by Nigel Jones
Biographies of Brooke
Other useful Brooke biographies are (in order of publication):
Hastings, Michael, The Handsomest Young Man in England (Michael Joseph, 1968).
Lehmann, John, Rupert Brooke: His Life and His Legend (Quartet, 1980).
Delany, Paul, The Neo-Pagans: Friendship and Love in the Rupert Brooke Circle (Macmillan, 1987).
Read, Mike, Forever England (Mainstream, 1998).
Brooke’s Context
The secondary sources relating to Brooke’s friends and various aspects of his life such as Rugby and the public-school tradition, Cambridge, the Apostles, the Great War and Bloomsbury are, of course, extensive. Indispensable titles include:
Clark, Keith, The Muse Colony: Dymock, 1914 (Redcliffe Press, 1992).
Clements, Keith, Henry Lamb (Redcliffe Press, 1984).
Connolly, Cyril, Enemies of Promise (1939).
Dangerfield, George, The Strange Death of Liberal England (1935).
Fussell, Paul, The Great War and Modern Memory (OUP, 1975).
Garnett, David, The Golden Echo (1953), The Flowers of the Forest (1956), The Familiar Faces (1962).
Holroyd, Michael, Lytton Strachey: A Biography (1963; new edition Chatto & Windus, 1994).
Holroyd, Michael, Augustus John: A Biography (Heinemann, 1974).
Keynes, Geoffrey, The Gates of Memory (OUP, 1981).
Miller, Peter, Rupert Brooke: A Brief Biography (Warwickshire County Council, 1987).
Moorehead, Alan, Gallipoli (1956).
Nesbitt, Cathleen, A Little Love and Good Company (Faber, 1975).
Parker, Peter, The Old Lie: The Great War and the Public School Ethos (Constable, 1987).
Pimlott, Ben, Hugh Dalton (Cape, 1985).
Raverat, Gwen, Period Piece (Faber & Faber, 1952).
Rogers, Timothy, Rupert Brooke: A Reappraisal (1971).
Shone, Richard, Bloomsbury Portraits (Phaidon Press, 1976).
Silkin, Jon, Out of Battle: The Poetry of the Great War (OUP, 1972).
Skidelsky, Robert, John Maynard Keynes: Hopes Betrayed 1883-1920.
Spalding, Frances, Duncan Grant (Chatto & Windus, 1997).
Strachey, Alix & James, Bloomsbury/Freud: The Letters of James and Alix Strachey 1924–25 (Basic Books, 1985)
Stringer, Arthur, Red Wine of Youth: A Life of Rupert Brooke (Merrill, 1948).
Woolf, Virginia, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 1: 1915–1919. Edited by Anne Olivier Bell (1977).
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Index
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RB indicates Rupert Brooke
Abbey Theatre, Dublin (i), (ii)
Abercrombie, Catherine (i)
Abercrombie, Lascelles (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)
The Academy (i)
A.D.C. Theatre, Jesus Lane, Cambridge (i), (ii)
Admiralty (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii)
Aegean Sea (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Aeschylus: Eumenides (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Agamemnon (battleship) (i)
Ainley, Henry (i), (ii), (iii)
Aldershot (i)
Aldington, Richard (i)
Alexandra, Dowager Queen (i), (ii)
Ambassadors’ Theatre, London (i)
Ambele, of Fiji (i)
Andermatt, Swiss Alps (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Angels (i)
Anson Battalion (RND) (i), (ii), (iii); 15th
Platoon in D Company (i), (ii)
Antwerp (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
Apia, Samoa (i)
Apostles (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii), (xxiii), (xxiv), (xxv), (xxvi), (xxvii), (xxviii), (xxix), (xxx)
Apsley House, Hyde Park, London (i)
Archer, William (i)
Arnold, Matthew (i), (ii), (iii); ‘Dover Beach’ (i)
Arnold, Dr Thomas (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); Tom Brown’s Schooldays (i)
Arnold-Foster, Will (i)
Arp, Hans (i)
Arts & Crafts movement (i), (ii)
Arts Council (i)
Ashworth, Harold (i)
Askold (Russian cruisier) (i)
Asquith, Arthur (‘Oc’) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii)
Asquith, Lady Cynthia (i), (ii), (iii)
Asquith, Herbert (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)
Asquith, Raymond (i), (ii)
Asquith, Violet (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii)
Asquith family (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Atlantic Monthly (i)
Attlee, Clement (i)
Auckland, New Zealand (i), (ii)
Auden, W.H. (i)
Auditorium Hotel, Chicago (i)
Austen, Jane (i), (ii); Emma (i)
Austin, Alfred (i), (ii)
Avonmouth, Bristol (i)
Bacchus-Fest (i), (ii), (iii)
Bacon, Leonard (i), (ii)
Baden-Powell, Robert, 1st Baron (i)
Badley, J.H. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Bakst, Leon (i)
Balfour, Arthur (i)
Ballet Russe (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Bank, New Forest (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Barker, Pat: Regeneration (i)
Barrie, J.M. (i), (ii), (iii); Peter Pan (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
Bartholemew, Theo (i)
Basileon (King’s College magazine) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Baudelaire, Charles (i), (ii)
Baynes, Godwin (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Beachy Head Hotel, near Eastbourne (i)
Beale Sargent, Edmund (i)
Beardsley, Aubrey (i), (ii)
Beaumont, Francis (i)
Beaumont-Hamel, Somme (i)
Beckhythe Manor, Overstrand, Norfolk (i)
Becky Falls, near Manaton, Devon (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Bell, Clive (i)
Bell, Vanessa (i), (ii)
Belloc, Hilaire (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
The Four Men (i), (ii), (iii)
Benians, E.A. (i)
Bennett, Arnold (i), (ii)
Benson, A.C. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Bergson, Henri (i), (ii)
Berlin (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii)
Berlin, Irving (i)
Berry Hall, Great Walsingham, Norfolk (i)
Betteshanger, Kent (i), (ii), (iii)
Bibury, Gloucs. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Birmingham (i), (ii), (iii)
Birmingham Rep (i)
Birrell, Augustine (i), (ii)
Birrell, Frankie (i), (ii)
Blackwood, Algernon (i)
Blake, Dr Jex (i)
Blake, William (i)
Blandford Camp, Dorset (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
Blaue Reiter group (i)
Bloomsbury Group (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii), (xxiii), (xxiv), (xxv), (xxvi), (xxvii), (xxviii)
Blue Review (i)
Blunden, Edmund (i), (ii), (iii)
Boards of Guardians (i)
Bodleian Library, Oxford (i)
Boer War (i), (ii), (iii)
Boleyn, Ann (i)
Bonnard, Pierre (i)
Booth, General William (i)
Boston, Massachusetts (i), (ii), (iii)
Bottomley, Gordon (i), (ii)
Bournemouth (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Brawne, Fanny (i), (ii)
Bridges, Robert (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Brighton, East Sussex (i)
British Expeditionary (i), (ii)
British Museum (i), (ii), (iii)
Broadway Central Hotel, New York (i)
Brockenhurst, New Forest (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Brooke, Alan England (RB’s uncle) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Brooke, Alfred (RB’s brother) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); birth (1891) (i); at Cambridge (i), (ii); in Cannes (i), (ii); childhood (i); death (i), (ii); homosexuality (i); Italian visits (i), (ii), (iii); in the Post Office Rifles (i), (ii), (iii); Ward coaches (i)
Brooke, Anne (née Parker) (i)
Brooke, Anne Reeve (i)
Brooke, Arthur (father of Justin) (i)
Brooke, Edith Marjorie (RB’s sister) (i), (ii)
Brooke, Ellen England (i)
Brooke, Harriet (née Hopkins; RB’s paternal grandmother) (i)
Brooke, James (i)
Brooke, John (i)
Brooke, John Reeve (i)
Brooke, Justin (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii), (xxiii), (xxiv), (xxv), (xxvi), (xxvii), (xxviii), (xxix); and Bedales’ annual camp (i); a cheerful libertine (i); at the Clifford’s Bridge camp (i), (ii), (iii); in Grantchester (i); at Lulworth (i)
Brooke, Margaret (cousin) (i)
Brooke, Reeve (cousin) (i)
Brooke, Richard (‘Dick’; RB’s brother) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Brooke, Reverend Richard England (RB’s paternal grandfather) (i)
Brooke, Rupert Chawner: appearance (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii), (xxiii), (xxiv), (xxv), (xxvi), (xxvii), (xxviii), (xxix), (xxx), (xxxi), (xxxii), (xxxiii), (xxxiv), (xxxv), (xxxvi), (xxxvii), (xxxviii), (xxxix), (xl); arrives at Cambridge (1906) (i); and Augustus John (i), (ii); Basle reunion pact (for May 1933) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); birth (3 August 1887) (i); breach with Noel (i); use of ‘child’ epithet (i), (ii), (iii); chosen to take part in Eumenides (i), (ii); Classical scholarship to King’s College, Cambridge (i); and Comus (i), (ii); confers with Churchill (i), (ii); ‘conversion’ to heterosexuality (i); death (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); and Dick’s death (i), (ii), (iii); drops James (i), (ii); drops Ka (i); efforts to join up (i); elected a Fellow of King’s (i), (ii), (iii); en route to Gallipoli (i), (ii), (iii); ‘engaged’ to Noel (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); his farewell to rationalist Fabianism (i); on his father’s death (i); financial affairs (i); finds a cause (i); first heterosexual affair (i), (ii); first in print (i); fragmentary final poem (i); funeral (i); gains his commission (i), (ii); general election battle (i), (ii); German visit (i), (ii), (iii); the good-luck amulet (i), (ii); growing interest in literature (i); Harness Prize (i); hatred of Bloomsbury Set (i), (ii); health (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx); and Henry James (i), (ii); at Hillbrow school (i), (ii), (iii); increasingly suspicious (i); injured in Tahiti (i); Italian visits (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); and the Jacques/Gwen marriage (i); King’s Medal for Prose (i), (ii), (iii); last meeting with Ka (i); loses his heterosexual virginity (i); loss of mental toughness (i); Lytton’s attack (i); meets Belloc (i); meets Lawrence (i); meets Lytton (i); meets Sassoon (i); meets Virginia Stephen (i); mental and physical breakdown (1912) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); and the Poet Laureate (i); possibly a father (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); posthumous reputation (i); prescience (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); President of the Cambridge Fabians (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); proposes to Noel (i); RB’s last letter to her (i); relationship with mother (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); at Rugby School (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii); runs School Field House (i), (ii); signs the Fabian Basis (i); suicidal (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); his voice (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); character animal-lover (i); anti-feminism (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); anti-pacifism (i); antireligiousness (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); anti-Semitism (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii); antisentimentality (i), (ii), (iii); anti-Toryism (i); bitterness (i), (ii); charm (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi); childishness (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix); coldheartedness (i); conservatism (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); conspiratorial (i); control freak (i), (ii), (iii); cynicism (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii); deception (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x); deviousness (i); dirt/cleanliness obsession (i), (ii), (iii); disgust with the body (i), (ii); egotism (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); envy (i), (ii); exhibitionism (i), (ii); fear of ageing (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); fear of being alone (i); fear of life (i); homosexuality (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix); hysteria (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); jealousy (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv); mawkishness (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); misogyny (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv); the myth (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi); narcissism (i); nationalism (i); opposes marriage (i), (ii), (iii); paranoia (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x); patriotism (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv); poseur (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv); prudishness (i); puritanism (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); secretiveness (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); self-absorption (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); self-deprecation (i), (ii); selfmockery (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); self-pity (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); selfishness (i), (ii), (iii); showing-off (i), (ii); snobbery (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); ‘socialism’ (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi); vegetarianism (i), (ii); whimsy (i), (ii); wit (i), (ii); zest for life (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); works ‘Afterwards’ (i); ‘Ballade’ (i); The Bastille’ (i); The Beginning’ (i); The Call’ (i); ‘A Channel Passage’ (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); ‘The Chilterns’ (i); ‘Clouds’ (i); Collected Letters (ed. Keynes) (i), (ii); ‘The Dawn’ (i); ‘Dawn’ (i); ‘Day That I Have Loved’ (i); ‘The Dead’ (i), (ii); ‘Democracy and the Arts’ (a paper) (i); ‘Dining-Room Tea’ (i), (ii); ‘Easter Day Song in Praise of Cremation’ (with Browne) (i); ‘Endogamy’ (a paper) (i); ‘The Fish’ (i), (ii); ‘For Mildred’s Urn’ (i); Friends and Apostles (RB-James Strachey correspondence) (i); From the Jaws of the Octopus (i); ‘The Funeral of Youth’ (i); ‘Grantchester’ (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); ‘The Great Lover’ (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); ‘Heaven’ (i), (ii); ‘The Hill’ (i); ‘In Xanadu’ (a paper) (i); ‘Jealousy’ (i); John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix); ‘The Jolly Company’ (i); Letters from America (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); ‘The Life Beyond’ (i); Lithuania (play) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); ‘Love’ (i); ‘Lust’ (‘Libido’) (i), (ii), (iii); ‘A Memory (From a sonnet-sequence) (i); ‘Menelaus and Helen’ (i), (ii), (iii); ‘Mummia’ (i), (ii); ‘The Night Journey’ (i); 1914 and Other Poems (i), (ii); ‘Not Counting Niggers’ (an article) (i); ‘Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington’ (i); ‘The Old Vicarage, Grantchester’ (previously ‘The Sentimental Exile’) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); ‘One Day’ (i); ‘The Path of Dreams’ (i); ‘Peace’ (i); ‘Pine-Trees and the Sky: Evening’ (i); Poems (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); Puritanism and the English Drama (i); ‘The Pyramids’ (i); ‘Retrospect’ (i); ‘The Return’ (i); ‘The Romantic History and Surprising Adventures of John Rump’ (a paper) (i); ‘Safety’ (i), (ii); ‘Satire in English Verse’ (a paper) (i); ‘The Sea’ (i); ‘Seaside’ (i), (ii); ‘Second Best’ (i); ‘The Soldier’ (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); The Song of the Beasts’ (i); Song of Love (ed. Harris) (i
); ‘Sonnet Reversed’ (i); ‘Sonnet (Suggested by some of the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research’ (i); ‘There’s Wisdom in Women’ (i); ‘Tiare Tahiti’ (i), (ii), (iii); ‘To My Lady Influenza’ (i); ‘Town and Country’ (i); ‘Travel’ (i); ‘The Treasure’ (i); ‘An Unusual Young Man’ (an article) (i); ‘Vanitas’ (i); ‘The Vision of the Archangels’ (i); ‘The Voice’ (i), (ii), (iii); ‘Waikiki’ (i)
Brooke, Ruth Mary (‘the Ranee’; née Cotterill; RB’s mother) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii); allowance to RB (i), (ii); appearance (i), (ii); background (i); battle of wills with RB (i); birth of RB (i); character (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); and Comus (i), (ii); death (1930) (i), (ii), (iii); and Eddie (i), (ii), (iii); fails to suspect Ka (i); Geoffrey Keynes and (i), (ii); health (i), (ii); and her husband’s illness (i); and homosexuality (i), (ii); housemistress at Rugby (i); marries William (i); nickname (i); and Noel (i); offers to subsidize RB’s first poetry collection (i); on the Olivier girls (i); Poems royalties (i); and politics (i); prudery (i), (ii), (iii); RB escapes from (i), (ii); and RB’s death (i), (ii); and RB’s decision to go to Verona (i), (ii); and RB’s Fellowship (i); and RB’s financial affairs (i); and RB’s mental breakdown (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); RB’s poor Tripos (i); relationship with HB (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); rents a new home (i), (ii); supports the Liberal party (i), (ii), (iii); told of RB’s septicaemia (i); wartime tasks (i), (ii)
Brooke, William (i)
Brooke, William Parker (RB’s father) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); absent-mindedness (i), (ii); appearance (i), (ii); asks RB for help running School Field House (i); death (cerebral haemorrhage) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); education (i); health (i), (ii); Keynes on (i); marries Ruth (i); and politics (i); teaching career (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Brooke Bond tea empire (i)
Brooke family (i), (ii), (iii)
Brown, Ford Madox (i)
Browne, Denis (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii), (xxiii), (xxiv), (xxv), (xxvi), (xxvii), (xxviii); arranges RB’s burial (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); at Cambridge (i), (ii); commission in the RND (i); composer (i), (ii); deals with RB’s effects (i), (ii); death (i); fellow-officer with RB (i); and Marsh (i); praises Freyherg (i); on Skyros (i)
