Amalfi 170, 171, 373
American Genius, The (ed. E. Sitwell) 356
Amis, Kingsley 384, 386; Lucky Jim 386
An Experiment with Time (Dunne) 284
Anactoria (Swinburne) 320, 324
Anatomy of Criticism (Frye) 419– 20
Anatomy of Melancholy (Burton) 226–7
Andrade, Lorna 271, 282, 301, 302, 404, 405, 406, 427–8, 433
Anglo-French Poetry Society 138–40, 158, 164, 223
Another Time (Auden) 278–9
Anrep, Boris, mosaics 74
Antheil, George 177
anthroposophy 142
anti-Semitism 122–3, 201
Apes of God, The (Lewis) 212–13
appeasement 276
Arcadia, SS 438– 9
Ardours and Endurances (Nichols) 130
Armitage, Audrey 439
Armstrong, Terence Fytton 213, 217, 358
Arts and Letters 136
Ashridge 58–9
Ashton, Frederick 168, 412, 437
Aspects of Modern Poetry (E. Sitwell) 238–44, 245, 248, 313, 336
Asquith, Lady Cynthia 107
Astor, Minnie (later Minnie Fosburgh) 338, 349, 356, 363, 387, 388, 405–6, 433
Astor, Vincent 338
Athenæum 130, 150
Atlantic Book of British and American Poetry, The (E. Sitwell) 360, 419
Attlee, Clement 361
Auden, W. H. 205, 238, 243, 244, 245, 248, 253, 278–9, 353, 357, 368, 371, 393; Another Time 278– 9
Aurora (Boehme) 306
Austin, Texas 367, 406
Australia 438– 9
Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (Davies) 113
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, The (Stein) 183, 222
Awakening of the Muses (Anrep) 74
Ayer, A. J. 384
Bachelard, Gaston 390, 391
Bad Nauheim 52
Balanchine, George 365
ballet 150–2, 365
Ballets Russes 150–2
Balliol College, Oxford 152
Balston, Thomas 166, 175, 177, 193, 197, 203, 210, 232, 238–9
Barker, George 240
Barney, Natalie 221
Baro, Gene 392
Barons of Pulford In the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, The (G. Sitwell) 17
Barrymore, Ethel 368
‘Bastille’, the 35–6, 40
Bateson, F. W. 412–13
Bath 217–18, 226, 291, 299, 324
Bath (E. Sitwell) 217–18, 219, 226
Baudelaire 76, 126, 218, 233, 296
Baxter, Beverley 182
BBC 257, 262; Elizabeth R 388; Third Programme 332–3, 335;
Beach, Sylvia 220, 221
Beardsley, Monroe C. 420
Beaton, Cecil 185–6, 193, 195, 213, 246, 276, 347, 437, 438; My Royal Past 276
Beaufort, Dowager Duchess of 10, 171
Beerbohm, Max 70
Beevers, John 250–1
Beevers, Marjorie 250– 1
Before the Bombardment (O. Sitwell) 30
Bell, Clive 73, 74, 133–4, 159
Bell, Julian 307
Bell, Vanessa 73
Belloc Lowndes, Marie 138, 247, 256
Belshazzar’s Feast (Walton) 219
Belvoir House, Scarborough 21–2
Benet, W. R. 210–11
Bennett, Arnold 113, 114, 136, 138, 140, 196, 214
Bennett, Marguerite 137–40
Bérard, Christian 190, 315–16
Berlin 52–5, 57, 190
Berman, Eugene and Leonid 190
Bermuda 440
Bernac, Pierre 315–16
Bernard Shaw, George 17, 113, 198, 282
Berners, Lord 196
Besant, Annie 142
Bhattacharya, Deben 359
Binyon, Laurence 295
Bishop, Stephen (later Stephen Kovacevich) 437
‘Black Angel’ (Thompson) 360
Black Sun (Thompson) 360
Blackwell, B. H. 103
Blackwell, Basil 148
Blake, William 67, 75–6, 126, 306, 339, 391, 411
Blankney 8, 12, 61
Blavatsky, Madame 105
Blencowe, Sir John 173
Blind Fireworks (MacNeice) 328
Bloomsbury set, the 72, 133–4, 212
Bloy, Léon 340–1
Blum, Léon 252
Blunden, Edmund 132, 181, 203, 210, 223, 295
Blutbund 144
Böcklin, Arnold 52
Boehme, Jacob 306, 310; Aurora 306
Boer War 14
Bonchurch 66– 7
Book of Women’s Verse, A (Squire) 159
Bose, Douglas 250–1
Boston 338, 349–50, 393
Bottomley, Gordon 138, 295, 311
Bottrall, Ronald 248
Bounds, Henry 167
Bournemouth 66, 69, 197, 442; Branksome Towers Hotel 332
Bowen, Elizabeth 346
Bowen, Stella 203–4, 208, 220
Bowes Lyon, Lilian 341–2
Bowes-Lyon, Fergus 106
Bowra, Maurice 297, 314, 320, 371, 383, 417, 437
Bradford, Sarah 96
Bradford Technical College 116
Brains Trust, The (TV programme) 425
Branksome Towers Hotel, Bournemouth 332
Brave and Cruel, and Other Stories (Welch) 350
Breton, André 240
Brideshead Revisited (Waugh) 30, 143, 291
Brides-les-Bains 241
Bridges, Robert 99, 242
Brinnin, John Malcom 367, 381, 382; Dylan Thomas in America 383
British Army: 11th Hussars 83; British Expeditionary Force 92, 108; Grenadier Guards 84, 90, 96, 121–2
British National Association of Spiritualists 16–17
Britten, Benjamin 307, 363, 372, 397, 400, 404, 425, 436–7; Canticle III: Still Falls the Rain 397, 436–7
Broadbent, James 29
Brockwell, Major A. B. 31, 163
Brook, Peter 402
Brown, John Mason 366
‘Bryher’ (Winifred Ellerman) 7, 280, 289, 290–1, 299, 314, 375, 381, 432
Buber, Martin 144
Bucolic Comedies (E. Sitwell) 144, 166
Bullock, Sir Malcolm 437
Burma 56
Burnet, Thomas 306; The Theory of the Earth 306
Burroughs, William 442
Burton, Douglas 250–1
Butler, Rab 269
Butt, Dame Clara 41
California 368, 376, 381, 383, 386–7
Camden Town Group 159
Camden Town Murder, The (Sickert) 71–2
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament 416, 423
Campbell, Mary 358, 396, 406–7, 412
Campbell, Roy 357–9, 396, 401, 406–7, 429; The Flowering Rifle 357; Talking Bronco 357
Canaday, John 441
Canons of Giant Art (S. Sitwell) 219–20, 238, 244, 303
Canticle III: Still Falls the Rain (Britten) 397, 436– 7
Canticle of the Rose, The (E. Sitwell) 356–7, 360–1
Capetanakis, Demetrios 32, 307–8, 320
Capote, Truman 350, 429
Caraman, Father Philip 396–8, 414, 423, 425, 443
Carfax Gallery 73
Carisbrooke, Irene, see Denison, Irene (later Marchioness of Carisbrooke)
Carrington, Dora 58, 74, 116, 133
Causley, Charles 384
Cecil, Henry 431
Celebration for Edith Sitwell, A (ed. Villa) 342–3, 348
Chandos-Pole, Inez 73, 89, 224, 230, 292–3
Chaplin, Lord 61
Charteris, Ivo 107, 109
Chatto & Windus 130
Chatwin, Bruce 297; The Songlines 297
Chelsea pensions office 101
Chenil Gallery 72, 116, 182
Chesterfield 279, 361
Chesterfield, Earl of 10
Chicago 244–5, 393
Chicago Review 393
Child, Armando 400
Child, Harold Hannyngton 279, 288–9, 311– 12
Children’s Tales (From the Russian Ballet) (E. Sitwell) 150–1
Chile 116
‘Chile’, see de Guevara, Álvaro Christian Science Monitor 259
Christie, John 72
Christ Church, Oxford 16
Church, Richard 259
Churchill, Winston 44, 182, 361, 418
Claremont Nursing Home, Sheffield 428
Clark, Jane 388–9, 438
Clark, Sir Kenneth 198–9, 322, 337, 433, 436, 437
Clark, Val 402–3
Clarkson, Tom 340
Clay, Andrew 23
Cleveland Street Affair 428
Clowns’ Houses (E. Sitwell) 126–8, 135
coal mines, nationalisation of 361
Cocteau, Jean 350
Codrington, Veronica (later Veronica Gilliat) 12, 48, 63
Cohn, Harry 377–8
Colefax, Sybil 124, 299
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 242, 306, 307, 319, 378
Collected Poems (E. Sitwell) 77, 132, 152, 210–11, 246, 392, 407, 409–11, 413–14
Collier, John 210, 219; His Monkey-Wife; Or, Married to a Chimp 210
Collins, Diana 423
Collins, Canon John 422–3
Colombo 438
Colston Leigh Agency 338, 348
Columbia Records 351, 353, 367, 368
Columbia Studios 376, 377, 388, 399
coming out 57–8, 61
Composition as Explanation (Stein) 184
Connelly, Brian 394
Connolly, Cyril 171, 337–8, 409, 410, 437
Conquest, Robert 384
Conyngham, Albert Denison, first Baron Londesborough 8
Cooke, Mildred 97
Coolings Galleries 185
Cornwell, Patricia 71; theory of Sickert as Jack the Ripper 71–2
Corso, Gregory 416–17
Courtauld, Sam 224
Courteenhall 76–7
Coutts Bank 179, 220, 263, 293–4, 300, 392, 399, 406
Covington, Robert 432
Coward, Noël 168–70, 210, 435–6; London Calling 168–9
Crane, Josephine 350–1
Cranston, Maurice 350
Crevel, René 240, 247
Cubism 127, 190
Cukor, George 377, 381, 387, 388, 435, 437
Cumberland, Gerald 168
cummings, e. e. 368
Cunard, Sir Bache 114
Cunard, Maud (later Emerald Cunard) 114, 201
Cunard, Nancy 104, 114, 118–19, 120, 181
Curiosities of Literature (Disraeli) 226
Currie, Alannah 434
Curtis Brown 166–7, 402
Curzon Hotel 81, 195
Daiches, David 419
Daily Express 215– 16
Daily Herald, ‘Too Fantastic for Fat-Heads’ review 157
Daily Mail 92, 107, 198, 424
Daily Mirror 98–9, 103, 126, 421
Dalí, Salvador 240, 255, 271–2
Daniel, C. W. 158
D’Arcy, Father Martin 396, 398, 414, 444; The Nature of Belief 397
Darling, Charles John 92–3, 95, 96
Davidson, Edie 62
Davidson, Archbishop (Randall) 14, 16, 88, 91, 92, 97
Davie, Donald 384
Davies, W. H. 113–14, 131, 138, 230, 241; Autobiography of a Super-Tramp 113
Davis, Eliza 26, 30–1, 45
Dawkins, Richard 4
Dawson, Frederick 34
Dawson of Penn, Lord 266
Day-Lewis, C. 244, 320, 329, 358, 412, 418
Daylight 307
de la Mare, Richard 217
de la Mare, Walter 78, 103–4, 113, 295, 329
de Lacerda, Alberto 401, 412, 414, 422
Deaths and Entrances (Thomas) 328
Demetrios Capetanakis: A Greek Poet in England (Lehmann) 308
Denison, Irene (later Marchioness of Carisbrooke) 12, 301
Devil’s Island 233, 234
Diaghilev, Sergei 133, 134, 150, 190; The Sleeping Princess (1921) 171
Dickson, Rache Lovat 287
Dieppe 69
Dietrich, Marlene 393
Dobbs, Frances Bennett 83, 85–6, 93, 94
Doble, Georgia, see Sitwell, Georgia (née Doble) Dobrée, Professor Bonamy 343
Dobson, Frank 155
Donne, John 310, 319, 386
Don’t Call Me By My Right Name (Purdy) 402
Doolittle, Hilda (‘H.D.’) 119, 160, 280, 295, 314–15, 432; Tribute to the Angels 314– 15
Dr Donne and Gargantua (S. Sitwell) 244
Draper, Ruth 70
Driberg, Tom 184, 317
Dui, Jovan 145
Duchene, L. F. 385
Duckworth, Gerald 166, 172, 174, 204, 224, 231, 238–9, 241
Dunciad (A. Pope) 110
Dunkirk evacuation 2, 277
Durán, Josefa 286
Duret, Théodore 75
Durham, University of 343
Durrell, Lawrence 360
Dylan Thomas in America (Brinnin) 383
Eberhart, Richard 392
eccentric biography, works of 226
Edinburgh Festival 426
Editor of Wheels, The (Guevara) 117
Edwards, Ellen 33
Egoist, The 119
Eighteen Poems (Thomas) 248–9
Elborn, Geoffrey 102, 201, 427– 8
Elegy on Dead Fashion (E. Sitwell) 178
Eliot, T. S. 76, 113, 124–6, 128, 136, 141, 144, 172–3, 181, 183, 216–17, 222, 249, 256, 279, 307, 313–14, 329, 357, 405, 430; The Waste Land 125, 158, 172–3; Four Quartets 313, 405
Eliot, Vivienne 125, 181, 183, 217, 222–3
Elkin Mathews 99–100
Ellerman, Winifred, see Bryher (Winifred Ellerman)
Ellmann, Richard 337
Elwes, Gervase 70
Emblems of Experience (Sassoon) 374
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 306
empiricism 4–5
Empson, William 248
Encounter 424
English Eccentrics, The (E. Sitwell) 198, 226–8, 274
English Women (E. Sitwell) 287
Enright, D. J. 384
‘Epitaphs of the War’ (Kipling) 122
Ernst, F. Gustav 36, 37–8, 41
Ernst, Max 240
Eton 16, 95, 105
Evans, Edith 329
Evening Standard 140, 412, 420
Eyre & Spottiswoode 315
Faber, Enid 217
Faber, Geoffrey 217
Faber & Faber 217, 220, 238, 246, 357
Faber Book of Modern Verse, The (ed. Roberts) 256
Façade (ballet) 168
Façade (E. Sitwell) 4, 110, 152–7, 166; see also Façade (Sitwell and Walton)
Façade (Sitwell and Walton) 4, 110, 173, 178, 185; collaboration on 152–7; first performance 156–7; performances 166, 167–8, 182, 289–90, 332, 348, 363, 372, 374, 416; Festival of Modern Music performance 202–3; American performance 350–1; record release 351; Currie recording 434; Royal Festival Hall performance 436
Façade 2 (Walton) 157, 289
Façade Revived (Walton) 157
Face to Face (TV programme) 424–5
Fairbairn, Sydney 119
Fairbanks, Douglas, Senior 132
Fanfare for Elizabeth (E. Sitwell) 287, 331–2, 434
Fanfare for Elizabeth film script (E. Sitwell) 376–81, 386–8, 435
Farquhar, Sister Doris 432, 434, 438, 440, 442
Farrer, Elizabeth 56
Farrer, Reginald 56–7, 59, 70; My Rock Garden 56
Faulkner, William 140
Fauré, Gabriel 69
Favril Press 157
Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake (Frye) 339
Fenwick, Jane 103
Ferris, Paul 383
Field, Julian Osgood 82–3, 84, 90–1, 91–6
Fini, Leonor 355, 373
First World War
49, 71; first month 90; German bombardment of Scarborough 91; casualties 92, 106, 108; Battle of Loos 106–7; poetry 107–8, 275–6; Battle of the Somme 108; Battle of Arras 120; protest against 121; conspiracy theories 122; air raids 124; death of Owen 129; Armistice celebrations 133–4
Fitzherbert, Diana 208
Five Variations on a Theme (E. Sitwell) 231–3
Fleming, Ian 342
Fletcher, Valerie 314, 405
Florence 81–2, 376, 423
Flowering Rifle, The (Campbell) 357
Flynn, Gertrude 365
Fontainas, André 76
Ford, Charles Henri 192, 231, 244, 283–4, 330, 342–3, 344, 345, 347–8, 350–1, 355, 362, 395, 407; ‘Sleep in a Nest of Flames’ 330
Ford, Ford Madox 203, 220
Ford, Ruth 255
Form in Modern Poetry (Read) 242
Forster, E. M. 113, 172, 227–8, 373
Fosburgh, Minnie, see Astor, Minnie
Foster, Roy 241, 256
Four Quartets (Eliot) 313, 405
France 46; strikes 252; fall of 277
Frances, Esteban 351
Frank, Anne 321
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke 88, 144
Fraser, G. S. 419
Fraser, Mary 381, 411
Frazer, Sir James 218
Freeman, John 170, 173, 424–5, 443
French in Great Britain Fund 295–6
French Symbolist poets 76
Frere, Philip 281–2, 286, 301, 302, 375, 389, 400
Frewen, Clarita 44
Fry, Roger 74–5, 111–12, 133–4, 159
Frye, Northrop 339, 419–20; Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake 339; Anatomy of Criticism 419– 20
Fundamentals of Music and their Relation to Modern Life (Rootham) 146
Fussell, Miss 85, 86
Fyfe, Hamilton 281–2
Gabain, Marjorie 139
Gallery of Modern Art, New York 441
Gardeners and Astronomers (E. Sitwell) 384, 385–6
Gardner, Helen 125
Gardner, Isabella 394
Garnett, David 134
Garrick Club 239
Garsington Manor 121
Gascoyne, David 240, 290
Gatty, Hester 235
Gawsworth, John (Terence Fytton Armstrong) 358
General Strike 182– 3
Geography and Plays (Stein) 30, 174, 180
Georgian Poetry (Marsh) 114
Germany 46; the rise of Hitler 234; Rhineland reoccupied 251; Kristallnacht 267; Jewish refugees leave, 1939: 267–8
Gerona 248, 252
Gertler, Mark 116, 133
Gibson, Wilfrid 100, 261, 295
Gielgud, John 317, 329, 366, 371, 434, 437
Gilbert, Stuart 221
Gilliat, David 309
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins 51
Gilman, Harold 72
Ginsberg, Allen 416– 18
Girls of Slender Means, The (Spark) 396
Glendinning, Victoria 5, 398, 442
Goebbels, Joseph 269–70, 277
Gollancz, Victor 246, 266, 287, 402, 419, 437
Goodbye to All That (Graves) 194