by D. J. Taylor
Bag O’Nails club, London 26
Baker, Josephine 88
Bakewell, Jean see Connolly, Jean
Balfour, Angela see Culme-Seymour, Angela
Balfour, Patrick (later, Lord Kinross) 27–8, 48, 66, 130–1, 132, 149, 171, 181, 295
The Ruthless Innocent 295–8
Banting, John 331
Barbellion, W.N.P., The Journal of a Disappointed Man 23
Baron (Sterling Henry Nahum) 260
Barthes, Roland 240
Bauchant, André 67
BBC 68, 194
Beaton, Cecil 35, 56, 69, 71, 125, 133, 142, 210
Bedford Square, London 1–7, 8, 75, 76, 97, 98, 123, 153, 164, 218, 223, 226
Bell, Clive 116, 215
Bell, Graham 116, 117
Bell, Vanessa 118
Bennett, Alan 323
Bergery, Luba 91
Berkeley Hotel, London 26, 190–1
Berryman, John 217
Betjeman, John 37, 69, 269
Blair, Eric see Orwell, George
Blair, Richard 230, 231, 232, 250, 253
Bloomsbury 3, 47, 198
Blue Ball Yard, London 181
Bluth, Dr Karl 161, 162, 326
bohemian style 9–10, 23, 27, 186–7
Boot, PC 90, 102, 170, 172, 260, 267
Boris, Georges 91
Bowen, Elizabeth 58, 147, 153
The Death of the Heart 28–9
Bowra, Maurice 105, 131
Bradbury, Malcolm, Eating People is Wrong 83
Braine, Revd W.H. 248
Brenan, Gerald 42, 45, 46, 47, 125, 129
Bright Young People 27–8, 198, 273, 295
Brown, Ivor 76
Brownell, Beatrice 112, 113, 115
Brownell, Sonia see Orwell, Sonia
Buchan, John 36
Burrows, Bernard 177
Burrows, Henry 128, 129
Café Royal, London 8, 20, 30, 92, 95–6, 109, 120, 141, 191
Cagnes-sur-Mer 258, 259, 260
Cairo 149–50, 167–77, 181
Calder, John 195
Calder-Marshall, Arthur 151
Campbell, Robin and Mary 200–1, 215, 270
Canfield, Cass 217, 219, 220–1
Cardigan, Cedric Brudenell-Bruce, Earl of 106–7, 108
Cardigan, Countess of see Dyson Taylor, Joyce
Carrington, Dora 156, 213
Cassis 38, 50, 53
Cecil, David 58
Chaplin, Sid 68, 81–2
Chatellus, Angela de see Culme-Seymour, Angela
Chatellus, René de 130, 324
Chelsea Old Church 181
Churchill, Angela see Culme-Seymour, Angela
Churchill, Johnny 45, 130
Churchill, Winston 110
cocaine 226
Coldstream, William 110, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 253–4
Compton-Burnett, Ivy 320
Conga club, London 91
Connolly, Barbara, see Skelton, Barbara
Connolly, Cressida 323–4, 332
Connolly, Cyril x, 2–3, 4–5, 8–9, 31–8, 277–85, 332–3
Anna Kavan and 33, 162
Anne Dunn and 218–19, 222
Anthony Powell on 1, 69–70
background and early life 34–6
Barbara Skelton and 16, 31, 85, 86, 98, 200, 261–5, 266, 267–71, 310–11, 321–2, 322, 323, 326, 332–3
‘Boots’ nickname 31
capriciousness 32, 339, 343
charm 33
children 332
death of 333
Deirdre Craig and 332
desertion complex 222
Diana Witherby and 31, 32–3, 38, 58, 66, 70, 71–2, 196, 197, 277, 278, 279, 280–2, 342, 343
dilettante quality 204
double standards and hypocrisy 33, 38, 281–2
Enemies of Promise 8, 34, 35, 37, 82, 141
The Evening Colonnade 332
female coterie 6–7, 8–9, 17, 31, 203–4, 277–85
in fiction 288–92
friendship with Peter Watson 56–8, 209–11, 216, 222, 235, 262, 331
‘Happy Deathbeds’ 123
homogenous circle 80–1
Horizon editorship see Horizon
Hundred Key Books of the Modern Movement 332
ill health 217–18
intellectual gifts 31, 36
‘The Ivory Shelter’ 64
Janetta Parladé and 31, 50–3, 58–9, 98, 141, 146, 152–3, 155, 157, 158, 199, 338, 339–44
Jean Bakewell and 37, 38, 50–1, 52, 55, 57, 58, 66, 70, 77, 211, 264, 279
Joan Rayner and 31, 180, 181, 219–20, 221, 263, 270, 326, 340
loyalty to 32, 203, 263
Lys Lubbock and 16, 31, 72–8, 77, 85, 123, 124, 153, 189, 192, 199–200, 207–8, 211–12, 215–16, 217–18, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 234–5, 249, 255, 261, 262, 263, 264, 267, 268, 269, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283–4, 314, 315
marriages see Connolly, Deidre; Connolly, Jean; Skelton, Barbara
mother-fixation 34
New Statesman reviewer 36, 39, 79
Observer literary editor 76
physical appearance 3, 34–5
power play 32, 83, 284, 342
Previous Convictions 332
The Rock Pool 37
self-absorption 33, 269, 295, 339, 340–1
self-destructiveness 281
self-propagandising mystique 31, 32, 34, 37, 38, 122, 181, 339
Sonia Orwell and 18, 109, 110, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 196, 234–5, 236, 246, 247, 254, 263, 277, 278, 279, 332
sulkiness 1, 71, 210, 263–4, 343
Sunday Times reviewer 261, 332
Sussex Place home 207–8, 262–3, 268, 269, 270, 271
tactlessness 263, 264, 280, 281, 283
The Unquiet Grave 51, 76, 77–8, 124, 343
vacillation and procrastination 77, 220, 234, 283
Connolly, Deidre (née Craig) 332
Connolly, Jean (née Bakewell) 37, 38, 50–1, 52, 55, 57, 58, 66, 70, 77, 211, 279
death of 264
Connolly, Lys see Koch, Lys
Connolly, Matthew 34, 332
Cooke, Samuel 325
Coombes, B.L. 68, 81
Cooper, Artemis 163, 168–9
Cooper, Lady Diana 78, 216
Cooper, Douglas 210
Coq d’Or, London 91, 190
Cornhill Magazine 176, 256
Cotterill, Anthony 92
Coward, Noël 170
Craxton, John 212
Crick, Bernard 320–1
Criterion 57, 67
Culme-Seymour, Angela (then Churchill, then Balfour, then de Chatellus, then Rauf) x, 18, 19, 45, 48, 125–35, 180, 188–9, 215, 324–5
abortion 133
Ali Bulent Rauf and 324
background and early life 43, 127
beauty and allure 125–6, 129
children 130, 134, 135, 195
death of 325
debutante 128, 129
Derek Jackson and 317, 324
in fiction 295–8
financial insecurity 135, 190
Johnny Churchill and 45, 130
as Lady Kinross 131–2
Patrick Balfour and 48, 130–2
and Robert Hewer-Hewett 133–4, 135, 324
war work 133
waywardness 126, 127, 132
Culme-Seymour, George 43, 127
Culme-Seymour, Mark 43, 127, 129, 130, 257
Curwen Press 144
Curzon Street Sherry Bar, London 91, 190
Daily Express 179, 180
Daily Mail 176, 256, 266
Dalton, Robin 260
Davenport, John 258
d’Avigdor Goldsmid, Sir Harry 333
Dean Paul, Brenda 27, 28
Devonshire, Andrew Cavendish, Duke of 317
Dickens, Monica, The Fancy 18
Dickson, Dorothy 170
Dior New Look 186
Dixon, Geoffrey 112
Dixon, Michael 1
12
Donat, Robert 105
Dorset Street, London 143
Doubleday 269, 314
Drayton Gardens, London 73, 74, 75, 142
Driberg, Tom 132, 180, 181
drugs 27, 161, 162, 226, 326–7, 329
Dunlap, General Edward 63
Dunlap, Edward 63–4
Dunlap, Lys see Koch, Lys
Dunn, Anne 218–19, 222
Durrell, Lawrence 67, 169
Dyson Taylor, John 107–8, 325
Dyson Taylor, Joyce (Glur) (née Warwick-Evans, then Quennell, then Brudenell-Bruce) x, 15, 52, 53, 93, 103–8, 180, 189, 191, 196, 325–6
acting ambitions 105
background and early life 103, 104
beauty 103
children 106, 108, 325
as Countess of Cardigan 106–7
death of 326
John Dyson Taylor and 107–8, 325
manic depression 105
modelling 104
Peter Quennell and 15, 52, 53, 93, 103–6, 107, 325
Roman Catholic convert 325–6
self-pitying 105
Ecu de France, London 91, 190
Edinburgh, Philip, Duke of 328
Edinburgh Festival 319
Edmonds, Stuart 160
Eliot, T.S. 24, 57, 66, 207
Four Quartets 79
Epstein, Jacob 92
Eton 35–6, 81
Euston Road Art School 116, 122
Evening Standard 130
Ewart, Gavin 61–2, 63
Eyres-Monsell, Joan see Leigh Fermor, Joan
Farouk, King of Egypt xii, 87, 169–70, 173–5, 177–8, 265–7, 330–1
Barbara Skelton and 173–5, 177–8, 265–7, 330–1
death of 330
in exile 330
female emancipation 21–2, 23–4, 25, 28
see also Lost Girls
Ferguson, Donald 160
First World War 24–5
Fitzgerald, Penelope 193–4
Human Voices 194
flappers 22–3
Flood Street, London 105, 106
Foot, Michael 80
Forster, E.M. 66
Fortnum and Mason 90
‘43 club, London 26
400 club, London 191
Fouts, Denham 57
Fowler, Norman 331
Frank, Bernard 323
Fraser, J.G. 22
French Club, London 191
French literary life 238–9
Freud, Lucian xi, 6, 8, 20, 62, 63, 132, 141, 147, 219, 238, 250, 281, 311, 317, 330
death of 330
Lys Lubbock and 63
Fyvel, T.R. 186
Gargoyle Club, London 95, 191, 260
Garnett, David 42
Gathorne-Hardy, Eddie 181, 205
Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan 332
Gayford, Martin 116
gentleman-amateur figure 204–5
George Orwell Productions 320
Gielgud, John 170
Glenconner, Elizabeth 340
Glur, Werner 104
Gowing, Lawrence 116–17
Green, David 118
Green, Henry 162
Greene, Graham 323
Grigson, Geoffrey 57
Groddeck, Georg 67
Haigh-Wood, Vivienne 24
Ham Spray, Wiltshire 47, 48, 50, 141, 145, 149, 151, 152, 154, 156, 157, 158, 192, 213, 331
Hamilton, Patrick 113
Hamish Hamilton 77, 217, 219, 220–1, 269
Hamnett, Nina 191
Hansen, Waldemar 222, 237, 238, 245
Harington, Charles 46
Hartnell, Norman 18, 88, 90, 104
Hastings, Selina 328
Hay, Ian, Pip: A Romance of Youth 22–3
Heber-Percy, Robert 269
Henderson, Nicko 154
‘Herbivore’ culture 68
Hewer-Hewett, Robert (Brasco) 133–4, 135, 324
High Bohemia 198
Hill, Heywood 48
History Today 327
Hofmannsthal, Lady Elizabeth von 311
Home Guard 139–40
Hope-Nicholson, Felix 106
Hope-Nicholson, Jaqueline 197, 83
Horizon 5, 8, 9, 27, 30, 31, 39, 64–9, 71, 74, 79, 80, 109–10, 118, 119, 140, 158, 161–2, 181, 185–6, 189, 198, 204, 208–9, 218, 230, 233–7, 288
American Horizon 216, 217
Bedford Square office 218, 223, 226
‘bugger incident’ 143–4
Connolly’s clique of contributors 68, 80–1
debut 66–7
decline and closure of 216–17, 222–3, 313
in fiction 292–3
The Golden Horizon 9, 67
Lansdowne Terrace office 30, 68, 71, 72, 207, 218, 226
office routines 225–8
Howard, Brian xi, 4, 5, 28, 36, 81, 82, 83, 105, 106, 120, 197, 204, 221, 329, 331
Howard, Elizabeth Jane 332
Hugo, Lauretta 313
Huxley, Aldous 162
Hyndman, Tony 72
Isherwood, Christopher 105, 119
Jackson, Derek 20, 264, 316, 317, 323, 324, 337
Jamboree club, London 91, 191
Jarvis, Ralph 129
Jessel, Edward 36
John, Augustus 67, 86, 92, 191
John, Poppet 258, 259
Judah, Cynthia 329
Jura 232, 240–1
Kahane, Jack 37
Kavan, Anna x, 159–62, 192, 326–7
Asylum Piece 161
background and early life 159–60
A Bright Green Field 326
A Charmed Circle 160
Cyril Connolly and 33, 162
death of 327
Donald Ferguson and 160
Eagles’ Nest 326
heroin addiction 161, 162, 326–7
Horizon and 161–2, 225, 226, 228
‘I Am Lazarus’ 161
Ice 327
Let Me Alone 160, 161
A Scarcity of Love 326
Sleep Has His House 326
son 160, 161
Stuart Edmonds and 160
suicidal behaviour 160, 161
Kee, Robert xii, 154, 155, 156, 212–13, 214, 215, 248, 264, 270, 316, 329
1939: The World We Left Behind 329
1945: The World We Fought For 329
Cynthia Judah and 329
death of 329
Janetta and 154, 155, 156, 212–13, 214, 215, 264, 316
Kenmare, Lady 219
Killearn, Lord 168
King’s Road, London 37, 38
Kinsey Report 235
Koch, Lys (née Dunlap, then Lubbock, then Connolly) ix, x, 6, 7, 61–78, 122, 172, 175
background and early life 19, 63–4
beauty and allure 42, 73, 186
changes name to Connolly 211–12
characteristics 73, 199–200
Cyril Connolly and 16, 31, 72–8, 77, 85, 123, 124, 153, 189, 192, 199–200, 207–8, 211–12, 215–16, 217–18, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 234–5, 249, 255, 261, 262, 263, 264, 267, 268, 269, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283–4, 314, 315
death of 316
Evelyn Waugh on vi, 75, 78, 198, 293
family, relationship with 273
financial insecurity 190
Gavin Ewart and 61, 62
hopes to marry Connolly 77
and Horizon 185, 186, 223, 225, 226, 227
Ian Lubbock and 62–3, 64, 72, 77, 93
modelling 64
moves to America 269–70, 313, 314
organisational skills 73–4, 77, 207–8, 218
post-war life 313–16
Sigmund Koch and 314–15
war work 77
Koch, Sigmund 314–15
Koestler, Arthur 20, 75, 233, 238, 247, 317
Konovalov, Serge 115–16, 118
Lambert, Constant 132
Lancaster, Marie-Jaqueline see Hope-Nicholson, Jaqueline
Lancaster, Osbert 181
Langford-Hinde, Charles 89–90
Lansdowne Terrace, London 71, 143, 218, 226
Larkin, Philip 31
Laski, Harold, Faith, Reason and Civilisation 306
Leavis, Q.D. 69, 82
Lees-Milne, James 125, 126, 131, 132, 180, 318–19
Lehmann, John 68, 81, 122, 222
Leigh, Vivien 112, 170
Leigh Fermor, Joan (née Eyres-Monsell, then Rayner) x, 13, 179–81
background and early life 179
in Cairo 181
Cyril Connolly and 31, 180, 181, 219–20, 221, 263, 270, 326, 340
death of 326
in Greece 181
John Rayner and 179, 180, 181
Patrick Leigh Fermor and 219, 220, 264, 326
photographer 180, 181, 219
war work 181
Leigh Fermor, Patrick 42, 219, 220, 264, 317, 326
Leon, Sonia 328
Les Temps modernes 238
Lewis, Jeremy 200, 274–5
Lillie, Beatrice 170
Litvin, Natasha (then, Spender) 72, 74, 147, 226
London Mercury 67
Lost Girls
beauty 18
bohemianism 9–10, 23, 186–7
boredom, dislike of 205, 265, 338
boyfriends, pool of 20
characteristics and style 9–10, 17, 18–21, 28, 185–201
Cyril Connolly, collective obsession with 203–4, 277–85
daily round 190, 193, 225–6
desire to have men in their lives 196
dress 186–8
etymology of 22
families, relationships with 17, 19, 20, 273–5
fatalism 20–1
father figures 20
in fiction 287–306
financial insecurity 190
hairstyles 187
home range 190
intellect 18–19, 204
legacy of 333–4
leisure occupations 190–1
‘living for the moment’ 194–5
naivety 19
peripatetic lifestyle 189–90
rural retreats 192
sexual behaviour 194–6
social landscape 197–8
spoken mannerisms 188–9
value systems 203–5
Loutit, Nicolette (Nicky) 149, 152, 153, 156, 157, 158, 199, 212–13, 214, 223–4, 249, 274, 317–18, 332
Lubbock, Ian 62–3, 64, 72, 77, 93
Lubbock, Lys see Koch, Lys
Lygon, Lady Dorothy 75, 180
McBean, Angus 103
McCarthy, Mary 235, 319
Maclaren-Ross, Julian xii, 6, 8, 226, 238, 239, 301, 329–30
‘A Bit of a Smash in Madras’ 30
death of 330
‘Five Finger Exercises’ 29–30
Memoirs of the Forties 330
obsession with Sonia Orwell 329–30
Of Love and Hunger 329
‘This Mortal Coil’ 143–4
MacNeice, Louis 67, 82
magazine publishing in the 1930s 57
Mailer, Norman 319
Makins, Bill 74, 234
Mallarmé, Stéphane 232
Manchester Evening News 80
Mann, Erika 120
Mann, Liza 74
Manning, Olivia, The Levant Trilogy 169
