CONTENTS
Cover
Welcome Page
Epigraph
Preface
PART I
The Years of Innocence
CHAPTER I: LITTLE ENGLAND BEYOND WALES
1. ‘Mama’s dead!’
2. The Responsible Parties
3. Life with Father
4. A Crisis of Identity
CHAPTER II: ‘SLADE SCHOOL INGENIOUS’
1. New Students – Old Masters
2. Water-legend
3.·A Singular Group
4. Flammondism
5. From among the Living...
6. …Into ‘Moral Living’
CHAPTER III: LOVE FOR ART’S SAKE
1. Evil at Work
2. Liverpool Sheds and Romany Flotsam
3. What Comes Naturally
4. Team Spirit
5. Candid White and Matching Green
CHAPTER IV: MEN MUST PLAY AND WOMEN WEEP
1. Keeping up the Game
2. At the Crossroads
3. From a View to a Birth
4. Channel Crossing
5. A Seaside Change
6. ‘Here’s to Love!’
CHAPTER V: BUFFETED BY FATE
1. The Battle of the Babies
2. Images of Yeats
3. All Boys Brave and Beautiful
4. Or Something
5. Ethics and Rainbows
6. Inlaws and Outlaws
7. In the Roving Line
8. Fatal Initiations
9. Italian Style, French Found
CHAPTER VI: REVOLUTION 1910
1. What They Said at the Time
2. What He Said
3. What He Said about Them
4. What Happened
5. What Next?
PART II
The Years of Experience
CHAPTER VII: BEFORE THE DELUGE
1. A Summer of Poetry
2. The Second Mrs Strindberg
3. Cavaliers and Eggheads
4. Chronic Potential
CHAPTER VIII: HOW HE GOT ON
1. Marking Time
2. The Virgin’s Prayer
3. Corrupt Coteries
4. Augustus Does His Bit
CHAPTER IX: ARTIST OF THE PORTRAITS
1. Everybody’s Doing It
2. Surviving Friends, Women and Children: an A to Z
3. Faces and Tales
4. Methods and Places
5. Undiscovered Countries
CHAPTER X: THE WAY THEY LIVED THEN
1. Fryern Court
2. A Long Love Affair with Drink
3. In Spite of Everything or Because of It
4. His Fifties, Their Thirties
5. Children of the Great
6. Barren Our Lives
CHAPTER XI: THINGS PAST
1. Black Out
2. Fragments
3. The Morning After
4. A Way Out
Preview
Appendices
One. Desecration of Saint Paul’s
Two. John’s Pictures at the New English Art Club
Three. The Chelsea Art School Prospectus
Four. ‘To Iris Tree’: A parody of Arthur Symons
Five. The John Beauty Chorus
Six. John’s Pictures at the Royal Academy
Seven. Augustus John: Chronology and Intinerary
Eight. Locations of John Manuscripts
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
About Augustus John
Reviews
About Michael Holroyd
Biographies by Michael Holroyd
Michael Holroyd’s Memoirs
An Invitation from the Publisher
Copyright