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  Amalfi 170, 171, 373

  American Genius, The (ed. E. Sitwell) 356

  Amis, Kingsley 384, 386; Lucky Jim 386

  An Experiment with Time (Dunne) 284

  Anactoria (Swinburne) 320, 324

  Anatomy of Criticism (Frye) 419– 20

  Anatomy of Melancholy (Burton) 226–7

  Andrade, Lorna 271, 282, 301, 302, 404, 405, 406, 427–8, 433

  Anglo-French Poetry Society 138–40, 158, 164, 223

  Another Time (Auden) 278–9

  Anrep, Boris, mosaics 74

  Antheil, George 177

  anthroposophy 142

  anti-Semitism 122–3, 201

  Apes of God, The (Lewis) 212–13

  appeasement 276

  Arcadia, SS 438– 9

  Ardours and Endurances (Nichols) 130

  Armitage, Audrey 439

  Armstrong, Terence Fytton 213, 217, 358

  Arts and Letters 136

  Ashridge 58–9

  Ashton, Frederick 168, 412, 437

  Aspects of Modern Poetry (E. Sitwell) 238–44, 245, 248, 313, 336

  Asquith, Lady Cynthia 107

  Astor, Minnie (later Minnie Fosburgh) 338, 349, 356, 363, 387, 388, 405–6, 433

  Astor, Vincent 338

  Athenæum 130, 150

  Atlantic Book of British and American Poetry, The (E. Sitwell) 360, 419

  Attlee, Clement 361

  Auden, W. H. 205, 238, 243, 244, 245, 248, 253, 278–9, 353, 357, 368, 371, 393; Another Time 278– 9

  Aurora (Boehme) 306

  Austin, Texas 367, 406

  Australia 438– 9

  Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (Davies) 113

  Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, The (Stein) 183, 222

  Awakening of the Muses (Anrep) 74

  Ayer, A. J. 384

  Bachelard, Gaston 390, 391

  Bad Nauheim 52

  Balanchine, George 365

  ballet 150–2, 365

  Ballets Russes 150–2

  Balliol College, Oxford 152

  Balston, Thomas 166, 175, 177, 193, 197, 203, 210, 232, 238–9

  Barker, George 240

  Barney, Natalie 221

  Baro, Gene 392

  Barons of Pulford In the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, The (G. Sitwell) 17

  Barrymore, Ethel 368

  ‘Bastille’, the 35–6, 40

  Bateson, F. W. 412–13

  Bath 217–18, 226, 291, 299, 324

  Bath (E. Sitwell) 217–18, 219, 226

  Baudelaire 76, 126, 218, 233, 296

  Baxter, Beverley 182

  BBC 257, 262; Elizabeth R 388; Third Programme 332–3, 335;

  Beach, Sylvia 220, 221

  Beardsley, Monroe C. 420

  Beaton, Cecil 185–6, 193, 195, 213, 246, 276, 347, 437, 438; My Royal Past 276

  Beaufort, Dowager Duchess of 10, 171

  Beerbohm, Max 70

  Beevers, John 250–1

  Beevers, Marjorie 250– 1

  Before the Bombardment (O. Sitwell) 30

  Bell, Clive 73, 74, 133–4, 159

  Bell, Julian 307

  Bell, Vanessa 73

  Belloc Lowndes, Marie 138, 247, 256

  Belshazzar’s Feast (Walton) 219

  Belvoir House, Scarborough 21–2

  Benet, W. R. 210–11

  Bennett, Arnold 113, 114, 136, 138, 140, 196, 214

  Bennett, Marguerite 137–40

  Bérard, Christian 190, 315–16

  Berlin 52–5, 57, 190

  Berman, Eugene and Leonid 190

  Bermuda 440

  Bernac, Pierre 315–16

  Bernard Shaw, George 17, 113, 198, 282

  Berners, Lord 196

  Besant, Annie 142

  Bhattacharya, Deben 359

  Binyon, Laurence 295

  Bishop, Stephen (later Stephen Kovacevich) 437

  ‘Black Angel’ (Thompson) 360

  Black Sun (Thompson) 360

  Blackwell, B. H. 103

  Blackwell, Basil 148

  Blake, William 67, 75–6, 126, 306, 339, 391, 411

  Blankney 8, 12, 61

  Blavatsky, Madame 105

  Blencowe, Sir John 173

  Blind Fireworks (MacNeice) 328

  Bloomsbury set, the 72, 133–4, 212

  Bloy, Léon 340–1

  Blum, Léon 252

  Blunden, Edmund 132, 181, 203, 210, 223, 295

  Blutbund 144

  Böcklin, Arnold 52

  Boehme, Jacob 306, 310; Aurora 306

  Boer War 14

  Bonchurch 66– 7

  Book of Women’s Verse, A (Squire) 159

  Bose, Douglas 250–1

  Boston 338, 349–50, 393

  Bottomley, Gordon 138, 295, 311

  Bottrall, Ronald 248

  Bounds, Henry 167

  Bournemouth 66, 69, 197, 442; Branksome Towers Hotel 332

  Bowen, Elizabeth 346

  Bowen, Stella 203–4, 208, 220

  Bowes Lyon, Lilian 341–2

  Bowes-Lyon, Fergus 106

  Bowra, Maurice 297, 314, 320, 371, 383, 417, 437

  Bradford, Sarah 96

  Bradford Technical College 116

  Brains Trust, The (TV programme) 425

  Branksome Towers Hotel, Bournemouth 332

  Brave and Cruel, and Other Stories (Welch) 350

  Breton, André 240

  Brideshead Revisited (Waugh) 30, 143, 291

  Brides-les-Bains 241

  Bridges, Robert 99, 242

  Brinnin, John Malcom 367, 381, 382; Dylan Thomas in America 383

  British Army: 11th Hussars 83; British Expeditionary Force 92, 108; Grenadier Guards 84, 90, 96, 121–2

  British National Association of Spiritualists 16–17

  Britten, Benjamin 307, 363, 372, 397, 400, 404, 425, 436–7; Canticle III: Still Falls the Rain 397, 436–7

  Broadbent, James 29

  Brockwell, Major A. B. 31, 163

  Brook, Peter 402

  Brown, John Mason 366

  ‘Bryher’ (Winifred Ellerman) 7, 280, 289, 290–1, 299, 314, 375, 381, 432

  Buber, Martin 144

  Bucolic Comedies (E. Sitwell) 144, 166

  Bullock, Sir Malcolm 437

  Burma 56

  Burnet, Thomas 306; The Theory of the Earth 306

  Burroughs, William 442

  Burton, Douglas 250–1

  Butler, Rab 269

  Butt, Dame Clara 41

  California 368, 376, 381, 383, 386–7

  Camden Town Group 159

  Camden Town Murder, The (Sickert) 71–2

  Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament 416, 423

  Campbell, Mary 358, 396, 406–7, 412

  Campbell, Roy 357–9, 396, 401, 406–7, 429; The Flowering Rifle 357; Talking Bronco 357

  Canaday, John 441

  Canons of Giant Art (S. Sitwell) 219–20, 238, 244, 303

  Canticle III: Still Falls the Rain (Britten) 397, 436– 7

  Canticle of the Rose, The (E. Sitwell) 356–7, 360–1

  Capetanakis, Demetrios 32, 307–8, 320

  Capote, Truman 350, 429

  Caraman, Father Philip 396–8, 414, 423, 425, 443

  Carfax Gallery 73

  Carisbrooke, Irene, see Denison, Irene (later Marchioness of Carisbrooke)

  Carrington, Dora 58, 74, 116, 133

  Causley, Charles 384

  Cecil, Henry 431

  Celebration for Edith Sitwell, A (ed. Villa) 342–3, 348

  Chandos-Pole, Inez 73, 89, 224, 230, 292–3

  Chaplin, Lord 61

  Charteris, Ivo 107, 109

  Chatto & Windus 130

  Chatwin, Bruce 297; The Songlines 297

  Chelsea pensions office 101

  Chenil Gallery 72, 116, 182

  Chesterfield 279, 361

  Chesterfield, Earl of 10

  Chicago 244–5, 393

  Chicago Review 393

  Child, Armando 400

/>   Child, Harold Hannyngton 279, 288–9, 311– 12

  Children’s Tales (From the Russian Ballet) (E. Sitwell) 150–1

  Chile 116

  ‘Chile’, see de Guevara, Álvaro Christian Science Monitor 259

  Christie, John 72

  Christ Church, Oxford 16

  Church, Richard 259

  Churchill, Winston 44, 182, 361, 418

  Claremont Nursing Home, Sheffield 428

  Clark, Jane 388–9, 438

  Clark, Sir Kenneth 198–9, 322, 337, 433, 436, 437

  Clark, Val 402–3

  Clarkson, Tom 340

  Clay, Andrew 23

  Cleveland Street Affair 428

  Clowns’ Houses (E. Sitwell) 126–8, 135

  coal mines, nationalisation of 361

  Cocteau, Jean 350

  Codrington, Veronica (later Veronica Gilliat) 12, 48, 63

  Cohn, Harry 377–8

  Colefax, Sybil 124, 299

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 242, 306, 307, 319, 378

  Collected Poems (E. Sitwell) 77, 132, 152, 210–11, 246, 392, 407, 409–11, 413–14

  Collier, John 210, 219; His Monkey-Wife; Or, Married to a Chimp 210

  Collins, Diana 423

  Collins, Canon John 422–3

  Colombo 438

  Colston Leigh Agency 338, 348

  Columbia Records 351, 353, 367, 368

  Columbia Studios 376, 377, 388, 399

  coming out 57–8, 61

  Composition as Explanation (Stein) 184

  Connelly, Brian 394

  Connolly, Cyril 171, 337–8, 409, 410, 437

  Conquest, Robert 384

  Conyngham, Albert Denison, first Baron Londesborough 8

  Cooke, Mildred 97

  Coolings Galleries 185

  Cornwell, Patricia 71; theory of Sickert as Jack the Ripper 71–2

  Corso, Gregory 416–17

  Courtauld, Sam 224

  Courteenhall 76–7

  Coutts Bank 179, 220, 263, 293–4, 300, 392, 399, 406

  Covington, Robert 432

  Coward, Noël 168–70, 210, 435–6; London Calling 168–9

  Crane, Josephine 350–1

  Cranston, Maurice 350

  Crevel, René 240, 247

  Cubism 127, 190

  Cukor, George 377, 381, 387, 388, 435, 437

  Cumberland, Gerald 168

  cummings, e. e. 368

  Cunard, Sir Bache 114

  Cunard, Maud (later Emerald Cunard) 114, 201

  Cunard, Nancy 104, 114, 118–19, 120, 181

  Curiosities of Literature (Disraeli) 226

  Currie, Alannah 434

  Curtis Brown 166–7, 402

  Curzon Hotel 81, 195

  Daiches, David 419

  Daily Express 215– 16

  Daily Herald, ‘Too Fantastic for Fat-Heads’ review 157

  Daily Mail 92, 107, 198, 424

  Daily Mirror 98–9, 103, 126, 421

  Dalí, Salvador 240, 255, 271–2

  Daniel, C. W. 158

  D’Arcy, Father Martin 396, 398, 414, 444; The Nature of Belief 397

  Darling, Charles John 92–3, 95, 96

  Davidson, Edie 62

  Davidson, Archbishop (Randall) 14, 16, 88, 91, 92, 97

  Davie, Donald 384

  Davies, W. H. 113–14, 131, 138, 230, 241; Autobiography of a Super-Tramp 113

  Davis, Eliza 26, 30–1, 45

  Dawkins, Richard 4

  Dawson, Frederick 34

  Dawson of Penn, Lord 266

  Day-Lewis, C. 244, 320, 329, 358, 412, 418

  Daylight 307

  de la Mare, Richard 217

  de la Mare, Walter 78, 103–4, 113, 295, 329

  de Lacerda, Alberto 401, 412, 414, 422

  Deaths and Entrances (Thomas) 328

  Demetrios Capetanakis: A Greek Poet in England (Lehmann) 308

  Denison, Irene (later Marchioness of Carisbrooke) 12, 301

  Devil’s Island 233, 234

  Diaghilev, Sergei 133, 134, 150, 190; The Sleeping Princess (1921) 171

  Dickson, Rache Lovat 287

  Dieppe 69

  Dietrich, Marlene 393

  Dobbs, Frances Bennett 83, 85–6, 93, 94

  Doble, Georgia, see Sitwell, Georgia (née Doble) Dobrée, Professor Bonamy 343

  Dobson, Frank 155

  Donne, John 310, 319, 386

  Don’t Call Me By My Right Name (Purdy) 402

  Doolittle, Hilda (‘H.D.’) 119, 160, 280, 295, 314–15, 432; Tribute to the Angels 314– 15

  Dr Donne and Gargantua (S. Sitwell) 244

  Draper, Ruth 70

  Driberg, Tom 184, 317

  Dui, Jovan 145

  Duchene, L. F. 385

  Duckworth, Gerald 166, 172, 174, 204, 224, 231, 238–9, 241

  Dunciad (A. Pope) 110

  Dunkirk evacuation 2, 277

  Durán, Josefa 286

  Duret, Théodore 75

  Durham, University of 343

  Durrell, Lawrence 360

  Dylan Thomas in America (Brinnin) 383

  Eberhart, Richard 392

  eccentric biography, works of 226

  Edinburgh Festival 426

  Editor of Wheels, The (Guevara) 117

  Edwards, Ellen 33

  Egoist, The 119

  Eighteen Poems (Thomas) 248–9

  Elborn, Geoffrey 102, 201, 427– 8

  Elegy on Dead Fashion (E. Sitwell) 178

  Eliot, T. S. 76, 113, 124–6, 128, 136, 141, 144, 172–3, 181, 183, 216–17, 222, 249, 256, 279, 307, 313–14, 329, 357, 405, 430; The Waste Land 125, 158, 172–3; Four Quartets 313, 405

  Eliot, Vivienne 125, 181, 183, 217, 222–3

  Elkin Mathews 99–100

  Ellerman, Winifred, see Bryher (Winifred Ellerman)

  Ellmann, Richard 337

  Elwes, Gervase 70

  Emblems of Experience (Sassoon) 374

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo 306

  empiricism 4–5

  Empson, William 248

  Encounter 424

  English Eccentrics, The (opera) 441

  English Eccentrics, The (E. Sitwell) 198, 226–8, 274

  English Women (E. Sitwell) 287

  Enright, D. J. 384

  ‘Epitaphs of the War’ (Kipling) 122

  Ernst, F. Gustav 36, 37–8, 41

  Ernst, Max 240

  Eton 16, 95, 105

  Evans, Edith 329

  Evening Standard 140, 412, 420

  Eyre & Spottiswoode 315

  Faber, Enid 217

  Faber, Geoffrey 217

  Faber & Faber 217, 220, 238, 246, 357

  Faber Book of Modern Verse, The (ed. Roberts) 256

  Façade (ballet) 168

  Façade (E. Sitwell) 4, 110, 152–7, 166; see also Façade (Sitwell and Walton)

  Façade (Sitwell and Walton) 4, 110, 173, 178, 185; collaboration on 152–7; first performance 156–7; performances 166, 167–8, 182, 289–90, 332, 348, 363, 372, 374, 416; Festival of Modern Music performance 202–3; American performance 350–1; record release 351; Currie recording 434; Royal Festival Hall performance 436

  Façade 2 (Walton) 157, 289

  Façade Revived (Walton) 157

  Face to Face (TV programme) 424–5

  Fairbairn, Sydney 119

  Fairbanks, Douglas, Senior 132

  Fanfare for Elizabeth (E. Sitwell) 287, 331–2, 434

  Fanfare for Elizabeth film script (E. Sitwell) 376–81, 386–8, 435

  Farquhar, Sister Doris 432, 434, 438, 440, 442

  Farrer, Elizabeth 56

  Farrer, Reginald 56–7, 59, 70; My Rock Garden 56

  Faulkner, William 140

  Fauré, Gabriel 69

  Favril Press 157

  Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake (Frye) 339

  Fenwick, Jane 103

  Ferris, Paul 383

  Field, Julian Osgood 82–3, 84, 90–1, 91–6

  Fini, Leonor 355, 373

  First World War
49, 71; first month 90; German bombardment of Scarborough 91; casualties 92, 106, 108; Battle of Loos 106–7; poetry 107–8, 275–6; Battle of the Somme 108; Battle of Arras 120; protest against 121; conspiracy theories 122; air raids 124; death of Owen 129; Armistice celebrations 133–4

  Fitzherbert, Diana 208

  Five Variations on a Theme (E. Sitwell) 231–3

  Fleming, Ian 342

  Fletcher, Valerie 314, 405

  Florence 81–2, 376, 423

  Flowering Rifle, The (Campbell) 357

  Flynn, Gertrude 365

  Fontainas, André 76

  Ford, Charles Henri 192, 231, 244, 283–4, 330, 342–3, 344, 345, 347–8, 350–1, 355, 362, 395, 407; ‘Sleep in a Nest of Flames’ 330

  Ford, Ford Madox 203, 220

  Ford, Ruth 255

  Form in Modern Poetry (Read) 242

  Forster, E. M. 113, 172, 227–8, 373

  Fosburgh, Minnie, see Astor, Minnie

  Foster, Roy 241, 256

  Four Quartets (Eliot) 313, 405

  France 46; strikes 252; fall of 277

  Frances, Esteban 351

  Frank, Anne 321

  Franz Ferdinand, Archduke 88, 144

  Fraser, G. S. 419

  Fraser, Mary 381, 411

  Frazer, Sir James 218

  Freeman, John 170, 173, 424–5, 443

  French in Great Britain Fund 295–6

  French Symbolist poets 76

  Frere, Philip 281–2, 286, 301, 302, 375, 389, 400

  Frewen, Clarita 44

  Fry, Roger 74–5, 111–12, 133–4, 159

  Frye, Northrop 339, 419–20; Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake 339; Anatomy of Criticism 419– 20

  Fundamentals of Music and their Relation to Modern Life (Rootham) 146

  Fussell, Miss 85, 86

  Fyfe, Hamilton 281–2

  Gabain, Marjorie 139

  Gallery of Modern Art, New York 441

  Gardeners and Astronomers (E. Sitwell) 384, 385–6

  Gardner, Helen 125

  Gardner, Isabella 394

  Garnett, David 134

  Garrick Club 239

  Garsington Manor 121

  Gascoyne, David 240, 290

  Gatty, Hester 235

  Gawsworth, John (Terence Fytton Armstrong) 358

  General Strike 182– 3

  Geography and Plays (Stein) 30, 174, 180

  Georgian Poetry (Marsh) 114

  Germany 46; the rise of Hitler 234; Rhineland reoccupied 251; Kristallnacht 267; Jewish refugees leave, 1939: 267–8

  Gerona 248, 252

  Gertler, Mark 116, 133

  Gibson, Wilfrid 100, 261, 295

  Gielgud, John 317, 329, 366, 371, 434, 437

  Gilbert, Stuart 221

  Gilliat, David 309

  Gilman, Charlotte Perkins 51

  Gilman, Harold 72

  Ginsberg, Allen 416– 18

  Girls of Slender Means, The (Spark) 396

  Glendinning, Victoria 5, 398, 442

  Goebbels, Joseph 269–70, 277

  Gollancz, Victor 246, 266, 287, 402, 419, 437

  Goodbye to All That (Graves) 194

 

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