Brooke, Rupert 149, 150, 152, 165
Broughton, Rhoda, Not Wisely But Too Well 56
Browne, Maggie (school friend of CM) 95, 101, 213
dull and faithful 26, 60, 78
to Brittany with CM 74
Browne, Professor E.T. 26, 95, 213
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett 24, 29
Caterina to Camöens 29
Browning, Robert 24, 106
Bugle Inn, Newport, IoW 1, 2, 3, 38
The Builder (quoted) 33, 43, 68
Burne-Jones, Sir Edward 202
Buss, Miss Frances 22
Byron, Lord 106
Café Monico 151
Camaret-sur-mer, Brittany 98–9
Cambridge 171, 173, 176
CM visits 185, 201, 217
Camden Town, N.W. London 106, 193
Capital & Counties Bank, Bristol 36
Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight 38, 39
Water Company 1
Carlyle, Thomas 24, 44, 110
Sartor Resartus 44
Chapbook, The (originally The Monthly Chapbook) 181, 194
Chaplin, Charlie 191
Chardin, Jean-Baptiste 114
Chat Noir, Le 83
Chekhov, Anton 114
Cheltenham Ladies’ College 119
Chichester, Sussex 212
Chick family 26
CM and Anne stay with 95
Chick, Elsie (CM’s school friend) see Tansley
Chick, Margaret 26, 74, 78
Christ Church, Woburn Square 31
Churchill, Winston 149
Cobham family 9, 35
Cobham, Thomas (CM’s great-grandfather) 43
Cockerell, Kate, ‘most unselfish of wives’ 174, 185, 186
friendship with CM 186, 208, 210, 218, 219, 224–5
CM’s legacy to 222
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle 170–1, 173
CM sends him The Farmer’s Bride 175–6
career 172–4
curator of Fitzwilliam Museum 172
his diaries 173, 183, 202
and women 174
‘a schoolmaster at heart’ 175
his ‘courtship’ of CM 175, 191
offers to wash up 175–6
‘a blameless Pepys’ 183
persuades CM to visit Cambridge 184–5
CM confides in him 192, 197, 201–2
arranges Civil List pension for CM 202–3
introduces her to de la Mare 204–5
on financial difficulties at the Bookshop 212
visits Anne 213
sympathy at Anne’s death 213–14
correspondence with CM 216–17
very busy as Hardy’s executor 220
sends CM Hardy’s copy of Fin de Fête 220
last visit to CM 224
Colette (quoted) 30
Claudine à l’Ecole 83
Conrad, Joseph 46, 114, 206
Chance 135
Coram’s Fields Foundlings Home 8
Cornford, Frances 164
Cornwall 63–4, 111
Cowan, Dr Horatio (the Mews’ GP) 214, 223, 226
Coward, Noel, Hay Fever 211
Cowes, Isle of Wight 1, 6
Craig, Gordon 194
‘Crosse’, Victoria (Vivien Corey) 57
Cubitt, Mrs Lewis (CM’s great-aunt) 6, 36
Cubitt, Thomas 2, 36, 90
Culpeper’s Herbal 192
Cumberland Market, NW1 88
Cupples Field, Yorkshire 28
Daily Herald, The 187
Dante 24
D’Arcy, Ella, helps edit Yellow Book 53
background 60–1
complains about F. Rolfe’s lice 61
‘Goblin Ella’ 61
penniless, leaves England 61–2
CM’s love affair with 67, 78, 119, 131, 139, 217
pursues John Lane 80–1
with CM in Paris 81–6
praises CM’s poetry 96, 114
novels 121
reputation with men 137
Cousin Louis 58
Irremediable 54, 61, 73
Monochromes 80
Davidson, John 58, 151
Thirty Bob a Week 58, 151
Davies, W.H. 150
de Beauvoir, Simone 119
de la Mare, Walter 150
doubtful about The Farmer’s Bride 169–70, 203
meets CM 204–5
‘she knows humanity’ 205
Memoirs of a Midget 205
Dickens, Charles 56
Dickinson, Emily 99
Dieppe 60, 74, 123, 132–3, 188
Doolittle, Hilda 144
Dowson, Ernest 52
Doyle, A. Conan 46
Drinkwater, John, Poems of Love and Earth 149
Egerton, George 57
Egoist, The 130
Eliot, T.S. 78, 169, 200, 221
Ellis, Havelock 69
Elnswick, Jane (Mews’ maid-of-all-work) 90–1, 132, 165
doubts whether poetry is respectable 165
English Review, The 125
Englishwoman, The 116
Etoile Hotel, Charlotte Street 213–14
Evans’ Cave of Harmony 4
Eve’s Library 52
Exchange and Mart 158
Farjeon, Eleanor 153
Federation of Working Girls’ Clubs 91
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 170–1, 172, 174, 191, 193
Flaubert, Gustave 61, 83, 114
Flecker, James Elroy, The Old Ships 168
Flint, F.S., Otherworld: Cadences 144, 168
Forster, E.M. 73
Fortune Green Cemetery, N.W. London 218, 222
Fraser, Claud Lovat 162
Freud, Sigmund 120, 123, 143
Psychopathology of Everyday Life 120
Three Essays on Sexuality 120
Frost, Robert 147
Froude, Miss (assistant at Poetry Bookshop) 168
Galsworthy, John 148
Galton, Francis 41
Natural Inheritance 41
Garnett, David, Go She Must 214
Garnett, Edward 174
Garsington Manor, Oxfordshire 206
Gaskell, Mrs, Life of Charlotte Brontë 42, 93
Gaudier-Brzěska, Henri 147
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 211
Georgian Poetry I 149–50, 162
II 165
III 164
TV 169, 204
V 169–70
Gibson, Wilfred Wilson 147, 150, 195
Giles, Katherine 111
Gissing, George, The Odd Women 35
New Grub Street 92
Gittings, Dr Robert 178
Gobelins, Les (restaurant) 182, 204
Golden Treasury, The 149
Goodman, Elizabeth (CM’s nurse), a ‘treasure’ 7–8
keeps Fred Mew in his place 8
care of Mew children 10–11, 21–2
economies 13–14, 36
implants sense of guilt in CM 16
sweeps her poems into dustpan 20
moves with family to Gordon Street 36, 45
death 50, 57, 88, 117
‘watching still’ 138
Gosse, Edmund 174, 202
Gower Street School 22, 32, 43, 74
Gower, E.P. 202
Grand Theatre, Islington 49
Graves, Robert, Over the Brazier 164
Green, Romney 146
Greener, Amy 28
Greenwood, Frederic 78
Grout, Caroline (Flaubert’s niece) 83
Souvenirs Intimes 83
Guthrie, James 162
Haigh-Wood, Vivien 77
Hampstead, N.W. London 4, 26, 27, 33–4
Hampstead Vestry Hall 52, 33, 36
West Hampstead 193, 214
Hansson, J., Das Buch der Frauen 52
Hardy, Florence (the second Mrs Hardy) 177, 179
invites CM to Max Gate 177
thinks CM ‘a pathetic creature’ 178
visits Hogarth Studios 180
upset by Romanism 185–6
consults herbal 192
CM writes to 198–9
invited to meet de la Mare 204
CM consoles her 108–9, 220
Hardy, Thomas 4, 39, 46, 64, 102, 104, 150, 172, 179
SCC sends him The Farmer’s Bride 177
wishes to meet CM 177–8
‘far and away the best living woman poet’ 181
sponsors CM’s pension 203
collapses 209
death 220
his copy of Fin de Fête 220
The Homecoming 104 Jude the Obscure 104 A Pair of Blue Eyes 64
Harland, Henry (‘The Chief), Bohemian editor of The Yellow Book 53
enthusiasm for CM’s Passed 57
CM at his ‘evenings’ 59–60
advises CM on writing 63, 65–6
rejects CM’s The China Bowl 66, 67
as CM’s editor 70–1, 163
death 78
P’tit Bleu 92
Harper’s 141
Harrison, Lucy (CM’s headmistress), early life 23
teaching 25
CM’s passion for her 26
nervous breakdown 26
in love with Amy Greener 28
importance to CM 29, 48, 57, 71, 93
her deathbed 29
leaves school 32
Social Geography for Teachers and Infants 23
Hawksley, Dorothy (friend of SCC and CM) 175, 183, 210, 211, 221
Haworth Parsonage 93, 121
Heme, Caroline (CM’s great-aunt) 9
Hill, Octavia 22–3
Hodgson, Ralph 150, 152
Hogarth, William 114
Housman, A.E. 39
on CM’s poems 176
Housman, Laurence 58 Hudson, W.H., Green Mansions 105
Hughes, Arthur 26, 74, 217
Hughes, Florence 74, 76
Imagist poets 144, 188
James, Henry 46, 60, 92
The Coxon Fund 58, 66
Jarman, Henry 193, 214
Jarman, Margaret 193, 214
Jefferies, Richard 48
Amaryllis at the Fair 49
Field and Hedgerow 49
refuses Royal Literary Fund money 202
Jerry (May Sinclair’s cat) 120
Johnson, Lionel 52
Joyce, James 153
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 130–1
Jung, Ernst 123, 143
Kendall, Edward Herne (CM’s uncle) 5
something odd about him 37
trust set up for him 78, 199
death 164, 222
Kendall, Henry (CM’s great-grandfather) 2–3
career 3–4
‘the Nestor of architects’ 4
drawing by 18, 36, 156
death 32, 164
Kendall, Henry (‘H.E.K.’ CM’s grandfather) 3
career 4–5
fond of Fred Mew 5
Fred asks for his daughter’s hand 6
relies increasingly on Fred 32
his will 35
dies 35
Designs for Schools and schoolhouses 6
dessin libre 18
Modern Architecture 5
Kendall, Maria (Mrs Henry Kendall, CM’s grandmother) 14
distrusts Fred Mew 35
her will 35
settles in Brighton 35
Kendall, Mary Leonora (CM’s aunt) 14, 35, 37
death 78
CM and Anne benefit from her will 78, 95, 193, 200
Kendall & Mew 11, 33–4
Kensal Green Cemetery 4, 47, 164, 200
Keynotes 59, 61, 80
Kinkel, Professor 25
Kipling, Rudyard 46
The Jungle Book 105
Klementaski, Alida see Monro
Ladies of Limited Means, Association for 44
Lane, John 51, 52, 58, 59, 66, 112
pursued by Ella D’Arcy 80–1, 94
Lawrence, D.H. 150, 153
Layton’s (CM’s solicitors) 191, 192
Leverton, Thomas 3
Lewis, Wyndham 111–12
Line upon Line 16
Little Tich 110
Little Women 23
Lutch, Miss (matron of nursing-home) 224, 225, 226
Lyceum Club 125
‘Maarten Maartens’ 70
Macdonnell, Amice 27, 28
Macmillan 170, 187
Macmillan’s Golden Treasury of Modern Lyrics 207
Manning and Mew 2
Manning, Cardinal 47
Manton, Jo 178
Marden, Thomas 5
Marsh, Edward 149
and Georgian Poetry 149–50
refuses CM’s poems 169–70
Martin, John 114
Marylebone Polytechnic 122
Masefield, John 153, 203
Massingham, H.W. 96
Mathews, Elkin 52, 94, 160
Maupassant, Guy de 53
Mazzini, Giuseppe 23
McHardy, Mrs C.G.L. (the Mews’ lodger) 69
McLachlan, Dame Laurentia, Abbess of Stanbrook 186
Medico-Psychological Clinic 123, 132, 141
Mew family 1–2, 37, 142
Mew, Anna Maria (CM’s mother), pretty and silly 6, 21
marries 6
protected from worry 14, 27
faith 31
semi-invalid 36
inherits from grandfather 43
feels betrayed at Fred’s death 68
clings to gentility 68
inheritance 78
confined to sofa 90
restraints on Anne’s holidays 97
witchlike 156
and Wek 97, 190
condition ‘dangerous’ 196
death 197
Mew, Anne (Caroline Anne Frances, CM’s sister), born 9
described 21
‘no trouble’ at school 27
Anglo-Catholic 31
resolves with CM never to marry 41–2
studies at Female School of Art 43–4
Charlotte’s feelings for 57
undertakes commissions 69
takes ladylike job 70
to Brittany with CM and friends 74, 78
not referred to in CM’s poems 88
rents Hogarth Studios 95
exhibits at Royal Academy 96, 97
with CM to Boulogne 97, 100
takes harder job 113
‘dreadfully fagged’ 128, 131
gives up job 133
CM’s loyalty to 138
conspiracy with Alida 157
‘happy enough’ 176
invites Florence Hardy to tea 180
SCC finds her charming 183
death of Wek 189
unwell 192
exhibitions 193–4
helps CM nurse mother 196, 199
inheritance 199–200
invited to meet de la Mare 204
proud of CM’s work 207
‘something seriously wrong’ 213–17
dies 217, 218
her gold watch, grave, epitaph 222
Mew, Benjamin 1
Mew, Charlotte Mary 7, 9
born 198
younger brothers’ deaths 9–10
‘magical childhood’ 10
childhood writings 20–1
obsessed with images 17
at Gower Street School 22–30
passion for Miss Harrison 26–30
begins to check impulses 31
Anglo-Catholic phase 31
taught to distrust her father 35
pity for brother’s insanity 39–40
will never marry 41–2
contributes to The Yellow Book 1894 54–9, 60–1, 66–7
becomes a New Woman 60
visits Cornwall, writes The China Bowl 63–6
at father’s deathbed 68
takes charge of household 68–9
contributes to Temple Bar 70
, 74–5, 78, 91, 95
feels horror of Henry’s death 71–3
to Brittany 74–7
dances in her knickers 74
‘under high pressure’ 77
to Paris to join Ella d’Arcy 78–86
passion for Ella 84–5
feels ‘spat upon’ 85
life in The Quiet House 87–101
social work 91
loses inspiration 91–2
hopes to edit Emily Brontë’s poems 92–4
to Brittany with Elsie O’Keefe 97–8
mid-life crisis 99
to Boulogne with Anne 100
writes The Farmer’s Bride 102–4
her concept of the cri de coeur 106
taken up by Mrs Dawson Scott 107–11, 114–17
audience carried away by her readings 111
writes Fame 112–14
guilt about Anne 113–14
‘neither quite boy nor quite girl’ 117
relationship with May Sinclair 119–29, 130–45
to Dieppe 123
‘Charlotte is evidently a pervert’ 137
breaks with Mrs D-S 139–40
war-work 140
her poems read at Poetry Bookshop 153–4
confidence at its lowest 155
friendship with Alida Monro 155–60
mystery of missing MSS 157
as ‘Aunty Mew’ 158
Poetry Bookshop publishes The Farmer’s Bride 160–6, 170
helps colour rhyme sheets 168
‘j’ai passé par là’ 169
relationship with Sydney Cockerell 171–86, 192, 197, 201–5, 212, 213, 216–17, 220, 224
first visit to Hardys 177–80
accepts SCC as escort 182
at Cambridge 184–5
anxious about Wek 189–90
country wanderings 191
moves from Gordon Street to Delancey Street 193
nurses her failing mother 196
writes Fin de fête 196–7
her mother’s death ‘a stupefying blow’ 197–9
wretched financial position 199–201
overwhelmed by Civil List pension 202–3
1924–25 the happiest years of her life 206
helps Florence Hardy and Kate Cockerell 208–9
Anne’s illness 211–17
to Chichester 212
deep distress and guilt at Anne’s death, writes Aglaë 215–17
back to Hogarth Studios 219
‘like a reluctant visitor from another world’ 221
inherits money too late 222
makes will 222
enters nursing home 223–6
‘I tried my best to keep going’ 224
death 225–6
grave 218 personality:
depressions 71, 77, 99, 128, 199, 224–5
divided self 45, 49, 76–7, 83, 114–15, 159, 225
excitable, passionate 11, 14, 26, 82, 122, 138
fascinating, entertaining 10, 27, 93, 111, 158, 204