by Paula Byrne
Cleveland, John, 195
clothes/fashion: Pym as always well dressed, 2, 23, 84, 174, 198, 206, 333, 492, 528–9, 562; portrayal of clothing in Pym’s novels, 9, 10, 128, 233, 239, 391, 398, 427–8, 429, 431, 435, 451, 477, 535, 606; tweed, 9, 16, 62, 128, 280, 398, 427–8, 561, 606; as abiding passion for Pym, 26, 34, 88, 89–90, 113, 198, 206, 333; and alter ego Sandra, 69, 80, 113, 492; and alter ego Pymska, 159; and Finnish persona, 224; and ‘bluestocking’ women, 232–3; clothes rationing, 300, 330, 379, 391, 397; Dior’s ‘New Look,’ 397–8; post-war ‘miracle fabrics,’ 398; shoes as indicator of class, 431, 479; of 1960s, 2, 477, 478; and academic life of early 1970s, 543, 544; and Sylvia Plath, 569; in Pym’s diaries and letters, 611–12
Cologne, 106, 107–8, 109–11, 116, 122, 139–40, 330
communism, 94, 141, 152, 218
Compton-Burnett, Ivy (ICB), 196, 340, 380, 421; Pym’s love of novels of, 80–1, 162, 182, 184, 186; and Jock Liddell, 162, 182, 183–4, 185–6, 191, 281, 296–7; letters in style of, 182, 184, 187–8, 197–8, 210–13, 216–17, 386–7; multiple tragedies in life of, 183–4; dialogue of, 183, 184, 185, 186, 430; influence on Pym’s novels, 186, 191, 281, 297, 430, 434; More Women Than Men, 80–1, 185–6, 297; Pastors and Masters, 183; Brothers and Sisters, 297
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (Anatole Litvak film, 1939), 282
Conrad, Joseph, 180
Constable (publisher), 552–3
Cooke, Betty, 347–8
Cooke, Helen, 347–9
Cooper, Jilly, 582, 597
Cornbury (royal hunting lodge), 592
Coward, Noël, 117, 543
Cox, David, 423–4
Crampton, Fiennes Henry, 12–13
Crampton Hodnet (North Oxford novel), 52, 281, 282–3, 409, 551, 607; title of, 13, 282; Pym begins writing, 235–6; plot of, 237–9, 241–2, 244–7, 249; characterisation in, 239–42, 244–7, 249, 271, 273, 437, 579; and Jock Liddell, 242, 285; Jessie Morrow’s appearance in, 428–9
Crockford’s (clerical directory), 467, 579
Crouch, village of (Kent), 457, 458
Currie, Ailsa, 457, 528
Dahl, Roald, 453
Davies, Meurig, 159
Defoe, Daniel, Moll Flanders, 29, 88
diaries/journals/notebooks: appellation ‘Miss Pym’ in, 3; Oxford diary, 28–9; destroyed pages in, 54, 55, 59, 90, 93, 94, 95, 109, 112, 334, 609; Sandra diary, 82; ‘third volume,’ 126; diary resumed (March 1939), 248; ‘sentimental journal,’ 250, 303–4; war journals and stories, 257, 258, 259–61, 262–7, 274–6, 278–9, 288, 289–92, 294–5, 303, 316, 364; 1933-4 diary expurgated, 281; diary for 1942 destroyed, 332–3, 334, 563; Glover notebooks (’After Christmas’), 334, 337, 427, 563; Naples journal, 364, 372; moves from journals to notebooks, 381, 399–400, 585; Pym discusses on Desert Island Discs, 589; Barbara Pym archive at Bodleian, 608, 609, 611–12
Dietrich, Marlene, 92
Dinis, Júlio, 109–10
Dior, Christian, ‘New Look,’ 397–8
domestic service, 10–11, 12–13
Donne, John, 35, 57, 133
Doriot, Jacques, 205
Dors, Diana, 597
Douglas, Norman, South Wind, 79
Douglas-Home, Alec, 513–14
Drabble, Margaret, 528
Drayton, Michael, 195
Dresden, 208, 218–19
Dublin, 543
Eden, Anthony, 229
Edward VIII, King, 161
Einstein, Albert, 107
Elgar, Sir Edward, 524
Eliot, T.S., 556, 564, 601
Elizabeth II, Queen, 436, 437; silver jubilee (1977), 573
Ellidge, George, 322, 330, 333, 339
Elliston’s department store, Oxford, 33–4, 40, 43, 44, 82, 85, 233, 544, 561
Excellent Women (novel): first-person narrative, 309, 399; Mildred Lathbury character, 309, 324, 356, 378, 400, 401–4, 405–10, 423–4, 505; spinster theme in, 356, 401–2, 405–6, 423–4; Pimlico setting, 378, 399, 402, 403; Pym begins writing, 399–400; Betjeman’s review of, 400, 423; critical response, 400, 422–4; Pym’s description of, 400; characterisation in, 402–10, 423–4; Pym’s proto-feminism, 403–5; anthropology in, 403, 405, 406–7, 412, 418–19; plot of, 403, 405–10; and Jock Liddell, 405–6, 416, 423; rage at Gordon Glover in, 408–9; published (March 1952), 421, 422–3; Skipper’s view of, 498–9; Philip Larkin on, 505, 519, 550; Larkin sends to Monteith, 519; Library Association reprint, 532, 533; David Cecil on, 570; read on BBC Story Time, 572; Penguin reissues in paperback, 596; extraordinary voice in, 608
Faber and Faber, 500, 518–19, 521–2
Fendrich, Anton, 118, 119
Ferguson, Rachel, 448–9, 450, 452
Feuchtwanger, Lion: Jew Süss, 114; The Oppermanns, 140–1, 214, 226, 270
Field, William J., 452
Fielding, Henry, 411; Tom Jones, 3, 29
film and cinema, 27; at Oxford, 27, 40, 42, 91–2; WW2 propagandistic films, 282, 300–2; Fox considers option on Less Than Angels, 447
Finland, 269, 278
Finstock (Cotswold hamlet), 555–6, 558, 559, 562–3; and Pym’s retirement, 560–1, 562–5; Larkin’s visits to Barn Cottage, 564, 574; T. S. Eliot memorial, 564, 601; and Queen’s silver jubilee (1977), 573; BBC film Pym in, 575; garden of Barn Cottage, 575, 576–7; in A Few Green Leaves, 592–4; Pym’s funeral in, 601
First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) Club, 523
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 17
Fleming, Ian, 420, 571
Forde, Daryll, 382–3, 418, 419, 421, 426, 430, 498, 543, 552, 583, 610; death of, 557
Forster, E.M., 520–1, 548, 571
Forsyth, Frederick, The Day of the Jackal, 552
Freud, Sigmund, 107, 571
Friedan, Betty, The Feminine Mystique, 487
Fuller’s cafe (Oxford), 53, 98, 143, 238, 245, 561
Gaelic language, 298
Galsworthy, John, 508
Gardiner, Edward, 96
Garsington Manor, 17
Gathorne-Hardy, Edward, 385
George, Daniel, 420, 421, 433–4
George V, King, 161
George VI, King, 436
Gielgud, John, 452
Gifford, Emma, 593
A Glass of Blessings (novel): Prudence Bates reappears in, 427, 464; clergy theme, 447, 460, 461, 470; and Bear and Squirrel saga, 451, 452, 458, 464; homosexuality in, 452, 458, 460–4, 499, 579, 610; critical response, 459–60; Bayley and Cecil admire, 459, 460; characterisation in, 460–1, 462–5; plot of, 460–4; and woman at furniture storage unit, 471, 502; copy given to Skipper, 498–9; and Philip Larkin, 501, 542; David Cecil on, 570; Penguin reissues in paperback, 596
Gleadow, Rupert, 37–40, 41–4, 45–50, 52–6, 57–9, 69, 72, 609; on Nazi Germany, 125, 148, 347; death of wife Marguerite (1938), 346–7; relationship with Helen Cooke, 347–9; death of, 563
Glen, Sandy, 278, 282, 311, 313
Glover, Gordon: character of, 321–2, 325, 326, 334, 342, 344, 345, 353, 360, 361–2, 422, 427; Pym meets, 324; Pym’s relationship with, 325–6, 330, 332–4, 368, 370, 422; ends relationship with Pym, 333–4, 335–7, 338–9, 340, 343–4, 350–1, 353, 360; divorce from Wyatt, 334, 343, 344–5, 350, 360, 361; Pym heartbroken over, 335–40, 343–4, 348, 350–1, 352, 353, 357; column in the Radio Times, 335, 361; presents ‘Introducing This Week’ (radio show), 338–9; Pym’s rage at in Excellent Women, 408–9; and Some Tame Gazelle, 413–14; in Jane and Prudence, 414, 427–8, 430–2; death of, 563; Farewell Helen (radio play), 345, 351–2; Cocktails (novel), 353
Glover, Julian, 321, 322, 323, 325–6, 333, 336, 339, 354
Glover, Prue, 321, 322–3, 333, 336, 343, 354, 425, 601
Glück, Friedbert: Pym meets in Cologne, 107–8; as officer in SS, 107, 111, 120, 153, 218–21; Pym’s relationship with, 110–11, 139–40, 142, 148–9, 153, 218–21, 222, 248, 288, 301–2, 372, 605, 609; swastika pin gift for Pym, 112; correspondence with Pym, 113, 114, 120, 208, 217, 270, 302, 316, 374, 609; Pym’s feelings for, 1
13, 114, 116, 117, 121–2, 140, 142, 152–3, 161, 169; Pym’s photograph of, 113, 114, 115; as close to Hitler, 120, 149, 605; and 1936 Summer Olympics, 149, 164; in Some Tame Gazelle, 149, 153–7, 217; on the Anschluss (March 1938), 208; Pym’s last visit to (May 1938), 218–21, 222; Nora Waln on, 316; writes to Pym after war, 374
Goebbels, Joseph, 106, 107, 139
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 121, 194, 217
Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming film, 1939), 333
Good Housekeeping, 401
Graves, Robert, 322, 335, 339–40
Greece, 312, 313, 505–6, 527, 547, 602
Green, Desmond, 294
Greene, Graham, 560
Griffith, Dewi Morgan, 21
Griffith-Jones, Mervyn, 486
the Guardian, 473, 575–6
Gunn, Bert, 338
Haddon Hall, 465
Hadzapi people, 412
Hamburg, 123, 124–5
Hamish Hamilton (publisher), 565
Handley, Tommy, 338
Hansford Johnson, Pamela, 572
Hardy, Thomas, 383, 522, 524, 593
Harker, Henry (‘Harry’) Howard, 62–3, 84, 85, 86, 88, 91–2, 131, 163
Harlovin (Oxford suitor), 33, 69–70
Harpers & Queen, 576
Harpers magazine, 399
Harvey, Elsie (née Godenhjelm), 142, 143, 177, 210–12, 591; and Jock Liddell, 150, 175, 181–2, 188, 210–11; in Gervase and Flora, 188, 190; marries Henry Harvey, 191, 192, 195–6, 197–8; Pym embraces/accepts, 212, 213, 223; Pym meets (1938), 223, 348; Pym’s correspondence with, 223, 229, 235, 236, 247, 248; fictional death of in ‘Beatrice Wyatt,’ 231, 234, 235; in Finland at outbreak of war, 269, 278; birth of daughter (1942), 329, 330–1; divorce from Henry, 381, 414, 422
Harvey, Gabriel, 69
Harvey, Henry Stanley: Pym’s first impressions of, 60, 61–2; background of, 61; physical appearance, 61, 66; Pym calls ‘Lorenzo,’ 61, 66; Pym’s ‘stalking’ of, 61, 62–3, 72, 82, 84, 92; friendship with Jock Liddell, 62, 71–2, 75, 88–9, 95, 97, 117–18, 143–4; sneering smile of, 62; speaks to Pym, 65–6; first date with Pym (10 May 1933), 67–9, 91, 287; Pym’s passion for, 67–70, 71, 72–3, 75–7, 79, 80, 81, 108, 112; awarded second-class degree, 77; return to Oxford (autumn 1933), 84, 85–6; Pym refuses invitation to visit, 86–7; sexual relationship with Pym, 90, 93, 94, 95–7, 113–14, 116, 117–18, 122, 135–6, 174; unkindness to Pym, 93, 94, 95–7, 98, 100, 115, 117, 132, 143–4, 145–7, 153, 164, 170, 175, 176; and Alison West-Watson, 95–6, 98–100; character of, 100, 143–5, 166, 170, 393–5, 414; Liddell’s love/hate attitude towards, 100, 159, 162, 415–16, 422; in Some Tame Gazelle, 100, 127–8, 132–3, 134, 144, 154, 155, 393–5, 414, 416, 599; Pym darns socks of, 114–15, 133, 293; Pym arouses jealousy in, 114, 153; and Pym’s final period at Oxford, 118–19; Finnish girlfriends, 122, 131, 135, 142, 143, 150, 175, 177, 181–2, 187–8; as lecturer in Helsinki, 122, 130, 131–2, 135, 158; Pym’s abandoned novel about, 126; compares Pym to Jane Austen, 129; news of in Finland relayed by Jock, 130, 135, 136, 142, 143, 159, 181–2; nasty incident on the Cherwell, 145–6; and Pym’s German persona, 145; trip to Basingstoke with Pym, 146–7, 162–3; on Glück’s Nazism, 148–9, 316; stays at Morda Lodge (summer 1935), 149; Pym’s continuing obsession with, 158, 159, 162–3, 169–71, 173–5, 176–7, 189–91; Pym as secretary of, 173–5, 177; flying visit to Shropshire, 177; in Adam and Cassandra, 178–9; on Barnicot, 181; as not fan of ICB, 185; in Gervase and Flora, 188–9, 190–1, 192, 230–1; marries Elsie Godenhjelm, 191, 192, 195–6, 197–8; Pym receives news of marriage of, 195–6, 197–8; Pym’s letters to after his marriage, 210–11, 212–13, 231, 325–6, 329–31, 332, 334, 361–2, 380, 381, 382, 386; married life with Elsie, 210–12, 247; Pym’s embrace of Elsie Harvey, 212, 213, 223; in ‘Beatrice Wyatt,’ 231, 233–5; in Crampton Hodnet (novel), 242; ‘Respect and Esteem’ letter, 246, 306; in Finland at outbreak of war, 269, 278; Pym’s letters to about Glover, 325–6, 332, 334, 361–2; birth of daughter (1942), 329, 330–1; writes on hearing of Pym’s mother’s death, 378; divorce from Elsie, 381, 414, 422; Pym destroys most of letters from, 384; Pym’s passion for ends, 396, 422; marriage to Susi, 414, 422, 505; in Liddell’s The Last Enchantments, 415–16; with Pym in Greece (1966), 527; Pym’s friendship with in final years, 563–4, 584, 591–2, 599; returns to England, 563–4; lives in Willersey, 564, 584, 591; visits Barn Cottage, 564; during Pym’s final illness, 599
Hatchards’ Authors of the Year party (1979), 596–7
Heine, Heinrich, 156–7, 193, 196
Heinemann (publisher), 542
Helsinki, 122, 130, 131, 135, 158, 188, 210, 214, 269, 278
Hess, Rudolf, 121
Himmler, Heinrich, 315
Hitler, Adolf, 92, 105, 120–1, 164–5, 213–14; and the Mitford sisters, 105, 139, 362; Hamburg speech (August 1934), 124–5; the Anschluss (March 1938), 208, 233; Chamberlain’s meetings with, 225–6, 228–9; invasion of Soviet Union (1941), 327; relatives of in Liverpool, 328
Holt, Hazel, 45, 411–13, 434, 437, 449, 451, 524; on Pym and Bob Smith, 433; enthusiasm for Denton Welch, 456, 457; and An Academic Question, 551; during Pym’s final illness, 598; son Tom at Oxford, 598; A Lot to Ask, 608
homosexuality: Pym as magnet for gay men, 27; of Jock Liddell, 72, 89, 378, 385, 453; language/terms used about, 76, 117; Rumbold’s Little Victims, 76, 80, 89; Pym’s fascination with, 89, 452, 453–5, 456–8, 476, 490–1, 610; and SA leaders in Nazi Germany, 121; in Compton-Burnett’s novels, 185–6; in Crampton Hodnet (novel), 240–1; Queen’s Head in Chelsea, 249; as more tolerated in Mediterranean, 378, 506; and tea with Elizabeth Bowen, 419–20; Bear and Squirrel saga at Barnes, 449–52, 458, 464, 466, 469, 470; as still illegal in 1950s, 451–2; in A Glass of Blessings, 452, 458, 460–4, 499, 579, 610; in No Fond Return of Love, 476; Wolfenden Report (1957), 490; Pym’s love for Skipper, 493, 506, 507–11, 512–17, 518, 519, 523, 524–6, 527–8, 529–30; in The Sweet Dove Died, 503–4, 534, 535, 536–8, 579, 610; decriminalisation of (1967), 548; E.M. Forster’s Maurice, 548
Hood, Canon Freddie, 447
Hope, Sandy, 201
Hope-Wallace, Jacqueline, 419
Hope-Wallace, Philip, 419
Hopi Native Americans of New Mexico, 382
Horizon magazine, 296
Housman, A. E.,. A Shropshire Lad, 7
Howard, Elizabeth Jane, 563
Howard, Wren, 489, 543
Hughes, Ted, 521, 569
Hull, 473, 500, 521, 559, 560
Hunt, Herbert J., 33, 34
Hussey, Bill, 113, 114
Hutchinson, R. C., The Fire and the Wood, 298–9
Huxley, Aldous, Crome Yellow, 17–18, 19–20, 177, 179
Hylton, Jack, 75, 543
Ibsen, Heinrich, Ghosts, 201–2
‘In the Bleak Midwinter’ (Christmas carol), 589
Instone, Anna, 322, 325, 345
International African Institute (London): Pym takes job at (February 1946), 379, 381–3; Pym’s colleagues at, 381–2, 383, 411–13, 419, 434, 450, 554, 557; Pym’s modest wage at, 382, 399; Pym’s roles at, 383, 412, 421, 434, 610; influence on Pym’s novels, 395, 412, 414, 418–19, 426, 429–30, 437–8, 495, 552; new premises in Fetter Lane, 411; Pym finds work at not fulfilling, 418, 498; Pym’s busy life at, 498, 519, 532, 533; Pym’s new office carpet, 519; moves to Bloomsbury, 553, 554; Pym rents room in Balcombe Street, 556, 560; offices in Fetter Lane demolished, 557–8; death of Forde, 557; Pym’s retirement party, 560
Ireland, Bill, 89
Ischia, island of, 370
Italy: enters Second World War, 289; invasion of Greece (October 1940), 312; Allied invasion of (1943), 364; Pym visits Rome (spring 1945), 371–2; Pym visits (spring 1961), 471–2; in An Unsuitable Attachment, 480–1
Jacques, Hattie, 338
James, Henry, 180, 537, 538; The Golden Bowl, 589
Jane and Prudence (novel): Irena Pym in, 9, 428–9; and Pym’s Oxford years, 26–7, 414, 425–6; African Institute in
, 414, 418–19, 426, 429–30; Gordon Glover in, 414, 427–8, 430–2; Daryll Forde in, 419, 426, 430; spinster theme in, 424, 425–6; characterisation in, 425–6, 427–32; plot of, 425–6, 427–32; manuscript sent to Daniel George, 433–4; friends’ reactions to, 434–5, 446; critical response, 434; published (September 1953), 434, 443; Marks and Spencer object to, 435; Library Association reprint, 546; Cape reprints (1979), 597
jazz music, 27, 356, 543
Johnson, Samuel, 304
Jonathan Cape (publisher), 420, 421, 497, 571–2, 576, 597; rejects An Unsuitable Attachment, 1–2, 481–2, 487–8, 489, 490–1, 496, 498, 500, 588; shows interest in Some Tame Gazelle, 176–7, 180, 242; as Jock Liddell’s publisher, 242, 386–7; advises Pym to be more malicious, 387, 393, 396; accepts Some Tame Gazelle for publication (1949), 388; and letter from Marks and Spencer, 435; Cape himself enjoys Less Than Angels, 446; Jock Liddell leaves, 489; Pym turns down, 573; the Pyms invent Maschler pudding, 574; reissues of Pym’s novels, 575, 577
Jones, Monica, 475, 501, 518, 550
Jones, Ruth, 381
Jourdain, Eleanor, 297
Jourdain, Margaret, 297
Joyce, James, 175, 180
Katowice, 223–6, 227, 253
Keats, John, 90, 529, 537
Keats’s house (Hampstead), 496–7, 538, 544–5
Keble, John, ‘New Every Morning is the Love,’ 186, 404, 611
Keeler, Christine, 487
Kendrick, Thomas, 426–7
King’s College, London, 445
Kinsey Report, 487
Knox, Ronald, The Belief of Catholics, 90
Königswinter (Germany), 110–11
Laing, R. D., 570
Lamb, Lady Caroline, 551
