, 259

as reviewer, 68–69

resolves to go to Spain, 255–256, 258, 262–264

responsibilities as professor at Wuhan University, 189–190, 192, 193

romantic life, 69–70, 79, 80

social life at Wuhan, 197–198

“theory of conduct” in his affairs, 235

tries for Fellowship at King’s College, 117, 120, 122, 125, 128, 130, 184

views on Chinese youth, 194–195

views on religion, 18

views on scholarly endeavors, 118–119

views on Spanish Civil War, 226–230, 235, 237, 238, 239

views on war, pacifism, and war resistance, 169–170, 171–175, 212, 261

at Wissett, 22

writes dissertation on philosophy and ethics, 123, 126, 127

writes dissertation on Pope, 119–120, 121–122

year in Paris as youth, 39–41

—Works of: “Arms and the Man,” 112–115, 153, 176

“Autobiography,” 12, 178–180

“Ballad of the Dancing Shadows,” 66–67

“A Brief View of Poetic Obscurity,” 65

“Brumaire,” 95

“Cambridge Revisited,” 164–165

“Epistle to Braithwaite,” 176

“An Epistle on the Subject of the Ethical and Aesthetic Beliefs of Herr Ludwig Wittgenstein,” 64, 94

“Frimaire,” 95

“The Goldfinch in the Orchard,” 96

The Good and All That (Some general considerations on ethical theory, with their application to aesthetics and politics), 124–127, 192, 221

“The Hedge,” 67, 95

Julian Bell: Essays, Poems and Letters, 216

“The Labour Party and War,” 170

“Marsh Birds Pass over London,” 97–99

“Military Considerations of Socialist Policy,” 172

“The Moths,” 63, 95, 96

“To My Bourgeois Friends in the Communist Party,” 160, 169

“To My Friends in the Communist Party,” 169

“Nivôse,” 63

“Nonsense,” 151

“Notes for a Memoir,” 69

“Post Coitum,” 213–214, 226

“The Progress of Poetry,” 68

“The Proletariat and Poetry: An Open Letter to C. Day Lewis,” 217, 223, 224

“Song from a Masque,” 102

“Still Life,” 96, 112

“Tranquility Recollected,” 112

“Vendémaire,” 95

“Vienna,” 173–174

“War and Peace: A Letter to E. M. Forster,” 217, 247, 248, 249, 258, 261, 274–275

We Did Not Fight, introduction, 169

Winter Movement, 88, 102, 106, 109, 112, 175, 191

“Winter Movement: A Formal Ode,” 63, 67, 68

Work for the Winter, 176–178, 182, 206, 225

Bell, Julian (son of Quentin and Olivier Bell), 29, 218, 285

Bell, Olivier, 71, 218

Bell, Quentin, 3, 4, 5, 15, 20, 22, 24, 25, 27, 35, 70, 71, 75, 77, 82, 92, 131, 133, 136, 137, 156, 163, 165, 172, 181, 203, 218, 233, 240, 242, 251, 252, 257, 266, 270, 284

as biographer of Virginia Woolf, 3

Bell, Vanessa (neé Stephen), 2, 5, 12, 13, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 35, 38, 65, 73–80, 82, 84, 92, 96, 102, 122, 128, 131, 133–136, 140, 163, 178, 182, 183–184, 191, 194, 197, 200, 201, 202, 204, 205, 207, 208, 212, 217, 220, 227, 228, 230, 231, 232, 233, 235, 238, 239, 243, 244, 245, 247, 250–256, 258, 260, 262–263, 266, 268–270, 280–286

as emotional heart of Bloomsbury, 4

intensity of relationship with Julian, 20, 207, 230–231

on Julian as a baby, 15

views on Julian’s affair with Anthony Blunt, 74, 75

views on Julian’s affair with Helen Souter, 76–77, 133–136

tries to persuade Julian not to go to Spanish Civil War, 231, 239

writes to Ling Shuhua Chen after Julian’s death, 203

Berg Collection, New York Public Library, 198

Bernal, Eileen, 165

Bernal, J. D., 165

Bernal, Martin, 165

Beves, Donald, 82

Birrell, Francis, 48

Bloomsbury Group, 2, 3, 4, 20, 21, 127

Blunden, Edmund, 103

Blunt, Anthony, 47, 54, 56, 57, 58, 62, 63, 70–76, 154, 175

Boyle, Andrew, 73

Bradbrook, Muriel, 48

Braithwaite, Richard, 54, 141, 142, 144

Bridges, Robert, 193

British Anti-War Council, 155

Broad, C. D., critiques Julian’s dissertation, 128–130

Bronowski, Jacob, 61

Brooke, Rupert, 4, 68, 193, 280

described by Lytton Strachey, 4

Burgess, Guy, 54, 72, 73, 154, 156, 175

Byron, Robert, 206

Caballero, Largo, 269

Cambridge Poetry 1929, 95, 106

Cambridge Review, 66, 68, 73, 95, 11, 164

The Cambridge Spies, TV serial, 73

Cambridge Union, 49, 50–51

Cambridge University Press, 164

Carpenter, Edward, 19

Carter, Miranda, 73, 75

Chadwick, H. M., 60

Chang, Professor, 190

Charleston, Sussex, 23–24, 38, 47, 74, 82, 83, 87, 96, 100, 137, 143, 144, 149, 152, 168, 178, 185, 213, 251, 255, 259, 261, 262, 268, 280

Chatto & Windus, 95, 100, 121, 164

Chen, Ling Shuhua (Sue), 198, 200–205, 207–210, 215–216, 225, 228, 230, 231–233, 234, 235, 236–237, 242, 246, 251, 252–253, 256, 262, 265, 283

Chen, Yuan, Professor, dean of the School of Letters, Wuhan University, 189, 231, 232, 234, 236, 246

Chih-tung, Chang, 186

A Chinese Painter’s Choice, Ling Shuhua Chen, 202

Civilization, Clive Bell, 13

Clapham, John, 49

Clapham Sect, 6, 7, 12, 13

The Climate of Treason, Andrew Boyle, 73

Cobden-Sanderson, T. J. 169

Cochrane, Archie, 275–276, 279, 283

Cockburn, Claud, 228

Cohen, Andrew, 54

Collins, Michael, 172, 173, 189

Communist Party, 154, 160, 182, 257

“A Communist to Others,” W. H. Auden, 169

Cornford, John, 72, 77, 154, 155, 161, 162, 257, 264

Cowley, Malcolm, 272–273

Crescent Moon Society, 201

Cresset Press, 164

The Criterion, 110

Cornhill Magazine, 2, 4

Dalton, Hugh, 240, 256

Dane, Clemence, 63

Das Kapital, Karl Marx, 159

Davenport, John, 62

Day Lewis, Cecil, 59, 60, 108, 109

Delane, John, 4

Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes, 7, 115, 116, 193, 194–195, 228, 248

Dickinson, Violet, 15

Dictionary of National Biography, 2

Dizikes, Ann, 78

Dizikes, John, 78

Duckworth, Julia Jackson, 1, 259

Duncan Wood, J., 35

Duncan-Jones, Elsie (neé Phare), 48

Eberhart, Richard, 61, 63, 95, 108, 169

Edward VII, 10–11

Eliot, T. S., 41, 62, 64, 68–69, 105

Elliott, Sir John, 71

Elliott, T. C., 37

Empson, William, 60, 61, 63, 90, 91, 95, 108, 110, 113, 116, 169

Enlistment Act, 244

Evans, Charles, 33

Experiment, 61–3

Faber & Faber, 164

Fedden, H. Romilly, 62

Forbes, Mansfield, 60

Forster, E. M., 4, 7, 10, 12, 46, 49, 56–57, 104, 221, 223, 248, 250, 275, 286

Freud, Sigmund, 55, 193

Fry, Margery, 164, 182, 187, 217, 234

Fry, Roger, 4, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 25, 30, 32, 38, 46, 65, 83, 118, 127, 128, 130, 137, 163, 164, 178, 193, 195, 206, 217, 218, 219, 265, 283

Fuller, General, 175

Fushimi, Marui, 186, 187

Gage, Lord, 152, 153

A Garden Revisited, John Lehmann, 106, 107

Gardiner, Margaret, 165

Garnett, David, 18–19, 22–23, 38, 43–44, 70, 78, 79, 104, 117, 119, 122, 168, 169, 176, 202, 206, 259, 261, 262, 283

on Julian as poet, 43–44

Gielgud, Sir John, 72

“Gibbon at Sheffield Place,” Virginia Woolf, 283

Gide, André, 272

Gilbert, Stuart, 62

Girton College, Cambridge, 47, 48, 88

Glynde, Sussex, 152, 153

Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, 12

Grant, Duncan, 4, 12, 20, 21–2, 23, 24, 38, 65, 92, 96, 133, 252, 254–255

tries to dissuade Julian from going to Spain, 254–255

Granta, 62

Graves, Robert, 146

Hallam, Arthur, 6, 54

Harding, Gilbert, 52

Hare, William, 61

Hart, Dr. D’Arcy Philip, 279, 283

Heretics, 119

Higgins, Grace, 26

History of England from Henry VIII to the Corn Laws, Gardiner, 22

Hitler, Adolf, 153, 155, 169, 225, 276

Hogarth Letters Series, 218

Hogarth Press, 47, 106, 100, 138, 163, 164, 202, 206

Holman, Portia, 268, 281

Howards End, E. M. Forster, 10, 280

Howarth, T. E. B., 94

Hulme, T. E., 193

Hungying, Lian, 234, 247, 253

Hutchinson, Mary St. John, 25

Huxley, Aldous, 64, 105

Hyndman, Tony, 263

International Brigade, 253, 260, 261, 263, 266, 272, 278

International Writers Congress, 272

Isherwood, Christopher, 60, 196

Jackson, Innes, 234, 235, 246–247

Jackson, Laura Riding, 146

Jeffries, Richard, 63

Jeger, George, 264

Jennings, Humphrey, 61, 63

Journey to a War, W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, 196

Joyce, James, 193–194

Julia, 71, 75, 76, 90

K: The Art of Love: Based on a True Story, Hong Ying, 198, 208

Kemp, Harry, 146, 157

Keynes, John Maynard, 4, 7, 8–9, 11, 12, 21, 23, 24, 27, 28, 54, 56, 57, 87, 118, 128, 138, 154, 182, 193, 258, 283, 284

Keynes, Lydia (née Lopokova), 24, 27, 29, 46, 47, 57, 76

King’s College, Cambridge, 32, 45, 46, 117, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 128, 138, 142, 143, 193

Kléber, General, 241

Kulik, General, 269

Labour Party, 151–153, 157, 170, 171, 173, 225, 227, 228, 230, 238, 244, 245, 256, 262

Lawrence, D. H., 193–194

League of Nations, 162, 225, 228, 248

“Leave for Cape Wrath,” W. H. Auden, 173

Leavis, F. R., 60, 95

Lee, Hermione, 3

Left Review, 172

Lehmann, John, 43, 58, 59, 60, 62, 64, 66, 92, 94, 99, 100, 101, 103, 106, 107, 108, 109, 118, 119, 120, 122, 138, 143, 149, 151–152, 160, 163, 173, 174, 175, 176, 184, 190, 191, 195, 222, 257, 258

on impact of Spanish Civil War upon English intellectuals of the Left, 229

on Julian’s poetry, 43, 66, 99

Lehmann, Rosamond, 107

Leighton Park School, 32–38, 51, 71, 184

“Letter to the Intelligentsia,” Charles Madge, 169

“Letter to a Wound,” W. H. Auden, 169

“Letter to a Young Poet,” Virginia Woolf, 59

“Letter to a Young Revolutionary,” C. Day Lewis, 169

Letters from John Chinaman, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 195

Lewis, Wyndham, 64, 193

Liddell Hart, Captain, 175

Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism and China, Patricia Laurence, 198

Limited Editions Club, 122

Lintott, Phyllis, 233, 253

The Listener, 110

Llewellyn-Davies, Richard, 54

The London Mercury, 202

London School of Economics, 161

Lowry, Malcolm, 62, 63

Lucas, F. L. (Peter), 82, 87, 138, 193

Lucas, Topsy, 76, 142

MacCarthy, Desmond, 7, 11, 12

MacCarthy, Molly, 8, 25

MacCarthy, Rachel, 25

MacDonald, Ramsay, 113, 152

Maclean, Donald, 72, 175

MacNeice, Louis, 59, 60

Macy, George, 122

Mallarmé, Stéphane, 163, 164, 182

Mansfield, Katherine, 201

Martin, Kingsley, 168, 260

Martin’s Farm, Elsworth, 119, 123, 132, 143

Masefield, John, 62

Maurice, E. M. Forster, 73

Mauron, Charles, 117, 137, 163, 164, 250, 252, 253, 283

Mauron, Marie, 137, 233, 250, 252, 256, 262, 265

Maxton, James, 169

The Meaning of Meaning, I. A. Richards, 60

Meynell, Francis, 121

Midnight Society, 6

Montagu, Lord, 72

Moore, G. E., 4, 7, 8–9, 11, 54, 55, 126, 140, 193. See also Principia Ethica

Morrell, Ottoline, 21, 22

Morrell, Philip, 21

Morris, Christopher, 77–78, 138

Murry, John Middleton, 268

“Music and the People,” Edward J. Dent, 63

Muspratt, Helen, 143

Mussolini, Benito, 225, 276

National University of Wuhan, China, 182, 186, 187, 190, 192, 286

Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell, 1

Negrín, Juan, 269

New Bulletin (The Bulletin, Charleston Bulletin), 27–29, 191

New Country, 169, 175

New Fabian Research Bureau, 168

Newnham College, Cambridge, 47, 48

New Signatures, 124, 153, 169, 175

New Signatures Group, 109–112, 116

New Statesman and Nation, 120, 158–159, 163, 168, 172, 257, 260

New Writing, 196, 257

Nonesuch Press, 121, 164

“Notes for a Reply,” E. M. Forster, 248, 250, 275

O’Flaherty, Liam, 141

The Orators, 169

Orlando, Virginia Woolf, 20, 29

Orwell, George, 1, 77, 268

Osborn, George, 194

Our Fighting Navy, film, 156

Owen’s School, 30–32

Oxford Union, 154

Partridge, Frances, 214–215, 227

Peace Ballot, 169

Peace at Once, Clive Bell, 258

Peace Pledge Union, 169, 261

Peking, China, 205–206

Peking University, China, 206

Perry, Kate, 48

Philby, Kim, 72

Pinault, 39–40, 130

Pirie, Antoinette (Tony), 140, 147, 165–166, 177, 191, 218, 231, 233

Pirie, Norman “Bill,” 165

Playfair, Eddie, 46–7, 58, 71, 75–76, 88, 90–91, 130, 131, 132, 133, 136–137, 138, 163, 189, 191, 193, 196, 205, 206, 208, 209, 210, 225, 226, 228, 230, 232, 233, 234, 235, 237, 240, 242, 242, 242, 245, 268, 282, 285

Plomer, William, 108, 109

Political Quarterly, 280

Pollitt, Harry, 169

Pope, Alexander, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 130, 163

Popular Front, 155

Practical Criticism, I. A. Richards, 60, 193

Principia Ethica, G. E. Moore, 8–9, 55, 126

Principles of Literary Criticism, I. A. Richards and C. K. Ogden, 60

Proctor, Dennis, 54

Proust, Marcel, 193

Quiller-Couch, Arthur, 60

Raine, Kathleen, 61

Ramsey & Muspratt, 143

Ramsey, Frank, 56, 140–142, 193

Ramsey, Lettice (née Baker), 121, 124, 130, 138, 140–149, 153, 155, 159, 163, 165, 166, 167, 168, 175, 182, 185, 204, 207, 209, 215, 226, 227, 231, 233, 252, 253, 260, 263

Ramsey, Michael, 140–141

Redgrave, Michael, 62, 63, 75, 82

Rees, Sir Richard, 266, 268, 269, 270, 271, 273, 274, 275–277, 280, 281, 282

Retour de l’U.S.S.R., André Gide, 272

Robertson, A. J., 6

Roberts, Michael, 104, 105, 107, 109, 110, 111, 112

Richards, I. A., 55, 60, 61, 62, 64, 94–95, 241–242

Robson, William, 280

A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf, 47, 258

Russell, Bertrand, 7, 21, 169, 193

Rylands, George (“Dadie”), 47, 62, 63, 82, 123

Sackville-West, Vita, 20, 47, 48, 202, 280

Sassoon, Siegfried, 169

Saxton, Dr. Reginald, 278–279

Sheppard, Canon Dick, 169

Sheppard, John, 47, 56, 182

Shirlaw, Dr. Gerald, 278

Sidgwick, Henry, 8

Significant Form, 13

Sinclair-Loutit, Kenneth, 264

Sitwell, Edith, 120

Socialist Society, 156

Souter (Morris), Helen, 77–78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 87–92, 99–100, 101, 102, 132, 133–138, 142, 144, 210, 231, 233

Spanish Civil War, 153, 215, 217, 225, 226–231, 235, 236–239, 241–243, 261

Spanish Communist Party, 269

Spanish Medical Aid, 261, 262, 264, 266, 270, 271, 273, 278

Spanish Medical Aid Committee, 278, 279

Spender, Stephen, 59, 60, 77, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 111, 113, 124, 260, 263

Stalin, Joseph, 276

Stephen, Adrian, 2, 5, 12, 20, 169

Stephen, Judith, 280

Stephen, Sir Leslie, 1, 7, 13, 168

Stephen, Thoby, 2, 5–6, 12, 14, 82, 285–286

Stephen, Vanessa (see Bell, Vanessa)

Stephen, Virginia (see Woolf, Virginia)

Strachey, Lytton, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 20, 35, 47, 54, 93, 118, 120, 136, 286

Strachey, Pernal, 47

Strachey, Oliver, 22

Strachey, Sir Richard, 5, 21

Straight, Michael, 72, 257

Student Christian Movement, 156, 157

Student Vanguard, 161

Sydney-Turner, Saxon, 6, 22

Sykes Davies, Hugh, 54, 61

Tagore, Rabindranath, 201

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 6, 54

Tessimond, A. S. J., 108, 109

Thatcher, Margaret, 73

“This Last Pain,” William Empson, 116

This Quarter, 110

Thomas, Hugh, 269, 273

Thomas, Margaret Ellen, 48

Thornely, Thomas, 69

A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journey of Two Chinese Sisters, Sasha Su-Ling Welland, 198

Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf, 258, 287

T’ien Hsia Monthly, 202

Tillyard, E. M. W., 60

Tilton, Sussex, 27

The Times, 278

Times Literary Supplement, 226

Trevelyan, G. M., 54

Trevelyan, R. C., 4

Trinity College, Cambridge, 2, 12, 21, 32, 46, 56, 140, 286

Turnell, Martin, 63

Twenty Poems, Stephen Spender, 109

The Venture, 61–63, 66, 73

The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf, 59, 286

War Mongers, Clive Bell, 261

Warner, Rex, 59, 60, 63

Waterlow, Sidney, 46

Watson, Alister, 53, 56, 63, 124

We Did Not Fight, 169

Webb, Sidney, 36

“The Widow and the Parrot,” Virginia Woolf, 29

Whims and Moods, Thomas Thornely, 69

The Whispering Gallery, John Lehmann, 43

White, T. H., 61

Whitehead, Alfred North, 7

Wiskermann, Elizabeth, 90

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 57, 140, 142

Woolf, Leonard, 2, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 20, 21, 23, 24, 38, 42, 47, 48, 82, 127, 168, 171, 188, 202, 212, 213, 219–220, 223, 226, 230, 238, 240, 244, 253, 255, 256, 258, 265, 280, 286

Woolf, Virginia (neé Stephen), 2, 4, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 23, 24, 25, 29, 38–9, 42, 44, 47, 48, 49, 53, 56, 57, 65, 79, 82, 116, 136, 187, 193, 194, 200, 201, 202, 206, 217, 218, 219, 220–221, 225, 245–246, 255, 259, 260, 262, 263, 264, 265, 280, 283, 286, 287

comments on Julian in diary, 38–9

compares Julian to Thoby Stephens, 14

could not find a satisfactory explanation for Julian’s decision to go to the Spanish Civil War, 264

as emotional heart of Bloomsbury, 4, 12, 13

on Julian as a baby, 15

on Julian’s affair with Helen Souter, 79, 136

marries Leonard Woolf, 2

rivalry with Julian as poet, 44, 220–221

on special place Julian had in her mind and heart, 218–219

“Work in Progress,” James Joyce, 62

Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification, 267

World Within World, Stephen Spender, 111–112

Wright, Basil, 61, 63

Wuhan, China, 186, 189, 190, 191, 202, 206, 209, 227

Yeh, C. C., 195–196, 211