by D. J. Taylor
Margaret, Princess 311
Marsh, Edward 82
Mascolo, Dionys 240
Mass Observation 116
Matisse, Henri 191
Mattli, Jo 91, 260
Maugham, W. Somerset 66, 219, 235
Mayor, F.M., The Rector’s Daughter 161
Meade, Bertha 113–14
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice 238–9, 240, 241–2, 246, 254, 319
Merrick, Leonard, ‘The Tale that Wouldn’t Do’ 23
Metcalf, Dorry 212
Miller, Henry 67
Miller, Lee 64
Mitford, Nancy xi, 61, 153, 180, 188, 309, 329
biographical writings 327
The Blessing 291–2
correspondence with Evelyn Waugh 9, 157, 187, 199, 212, 216, 218, 222, 223, 228, 229, 267–8, 270–1, 291, 295, 314, 321
on Cyril Connolly 157, 218, 223, 290–1
death of 327
The Pursuit of Love 127, 309
Waugh on 309
Mitford, Pamela 316
Moore, Marianne 217
Mortimer, Raymond 119, 151, 320, 332
Mosley, Diana, Lady 125
Mount, Ferdinand 337
Mount, Lady Julia 191
Moynihan, Rodrigo 118
‘Mozart Party’ 27
Muggeridge, Malcolm 244, 247, 248, 249, 319
Myers, John 238, 245
El Nahas, Mostafa 168
Nasser, Gamal Abdel 330
Nelson, Michael 74, 288
A Room in Chelsea Square 288–90
neo-Romantic poetry 79
New Statesman 36, 39, 64–5, 68, 79, 119, 238
New Verse 57
New Women 22
New Writing 68, 81, 122
New Yorker 264, 313
Newbolt, Henry 36
Newhouse, Natalie 261
Newton, Robert 261
Nicolson, Harold 66
Nut-house club, London 191
Obelisk Press 37
Obolensky, Alice 314
Observer 76, 80
Orr-Ewing, Ian 146
Orwell, Eileen 231
Orwell, George xi, 5–6, 8, 35, 37, 71, 80, 81–2, 140, 141, 144, 147, 198, 204, 216, 227, 230–3, 338
Animal Farm 231, 319
Burmese Days 230, 243
A Clergyman’s Daughter 161
Collected Journalism, Letters and Essays 319–20
Coming Up for Air 243
death of 250–1, 253
funeral of 319
home on Jura 240–1
Horizon contributor 67, 80
The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius 140
Nineteen Eighty-Four 233, 242, 244, 246, 254, 303–6, 319
tuberculosis 232–3, 242–50
Orwell, Sonia (née Brownell, later, Pitt-Rivers) ix, x, 6–7, 31, 109–24, 151, 198, 218, 229–51, 253–4, 301, 319–21
abortion 238
Anthony Powell on 244, 245
background and early life 112–15
beauty 18, 42
boating tragedy 114–15
characteristics 111, 117, 199, 238, 320
Cyril Connolly and 18, 109, 110, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 196, 234–5, 236, 246, 247, 254, 263, 277, 278, 279, 332
death of 321
Evelyn Waugh on 198–9
family, relationship with 273–4
father figures 117–18
in fiction 30, 302–6
financial insecurity 190
Horizon and 109–10, 118, 119, 121, 122–3, 124, 185, 186, 189, 225, 226, 227, 228, 234–5, 236–41, 242, 305
lesbianism, myth of 196
loathing of religion 112–13
marries George Orwell 229–30, 243–9
Maurice Merleau-Ponty and 238–9, 240, 241–2, 246, 254, 319
Michael Pitt-Rivers and 320
Orwell’s death and 250–1, 319
Orwell’s literary executor 319–20
‘painter’s girl’ 117
Peter Watson and 123, 124, 187, 227, 236–7, 238, 245, 250, 313
Stephen Spender and vi, 109–10, 111, 117, 119, 120, 122, 195
war work 119–20, 122, 193
William Coldstream and 117, 118, 119, 121
Orwell Archive 195, 254, 319
Osterley Park 139–40, 143
Owen, Peter 326
Oxford University 36, 81
Paget, Celia 73, 230, 231, 304
Pakenham, Lady Violet 25–7, 168
Palace Gate, London 181
Palewski, Colonel Gaston 327
Pares, Richard 204
Parladé, Jaime 318–19
Parladé, Janetta (née Woolley, then Slater, then Kee, then Jackson) ix, x, 7, 41–55, 122, 134, 137–58, 195, 196, 240–1, 335–44
abortion 55
abrasive side 188–9
Arthur Koestler and 317
background and early life 19, 43–8
on Barbara Skelton 337
beauty and allure 18, 42, 43, 138, 187
book illustrator 212
children 144, 147, 213–14, 316, 317
Cyril Connolly and 31, 50–3, 58–9, 98, 141, 146, 152–3, 155, 157, 158, 199, 338, 339–44
death of 319, 339
Derek Jackson and 264, 316–17, 337
estranged from sister 317
on Evelyn Waugh 337–8
Evelyn Waugh on 199
family, relationship with 273, 274
Feliks Topolski and 96, 150, 187, 214–15
first affair 19
George Weidenfeld on vi
Horizon and 143–4, 225, 226, 336–8
Hugh Slater and 21, 53–5, 140–1, 142, 143, 340, 344
Jaime Parladé and 318–19
Kenneth Sinclair-Loutit and 138–9, 143, 144, 147–8, 148–9, 150–1, 152, 153–4, 155–6, 157–8, 340
on Lys Lubbock 200, 336–7
post-war life 316–19
reminiscences 194, 336–8
Robert Kee and 154, 155, 156, 212–13, 214, 215, 264, 316
Sonia Orwell and 245–6, 248, 319, 321, 336, 337
in Spain during the Civil War 45–7
Stephen Spender and 41–2
in Sussex Place 207, 208, 212–13
war work 144
Partridge, Burgo 43, 48–50, 331
Partridge, Frances xii, 48–9, 145–6, 157, 198, 199, 213, 331
on Cyril Connolly 69
death of 331
Janetta Parladé and 18, 21, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 55, 141–2, 143, 144, 146, 148–9, 150, 151, 152, 153–4, 155, 156, 157, 187–8, 195, 199, 214, 316–17, 318
on Lys 200, 215–16
on Orwell’s marriage to Sonia 248–9
published diaries 331
on Sonia Orwell 320
Partridge, Ralph xii, 45, 47, 48–50, 55, 151, 154, 156, 157, 198, 213, 331
Pasmore, Victor 110, 116, 117
Paz, Octavio 67
Peck, Marilyn 328
Pelly, Dennis 28
Peyrefitte, Roger 305
Piper, John 110
Pitt-Rivers, Michael 320
Plante, David 109
Players’ Theatre Club 91
Ponsonby, Elizabeth 27, 28
Popham, Anne 231–2, 233, 304
Powell, Anthony 24, 26, 117, 197, 248, 249, 338
Barbara Skelton and 287–8, 298–302, 307–8
Books Do Furnish a Room 30–1, 287, 298, 302–3
A Buyer’s Market 115
on Cyril Connolly 1, 69–70
A Dance to the Music of Time 287, 298–303
Infants of the Spring 1
The Military Philosophers 298, 299–301
Sonia Orwell and 244, 245
Temporary Kings 298, 302
What’s Become of Waring 131
Powell, Violet see Pakenham, Violet
Priestley, J.B. 67, 79, 113
Pryce-Jones, Alan 32, 65, 73, 208
Punch 23
Queen Street, London 259, 260, 264
, 268
Queen’s Gate, London 128
Queneau, Raymond 238
Quennell, Joyce see Dyson Taylor, Joyce
Quennell, Peter xi, 6, 8, 15–17, 64, 69, 76–7, 81, 180, 256, 257, 327–8
Barbara Skelton and 15, 16, 85, 86, 90, 93–5, 96–102, 106, 164, 170–3, 175–6, 186–7, 189–90, 191, 256, 258, 263, 308–10, 311
Cyril Connolly and 15–16, 33, 52, 75–6, 78
death of 328
fights with Feliks Topolski 95
Joyce (Glur) and 15, 52, 53, 93, 103–6, 107, 325
knighthood 328
on the Lost Girls vi, 10, 17, 200
The Marble Foot 328
Marilyn Peck and 328
Sonia Leon and 328
The Wanton Chase 328
Rae, Kenneth 180–1
Rauf, Ali Bulent 324
Rauf, Angela see Culme-Seymour, Angela
Raw, Kenneth 180–1
Rayner, Joan see Leigh Fermor, Joan
Rayner, John 179, 180, 181
Redesdale, Lady 28
Reed, Carol 105
Rees, Richard 244
Richards, Vernon 250
Richardson, Vice-Marshal Sir Victor 148
Ritz, London 8, 15, 20, 63, 91, 102
Rodd, Peter 180
Roethke, Theodore 189
Rogers, Claude 116, 117
Ross, Alan 222
Rothemere, Lady 311
Rowse, A.L. 204
Ruthven, Trix 127
Sackville-West, Eddie 43
Salkeld, Brenda 104
Sartre, Jean-Paul 78, 238
Savaigo, Pierre 260
Savoy Grill, London 26
Sayers, Michael 230
Schiaparelli, Elsa 18, 88
Second World War
Blitz 1, 71, 91, 119–21, 134, 181, 193–4
end of 258
outbreak of 58
Sevier, Michael 90
Shaw, George Bernard 92, 170
Sheldon, Michael 336
Friends of Promise 315, 316
Shepheard’s Hotel, Cairo 168, 173
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 87
Sikorski, General 92
Silvers, Bob 323
Silverstone, Thora 137, 139
Sinclair-Loutit, Kenneth 137–9, 143, 144, 146, 147–51, 152, 153–4, 155–6, 157–8, 176–7, 188–9, 229–30, 246, 329, 338, 340
Sitwell, Osbert 58, 208
Sitwell, Sacheverell 67
Skelton, Barbara (then Connolly, then Weidenfeld, then Jackson) ix, x, 6, 18–19, 85–102, 163–78, 186–7, 198, 255–71, 307–12, 321–4, 333
abortions 88, 195
Anthony Powell and 287–8, 298–302, 307–8
attracted to violence 166, 260
BBC employee 258
beauty and allure 18, 42–3, 93, 256, 322
Born Losers 307
capriciousness 21, 87, 89, 98, 99, 100, 101–2, 200–1
the Cot (Kent cottage) 90, 96, 102, 260, 264
Cyril Connolly and 16, 31, 85, 86, 98, 200, 261–5, 266, 267–71, 310–11, 321–2, 322, 323, 326, 332–3
death of 323–4
Derek Jackson and 323, 337
Edmund Wilson on vi
elusiveness 255–6, 257
Evelyn Waugh on 199, 267–8
family background and early life 19, 87–8
family, relationship with 273, 274–5
fatalism 94, 166, 322
Feliks Topolski and 86, 91–2, 94–6, 98, 100, 101, 164, 170, 172, 173, 256–7, 258, 260, 262
in fiction 30, 287–8, 298–302
financial insecurity 190
first affair 88
George Weidenfeld and 322, 337
ill-health 259
Indian adventure 89–90
King Farouk and 173–5, 177–8, 265–7, 330–1
leisure haunts 190–1
lesbian tendencies 196, 260
A Love Match 307, 310
low spirits 91, 94, 163, 258, 264
on Lys Lubbock 200
memoirist 310–11
modelling 88, 90, 260
moves to New York 323
multiple casual affairs 92, 171, 172, 173, 257, 260, 261, 321, 323
outsider status 200
peripatetic lifestyle 91, 189–90, 257–61
pet animals 321, 323
Peter Quennell and 15, 16, 85, 86, 90, 93–5, 96–102, 106, 164, 170–3, 175–6, 186–7, 189–90, 191, 256, 258, 263, 308–10, 311
posted to Egypt as cipher clerk 102, 163–78
sulkiness 18–19, 200, 263–4, 269
Tears Before Bedtime 307
war work 94, 102, 163–78, 257
Weep No More 307
A Young Girl’s Touch 86–7, 163–4, 173–5, 176, 185, 192–3, 307, 308–10, 321
Slater, Hugh 53–5, 71, 119, 138, 139–41, 142, 143, 340, 344
Smith, Logan Pearsall 36, 82
Smith, Matthew 92
Smith, Reggie 169
social categorisations, new 22
social mobility 197–8
Spanish Civil War 45–7, 137, 138, 139, 147
Spender, Natasha 147
Spender, Stephen xi, 56, 62, 72, 81, 104, 109, 132, 180, 314–15, 328, 332
Collected Poems 328
on Cyril Connolly 32–3, 34
death of 328
Horizon and 58, 65, 71, 109–10, 118, 195, 222, 226–7
Janetta Parladé and 41–2
knighthood 328
on the Lost Girls 187
marries Natasha Litvin 74
Sonia Orwell and vi, 109–10, 111, 117, 119, 120, 122, 195
World Within World 328
Spurling, Hilary 17, 113, 117, 238, 303, 305
Stein, Gertrude 54
Stevens, Wallace 217
Stiebel, Victor 90
Stonier, G.W. 238
Strachey, Julia 69
Strachey, Lytton 144, 156
Stroheim, Erich von 299
Sunday Times 261, 332
Sussex Place, London 153, 154, 207–8, 221, 262–3, 268, 269, 270, 271
Sutherland, Graham 110
Sutro, John 135, 180, 258–9, 263, 268, 307, 310
Sydney-Turner, Saxon 158
Sykes, Christopher 75, 180
Symons, Julian 82–3
Tatler 125, 133
Tennant, David 191
Thackeray, William Makepeace, Vanity Fair 89
Theatre Club, London 191
Thomas, Dylan 8, 227
Tickerage, Sussex 131–2, 192, 261
Topolski, Daniel 328
Topolski, Feliks xi, 42, 98, 100, 101, 164, 170, 172, 173
Barbara Skelton and 86, 91–2, 94–6, 98, 100, 101, 164, 170, 172, 173, 256–7, 258, 260, 262
death of 328
fights with Peter Quennell 95, 191
Janetta Parladé and 96, 150, 187, 214–15
war artist 92
Toynbee, Philip 270, 271
Treat, Gerda 93, 258, 260
Tribune 80, 144
Tynan, Kenneth 323
Urquhart, Francis 36
Ustinov, Peter 91
V1 and V-2 flying bombs 193
Valéry, Paul 78
Villiers, François 258
Vinaver, Eugène 115–16, 118
Vogue 18, 64
Walpole, Hugh 66–7, 79
Warburg, Fred 242
Warhol, Andy 323
Warwick-Evans, Charles 104
Warwick-Evans, Joyce see Dyson Taylor, Joyce
Watson, Sir George 56
Watson, Peter xi, 55–8, 65, 67, 71, 78, 81, 110, 122, 161–2, 181, 192, 207, 212, 217, 221, 228, 235–7, 242, 288, 314, 338
Cecil Beaton and 56
death of 331
in fiction 288, 289
friendship with Cyril Connolly 56–8, 209–11, 216, 222, 235, 262, 331
homosexuality 56
Horizon proprietorship 57, 58, 65
Sonia Orwell and 123, 124, 187, 22
7, 236–7, 238, 245, 250, 313
Stephen Spender on 56
wealth 56
Watson, Susan 230, 232–3
Waugh, Alec, “Sir”, She Said 15, 24–5
Waugh, Evelyn xi, 6, 8, 36, 37, 58, 69, 81, 197, 198, 227, 246, 259, 337–8
A Little Learning 327
Brideshead Revisited 26
correspondence with Nancy Mitford 9, 157, 187, 199, 212, 216, 218, 222, 223, 228, 229, 267–8, 270–1, 291, 295, 314, 321
Cyril Connolly and 9, 51, 66, 67, 75, 78, 137, 153, 208, 222, 255, 270–1, 290–1
death of 327
on the Lost Girls 198–9
The Loved One 80, 217
on Lys Lubbock vi, 75, 78, 198, 293
on Nancy Mitford 309
on Sonia Orwell 229, 293
on Stephen Spender 328
Sword of Honour 292–5, 327
Unconditional Surrender 292–3, 327
Vile Bodies 27, 28
Waugh, Laura 205
Weidenfeld, George vi, 258, 321–2, 337
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 319
Welch, Denton 162
Welles, Orson 311
Wertheim Gallery 160
Wesley, Mary 194–5
West, Rebecca 319
White, Antonia 112, 226
White Tower, London 190
Wilson, Angus 227
Wilson, Edmund vi
Windsor, Duke and Duchess of 219
Wintringham, Tom 138, 139, 141
Wishart, Michael 89, 322
High Diver 41
Witherby, Diana x, 70, 71–2, 142–3, 143, 150, 151, 196–7, 215, 230
children 325
Cyril Connolly and 31, 32–3, 38, 58, 66, 70, 71–2, 196, 197, 277, 278, 279, 280–2, 342, 343
death of 325
financial insecurity 190
Horizon and 70, 74, 225
marries Samuel Cooke 325
poetry 325
Woodcock, George 305
Woods, Helen Emily see Kavan, Anna
Woolf, Virginia 31, 66, 67, 162
‘The Leaning Tower’ 81
Woolley, Geoffrey 43, 44, 127, 135, 141, 145–6, 273, 274
Sometimes a Soldier 44
Woolley, Jan 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 54, 129, 134, 139, 142, 145, 146, 273
Woolley, Janetta see Parladé, Janetta
Woolley, Rollo 43, 47, 142, 145–6, 148, 150
Worsley, T.C. 119
Worsthorne, Peregrine 106, 107
Wyatt, Woodrow 187, 199, 245
Wyndham, Dick 180, 192, 218
Wyndham, Francis 235
Wyndham Lewis, D.B. 92
Yeoman’s Row, London 66, 70
. . . adventurous young women who flitted around London, alighting briefly here and there, and making the best of any random perch on which they happened to descend . . . They were not lost in the Victorian meaning of the term; often they had highly respectable families, with whom they sometimes corresponded; nor was their private behaviour always notably promiscuous. What distinguished them – and used to touch my heart – was their air of waywardness and loneliness. They were courageous, too, and seemed perfectly capable of existing without any thought for past or future.
