'Tears Before Bedtime' and 'Weep No More'

by Barbara Skelton

  Sutro, Gillian, 1

  Sylvester, David, 1, 2, 3

  Taki, 1

  Tennant, Colin (later Lord Glenconner), 1

  Tennant, David, 1, 2, 3

  Tennant, Pauline, 1

  Tennant, Stephen, 1

  Thérèse, servant at mas, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Thomas, Dylan, 1

  Thompson, Gogi and Lee, 1

  Time Magazine, 1

  Topolski, Feliks, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

  Toynbee, Sally, 1

  Toynbee, Philip, 1, 2, 3

  Treat, Roger, 1, 2, 3

  Trevor–Roper, Hugh, 1

  Trilling, Lionel, 1

  Tunnard, Peter, 1

  Turner, Chuck, 1, 2

  Tynan, Elaine, 1, 2

  Tynan, Kenneth, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Unquiet Grave, The 1

  Ustinov, Peter, 1

  Vadim, Roger, 1

  Villiers, François, 1, 2

  Volpi, Countess, 1

  Waley, Arthur, 1, 2

  Warhol, Andy, 1

  Watson, Peter, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Waugh, Evelyn, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Weidenfeld, George, later Lord Weidenfeld, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15; marriage to author, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  divorce 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Welch, Denton, 1, 2, 3

  Weldon, Angelica, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  West, Rebecca, 1

  Westminster, Loelia, Duchess of, later Lady Lindsay, 1, 2, 3

  Westoff, Bob, 1

  White’s (club), 1, 2, 3, 4

  Williams, Tennessee, 1

  Wilson, Angus, 1, 2, 3

  Wilson, Mr and Mrs Edmund, 1

  Wilson, Harriette, 1

  Windsor, the Duke and Duchess of, 1

  Wishart, Lady, 1

  Wishart, Michael, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Wong, Anna May, 1

  Wood, Eric, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Woolf, Virginia, 1, 2, 3

  Wyndham, Major Dick, 1

  Wyndham, John, 1

  Yorke, Dig, 1

  Yorke, Henry (the novelist Henry Green), 1, 2, 3

  Young, Gavin, 1, 2

  Mummy in her teens

  Daddy

  Uncle Dudley

  Gerda with her Chow

  Peter Quennell with Lys Lubbock

  Me with Louise

  Feliks Topolski in Russia as a war artist

  Cyril with a goose

  Kupy

  Cot houseparty: Cyril with Ali Forbes

  Cot houseparty: Spider, Peter Quennell’s wife at the time

  Peter Quennell

  In the south of France

  Neighbour Eric Wood lunching in his conservatory

  Cyril at lunch with Eric Wood

  Doan

  Alan Ross

  George Weidenfeld

  Natalie Newhouse

  Poppet

  Me in Spain

  Cyril and Alan Ross

  Michael Wishart

  Wirra

  Tantine

  Didessa

  Folie and Mell

  With Bob Silvers in Westhampton

  Jane Sprague in Westhampton

  Me in New York

  Marjorie Davenport

  Alastair Hamilton in Mexico

  Charles Addams

  The mas

  Bernard Frank

  At my present home

  About the Author

  Barbara Skelton (1916-1996) was a writer and literary femme fatale. She had many lovers and three husbands. She wrote two novels, a volume of short stories and two brilliant autobiographies.

  In addition to her own fiction, Barbara Skelton was also the original for Pamela Flitton in Anthony Powell’s Dance to the Music of Time sequence.

  Copyright

  This ebook edition first published in 2012

  by Faber and Faber Ltd

  Bloomsbury House

  74–77 Great Russell Street

  London WC1B 3DA

  All rights reserved

  © Barbara Skelton, 1987, 1989, 1993

  The right of Barbara Skelton to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

  This ebook is copyright material and must not be copied, reproduced, transferred, distributed, leased, licensed or publicly performed or used in any way except as specifically permitted in writing by the publishers, as allowed under the terms and conditions under which it was purchased or as strictly permitted by applicable copyright law. Any unauthorised distribution or use of this text may be a direct infringement of the author’s and publisher’s rights, and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly

  ISBN 978–0–571–28729–1