Gordon, Lyndall 125–6
Gore, Spencer 72
Gorer, Geoffrey 207, 215–16, 356, 372, 388, 395
Gorer, Rée 207, 226, 266, 292
Gosden 22, 34, 47
Gosden House 47, 66
Gosse, Edmund 123–4, 125, 131, 167, 184, 197, 271
Gotham Book Mart 349
Gould, Tony 420
Gourmont, Rémy de 76
governesses 31–5, 41–3
Grafton Gallery 75, 143
Grainger, Percy 70
Grand Hotel Baglioni, Florence 81–2
Grant, Duncan 133
Grant, Ethel 133
Grasso family 79
Graves, Catherine 165
Graves, Robert 113, 121, 136, 138, 141, 162, 164–5, 173, 175, 193–4; Goodbye to All That 194; A Survey of Modernist Poetry 194
Great Tradition, The (Leavis) 243
Greece 64–5
Green, Peter Lycett 107
Green Song (E. Sitwell) 310–13, 330
Greene, Donald 205
Greene, Graham 113, 122, 136, 166, 170, 282–3, 315, 333, 341, 376, 408, 418, 420, 430, 437, 438; A Gun for Sale 122; The Heart of the Matter 341
Greenwood, Walter 246; His Worship the Mayor 246; Love on the Dole 246
Gregory, James 226
Griffith-Jones, Mervyn 429
Grigson, Geoffrey 150, 238, 242, 242–3, 328, 334, 357–8, 390, 410; Poetry of the Present 357–8
Grimston 8
Guevara, Álvaro de (‘Chile’) 116–19, 359; The Editor of Wheels 117
Guinness, Alec 278, 340–1, 366, 398, 414
Guinness, Meraud 118
Guion, Connie 406
Gun for Sale, A (Greene) 122
Gunn, Thom 384
Gurney, Mrs Tom 59
Gurney, Thomas 206–7
Haldane, Charlotte Franken 232–4
Hamburger, Philip 351
Hamner, Lady (Aunt Puss) 80–1
Hamnett, Nina 73, 111, 112, 133
Hampstead 372, 431–2, 442
Hampton, Colin 307
Hanover Gallery 359, 391
Harden, Elmer 176
Hardy, Thomas 113
Harmsworth, Cecil 207
Harper, Allanah 117, 180–1, 185, 192, 200, 218, 219, 240
Harrogate 89
Hartley, Anthony 385–6
Hartmann, Henri Albert 50, 51–2, 196, 251
Harty, Hamilton 71
Harvard University 339, 350
Haughton, Rose 378
Have Come, Am Here (Villa) 342
Hay Brow 22
Hayashi, Aki 203
Hayward, John 313–14, 329–30, 405
Heart of the Matter, The (Greene) 341
‘H.D.’, see Doolittle, Hilda (‘H.D.’)
Heath-Stubbs, John 384
Heinemann, William 282
Hely-Hutchinson, Colonel Henry 14
Hemel Hempstead 58, 60–1
Henderson, Philip 233
Hepworth, Barbara 215
Herbalists Association 198
Herbert, David 83, 91–6
Herring, Robert 280, 281
Hervey, Lord 39
Hewart, Gordon, KC 92–4, 95–6
Heytesbury House 235, 374
Hide and Seek (Tchelitchew) 190, 193, 344, 346–7, 441
Higham, David 167, 287, 330, 372, 376, 442
Hill, Geoffrey 401
His Monkey-Wife; Or Married to a Chimp (Collier) 210
His Worship the Mayor (Greenwood) 246
History of Clerkenwell (Pink) 227
Hitler (Lewis) 225
Hitler, Adolf 234; sends forces into the Rhineland 251; and the Sudetenland 265–6; appeasement of 276
Hodgson, Ralph 113, 138, 223
Hogarth Press 178, 307
Hogg, Ima 367
Holloway Prison 96
Hollywood 132, 368, 377–81, 386–8
Holman-Hunt, Diana 116, 118
Holocaust, the 268, 295
Hopper, Hedda 377–8, 435– 6
Horizon 294, 337
Horner, David 179, 192, 265–6, 271, 278, 290–1, 295, 302–3, 335, 338, 351, 367, 372, 394–5, 400, 405–6, 411, 427–8, 428–9, 433; Through French Windows 266
Houston, Texas 367
Howard, Brian 118
Hubble, Edwin 378
Hudson, Nan 72
Hughes, Ted 384– 5
Huis-clos (No Exit) (Sartre) 335
Hull, University of 343, 438
Hulme, T. E. 128
Humphries, Barry 434
Hungary 404–5
Hunt, Alice 371
Hunter, Bruce 372
Hunter, Mary 68
Hutchinson, Mary 74
Huxley, Aldous 74, 113, 115, 119–20, 125, 133, 150, 368, 378, 417, 429
Huxley, Julian 133
Huxley, Maria 74, 378
I Live Under a Black Sun (E. Sitwell) 258–62, 274, 319, 337, 367, 440
Ingleborough 56, 70
International Festival of Modern Music, Siena 202
International Surrealist Exhibition (1936) 240
Isherwood, Christopher 278
Isola Bella restaurant, Soho 119
Italy 26, 46, 79, 355, 361–2, 372–4, 400; occupation of Albania 267; and the Second World War 277
Jackson, Glenda 388
Jacob, Naomi 278
James, Edward 192, 224–5, 226, 231, 239–40, 255–6, 272, 283, 395
Jazzetry 424
Jennens, Susanna 173
Jennings, Elizabeth 384, 401
Jennings, Richard 98–9, 109, 257
Jesse Pope’s War Poems (J. Pope) 107
John, Augustus 72–3, 116
Johns Hopkins Poetry Festival (1958) 424
Joyce, James 140, 161, 217, 221; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 119; Ulysses 161
Joyce, Nora 217
Jung, Carl Gustav 335–6, 340, 342; The Psychology of the Unconscious 335–6
Just, Hartmann 42
Just, Kate (née Rootham) 42
Kahn, Gustave 76
Kandinski, Wassily 144
Keigwin, Herbert 34–5
Kellie, Lawrence 62
Keppel, Mrs George 180
Keynes, John Maynard 133
Kierkegaard, Søren 306
Kilham Roberts, Betty 329
Kilham Roberts, Denys 329, 388
King-Church, Lydia 31–5, 38–9, 40–1, 45
King-Hall, Stephen 269
Kipling, John 106
Kirstein, Fidelma 345
Kirstein, Lincoln 193, 231, 325–6, 345, 353, 362–3, 365, 366, 367, 393
Klemantaski, Alida 134
Knopf, Alfred A. 172, 429
Knowles, Eliza 29
Kochanski, Paul 70, 373
Kochanski, Zosia 373
Korin, Ogata 171
Kovacevich, Stephen, see Bishop, Stephen
Kramer, Josef 321
Krishnamurti, Jiddu 142, 359
Kristallnacht 267
Krupskaya, Nadezhda 259
Kubelík, Jan 52
Kuniyoshi, Yasuo 352
La Vecchia (Sickert) 69
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Lawrence) 186–7, 429, 442
Laforgue, Jules 149, 151
Lambert, Constant 152, 168, 182, 202, 290, 332, 355, 372
Lambeth Palace 16, 62
Land, The (Sackville-West) 181
Lane, Adela 58, 59, 61
Lane, Allen 429
Lane, Constance 58–9, 60–1, 61, 62, 63–4, 72, 74, 101, 104, 117
Lang, Andrew 78
Lannoy, Richard 360
Larbaud, Valery 138, 140, 158, 221
Larkin, Philip 4, 384
Last Party, The (E. Sitwell) 262
Lastérie, Count Louis de 208
‘The Latest Poems of Edith Sitwell’ (Lindsay) 339–40
Laughlin, James 330, 342–3, 368
Laughter in the Next Room (O. Sitwell) 291–2, 342
Laurence, Willi
am 318, 323
Lavrin, Janko 143
Lawrence, D. H. 114, 133–4, 186–7, 206, 237, 429; Lady Chatterley’s Lover 186–7, 429, 442
Lawrence, Frieda 186
Le Sacre du Printemps (Stravinsky) 151
Leadbetter, C. W. 142
Leapor, Mary 173
Leavis, F. R. 137, 237–8, 241–3, 329, 384, 385, 412; New Bearings in English Poetry 237; The Great Tradition 243
Leeds University 33, 343
Left Hand, Right Hand! (O. Sitwell) 18, 28, 69, 226, 250, 291–2
Lehmann, John 307–8, 309, 320, 324, 330, 344, 356, 368, 384, 405, 412, 414, 418, 420, 433, 437; Demetrios Capetanakis: A Greek Poet in England 308
Lehmann, Rosamond 355, 358, 425
Leigh, Colston 266
Lend a Hand Guild 137–8
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich 259, 260, 319
leprosy 324, 333, 420–1
Lerman, Leo 393
Leroy, Velma 379, 437
Levanto 237, 244–6, 256–8
Levertov, Denise 246
Levi, Peter 401–2
Lewis, Sir George 90
Lewis, Percy Wyndham 115, 116, 143, 242, 272, 348–9, 357; arrival on the scene 159–60; ES on 159; reliance on patronage 159; portrait of ES 159–60; The Apes of God 212–13; Hitler 225; The Snooty Baronet 225; ES sketch published 429–30
Libya 82
Life and Letters To-day 279, 280
Life magazine 349, 378–9, 417–8
Lindsay, Jack 339–40, 361, 373; ‘The Latest Poems of Edith Sitwell’ 349–40
Lindsay, Vachel 199
l’Isle-Adam, Villiers de 76
Listener, The 320
Liszt, Franz 8, 155
Locarno 335
logical positivism 4–5, 384
Logue, Christopher 424
Londesborough, Edith Denison (née Somerset), Countess of 8, 9–10, 22–3, 31, 41, 97, 171
Londesborough, Francis Denison, second Earl 12, 83
Londesborough, Grace, Countess of 61
Londesborough, William Henry Denison, first Earl 8, 9–10, 12
Londesborough Lodge 8, 23
Londesborough Park 8, 9, 12
London 81, 207–9, 264–5, 268, 270–1, 276, 315, 316–17, 335, 355–6, 363, 391, 401–2; Berkeley Square 8; Grosvenor Square 8; Lancaster Gate 33; 25 Chesham Place 44; 6 Sloane Court 59; 19 Fitzroy Street 72–4; 14 Pitt Street 85, 86; 22 Pembridge Mansions 87, 101, 102–3, 112–13, 131, 180–1, 183, 224, 283; air raids, First World War 124; Swan Walk 133; Armistice celebrations 133–4; 12B George Street, Hanover Square 138; Sesame, Imperial and Pioneer Club 247, 248, 249, 258, 264, 278, 290, 296, 317, 358, 371, 401, 407–8, 426, 427, 429, 430–1; the Blitz 280, 283; V-1 rocket attacks 312–13; VE Day 317; 20 Keats Grove 442– 3
London Calling (Coward) 168–9
London Library, the 226
London Magazine 307, 384–5, 443
London Mercury 158, 245, 248–9
London School of Economics 167
London Symphony Orchestra 374–5
Londres, Albert 234
Long Itchington 224
Look! The Sun (E. Sitwell) 287
Lopokova, Lydia 134
Lord Weary’s Castle (Robert Lowell) 356
Los Angeles 377–9
Losey, Reverend 66
Louvre, the 48
Love on the Dole (Greenwood) 246
Low, Sir Frederick 92
Lowell, Ralph 338
Lowell, Robert 356; Lord Weary’s Castle 356
Lucie-Smith, Eleanor (aka Nell St John Montague) 301
Lucky Jim (Amis) 386
Lutyens, David 201
Lycett, Andrew 382
Lydiard Wilson, Hal 209, 410, 432
McCarthy, Mary 353, 354
McCullers, Carson 366–7, 437
Mack, Maynard 204
MacLeish, Archibald 248, 368
Macmillan 287, 296, 310, 320, 427, 434
Macmillan, Daniel 282, 360
MacNeice, Hedli 328
MacNeice, Louis 308, 328–9, 358, 383; Blind Fireworks 328
Madame X 177
Madrid 177
Maeterlinck, Maurice 76
Maiden Voyage (Welch) 294
Maillart, Ella 359
Mairet, Philippe 144
Making of Americans, The (Stein) 177, 180
Malipiero, Gian Francesco 352
‘Manet and the Post-Impressionists’ exhibition (1910–11) 75
Manners, Lady Diana 118
Map of Love, The (E. Sitwell) 257
Marchmont House 58
Marcoussis, Louis 218
Margaret of Hesse, Princess 421
Marlowe, Sylvia 353
Marriott, Raymond 259
Marsh, Edward 114, 124, 132, 226; Georgian Poetry 114
Marshall, Dorothy 381
Martin, Amalia 286
Martin, Betty 420; Miracle at Carville 420
Martin, Willie 82, 84, 94–5
Marx, Groucho 377
Marxism 259–60, 361
Masefield, John 295, 328
Massine, Léonide 133–4
Massingham, H. W. 121
Mathias, Eva 157
Maugham, Somerset 418
Mauriac, François 340
May, Eric Paul 141
Men at Arms (Waugh) 28
Merryfield, Mary 393–4
Mew, Charlotte 134–5, 136
Mexico City 367
Middleton, Richard 78
Miller, Arthur 380, 402
Miracle at Carville (Martin) 420
Mitford, Nancy 398
Mitrinovic, Dimitrije 143–5, 146, 151, 197, 287, 319
Moat, Henry 29–30, 46, 94, 216, 439
modernism 4, 128, 314
Monnier, Adrienne 220
Monro, Harold 134
Monroe, Marilyn 142, 380, 402
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley 39, 218
Montague, Nell St John, see Lucie-Smith, Eleanor
Monte Carlo 49
Montegufoni 79, 179–80, 186, 202, 229, 237, 264, 267, 302, 361–2, 372–4, 391, 396–7, 400, 404, 412, 413, 422, 426, 433
Month, The 396, 414
Moore, Major Arthur 164
Moore, George 70
Moore, Henry 444
Moore, Leonard 158
Moore, Marianne 160–1, 289, 314, 350, 394, 424, 443
Morgan, Charles 282, 413
Morning Post 115
Morrell, Lady Ottoline 121, 126, 133
Morrison, Angus 168
Mosley, Oswald 234
Mother and Other Poems, The (E. Sitwell) 103–4
Movement, The 4–5, 384, 390, 401
Muir, Edwin 143, 145–6
Munich 144
Murray, D. L. 227, 287, 295
Murry, John Middleton 121, 129–30, 214
Museum of Modern Art, New York 190, 338, 350–1, 365–6, 440
Musk, Charles 392, 399, 418, 432, 440
Mussolini, Benito 267
My Rock Garden (Farrer) 56
My Royal Past (Beaton) 276
Nagasaki, bombing of 318, 323
Napoleon III 8, 31
Napoleonic Wars, the 14
Nash, Richard 218
Nation and Athenæum 172, 211
National Gallery, the 33, 74
National Institute of Arts and Letters 352
neo-romantic painters 190, 239, 315
Nether Lypiatt 230
neurasthenia 50–1, 303
Nevinson, C. R. W. 116, 132
Nevinson, Margaret 132
New Age 145–6, 151, 160–1, 164
New Apocalyse movement 240
New Bearings in English Poetry (Leavis) 237
New English Art Club 73
New Orleans 368
New Statesman 241–2, 261, 385
New Verse 238
New Writing 307
New Writing and Daylight 307, 308
New York 244–5, 265, 34
4, 345–9, 350–1, 352–3, 365–7, 368, 376–7, 388, 392–3, 395, 406, 440
New York City Ballet 365
New York Herald Tribune 261, 360–1, 392
New York Times 318, 377, 395, 419, 441
New Yorker 210, 351
Newbolt, Henry 235
Newman, Ernest 182
Newman, Widgey R. 185
Nichols, Robert 124, 125, 130–2, 134, 199, 374, 395; Ardours and Endurances 130
Nicholson, J. W. 427
Nicholson, Nancy 125, 164–5, 193–4
Nicol, Graham 443
Nicolson, Harold 296
Nijinsky 150
Nimr, Amy 218, 219
Noise Abatement Society 431
North, John Ringling 352
North Sea, shipwrecks 20
Northamptonshire Record Society 76
Northcliffe Lectures, University of London 258
Notebook on William Shakespeare, A (E. Sitwell) 345
‘Notes towards the Definition of Culture’ (Eliot) 144
Novalis 306
Noyes, Alfred 167, 282
nurse maids 30–1
O’Keeffe, Paul 212
Observer 283, 409–10, 429, 430
Oken, Lorenz 306, 323
Old Huntsman, The (Sassoon) 120
Olson, Elder 393
Olson, Jerri Hays 393
Omega Workshop 159
On the Making of Gardens (G. Sitwell) 26
Orage, A. R. 145, 146, 161, 164
Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, The (Waugh) 408
Orpen, William 72
Our Time 312
Owen, Peter 261
Owen, Susan 129–30
Owen, Wilfred 107, 109, 115, 122, 128–30, 184, 256
Owles, Charles 83, 86, 91
Owston, John 21
Oxford 320, 416– 17
Oxford Book of Modern Verse (ed. Yeats) 256
Oxford University 16, 330–1, 343, 371, 376, 384; see also Balliol College, Oxford; Christ Church, Oxford
Oxford University Press 426–7
Pall Mall Gazette 115
Palm Beach 378
Panama City 439
Pan-Anglican Congress (1908) 62
Paracelsus 306, 324, 342
Pare, Stephen 28, 29
Paris 89, 170, 173, 218–19, 246–7, 251, 255–6, 258, 264, 266–7, 268, 277, 324, 355, 390, 400–1, 422; 16 Quai de Passy 48, 50; the Louvre 48; ES’s visit, 1904–5: 48–9, 50–2; ES meets Stein 176–7; 2 rue Jacques-Mawas 190, 219; 150 Boulevard Montparnasse 190; 27 rue de Fleurus 194; ES’s visit, 1931: 218–19; Shakespeare and Company 220–2; 129 rue Saint-Dominique 223–4, 225; Helen Rootham buried in 264; fall of 277; liberation of 309–10
Parsons, Leonard 158
Patchen, Kenneth 368
Pausanias 307
Peaky (peacock) 26–7
Pearn, Nancy 250
Pearn, Pollinger and Higham 167, 280
Pears, Peter 363, 372, 436–7
Pearson, John 46, 117, 141–2, 157, 185, 187, 191, 207, 245–6, 302, 348, 350, 367, 405, 433
Peking 56
Penguin New Writing 307, 320
Pepita (Sackville-West) 286
Perse, Saint-John 219