Vert et Noir, Le 90
View from Blackdown 192
Violets 188
Wave, the
White Lilac and Guelder Rose 165
Wilfrid Arthur, Lord Greene 73, 207, 239–40, 242
Gluckstein, Doreen 67, 246, 271, 310, 311
Gluckstein, Francesca (‘The Meteor’; mother) 16, 26, 50–2, 76–7, 172, 176
charitable works 32–3, 38, 198
courtship and marriage 27–9
death 275
at Gluck’s exhibitions 106–9, 152–4, 157–9, 164–8
madness 227, 246–54, 271
musical aspirations 28
nervous breakdowns 33–4
practical help for Gluck 76–8, 172, 182–3
royal respect 33, 106–8, 157–9
see also Gluck and ‘The Meteor’
Gluckstein, Hannah see Gluck
Gluckstein, Isidore 23
Gluckstein, Joseph (father) 10, 11, 23, 27, 28–30, 34, 50–1, 52, 66, 67, 74
death 74
finances for Gluck 48–9, 74
marriage 27–9
rift with Gluck 39, 48–50
Gluckstein, Louis Hallé (brother) 30, 31, 38, 50, 52, 197, 198, 246–7, 249–54, 271, 299, 306, 310, 311
public offices 189, 227, 247
Steward of the Fund 226
see also Gluck and Louis
Gluckstein, Montague 23, 25
Gluckstein, Roy 307, 311
Gluckstein, Samuel 23, 24, 49, 198
Gluckstein Family, The 21, 35, 20–34, 49, 74 85, 197
carriage folk 25
catering business 21, 25–7
see also Lyons, J. & Co.
Fund, The 22–7, 74, 138, 198, 271, 307 motto 21, 23
patriarchy 21–4, 29–30, 197
Steward of the Fund 24, 226, 307
tobacco business 21–3, 25
see also Salmon & Gluckstein, tobacconists
Glyndebourne 121, 222, 270
Goddard, Rayner 207, 219, 239, 240
Graham, Helen 159, 164–6
Grant, Duncan 10, 189
Gray, Frances 37
Greene, Nancy 130, 143
Greene, Wilfrid, Master of the Rolls 130, 143, 162, 192, 207, 219, 222, 239, 240
Griffin, Clare 306, 307, 308
Guildford Cathedral 78, 186
Haggard, Stephen 81, 162
Hall, Radclyffe 63, 81
Hallé family 27–9, 34, 36
Hammamet 11, 94, 99–101, 127, 140, 148
Villa Hammamet 99, 226
Hampstead 80–1, 84
Hardinge, George 188
Harley, Victor 260, 265
Harper’s Bazaar 95
Harrison, Claude 272
Haworth, Evelyn 130
Heal, Ambrose 88
Heald, Edith Shackleton 9, 12, 16, 142, 192, 205, 206, 213, 216 218–19, 240–2, 275, 294, 301
death of 308–9
with G. and Nora at Chantry 218–24
and G. at Plumpton 192, 204
illness 290, 297, 305–8
jealousy of G. 222, 272, 274
journalism 211–15, 270
and Yeats 204, 216–17, 229–38
Heald, Harry 215, 240, 242, 275
Heald, Ivan 212, 215
Hero and Humorist 215
Heald, Nora 212, 225, 275
editor of The Lady 192, 204, 211–12, 214, 275
Heidelberg 34
Henson, Jean and Violet 99–100, 127, 140, 226
Hepburn, Katherine 301
Hill, Oliver 14, 95
Hollenden, Lord 142, 172, 174
Hoist, Gustav 36
Homelands Nursing Home 307, 308
Homes and Gardens 80, 92, 163
Hoppé, E. O. 10–11
Hôtel Idéal Sejour, Menton 217
Houghton Library, Harvard 216
Hunt, Holman 257, 258
Illustrated London News 300
Impermanence of Painting 259
Joseph, Hannah 23, 24
Joseph, John 49
Karinska, Madame 11, 98
Kelly, Gerald 262
Kimmins, Anthony 277
Kimmins, Elizabeth 189
King and Pope 31
Knight, Laura 69, 261, 262
Koch, Louis 104, 152, 162
Kubla Khan 122
Lady, The 94, 110, 192, 204, 211, 214, 218, 221, 270
Lamorna, Cornwall 10, 38, 41, 42, 48, 52, 65, 67, 69, 71, 96, 139, 167, 221, 289
Lancaster, Osbert 255
Layard, Peter 51
Leader, Benjamin 38
Lebus, Bob 87
Leila 27
Lenzerheide 169, 173
Letter Studio, Lamorna 41, 71, 97, 172
Lewinski, J.S. 313
Lichtenstein, Keith 304
Lion, Leon M. 124, 143
Lobb, John, bootmakers 10
Loire valley
London Pavilion 14, 64, 66
Loppert, Susan 304–5
Love Between Women 123
Lovett, Robert 284, 294, 309
Lydis, Mariette, Comtesse de Govonne 95, 98
Lyons, J. & Co. 9, 11, 22, 26–9, 30, 64, 270
Lyons, Joseph 26, 310
MacBride, Sean 238
McCrindle, Ronald 146, 222
Macha, SS 237–8
Maison Roblot, Menton 229–30, 232, 234, 237
Mailing, Lewes 176, 186
Manchester City Art Gallery 164
Mansard Gallery 88
Mary, Queen 12, 106–8, 154, 157, 162, 289
Massine, Leonid 52
Maufe, Edward 62, 78, 79, 80, 88, 105, 138, 143, 178, 182, 186, 189, 254, 291, 300
Maufe, Prudence 62, 87, 186, 267, 291, 300
Maugham, Syrie 13, 14, 90–2, 106
‘Meteor, The’ see Gluckstein, Francesca
Millers Mead, Plumpton 176–9, 187, 189, 197, 202, 205
Mill House, Plumpton 126, 140, 142, 143, 170,
179, 182, 187, 219, 222
Mills, Annette 85
Mitchell, Yvonne 24, 301
The Family 24, 31
Mondrian, Piet 14
Moorcroft Hospital, Hillingdon 246, 247–9, 254
Moore, Henry 192
Motley (stage designer) 84
Mount Temple, Lady Molly 12, 13, 14, 92–3, 98, 105, 106, 111, 124–5, 130, 143, 146, 148, 162, 255
see also Broadlands, Romsey; Gayfere House
Munnings, Alfred 10, 38, 39, 255, 310
Drawing of Gluck dressed as a gypsy 49
Musgrave, Clifford 205, 282
Naper, Ella 43, 65, 139
Nash, Paul 192
National Gallery 264
National Portrait Gallery 300
Newlyn School 10, 38
of Painting 38
Newman, James 258
Nicholls, Bertram 189, 204
Nijinsky, Vaslav 51
NSPCC 310
Obermer, Nesta (née Ella Ernestine Sawyer)
(colour I), 9, 77, 94, 99, 108, 121–38, 148, 159, 162, 164, 167, 170, 172, 175, 181, 282, 294, 306, 311–12
broadcasts 148–9
childhood 122–3
in Honolulu 135, 136, 227–8, 259, 278
marriage 122, 123
and the Meteor 164–8, 171, 181, 183, 270
paintings 182
in Switzerland 291–2, 302
war effort 201–2
writings 123, 149
see also Gluck and Nesta Obermer
Obermer, Seymour 50, 94, 122, 124, 131, 169, 227
On with the Dance (colour II), 14, 64–5, 66
Oppenheimer, Sir Francis 13, 92, 106, Orioli, Guiseppe ‘Pino’ 43
Painter’s Day, A 149
Pandora’s Paintbox 258
Pankhurst, Christabel 182
Park Gate, Chelsfield 96, 140
Patrick, Andrew McIntosh 297, 298, 304
311
PEN Club 142
Pickford, Mary 43, 64
Pigeon Post 50, 94, 131
Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan) 311
Pirie, Val (later Spry) 89, 97, 141, 301
Plumpton, Sussex 124, 126, 140, 142, 143, 166, 173–4, 182, 188, 189
Pollock, Martin 218, 242
Priestley, J. B. 214, 270
Priory, The, Roehampton 253–4, 270
Procter, Dod and Ernest 38, 304
Reasons of the Beginning and Other Imaginings 123
Reeves (artists’ materials) 258, 263, 264
Reeves, Ella 89
Reid Dick, William 162, 164
Robersons (artists’ materials) 258
Roblot, Maison 229–30
Roquebrune, cemetery at 229, 230–3
Rosapenna, N. Ireland 293
Rouse, Arthur, trial of 73
Rowney, Tom 265–6
Rowney & Son (artists’ materials) 15, 258, 264, 265, 266
Royal Magazine 10
Royal Society of Arts 267
Royle Publications 292
RSPCA 310
Rubinstein, Michael 292–3
Russian Ballet 48, 52
St Buryan 48, 65
St John’s Wood 25, 34
Art School 38
St Louis 28
St Moritz 123, 131, 132, 134, 137, 169
St Paul’s Girls’ School 35–6
Salmon, Barnett 23, 31
Salmon, Sir Cyril 28, 73, 280–2
Salmon & Gluckstein, tobacconists 20, 22, 23, 25
Samson, Julia 253, 310
Sawyer, Ella Ernestine see Obermer, Nesta
Sawyer, Mrs Ernest 131, 132, 170, 172, 177, 178, 195
Schiaparelli, Elsa 11, 14 98, 99, 146
Scott-James, Anne 218
Scott-James, Rolfe 204
Selfridge, Gordon 38
Settle, Alison 204, 214, 220, 222, 242
Shackleton, Ernest 212
Shalimar Paints Ltd 259
Shaw, George Bernard 10, 215
So Good, So Kind 123
Solomons, Barnet 246, 247, 249, 252
Solomons, Sarah 31
Southease, Sussex 148
Spencer, Stanley 306
Spry, Constance 13, 14, 15, 77, 90–8, 101, 105, 109, 140, 170
death of 275
and fashion 11, 90–2, 98
flower arrangements 88–90
marriages 87
Winkfield Place 226
Spry, Shav 87, 97, 226
Spry, Val see Pirie, Val
‘Stage and Country’ 63–5, 71
Star Man’s Diary 12, 110
Stern, Edward 108, 109
Steyning Grammar School 204
Stiebel, Victor 11, 98
Storri, Terri 64
Strong, Roy 300
Studio 110
Sussex Churches Arts Council 188–9, 204, 222
Sutherland, Graham 262
Swinstead, Joan 162
Thesiger, Ernest 65, 66, 106, 143, 255
Thomson, Andrew 259–60
Tite Street studio 63, 69, 130
Tonkinson, David 271, 298, 299–300, 310
Toye, Geoffrey 80, 143, 148
Trocadero 11, 22, 64, 201, 246
Truefitt gentlemen’s hairdresser 10, 109, 270
Tybalt (G.’s cat) 284
Vaizey, Marina 300
Verney, Sir Harry 106–7, 158–9
Vernon House, Carlyle Square 94, 95
Vernon Picture (colour III), 94, 95
Victoria, Queen, Golden Jubilee of 25
Victory Ball 52
Vile Bodies (Waugh) 54
Villiers, Lord and Lady 124, 143, 146, 179
Vye, Winifred 17, 290–1, 294, 298, 302, 304, 308, 309
War Artists’ Committee 192
Watts, Arthur 81, 106, 310
Watts, George Frederic 257, 258
Watts, Margaret 107
Watts, Manorie 220
Watts, Marjorie-Ann 84
Waugh, Evelyn 54
Well of Loneliness, The (Radclyffe Hall) 81
Wellesley, Dorothy 216
Wells, H.G. 142, 215
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 10
Westbrook, A. J. 152, 155
Westbury Hotel 299, 300
Whistler, Rex 64
Wilkinson, Norman 14, 64, 90, 106
Wilson & Sons 261, 264
Winsor & Newton (artists’ materials) 258, 260, 263, 264, 265
Wolff, Charlotte 123–4
Women in Fleet Street 212
Wood, Diana 275
Woodroffe, G.E. 249
Woolf, Virginia 192
Worthing Beach 293
Yeats, George 217, 231, 232–7
Yeats, Jack 238
Yeats, W. B. 12, 204, 215, 216, 220
death of 217
and Edith Heald 216–7
Epitaph 230
reinterment 229–38
Yglesias, ‘Golly’ 189
Yorke, Anne 272–4, 283, 290
Yorke, David 272
‘YouWe’ (colour I), 9, 121–30, 143, 162
Zar 170, 171, 174, 179, 181, 187, 204
Zinkeisen, Doris 64
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I first saw Gluck’s paintings at her memorial exhibition at The Fine Art Society in 1981. Photographs and articles about her life were also displayed. Interest made me look for a biography of her, but I found that none had been written. Five years later, Jane Hawksley, then an editor at Pandora Press, wrote to me saying she liked reading my reviews of books and asking if I had a book I wanted to write. I thought again of Gluck.
Since that initial fillip the kindness and assistance of many people have made this biography possible. I would like to acknowledge my gratitude and indebtedness to them, though I am responsible for all opinions expressed.
My special thanks go to Gluck’s nephew, Roy Gluckstein. I would not have got far without his help. He allowed me to have sight of her manuscripts and other family papers and responded to my requests with fairness and promptness. His mother Lady Gluckstein, his brother David, and sister Jean Jaffa, provided me with candid and humorous accounts of Gluck. Geoffrey Salmon told me the story of the family’s history and the rise in the fortunes of J. Lyons & Co., the family business. Julia Samson, Gluck’s cousin, gave me her affectionate insights into Gluck’s character.
Gluck had a long and distinguished association with The Fine Art Society in London and I am particularly grateful to the Society’s directors, Tony Carroll and Andrew Mcintosh Patrick. They have done all they could to make this book a success. They commented on the manuscript, gave permission to reproduce photographs of her paintings, opened their records to me and supplied me with many useful contacts.
On a snowy afternoon in January 1987 I talked by a huge log fire with Hermia Priestley, a close friend of Gluck’s since the 1940s. I felt that I gained from Mrs Priestley a special understanding of Gluck and her aspirations. Equally memorable and useful were my meetings with Valerie Spry. She vividly evoked London of the 1930s and Gluck’s social milieu at that time. Keith Lichtenstein, who collected Gluck’s paintings and believed in her talent when the world had forgotten her, helped me to understand her worth as a painter. Susan Loppert, who had planned to write a biography of Gluck in 1974, generously made her notes available to me. David Tonkinson and Vernon Blackburn, Gluck’s accountants and hommes d’affaires, gave me their memories of Gluck and access to files of correspondence relating to her business matters. Professor Andrew Thomson helped me to understand her campaign to improve the quality of artists’ materials. Christine Leback Sitwell allowed me sight of the first draft of the thesis, now published, which she wrote on this campaign.
I am indebted, too, to June and Raul Casares and to Dr Ivan Heald, who supplied me with information about the professional achievements and way of life of the sisters Nora and Edith Shackleton Heald; to Nesta Macdonald who loaned me letters
, and cuttings from the Evening Standard and the Sunday Express of Edith Shackleton’s leading articles in the 1920s; to David Yorke for his frank assessment of Gluck’s psychological make-up; to those who worked for Gluck at the Chantry House and told me much about her later life: Clare Griffin, her personal assistant, Mr Lovett the gardener, Winifred Vye, the housekeeper and Mrs Guy who did the housework.
I am most grateful, also, for the help and information given to me by Chloe Blackburn, Dr Richard Boger, Meggie Bowman, the Duke and Dowager Duchess of Buccleuch, Betsan Coates, Georgina Cookson, William Davenport, Liz Drury, Peter Giffard, Robert Harris, Lady Lancaster, Marjorie-Anne Lowenstein, Julia Lowenthal, Diana Menuhin, Ralph Merton, George Morton, Gilbert Odd, Tom Parrington, Anne Pemberton, Dr and Mrs Konrad Rodan, Lt-CoL Nelson Sawyer, Edward Staysack, Marjorie Watts and Adrianne Whitney.
My best thanks, too, to my agent Tessa Sayle for her support, to Peter Campbell for designing the book and for his comments on the manuscript and to Philippa Brewster, my editor. Acknowledgement is due to the Houghton Library, Harvard, who own the letters of W. B. Yeats to Edith Shackleton Heald paraphrased on pages 216 and 217; to the Huntington Library, California for the photograph on page 216 and to the Hulton Picture Library for the photograph on page 233.
About the Author
Diana Souhami is the author of many highly acclaimed books: Selkirk’s Island, winner of the 2001 Whitbread Biography Award; The Trials of Radclyffe Hall, shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography and winner of the Lambda Literary Award; the bestselling Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter, winner of the Lambda Literary Award and a New York Times Notable Book of 1997; Natalie and Romaine; Gertrude and Alice; Greta and Cecil; Gluck: Her Biography; and others. She lives in London and Devon.
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