Square Haunting

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by Francesca Wade

Shestov, Lev, 1, 2

Shrimpton, Ivy, 1, 2

Sidgwick, Eleanor, 1

Simkhovitch, Vladimir G.: Toward the Understanding of Jesus, 1

Sissinghurst, Kent, 1, 2

Smith, Agnes, 1, 2

Smith, Alice Pearsall, 1, 2, 3, 4

Smith, Constance, 1

Smith, George Joseph, 1

Smyth, Ethel, VW’s letters to: on alternating homes, 1; on Anrep in Rodmell, 1;

on ‘Common History book’, 1;

on German plane, 1;

on London, 1;

on Roger Fry, 1, 2;

on WI talk, 1;

on women’s autobiography, 1

South Downs, 1, 2

Southbourne, Dorset, 1

Spanish Civil War, 1, 2, 3, 4

Spectator, 1, 2, 3, 4

Spender, Stephen, 1, 2, 3

Spengler, Oswald: The Decline of the West, 1

Spring Rice, Dominick, 1

Spring Rice, Margery: correspondence with EP, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; separation, 1;

Working-Class Wives: Their Health and Conditions, 1

Squire, J. C., 1

Stein, Gertrude, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Stephen, Adrian, 1, 2

Stephen, Judith, 1

Stephen, Julia, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Stephen, Leslie, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Stephen, Thoby, 1

Stewart, Jessie, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Jane Ellen Harrison: A Portrait from Letters, 1

Stewart, M. F., 1

Stopes, Marie: Married Love, 1

Strachey, Alix, 1

Strachey, James, 1

Strachey, Lytton: biography, 1; and Bloomsbury Group, 1;

friend of JEH, 1, 2, 3;

Garnett introduction to JEH, 1;

at Pontigny colloquia, 1;

VW on, 1

Strachey, Pernel, 1

Strachey, Ray: The Cause, 1

Sue, Eugène, 1

suffrage: in China, 1; EP’s campaigning, 1, 2;

H. D. at meetings, 1;

JEH lecture, 1;

limited 1918 suffrage, 1;

National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1;

People’s Suffrage Federation, 1, 2, 3;

suffragettes at MS, 1, 2

Sunday Times, 1, 2

Suvchinsky, Peter, 1

Sweet, Henry, 1

Switzerland: Geneva, 1, 2; H. D. and Bryher in, 1, 2

Sydney-Turner, Saxon, 1

Talland House, St Ives, 1

Tambimuttu, 1

Tavistock Square: Blitz, 1; disturbance of move, 1;

Dolman & Pritchard move to MS, 1;

rent, 1;

VW bust, 1;

Woolfs’ home, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Tawney, Jeanette, 1, 2, 3

Tawney, R. H. ‘Harry’: alternative Bloomsbury set with EP, 1; and China Campaign Committee, 1;

evicted from MS, 1;

friend of Postan, 1;

joint LSE courses with EP, 1;

Manchurian crisis, 1;

MS blue plaque, 1;

MS home, 1, 2, 3;

political ambition, 1;

radical socialism, 1;

VW on, 1;

Equality, 1

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1, 2; ‘The Bedford Row Conspiracy’, 1;

Vanity Fair, 1

Theocritus, 1

Thomas of Britain: Tristan, 1

Time and Tide, 1

The Times, 1

Times Literary Supplement, 1, 2, 3, 4

Tolkien, J. R. R., 1;

‘Goblin Feet’, 1

Tolstoy, Leo, 1, 2, 3, 4

Toynbee, Arnold, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; A Study of History, 1, 2

Toynbee, Rosalind, 1, 2

Trevelyan, G. M., 1; History of England, 1, 2

Tsvetaeva, Marina, 1, 2

Tuckwell, Gertrude, 1

Tudor Economic Documents (ed. EP/Tawney), 1

Turgenev, Ivan, 1

Union of Democratic Control, 1

United States: Beryl Power in, 1; Boston, 1;

Bryn Mawr College, 1;

EP at Barnard College, 1, 2;

expats in Paris, 1, 2;

H. D. childhood, 1;

New York, 1, 2, 3, 4;

Philadelphia, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

repatriation during First World War, 1

van Dieren, Bernard, 1, 2

van Gogh, Vincent, 1

van Loon, Hendrik: The Story of Mankind, 1

Versailles, Treaty of (1919), 1, 2, 3, 4

Versty, 1

Victor Gollancz (publisher), 1, 2

Virginia Woolf Quarterly, 1

Volkhovsky, Feliks, 1

Vorticism, 1

Wall Street Crash (1929), 1

Wallas, Graham, 1

War Office, 1, 2, 3, 4

Warlock, Peter, see Heseltine, Philip Watts, George Frederic: Portrait of Leslie Stephen, 1

Webb, Beatrice, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Webb, Sidney, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Webster, Charles, 1, 2, 3, 4

Wells, H. G.: EP as friend, 1, 2, 3, 4; EP’s tea party ruse, 1;

and League of Nations, 1, 2, 3;

signs pro-Russian letter, 1;

VW on People’s Suffrage Federation, 1;

‘world vision’, 1, 2;

The Outline of History, 1, 2, 3

West, Rebecca, 1

Weymouth, Dorset, 1

Wharton, Edith, 1

Wheaton College, Illinois, 1, 2

Whelpton, Eric, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

White, Beatrice, 1, 2, 3

White, Bill, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

White, Valerie, 1, 2, 3

Who’s Who, 1

‘Why Are Women Redundant?’ (1862 article), 1

Wigram, Rev. W. A., Canon of Malta, 1

Wilberforce, Octavia, 1

Wilkinson, Louis, 1

Williams, Charles, 1

Williams, William Carlos, 1, 2

Wilson, Edmund, 1

Wilson, Woodrow, 1

Wishart, Lorna, 1

Witham, Essex, 1, 2

Wolfe, Humbert, 1

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1;

Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1

Woman of Samaria, Guilford Place, 1, 2, 3

women, position of: abortion, 1, 2; academic awards, pay and posts, 1, 2, 3, 4;

exclusion from library, 1;

feeling, not knowing, 1, 2;

‘having it all’, 1;

the ‘home’, 1;

interwar subordination, 1;

irony of VW’s servants, 1;

at LSE, 1;

in Middle Ages, 1, 2;

and motherhood, 1;

and Nazis, 1;

primacy of work, 1;

role of First World War, 1;

studying Greek, 1;

teaching as respectable, 1;

transformation of Oxbridge degrees, 1, 2;

see also suffragettes; and under Woolf, Virginia, A Room of One’s Own

‘Women Workers: How They Live, How They Wish to Live’ (1900), 1

Women’s Institute, see Monk’s House

Women’s Penny Paper, 1

Women’s Social and Political Union, 1

Women’s Trade Union League, 1

Wood, Edward, 1

Woolf, Leonard: Aldington’s grudge against Gray, 1; Blitz, 1, 2, 3, 4;

criticises Roger Fry, 1;

and EP dining circle, 1;

friend of JEH, 1;

on Gestapo blacklist, 1;

helps Mirsky, 1;

interest in Russia, 1;

at JEH funeral, 1;

journalism, 1;

Manchurian crisis, 1;

portrait with VW, 1;

posthumous VW publication, 1;

Tawney miners collaboration, 1;

on VW and criticism, 1;

VW defends against Nicolson, 1;

VW suicide note, 1;

WI lecture, 1;
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work for Labour Party, 1;

Barbarians at the Gate, 1;

Empire and Commerce, 1;

International Government, 1;

The War for Peace, 1;

see also Hogarth Press

Woolf, Marie, 1

Woolf, Virginia LIFE: ambivalence over father, 1, 2; Anrep mosaic, 1;

on BBC radio, 1;

biography (Bell), 1;

biography (Holtby), 1, 2;

on Blitz, 1, 2, 3;

childhood and education, 1, 2;

cooking, 1, 2;

death, 1;

Dreadnought Hoax, 1, 2;

exclusion by men, 1;

friend of JEH, 1, 2, 3;

Germany visit, 1;

on Gestapo blacklist, 1;

at JEH funeral, 1;

JEH as model, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

on marriage, 1, 2;

meets Freud, 1, 2;

on Mirrlees, 1, 2;

on Mirrlees and JEH, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

Mirsky denounces, 1;

nervous breakdowns and depression, 1, 2;

portrait with Leonard, 1;

portraits by Vanessa, 1;

and servants, 1, 2;

sexual abuse by half-brother, 1;

suffrage work, 1;

on Tawney, 1;

unlearning Victorian rules, 1;

see also Monk’s House

LONDON: on Bloomsbury, 1, 2; exclusion of women, 1;

Hyde Park Gate home, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

love for, 1;

as ‘morbidly fascinating’, 1;

on Reading Room, 1;

Reading Room application, 1;

theatre-going, 1;

war as inescapable, 1;

on Woman of Samaria, 1;

see also Gordon Square; Tavistock Square

MECKLENBURGH SQUARE: alternating with Rodmell stays, 1, 2; arrival, 1, 2, 3;

Blitz, 1, 2;

dinner parties, 1, 2;

dislocation, 1;

at EP kitchen dance, 1;

as fresh start, 1;

picnic, 1;

regrets move, 1;

rejects in 1915, 1;

rent, 1;

servant, 1, 2;

stress of, 1;

study, 1;

variety of projects, 1, 2

RELATIONSHIPS: Leonard, 1; Sackville-West, 1, 2

A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN: androgyny in, 1, 2, 3; on Anon in history, 1, 2;

copy in Goodenough College, 1;

exclusion from library, 1;

funds Monk’s House room, 1;

furnishing and decoration, 1;

genesis, 1;

JEH as exception, 1;

as JEH memorial, 1;

killing the angel in the house, 1;

and MS, 1;

Newnham lecture, 1, 2;

and Newnham principle, 1;

preconditions for women’s artistic work, 1, 2, 3, 4;

and ‘room’ metaphor, 1;

on Shakespeare’s sister, 1;

unrecorded women’s lives, 1, 2;

on women as writers, 1

WORK: anxiety as writer, 1; autobiographical writing, 1;

‘being’ and ‘non-being’, 1;

Bergson influence, 1;

call for classless literature, 1;

on changing domestic arrangements, 1;

‘Common History book’, 1, 2;

EP influence, 1, 2;

on feminist response to war, 1;

Fry influence, 1;

‘I’ substituted by ‘we’, 1;

on intellectual freedom, 1;

interest in Russia, 1;

JEH influence, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

on Lawrence, 1;

pacifism, 1, 2, 3, 4;

on patriotism, 1;

and Pontigny colloquia, 1;

and post-Impressionists, 1;

reads EP, 1;

rejects Nicolson’s Bloomsbury critique, 1;

on Second World War, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

on sense of self, 1, 2;

and walking in London, 1;

on women under Hitler, 1;

see also Hogarth Press

WRITINGS: Between the Acts, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; book reviews, 1, 2;

‘Character in Fiction’, 1;

diary, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;

epitaph for 1940, 1;

Hardy obituary, 1;

Jacob’s Room, 1, 2, 3, 4;

‘The Leaning Tower’, 1, 2, 3;

letters (ed. Nicolson), 1;

‘Leslie Stephen’, 1;

‘London in War’, 1;

‘London Revisited’, 1;

Mrs Dalloway, 1;

‘The New Biography’, 1;

Night and Day, 1, 2, 3, 4;

‘Old Bloomsbury’, 1, 2, 3, 4;

‘Phyllis and Rosamond’, 1;

‘Professions for Women’, 1;

Reading at Random/Turning the Page (unfinished), 1, 2, 3;

Roger Fry, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;

‘The Searchlight’, 1;

‘A Sketch of the Past’, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

‘Street Haunting’, 1;

‘Thoughts on Peace in an Air-Raid’, 1;

‘Professions for Women’, 1;

‘Reminiscences’, 1;

‘The Searchlight’, 1;

Three Guineas, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;

To the Lighthouse, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

The Voyage Out, 1, 2, 3;

The Waves, 1, 2, 3;

The Years, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Wootton, Barbara, 1

Worgret Camp, Dorset, 1

Workers’ Educational Association, 1

Working Women’s Legal Advice Bureau, 1

Yeats, W. B., 1, 2, 3

Yorke, Dorothy ‘Arabella’: affair with Aldington, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; Asquith on, 1;

and Bid Me to Live, 1, 2, 3;

charades in MS, 1;

Cournos’s MS garret, 1, 2, 3;

relationship with Cournos, 1;

rents H. D.’s MS flat, 1

Yorke, Selina, 1

Zennor, Cornwall: Eagle’s Nest, 1; Higher Tregerthen, 1, 2, 3

Zilboorg, Caroline, 1

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Francesca Wade is editor of The White Review, and winner of the Biographers’ Club Tony Lothian Prize. She has written for publications including the London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Financial Times, New Statesman and Prospect. Square Haunting is her first book.

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