Taylor, Elizabeth 359, 430
Taylor, J. L. 546
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre 610
Temple, Mary (‘Minnie’) 185–6
Temple, Shirley 450, 452
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 153
Ternan, Ellen (‘Nelly’) 109–10, 146
Ternan, Mrs 110
Terry, Dame Ellen 189, 249
Thacker, R. 661
Thackeray, Isabella 105
Thackeray, William Makepeace 2–3, 25, 27, 44, 75, 76, 80, 81, 84, 89, 92, 93, 104–7, 110, 115, 116, 122, 126, 158, 176, 422, 588
Thalberg, Irving 447
Thatcher, Margaret, Baroness 389, 501, 726, 755, 771, 772
Theroux, Paul 669
Thomas, Dylan 456, 473
Thomas, E. 192
Thomas, Henry 364
Thompson, Alberta 485
Thompson, Jim (James Myers Thompson) 484–5
Thompson, L. 363
Thomson, James 13, 45
Thoreau, Henry 577
Thorogood, J. 449
Thrale, Hester 19, 37, 666
Thucydides 531
Thurber, James 330, 651
Tiger, Virginia 513
Tilley, Vesta 159
Tillyard, E. M. W. 701
Tinsley, William 167, 174
Tocqueville, Alexis de 740
Todd, Janet 3, 5, 6
Toíbín, Colm 714
Tolkien, J. R. R. 240, 481, 792–3
Tolstoy, Count Leo 56, 92–3, 437, 469, 521, 588, 599, 654
Tomalin, Claire 59, 180, 351
Tombe, Eric 405–6
Toole, John Kennedy 612, 717–20
Toole, Thelma 718, 719, 720
Toomey, Deirdre 411
Toulouse Lautrec, Henri de 159
Toussaint L’Ouverture, François-Dominique 78
Townsend, Susan Lillian (later Broadway) 754–6
Tracy, Spencer 648
Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm 158, 159, 161
Treglown, J. 460
Tremain, Rose 668
Trevanian (Rodney William Whitaker) 590, 661–3
Trevor-Roper, Hugh 637
Trilling, Lionel 445, 525, 590, 591
Trollope, Anthony 62, 63, 64, 113–17, 154, 155, 156, 351, 573, 679
Trollope, Cecilia 62
Trollope, Frances (‘Fanny’; née Milton) 62–4, 113, 114, 351
Trollope, Henry (Anthony’s brother) 62, 113
Trollope, Henry (Anthony’s son) 116
Trollope, Rose (née Heseltine) 114, 115
Trollope, Thomas (Anthony’s brother) 63, 64, 113, 116
Trollope, Thomas Anthony (Anthony’s father) 62, 63
Trowell, Arnold 349
Trowell, Garnet 349
Truffaut, François 564
Truman, Harry 170
Trumbo, Dalton 356, 523
Tubbs, Ralph 539
Tupper, Martin Farquhar 204
Turner, Nat 615
Turpin, Dick 89
Tussaud, Madame 179
Twain, Mark (born Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 1, 56, 68, 165, 170–73, 258
U
Udelson, J. H. 259
Uglow, Jenny 102
Updike, John Hoyer 645, 675–81, 695
Updike, Mary (née Pennington) 676
Upshaw, ‘Red’ K. 416
V
Valentino, Rudolph 273
Valman, Nadia 118
Van Ash, C. 328
Vaughan, Keith 456
Veblen, Thorstein 251
Verne, Jules 296, 377, 539, 776
Vesey, Denmark 331
Victoria, Queen 156, 194–5, 204, 206, 214, 348
Vidal, Gore 384, 549, 644, 687
Viera, Carroll 431
Villon, François 526
Vinge, Joan Carol (née Dennison) 745–6
Vinge, Vernor Steffen 745–8
Vogel, Julius 173
Voltaire 20, 30, 643
Vonnegut, Jill (née Krementz) 590
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr 550, 560, 565, 587–90, 599, 644, 675
Vyver, Bertha 204
W
Wagner, Richard 390
Walden, Brian 704
Walken, Christopher 773–4
Walker, Alice 653
Walker, Frederick 2
Wallace, Edgar (Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (born Richards, brought up in youth as ‘Richard Freeman’)) 160, 299–302, 406, 487
Wallace, Ivy 300
Wallant, Edward Lewis 623
Waller, Dr Bryan 223
Walpole, Hugh 291, 387
Walpole, Robert 17
Walsh, Raoul 499
Walsh, Richard 372
Walston, Catherine 453
‘Walter’ (presumed Henry Spencer Ashbee (‘Pisanus Fraxi’)) 165–6
Walter, Richard D. 239
Wang, Wayne 759
Warburton, E. 622
Ward, Arnold 196, 197, 198
Ward, Dorothy 197
Ward, Mrs Humphry (Mary Augusta (née Arnold)) 155, 186, 196–9, 204, 225, 268
Ward, Janet 197
Ward, (Thomas) Humphry 197
Warhol, Andy 97
Warner, Frances (née Grove) 471, 473
Warner, Rex (Reginald Ernest Warner) 471–3
Warner, Susan 135
Warren, J. W. 104
Washington, Booker T. 501
Watson, Colin 327
Watt, A. P. 225, 301
Watt, Ian 27
Watts, Cedric 219, 220
Watts, Janet 666
Waugh, Alec (Alexander Raban Waugh) 438, 439, 441–5
Waugh, Arthur 209, 436, 437, 441–2, 443
Waugh, Auberon 444–5, 704
Waugh, Barbara (née Jacobs) 442, 443, 444
Waugh, Catherine 441–2
Waugh, Evelyn (née Gardner) 438, 439
Waugh, Evelyn Arthur St John 209, 389, 435–41, 443, 444, 451, 460, 465, 466, 492, 493, 495, 511, 542, 611, 706, 712
Waugh, Joan 444
Waugh, Laura (née Herbert) 439–40
Wayne, John 305, 497, 545, 588–9
Weathersby, R. W., II 95
Weaver, Harriet Shaw 322
Webb, Captain 315
Webb, Henry 315–16
Webb, Mary 306
Webb, Mary Gladys (née Meredith) 315–17
Webb, R. K. 78
Webster, J. 585
Weekley, Ernest 335
Weil, Simone 610
Weinstein, Max 445, 446
Weld, Mary 186
Weldon, Fay 628
Weller, S. 565
Welles, Orson 217, 272, 273, 499–500, 586
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of, 163
Wells, Amy (née Robbins) 263
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 81, 250, 254, 261–4, 265, 282–3, 316, 387, 443, 539, 553, 754, 795
Wells, Jane 263
Wells, Joe 261, 262
Wells, Sarah 261, 262
Welty, Eudora 612, 613
Wenders, Wim 738
Wentworth, Hunter 778
Wesker, Arnold 682
West, Eileen (née McKenney) 447
West, James L., III 616
West, Nathanael (born Nathan
Weinstein) 156, 346, 347, 381, 445–7, 556
West, Rebecca 263, 264, 316
Westbrook, Harriet 72
Weyman, Stanley 298
Wharton, Edith Newbold (née Jones) 251–3, 668
Wharton, Edward Robbins (‘Teddy’) 252
Wheatley, Anthony 406
Wheatley, Dennis Yates 405–8
Wheatley, Joan 406
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill 183, 189, 349
White, Connor Bantry 572–3
White, Michael 562, 563
White, Patrick Victor Martindale 519–22, 738
White, Ruth 520
White, Victor 519–20, 521
Whitman, Walt 188–9
Whittington Griffin, J. 483
Wilde, Oscar 188, 205, 221, 2
28, 229, 231, 244–5, 249, 259, 265, 277, 292, 294, 310, 318, 349, 442, 445, 450, 473, 591, 669
Wilder, Billy 346, 374, 507, 766
Wilhelm II, Kaiser 336
Wilkie, Sir David 145
Willans, Geoffrey 755
Willeford, Charles Ray 560–61
Willeford, Glenn 182
William III, King 25
Williams, Charles 240
Williams, Harold 254
Williams, P. 377
Williams, Tennessee 556
Williams, William Carlos 561
Williamson, Henry Williams 389–92
Willis, N. P. 103
Wilson, A. N. 665, 666
Wilson, Andrew 533, 534, 580
Wilson, Angus 668, 779
Wilson, Colin 705
Wilson, Edmund 413, 425, 445
Wilson, Francis 154
Wilson, Harold, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx 470
Wilson, Willie 154, 155
Wilson, Woodrow 256, 257, 356
Winfrey, Oprah 426, 655, 656, 797
Wingfield, Lewis 183–4
Winterson, Jeanette 729
Wister, Mary (née Channing) 243
Wister, Owen 241–3, 279, 289
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 412, 591, 772
Wodehouse, P. G. 365, 473, 562, 706, 787, 788
Wolfe, Thomas 530, 653
Wolfe, Tom 686
Wolff, R. 168
Wollstonecraft, Fanny 71
Wollstonecraft, Mary 71, 72
Wood, C. W. 112
Wood, Henry 111–12, 112
Wood, Mrs Henry (Ellen (née Price)) 111–12
Wood, Thelma Ellen 367, 368
Woodress, J. 274
Woolf, Leonard 324, 326
Woolf, Virginia (Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen)) 2, 5, 6, 38, 140, 265, 266, 269, 311, 323–6, 350, 408, 409, 504
Wordsworth, William 33, 47, 65, 78, 127, 705
Worthen, J. 338
Worthington, John Hugh 77
Wortley Montagu, Lady Mary 17
Wouk, Betty (née Brown) 529
Wouk, Herman 529–31
Wren, P. C. 461
Wright, Austin McGiffert 590–93
Wright, Fanny 62–3
Wright, Frank Lloyd 467
Wright, Richard 601–2
Wycherley, William 15
Wyeth, N. C. 289
Wyler, William 620, 767
Wylie, Andrew 743
Wyndham, John 604, 770
Y
Yardley, Jonathan 430–31
Yates, Richard 514, 515, 622–5
Yates, Sheila 624
Yeats, W. B. 210, 666
Yerkes, Charles T. 286, 287
Yonge, Charlotte 141–3
Yorke, Adelaide (née Biddulph) 459
Yorke, Vincent 458, 459
Young, Edward 15
Young, G. M. 104
Young, Graham 363
Young, Lester 656
Young, Philip 87, 88
Youngman Carter, Philip (‘Pip’) 448, 449
Z
Zangwill, Edith (née Ayrton) 259
Zangwill, Israel 257–9
Zarobila, Charles 141
Zellweger, Renée 482
Zeta-Jones, Catherine 480
Zhivkov, Todor 751, 752
Zola, Emile 281, 366
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