The Great Silence: Britain from the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age
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Chaplin, Charlie, 8, 85, 205
Chapman, Thomas, 114
Charteris, Ivo, 113
Chase, Harry, 115, 117, 119
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire: conservatory demolished, 223–5, 229, 231-2
childbirth, 124
children: independence, 214
Chinese workers: clear battlefields, 101
Christian Science, 240
Christianity: decline in popularity and observance, 96
Christmas (1919), 176–82
Church of England: Conference (1920), 239-40
Churchill, Clementine (Lady): and daughter Marigold, 92;
interest in buying Peelings (house), 222;
marriage, 228
Churchill, Lady Randolph (née Jenny Jerome), 189
Churchill, (Sir) Winston: attacked by suffragette, 2;
hastens demobilisation, 76–7;
and daughter Marigold, 92;
presents prize money to Alcock and Brown, 106;
and T. E. Lawrence’s arrogance, 116;
sees Lowell Thomas’s T. E. Lawrence show, 119;
welcomes Prince of Wales back from overseas tour, 162;
opposes women in Parliament, 170
cinema: as entertainment, 151, 205–6
cinemas: as refuges, 94
Clarke Hall, Denis, 244-8
Clarke Hall, Edna (née Waugh), 58, 240-8;
‘Peace Night’ (poem), 41
Clarke Hall, Justin, 244–5, 247
Clarke Hall, William, 241-4, 246, 248
class (social): and effect of war, 2–3, 9
Clemenceau, Georges, 106–7
Cliveden, Berkshire, 46, 167, 185
coal miners: disaffection, 77–80
Coalition Government: returned (December 1918), 75
Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, 80
Cobb, Professor (of Leeds), 78
Cocteau, Jean, 217
Cohen, Stanley, 63
Collins, Michael, 75, 130
Communism: in Germany, 83;
seen as threat, 86;
demonstrations in Europe, 106
conscription (wartime), 13
Constructive Birth Control Society, 173
contraception, 124–5, 161, 173
Cooper, Lady Diana (earlier Manners): on reaction to war horrors, 20;
studies under Tonks, 58;
marriage, 111–14;
and peace celebrations, 111;
social life, 111–12, 152;
accident and temporary disablement, 113, 134–5,: 4–8;
at Victory Day Ball, 133;
takes drugs, 134–6, 251;
concern for looks, 251
Cooper, Duff: returns from France at war’s end, 31;
marriage, 111–14;
warservice, 113;
and Diana’s drug-taking, 135–6;
driving, 135;
wheels invalid Diana, 136–7;
on lark song on Western Front, 147;
at Victory Ball, 148;
Lloyd George confides in, 149
Cooper, Gladys, 35, 45, 193
cosmetic surgery see plastic surgery
cost of living: rise, 77
Cottingly fairies, 250
country life, 131–2
Courtaulds (company), 178
Cox, General Charles (‘Fighting Charlie’), 119
Craddock, Harry, 185
Craiglockhart War Hospital, near Edinburgh, 66–7
Cremation Society of England, 6
crime: among returned soldiers, 67–8
Crystal Palace, London, 225
Cunard, Sir Bache, 152
Cunard, Emerald, Lady, 152, 216
Curie, Marie, 28
Curzon, Lady Cynthia (‘Cimmie’), 35, 228
Curzon, George Nathaniel, Marquess, 116, 162, 258
D×il Éireann: established, 77
Daily Herald, 73
Daily Mail: sends Christmas puddings to troops, 15;
censorship, 20;
on dances, 154;
on jazz bands, 158;
Ideal Home Exhibition (1920), 206;
sponsors wireless broadcasting, 214
Daily Mail Cookbook, 207
Daily Telegraph: on Devonshire House ball, 227
Dalton’s (club), Leicester Square, 160
dancing: popularity, 151–8
Dancing Times (magazine), 154
Davidson, Emily, 2
Davies, George Llewellyn, 264
Day Lewis, Cecil see Lewis, Cecil Day
death: Collins on nature of, 8
debutantes, 104
Del Cot (London store), 176
demobilisation, 69, 70, 73–4, 76–7, 188
Desborough, Ethel Anne Priscilla (Ettie), Lady: loses sons in war, 5, 14;
and Armistice, 37;
congratulates Violet Elliot (Astor) on remarriage, 46
de Veulle, Mr (dressmaker and actor), 133-4
Devonshire, Evelyn Emily Mary, Duchess of, 7, 46, 221
Devonshire, Victor Christian William Cavendish, 9th Duke of: property and estates, 221-9
Devonshire House, Piccadilly, 195, 221–2, 227–9, 231
Diaghilev, Serge, 34, 36, 215–17
Dickens & Jones (London department store), 177
Didion, Joan, 4
Dinham, Sergeant Jack, 22
disablement: pensions, 47;
treatment and compensation, 47–8
disfigurement (ex-soldiers): repair and concealment, 48-56; see also faces
disillusionment, 129
dissatisfaction, 123–8
divorce: rise in, 44
Dormeuil, Edmée, 149
Dowson, Ernest, 241
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, 33, 97, 250–1
Doyle, Kingsley, 97
Doyle, Louisa, 97
dress: among poor, 132, 207;
informality, 158-9
Dreyfus, Alfred, 220
drinking, 49, 184–5
drugs (recreational), 133–6, 160
Drummond, Canon, 158
Drusilla’s (tea shop and zoo), East Sussex, 200-1
Dudley Ward, Freda, 164, 181
Duff Gordon, Lucy, 30, 123, 184
Durham, Bishop of see Moule, Handley Carr Glyn
Earle, Lionel, 231
Education Act (1918), 201
Edward VII, King, 7
Edward, Prince of Wales: watches erotic performance in Calais, 24;
friendship with Gladys Cooper, 45;
meets resentful returned troops, 72;
on murder of Russian royal family, 82;
role and activities, 128–9;
on Queen Alexandra’s unpunctuality, 141;
visit to USA and Canada, 145, 162–4;
dancing, 153;
and Freda Dudley Ward, 164, 181;
women friends, 164;
public commitments, 166;
on Christmas, 180;
proposed tour of Australia, 181;
returns from overseas tour (October 1920), 258
Edwards, John, 59
electorate (parliamentary): increased, 74
electricity: in home, 206
Eliot, Thomas Stearns, 127-8, 179, 189, 218, 236-7;
The Waste Land, 128, 218, 265
Eliot, Vivien, 127, 218, 236
Ellieson Carrier Electric Invalid’s Carriage, 47
Elliot (under-keeper at Beeley), 225
Endurance (ship), 150–1
Ennever, William Joseph, 98
Eton College: war casualties, 15
Evening Standard, 190
Everest, Elizabeth (Churchill’s nanny), 222
Ewart, William, 100
Ex-Services Mental Welfare Society, 67
faces: and masks for disfigured soldiers, 52-5;
repaired by plastic surgery, 56-63
Fairbanks, Douglas, 228
Farr, Mrs (of Somerset), 19
Fascist Party: formed in Italy, 106
fashion (women’
s), 173–6
Feisal, Emir, 114
films (movies), 8; see also cinema
Fingall, Elizabeth Mary, Countess of, 37
Finnigan, Alfred, 21
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 163, 186;
This Side of Paradise, 187
Fitzgerald, Zelda, 187
Fitzhardinge, Charles Paget Fitzhardinge, 3rd Baron, 20
Fitzmaurice, Charles, 7
Fitzpatrick, Sir Percy, 140–1
flying and aircraft, 9, 105, 150
Foch, Marshal Ferdinand, 252
Follis (Scarborough hairdresser), 192–3
food and eating, 185-6, 202-4, 206, 211
Fortnum & Mason (shop), 192
France: and German war reparations, 107
Freedman, Henry, 209
Freud, Sigmund, 63;
Mourning and Melancholia, 5
Frohman, Charles, 186
Fry, Roger, 36
Fulham Chronicle, 155
Gance, Abel, 219–20
Garnett, David, 36–7, 132
Garsington Manor, Oxfordshire, 34, 137, 233-8, 249
gas (poison), 18
General Election: December 1918 (’Coupon Election’), 44, 74–5
George V, King: accession, 2;
friendship with de Soveral, 11;
on homosexuality in war, 24;
attends Hyde Park assembly of returned soldiers, 72;
shame and guilt over foreign relatives, 82;
adopts surname Windsor, 83;
anti-German sentiments, 83;
beard turns white, 87;
and wife’s dress, 88;
and signing of Versailles Treaty, 108; and Peace Parade, 110; T. E. Lawrence offends, 116; invitation to Lowell Thomas, 118;
sees Lowell Thomas’s film on T. E. Lawrence, 120;
and role for Prince of Wales, 128;
hopes for memories of war to recede, 139;
and act of remembrance, 141;
attends Original Dixieland Jazz Band performance, 156–7;
welcomes Prince of Wales back from overseas tour, 162–3;
and burial of unknown soldier, 266–7, 269, 271, 273;
lays wreath at Cenotaph, 272
Germany: defeat (1918), 28, 30;
British hostility to, 83–5;
Communism and unrest in, 83, 106, 219;
post-war conditions, 83–4, 108, 219;
and Versailles Treaty, 107–8;
war reparations, 107
Gertler, Mark, 34, 234, 237, 250
Gibbs, Philip, 4, 16, 19-20, 67, 83, 127;
Realities of War, 127
Gillies, (Sir) Harold Delf: plastic surgery, 55–63, 252–3;
Prince of Wales visits, 128;
leaves Sidcup, 252;
Plastic Surgery of the Face, 254
Gillies, Kathleen, Lady, 252
Giordaneo, Arturo (Arthur), 186
Gish, Lillian, 205-6
Glasgow: shipyard strike and unrest (1919), 78–9;
housing shortage, 80
Glorious Adventure, The (film), 251
Gomme, Lionel (‘Tiger’), 238–40, 249
Goodbye Winter, Welcome Summer (Houdini’s show), 187
Gordon, Jackson, 187
Grace, Dr W G., 105
Grafton Galleries, Piccadilly, 153
Grant, Duncan, 36
Graves, Robert: on delousing, 21;
suffers traumas of war, 63–5;
demobilised, 93;
on T. E. Lawrence, 116;
on co-habitation, 161;
and T. E. Lawrence’s writing, 165;
marriage, 172;
at Oxford, 256, 262;
meets Hardy, 256;
poetry, 261
Great Ormond Street Hospital: nurses die in influenza epidemic, 93
Great Purifier, The (film), 6
Great War (1914-18): and national unity, 2;
dead not returned to England, 5;
casualties, 13, 16, 25;
conditions and life on Western Front, 13, 15, 17-23;
and military service, 13–14;
reporting, 19–20;
ends, 25–34;
battlefield tours and visits, 99–101;
battlefields cleared, 101;
name, 127
Grenfell, Billy, 6, 113
Grenfell, Julian, 5-6, 14, 113
Grenfell, Monica, 37
Grey, Sir Edward (later Viscount Grey of Fallodon), 25
grief: in post-war world, 4–6
Griffith, D. W, 205-6, 220
Gunter’s (confectioner), 153
Haggard, Sir H. Rider, 98
Haig, Douglas, 1st Earl, 252, 271
Hall, Mrs S. C., 224
Hammersmith Palais, 153, 157
Hardy, Thomas, 17, 41, 256, 270
Harrington, Dudley Stanhope, 9th Earl of, 252
Harrison, Ethel, 2
Hartley, L. P., 165
Head, Henry, 245
Henson, Ellen, 68
Hitler, Adolf: at war’s end, 28;
early political activities, 219
Hobson, Harold, 132
holidays, 133
Holland, Henry Scott, Canon of St Paul’s, 7
Holland Hannen & Cubitt (company), 227
Holtby, Winifred, 254-7, 259-61, 274
Home and County (WI’s magazine), 175
homosexuality, 24–5, 161
Honey, Edward, 138, 140
Home, Emma (‘Aunt Em’), 195
Horne, Eric, 190–1, 194–7
Horne, Frank, 196
Horner, Edward, 113
Houdini, Harry, 97, 187
House, Brigade Major Wilfred, 28
housing: shortage, 80–1
Housing and Town Planning Act (1919), 81
Houston, Dr W. R., 64
Howard, Donald, 140
Hudson, W. H., 81
Hughes, Private Eric, 131
Humbert, Mr (friend of Parish family), 213
Hunstone (Buckmaster’s manservant), 193
Huntingdon, Henry E., 221
Hurley, Frank, 151
Hutchinson, Jeremy Nicolas (later Baron), 39
Huxley, Aldous, 238
Hyde Park, London: disabled soldiers’ demonstration, 71–2
illegitimacy, 124
Illustrated London News, 47, 63, 152, 160, 171, 217, 258
Imperial War Graves Commission, 5
Imperial War Museum, 252
India: deaths from influenza epidemic, 95
industrial unrest, 77–80, 129, 137
influenza epidemic (‘Spanish flu’), 3, 38, 90-5
Iolaire, HMS, 70-1
Ireland: claims independence, 75, 130;
sets up separate parliament (Dáil), 77;
troubles, 228
Irish Republican Army, 130, 228
Isham, Ralph, 120
Italy: Fascism in, 106
J’Accuse (film), 219–20
jazz, 8, 155-7
Jekyll, Agnes, 203
Jerome, Jerome K., 98
John, Prince (son of George V and Mary): death, 88-90
John, Augustus, 58, 235, 241-2
John, Gwen, 58, 242
Johnson, Captain C. D., 82
Johnson, William, 100
Jones, Susannah, 91
Joplin, Scott, 155
Karsavina, Tamara, 216–17
Kendall, James, 62
Kennedy, Daisy, 56
Kennington, Eric, 119
Keogh, Sir Alfred, 57
Keppel, Alice, 20
Keppel, Violet see Trefusis, Violet
Keynes, John Maynard (later Baron), 36, 108
Khokhlova, Olga, 216
Kine Weekly, 219
Kipling, John, 4
Kipling, Rudyard: and loss of son in war, 4, 273;
on war dead, 5;
on war cemeteries, 265;
hymn for war dead, 273;
‘Mary Postgate’, 85
Kitchener, Horatio H
erbert, 1st Earl, 189
Labour Party: in 1918 election, 74–5;
programme, 75
Ladd, Anna Coleman, 52, 54–5
Lady (magazine), 171, 177, 179, 190
Lamb, Henry, 240
Lambourne, Amelius Mark Richard Lockwood, 1st Baron, 187
Lane, Archie, 59, 62
Lane, Sir William Arbuthnot, 56-7, 136, 160
Lansdowne, Maud Evelyn Hamilton, Marchioness of, 7
La Rocca, Nick, 156, 251
Lavery, Sir John, 111, 136
Law, Andrew Bonar, 75, 146, 162
Lawrence, D. H.: on battlefield illumination, 16;
and Armistice celebrations, 36-7;
at Garsington, 249–50;
Women in Love, 250
Lawrence, Frieda, 36, 249
Lawrence, Thomas Edward (Lawrence of Arabia): fame and cult, 114–22;
hatred of the physical, 120;
writes account of war, 164;
loses manuscript, 165;
motorcycle-riding, 165–6
Lax, Revd William, Mayor of Poplar, 122
Leak (Lewis’s dress buyer), 208
Leicester, Thomas William Coke, 3rd Earl of, 231
Leigh Pemberton, John, 51
Leighton, Roland, 32, 261
Lenglen, Suzanne, 105, 249
lesbianism, 161
Lewis, Cecil Day, 100
Lewis, Isle of, 70–1
Liberal Party: and ‘Coupon Election’ (1918), 74
Life Without Servants (by ‘A Survivor’), 207
limblessness: compensation for, 47–8
Lindsay, Norah, 251
Liverpool: housing shortage, 80;
unrest in, 130
Lloyd George, David (later 1st Earl): on ‘war to end all wars’, 9;
predicts imminent end to war, 17;
and Armistice (1918), 29;
Armistice Day speech at Guildhall, 40;
promises ‘Land fit for Heroes’, 44, 69, 71;
and ‘Coupon Election’ (1918), 74–5;
and delays to demobilisation, 76;
and industrial unrest, 79–80, 137, 257;
proposes trying Kaiser, 83;
disparages Germans, 85;
and Paris Peace Conference, 107;
and Peace Parade, 108, 121;
and Lutyens’
design for Cenotaph, 109;
attends Lowell Thomas’s talk and show on Allenby and Lawrence, 118;
proposes role for Prince of Wales, 128;
and act of remembrance (two-minute silence), 140–1, 147, 149;
welcomes Prince of Wales back from overseas tour, 162;
and Nancy Astor’s entering Parliament, 171;
approves unknown soldier grave, 266–7
Lloyd, Stuart, 12, 49-50
Lockers Park school, Hemel Hempstead, 38
London: bombed in Great War, 31, 121–2;
housing shortage, 80
Londonderry, Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquis of, 126
Londonderry, Edith, Marchioness of, 152, 190
Longford Hall, 231
Lopokova, Lydia, 36, 216