Lippi, Filippo and Filippino 60, 96
‘Loafing’ 103, 151
Loch Fyne, Scotland 12, 21, 23, 62, 224
Lochgilphead, Scotland 13–14
London see individual area and place name
London Scottish Regiment 63, 76, 82, 137, 226
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 15, 21, 177, 224; ‘My Lost Youth’ 15
‘Long Odds’ 7, 70
Lorne, Lord 17
‘Love’s Reveille’ 144
Macaulay, Thomas Babington 38, 223; Lays of Ancient Rome 3, 4, 48, 97
‘Magic Ring, The’ 135–6
Marseilles, France 173
Martineau, Harriet 228
Mary I, Queen 49
McGilp, Rory 16
Methuen & Company 193–4
Meredith, George 95
Middleton, William Campbell 194
Milne, A. A.: Toad of Toad Hall 241
Milton, John: Paradise Lost 48
Morris, William 58
Moulton, John Fletcher 143, 152, 156, 157, 161, 182–3, 214
Mount, The, Cookham Dean, Berkshire 23–31, 37, 38, 40, 42, 62, 71, 74, 91, 94, 100, 107, 116, 119, 136, 177, 178, 224
‘Mutabile Semper’ 139–40, 142
National Gallery 60, 96
National Observer 103, 104, 115, 116, 117, 121, 122, 132, 214
New English Dictionary 64
New Review 126, 134
New Shakspere Society 61, 64, 76, 85, 137
Odyssey, The (Homer) 8, 199–200
‘Of Smoking’ 103, 151
Old Malthouse, The, Dorset 217, 220, 237
‘Olympians, The’ 33, 106, 107, 115–17, 121, 123, 125–6, 137, 180, 193, 198, 200, 214, 224, 243
‘Orion’ 70
O’Shea, Katherine 102
Oxford 37–50, 57–8, 76, 77, 92, 96, 184, 195, 227, 229, 237
Oxford Movement 41, 96
Oxford University 46, 48, 49, 50, 57–8, 76, 227
Pagan Papers 117–19, 121, 126
Pall Mall Gazette 82, 95, 132
Pangbourne, Berkshire 184, 237, 238, 239–40, 242
Paris, France 173, 219
Parnell, Charles 102
Payn, James 101–2
Pinturicchio 60, 96
Pitlochry, Scotland 61, 62, 97
Pocock, Guy 239
Potter, Beatrix: The Tale of Peter Rabbit 189, 194
Presbyterianism 24
Punch 84, 135, 197
Purves, Austin 190, 194, 195–6, 207–8, 212, 213, 223, 226–7, 238
Purves, Betsy 194
Pyrenees 173
Quarry Wood, Berkshire 23–4, 27, 205
Quiller-Couch, Arthur ‘Q’ 159–60, 161, 173, 181, 183, 200, 206, 218, 222, 223, 225, 238, 241, 243
Quiller-Couch, Bevill 218, 238
Raeburn, Henry 103
‘Reluctant Dragon, The’ vii, 11, 38, 80–1, 123, 127–8, 172
Richardson, Mary 91, 92
Robert the Bruce 10
Robertson, Graham 180–1, 192–3, 194, 206, 212, 223, 224, 225, 226
Roberts, Tom 93
Rodd, Sir Rennell 235
‘Romance of the Road, The’ 55, 114, 115
‘Roman Road, The’ 123, 169
Rome, Italy 97, 234–5, 236
Roosevelt, Theodore 190, 195, 198
Rural Pan, The’ 59, 72, 103, 119
Ruskin, John 60, 77; The Stones of Venice 77
‘Saga of the Seas, A’ 7–8, 102, 144
Sala, George Augustus: Twice Round the Clock; or the Hours of the Day and Night in London 70
Sanger, George 21, 239
Sargent, John Singer 180–1
‘Sawdust and Sin’ 121, 166
Scotland see individual area or place name
Scots Observer 103, 111, 118
Scott, Walter 12, 21, 242
Scribner’s Magazine 126
‘Secret Drawer, The’ 86
Shakespeare, William 38, 223, 241
Sharp, Evelyn 108, 124, 125–6, 138, 144
Shaw, George Bernard 95
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 235, 241; The Cenci 95–6, 123, 135
Shelley Society 95
Shepard, E. H. 241
Simpson, Dr James 9–10
Sitwell, Osbert 237–8
Smedley, Constance 189–92, 193, 210, 213, 214
Smith, Elder & Co 82
Smith, Gregory 134
‘Snowbound’ 115
Soho, London 60, 65, 83, 96
Solferino’s, Chiswick 104–5
Spain 173
‘Spell of Oxford, The’ 40
St Edward’s School Chronicle 48–9, 64, 75, 228
St Edward’s School, Oxford 37, 39–50, 53, 63, 64, 73, 74, 75, 77, 96, 108, 137, 228
St Giles’ Fair 45
St James’s Gazette 88, 100–1, 102
Stevenson, Robert Louis 4, 84, 102, 103–4, 105, 115
‘An Apology for Idlers’ 30, 103
‘Pan’s Pipes’ 103
Treasure Island 93, 102, 167
Virginibus Puerisque 103–4, 105, 116
‘Stevensonettes’ 104, 116, 120, 121, 124, 126, 151, 224
Stott, Naomi 189, 207
Streatley, Berkshire 80, 112, 114
Swinburne, Algernon 126, 223
Switzerland 195–6, 207
Symonds, A. J. A. 233
Symons, Arthur: ‘Stella Maris’ 122
Syrett, Netta 124
Teignmouth, Devon 155
Tenniel, John 141–2, 213, 237
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 38, 100, 141, 213, 220, 223, 240; Morte d’Arthur 64–5
Thames, river 22, 23, 27, 30, 46, 60, 80, 85, 178, 184
Thomson, Courtauld (brother-in-law) 157, 161, 182–3
Times Literary Supplement 195
‘To Rollo, Untimely Taken’ 135
Torquay, Devon 153
Toynbee Hall, Stepney 76, 82, 104, 111, 132, 137
Venice, Italy 71, 97–8
Victoria, Queen 13
Villino Landau, Italy 96
Waller, A. R. 221–2, 223
Ward, Sidney 104, 111–13, 181
Wells, H. G. 104
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 76–7, 104
‘Whitewashed Uncle, A’ 115
Whitman, Walt 100
Wilde, Oscar 95, 134–5, 196
Wilhelm II, Kaiser 126
Wind in the Willows, The 8, 13, 14–15, 27, 49, 57, 64, 77–8, 79, 80, 87, 92, 93, 107, 112–13, 114, 119, 133, 158–9, 160, 177, 184, 190, 192, 200, 207, 211–12, 214, 225, 227–8, 237, 238, 241
birth of 177–9
changes life of author 178–9
illustrations 194, 241
message of 225
The Odyssey (Homer) and 8, 199–200
principal characters in 200–1
publication 193–4, 222
reviews 194–5, 222–3
style and subject of 196–201
writing of 189, 190, 191–3
Woodside, South Ascot 182
Wordsworth, William 107, 108, 224
Yeats, W. B. 104, 194
Yellow Book, The 120–3, 124, 125, 126, 134–5, 137, 138, 214
‘Young Adam Cupid’ 115
Young Visiters, The 58
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