Square Haunting

by Francesca Wade

  The Counterplot, 1;

  Lud-in-the-Mist, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  Madeleine, 1, 2, 3;

  Paris, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Mirsky, D. S.: and The Book of the Bear, 1; correspondence with JEH, 1, 2;

  death, 1, 2;

  on Dostoevsky and Freud, 1;

  founds Versty magazine, 1;

  friend of JEH, 1;

  and JEH and Mirrlees’s translating, 1, 2;

  on JEH’s ‘bear-cult’, 1;

  lecture on JEH, 1, 2, 3;

  as pro-Soviet, 1;

  unfinished writings, 1;

  Contemporary Russian Literature 1881–1925, 1;

  A History of Russian Literature, 1

  modernism: and Bergson, 1; detective-story fans, 1;

  H. D.’s style, 1, 2;

  JEH’s, vs ‘scholarship’, 1;

  JEH’s influence, 1, 2, 3;

  Mirrlees’s Paris, 1

  Mona Lisa (Leonardo), 1, 2

  Monk’s House, Rodmell: Blitz, 1, 2; Bowen visits, 1;

  cold, 1;

  comforting routine, 1, 2;

  distance from war, 1;

  garden in spring, 1;

  modernising, 1;

  MS possessions stored, 1;

  preserved by National Trust, 1;

  privacy ‘without servants’, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  Smith swap offer, 1;

  VW in garden, 1;

  VW on London, 1;

  VW’s involvement in village life, 1;

  Women’s Institute, 1;

  Woolfs alternate with MS, 1, 2, 3

  Monro, Harold, 1, 2, 3

  Monroe, Harriet, 1, 2

  Moore, G. E., 1

  Moore, Marianne, 1

  Moravian Brethren, 1, 2, 3

  Morrell, Ottoline, 1, 2

  Morris, Nancy, 1

  Mortimer, John, 1

  Mortimer, Raymond, 1

  Mosley, Oswald, 1

  Munich Agreement, 1, 2

  Murray, Gilbert: career, 1; on China tragedy, 1;

  correspondence with JEH, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;

  group portrait, 1;

  H. D. reads, 1;

  inaugural JEH lecture, 1;

  on JEH, 1;

  and JEH biography (Stewart), 1;

  on JEH funeral, 1;

  and JEH portrait, 1;

  JEH sends Reminiscences, 1;

  on Mirsky JEH lecture, 1;

  Somerville guest of honour, 1;

  Themis introduction, 1;

  Trojan Women translation, 1

  Murry, John Middleton, 1

  Mussolini, Benito, 1; ‘The Doctrine of Fascism’, 1

  Nabokov, Vladimir, 1

  Nash, John, 1

  The Nation and Athenaeum, 1, 2, 3

  National Anti-Sweating League, 1n

  National Federation of Women Workers, 1

  National Thanksgiving Fund, 1

  National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1

  Nazism, see fascism Neil, R. A., 1

  New Freewoman, 1

  New Statesman, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  New Writing, 1, 2

  Newton, Charles, 1, 2

  Nicholson, Ben, 1

  Nicolson, Benedict, 1

  Nicolson, Nigel, 1

  Nietzsche, Friedrich: The Birth of Tragedy, 1

  Nonesuch Press, 1

  Normanton, Helena, 1

  Observer, 1

  Ouse, river, 1, 2, 3

  Oxford, 1, 2, 3;

  Oxford High School, 1

  Oxford, University of: debate over women, 1; EP’s Ford Lectures, 1, 2, 3;

  first women graduates, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  in Gaudy Night, 1;

  Inklings, 1;

  limit on female intake, 1;

  Oriel, 1

  SOMERVILLE COLLEGE: DLS at, 1, 2, 3, 4; fellows resign on marriage, 1;

  first women graduates, 1;

  foundation and facilities, 1;

  ghost craze, 1;

  Mildred Pope celebration, 1;

  Mutual Admiration Society, 1, 2

  Oxford Poetry, 1

  Palestine, 1

  Pall Mall Gazette, 1

  Panizzi, Anthony, 1

  Paris: American University Women’s Club, 1, 2; Cournos on foreigners, 1;

  École des Langues Orientales, 1, 2;

  EP on poverty, 1;

  EP at Sorbonne, 1;

  H. D.–Aldington meeting, 1;

  H. D. and Gregg, 1;

  JEH lives in, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  JEH and Russian exiles, 1, 2;

  Mona Lisa theft, 1, 2;

  Montparnasse community, 1;

  in Paris, 1;

  VW visit, 1

  Parker, Dorothy, 1

  Parker, John, 1

  Parmar, Sandeep, 1

  Parracombe, North Devon, 1, 2, 3

  Partridge, Frances, 1, 2

  Passfield Corner, Hants, 1

  Pasternak, Boris, 1

  Paston, George: A Writer of Books, 1

  Patmore, Brigit, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Patmore, Michael, 1

  Patmore, Netta, 1, 2

  Paton Walsh, Jill, 1, 2

  Paycocke’s House, Essex, 1

  Peace Pledge Union, 1

  Pellerin, Auguste, 1

  Penrose, Emily, 1

  Phelan, Nancy, 1

  Picasso, Pablo: Guernica, 1

  Pinchbeck, Ivy, 1

  Pine, Catherine, 1

  Plank, George, 1

  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1

  Poetry, 1

  Pope, Mildred, 1

  Postan, Michael Moissey ‘Munia’: Cambridge chair, 1; edits EP essay collection, 1;

  EP’s ‘posthumous’ letter, 1;

  marries EP, 1, 2, 3;

  Moscow work, 1;

  student and collaborator of EP, 1, 2

  Postgate, Margaret, 1

  post-Impressionism, 1, 2, 3

  Pound, Ezra, 1; Agamemnon translation, 1;

  Chinese translations, 1;

  fan of detective stories, 1;

  and H. D., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  on H. D. and Aldington, 1;

  and Imagism, 1;

  and Vorticism, 1;

  JEH influence, 1;

  on Perdita, 1;

  Reading Room application, 1;

  shares building with H. D., 1;

  Hilda’s Book, 1

  Pound, Isabel, 1

  Powell, Anthony, 1; Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant, 1

  Power, Beryl, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Power, Eileen LIFE: childhood and education, 1; clothes, 1, 2, 3;

  correspondence with DLS, 1;

  death, 1;

  friendships with women, 1;

  and H. G. Wells, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  love of China, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  on marriage, 1;

  mountaineering, 1;

  new image for woman intellectual, 1;

  personality, 1;

  responsibility for sisters, 1;

  sisters burn papers, 1;

  student at Girton, 1, 2, 3;

  student at LSE, 1, 2, 3;

  suffrage campaigning, 1, 2;

  as ‘surplus woman’, 1

  MECKLENBURGH SQUARE: alternative Bloomsbury Group, 1, 2; arrival, 1;

  BBC broadcasts planning, 1;

  decoration, 1;

  departure, 1;

  dinner parties, 1, 2;

  as fresh start, 1, 2;

  housekeepers, 1;

  kitchen dances, 1, 2;

  no blue plaque, 1;

  protest against London House, 1;

  radicalism, 1;

  Wells tea party snare, 1

  RELATIONSHIPS: Johnston, 1, 2, 3; Postan, 1, 2, 3, 4

  WORK: as anomaly to men, 1; antiappeasement, 1;

  Barnard College post, 1, 2;

  BBC radio broadcasts, 1, 2, 3;

  Cambridge Economic History of Europe, 1;

  China Campaign Committee, 1;

  on Chinese trade routes, 1, 2;

  dir
ector of studies at Girton, 1, 2, 3;

  dislike of British Empire, 1, 2, 3;

  edits Economic History Review, 1, 2;

  feminism, 1, 2, 3;

  Ford Lectures, 1, 2, 3;

  ‘Humanity Day’, 1;

  influence on VW, 1, 2;

  internationalism, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  Kahn Fellowship, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  Knowles testimonial, 1;

  LSE chair of economic history, 1;

  LSE lecturer, 1, 2, 3;

  LSE sabbatical, 1, 2;

  and Manchurian crisis, 1;

  on medieval nunneries, 1, 2;

  on medieval people, 1;

  on medieval women, 1, 2;

  pacifism, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  politicising of research, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  Postan collaboration, 1, 2;

  posthumous reputation, 1;

  and public status, 1;

  school textbooks plan, 1;

  Sorbonne research, 1, 2, 3;

  supports expelled scholars, 1;

  Tawney influence, 1;

  on wool trade, 1, 2, 3

  WRITINGS: A Bibliography for School Teachers of History, 1, 2, 3; Boys and Girls of History (with Rhoda Power), 1;

  ‘The Eve of the Dark Ages: a tract for the times’, 1, 2;

  ‘The Haunted Valley’, 1;

  ‘The Indian Moslems and the Turkish Nationalists’, 1;

  ‘The Intractable Princess’, 1;

  Medieval English Nunneries, 1;

  Medieval People, 1, 2, 3;

  Medieval Women, 1;

  notes and unpublished lectures, 1;

  The Paycockes of Coggeshall, 1;

  ‘The Story of Half Mankind’, 1;

  ‘Women at Cambridge’, 1

  Power, Philip, 1

  Power, Rhoda, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; Boys and Girls of History (with EP), 1

  Priestley, J. B., 1

  Proust, Marcel, 1, 2

  psychoanalysis, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; see also Freud, Sigmund

  Punch, 1

  Pushkin, Alexander, 1

  Puyi, Emperor of China, 1, 2

  The Quorum, 1

  Qur’an, 1

  Radio Times, 1

  Randall, Amy, 1

  Raverat, Jacques, 1

  Reith, John Reith, 1st Baron, 1

  Remizov, Alexei: arrival in Paris, 1; and Avvakum translation, 1;

  bakes cake, 1;

  and The Book of the Bear, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  Cournos translates, 1;

  desires return to Russia, 1;

  and emigré publications, 1;

  meets JEH and Hope, 1;

  toy animals, 1;

  The Clock, 1;

  Posolon, 1

  Remizov, Seraphima, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Reynolds, Barbara, 1, 2, 3

  Rhys, Jean, 1; Good Morning, Midnight, 1

  Richardson, Dorothy: Pilgrimage, 1

  Richmond, Surrey, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Ridgeway, William, 1, 2, 3

  Robbins, Lionel, 1, 2, 3

  Robeson, Eslanda, 1

  Robeson, Paul, 1

  Robinson, Annabel, 1, 2

  Rodmell, see Monk’s House Roerich, Nicholas, 1

  Rogers, Annie, 1

  Rome, ancient, 1, 2, 3, 4; Pantheon, 1

  Rothermere, Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount, 1

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1

  Rowe, Dorothy, 1, 2

  Ruskin, John, 1

  Russell, Bertrand, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Russia: British fascination, 1, 2; Cournos job, 1, 2, 3;

  emigré publications, 1;

  exiles in Paris, 1, 2, 3;

  grammar, 1;

  and Hogarth Press, 1;

  JEH trip, 1;

  Mirsky’s volte-face, 1;

  Moscow Art Theatre, 1;

  1917 revolution, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  non-aggression pact, 1;

  Postan sent to Moscow, 1;

  pre-Christianity, 1, 2;

  relations with Britain, 1;

  and Remizov betrayal, 1;

  see also Harrison, Jane Ellen

  Rutkowski, Jan, 1

  S. H. Benson (advertising firm), 1, 2, 3, 4

  Sackville-West, Vita: on BBC radio, 1; correspondence with VW, 1, 2;

  poem ‘in memoriam’ for VW, 1;

  sends butter to VW, 1;

  Sissinghurst bombed, 1;

  VW affair, 1;

  WI lecture, 1

  Sala, George Augustus, 1

  Salisbury, James Cecil, 6th Earl of, 1

  Saltsjöbaden, Sweden, 1

  Sappho, 1

  Satterthwaite, Alfred, 1

  Satterthwaite, Helen, 1

  Sauter, Lilian, 1

  Saville, Mrs (EP’s housekeeper), 1

  Sayers, Dorothy L. LIFE: advert copywriting, 1, 2; on biography as gossip, 1, 2;

  Brittain on, 1;

  childhood, 1;

  and Christianity, 1, 2;

  and contraception, 1, 2;

  cooking and eating, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  correspondence with EP, 1;

  death, 1, 2;

  French translation, 1, 2;

  Great James St flat, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  and John Anthony (son), 1, 2, 3, 4;

  marriage, 1;

  member of Sherlock Holmes Society of London, 1;

  move to London, 1;

  Oxford degree, 1, 2;

  portrait, 1;

  rebellion against feminine norms, 1;

  screenplay drafts, 1;

  ‘secret’ Cournos correspondence, 1;

  as secretary in Verneuil, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  at Somerville, 1, 2, 3;

  teaching, 1;

  theatre-going, 1;

  war work, 1;

  work for Blackwell, 1, 2;

  on youth and middle age, 1

  MECKLENBURGH SQUARE: arrival, 1; drafts Wimsey novel, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  as fresh start, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  and Harriet Vane character, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  inherits H. D.’s room, 1, 2;

  rent, 1;

  sublet to Egerton Clarke, 1;

  Wimsey counterbalances MS shabbiness, 1;

  Wimsey proposes to Vane, 1

  RELATIONSHIPS: Cournos, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; Fleming, 1;

  Rev. Hodgson proposal, 1, 2, 3;

  Whelpton, 1, 2;

  White, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  WORK: anxiety as writer, 1, 2; archive, 1;

  on Bloomsbury crime, 1;

  Brittain on, 1;

  choosing murderer’s name, 1;

  Cournos disparages, 1, 2;

  detective-writing syndicate, 1;

  linkage with H. D., 1;

  and London restaurants, 1;

  and Mutual Admiration Society, 1, 2;

  pre-Wimsey detective stories, 1, 2;

  pseudonym, 1;

  Reading Room application, 1;

  taste in detective fiction, 1, 2, 3;

  Vane’s public and private lives, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  weariness with Wimsey, 1;

  Wimsey ads, 1;

  Wimsey first appears, 1;

  women as human beings, 1, 2

  WRITINGS: ‘The Adventure of the Piccadilly Flat’, 1, 2; ‘Are Women Human?’, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  Bonds of Egypt, 1;

  Busman’s Honeymoon, 1, 2;

  Cat O’Mary, 1, 2;

  Clouds of Witness, 1, 2, 3;

  The Comediad, 1;

  Dante translations, 1, 2;

  The Documents in the Case, 1;

  ‘The Entertaining Episode of the Article in Question’, 1;

  erotic poem, 1;

  Gaudy Night, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;

  Have His Carcase, 1, 2;

  He That Should Come, 1;

  ‘The Human-Not-Quite-Human’, 1;

  ‘Introducing Lord Peter’, 1;

  Little Women, 1;

  Love All, 1;

  The Man Born to Be King, 1;

  The Mousehole, 1;

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nbsp; Murder Must Advertise, 1, 2, 3;

  ‘My Edwardian Childhood’, 1;

  The Nine Tailors, 1;

  ‘Obsequies for Music’, 1;

  Op. 1, 1;

  ‘The Priest’s Chamber’, 1;

  Strong Poison, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  Such is Fame, 1;

  Thrones, Dominations (fragments), 1;

  Tristan translation, 1;

  Unnatural Death, 1;

  The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, 1, 2, 3;

  ‘The Vindictive Story of the Footsteps that Ran’, 1;

  Whose Body?, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;

  Wimsey Spectator extracts, 1;

  The Zeal of Thy House, 1

  Sayers, Rev. Henry and Helen: correspondence with DLS, 1, 2, 3; DLS on Cournos, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  DLS creates persona for, 1;

  DLS on detective-story writing, 1;

  DLS on Hodgson, 1;

  DLS on London, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  DLS on White, 1, 2;

  and DLS’s career, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  and DLS’s education, 1, 2;

  and DLS’s son, 1, 2;

  send DLS eggs, 1;

  Whelpton summoned, 1

  Schaffner, Perdita, see Aldington, Perdita Schliemann, Heinrich, 1

  Schliemann, Sophia, 1

  Schmideberg, Walter, 1

  Schreiner, Olive: Woman and Labour, 1

  Schwartz, Jacob, 1

  Second World War: DLS’s war work, 1; Dunkirk, 1, 2;

  EP on, 1, 2;

  German advances, 1;

  and H. D.’s psychoanalysis, 1;

  as inevitable, 1;

  Paper Control, 1;

  Phoney War, 1, 2;

  saucepans for planes, 1;

  VW on, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;

  war declared, 1, 2;

  see also Blitz

  Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919, 1

  Sexton Blake (character), 1, 2, 3

  Shakespeare, William, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Shamley Green, Surrey, 1

  Shaw, Charlotte Payne Townshend, 1

  Shaw, George Bernard, 1, 2, 3

  Shelley, Mary, 1

  Shepherd, Dick, 1

  Sherlock Holmes (character), 1, 2, 3, 4

  Sherlock Holmes Society of London, 1

  Sherriff, R. C.: Journey’s End, 1