Preminger, Otto, 644
Priestley, J. B.: reviews The Man Within, 370; reviews Stamboul Train, 431; threatens libel suit, 435–8; Greene’s opinion of, 434, 439–41, 486
Princess Casamassima (James), 433
Pritchett, Mary (née Leonard), 428, 456–7
Pritchett, V. S., 157
Pritt, D. N., 621
Pro, Padre Miguel, xix–xx, 698, 699, 708–9
Prologue to Pilgrimage, see Anthony Sant
‘Proof Positive’ [story] (Greene), 386
Proust, Marcel, 92
psychoanalysis: dreams, 96–8, 110; fear of cure, 160; Richmond’s approach to, 95, 102–3
Quennell, Peter, 4, 110–111, 119; on Charles Greene, 63–4; reviews England Made Me, 578
The Quiet American (Greene), 13, 15, 133
Raffalovitch, André, 426
Rainer, Luise, 593
Ramage, Cecil, 385
Rasmussen, Frau, 687–90, 721; in The Power and the Glory, 702–3
Raven, Simon, 626–7
Read, Herbert, 616–17; on ‘glory’, 699–700
Red Mexico (McCullough), 704
Reed, Carol, 603
religion: Anglican, 254–5; atheism, 126–7, 255–6; Brighton Rock, 639–42, 644–9, 718; Chamula Indians, 714–15; martyrdom, 698–700; not an escape, 660; The Power and the Glory, 695–6, 698–700, 723–4. See also Catholicism
‘Return Home’ [story], 581
‘The Revolver in the Cupboard’ [essay] (Greene), 155–6
Richards, Grant, 166
Richmond, Canon Wilfred, 94
Richmond, Kenneth: appearance & background, 93, 95–6, 114; as Greene’s analyst, 92–3, 98–9, 102–7; dream analysis, 96–8; encourages Greene to write, 109; Greene’s ‘epilepsy’ and, 329, 331–2; later relationship with Greene, 214–15, 250
Richmond, Zoe: Greene dreams about, 102; on Greene’s spiritualist powers, 105–6; recalls Greene, 99, 102–3, 106–7; spiritualism, 93
Riddock, Dr George, 105, 329, 330–2, 335
The Road Back (film), 592
Roberts, Cecil, 251–2, 370
Robertson, Arnot, 436, 485, 493
Robson, Flora, 595
Rochester, Earl of (John Wilmot), Greene’s bio. of, 391–5, 409
Rolfe, Frederick, 645
Roscoe, Frank, 283
Rose, Archibald, 194, 204, 206–7
Rowse, A. L., 148–9
Royde-Smith, Naomi, 142
Rumour at Nightfall: scene from Paris, 163; writing of, 384, 386, 391, 392; poor reviews, 395–6, 409; Greene reflects on, 413
Rupert, Prince, 231
Russian roulette, see under suicide
Sackville-West, Edward, 157, 278
Sad Cure [verse collection], 166, 211; Blackwell and, 170–1
‘Sad Cure’ [poem] (Greene), 158
Saint Joan (Shaw), 206, 291
Saki see Munro, H. H.
Saklatvala, Shapurji, 299
San Antonio, 665–8
Sandwich, Earl of, 392
Saunders, Florence, 100
Sayers, Dorothy L., 616
Scaife, C. H. D., 143, 145
Scotsman, 232
Scott, (later Sir) Robert, 121, 122, 130, 321
Scott, Capt. Robert F., 81
Scott, Sir Walter, The Talisman, 30–1
secrecy, Greene and, 419
The Secret Agent (Conrad), 457, 607
Seymour, Beatrice Kean, Daughter to Philip, 485–6
Shake Hands with the Devil (Cockburn/Conner), 453
Shaw, George Bernard, Saint Joan, 206, 291
Sheed & Ward (publishers), 656, 657–9
Shelley, Mary, 588
Shuttleworth, Martin, 626–7
Sickert, Walter, 377
Sierra Leone, 515–18; up-country, 519–20
Simenon, Georges, 305
Simon, Lady (Kathleen Harvey), 511, 570
Simpson, T. Dale, 73–4
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 254
Sitwell, Edith, 144, 145, 313, 724; befriends Greene, 141–2
Sitwell, Sir Sidney, 351
Smith, Dodie, 35
Smith, Leslie, 287, 379
Smith, Lints, 376–7, 378
Smith, Stevie, 620
Smythe, F. S., 397, 445, 594
The Smugglers (Teignmouth & Harper), 362
Snowden, Philip, 399
socialism, 410–11, 433, 461; Brighton Rock and, 638; Sweden and, 489–90
Souri (cook), 518, 524
Southwell, Robert, 316, 700
Soviet Union, 617
Spain, Civil War, 610–13, 655–6
Spectator, 447–8, 655; film reviews, 587–8
Spencer, Conway, 153–4
Spender, Stephen, 607, 611
spiritualism, 93, 114, 105–6
Sprigge, Elizabeth, The Old Man Dies, 485
spying, see espionage
Squire, Sir John, 313
Stamboul Train (Greene): sexuality in, 442–3; writing of, 381, 386, 405–16, 420–3; submission to Evans, 424–5, 426–8; Priestley libel case, 435–8; success of, 441–2, 447–8, 450–1; film of, 475, 590–1
Stanier, R. S.: on Charles Greene, 42, 45, 46; on Greene, 70, 111
Star, 104
Starmer, Sir Charles, 232–3, 245–6
Sten, Anna, 410
Stern, G. B., 412
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 4, 5, 369, 624–5
Stoker, Bram, Dracula, 17–18
Strachey, John, The Coming Struggle for Power, 410
Strachwitz, Countess, see Greene, Barbara
The Strange River (J. Green), 455
Strike, General (1926), 296–303, 459
Stroheim, Erich von, 414
Strong, L. A. G., 441
suicide, 195, 219, 565; Greene witnesses as child, 9–10; Greene attempts at school, 85–7; Greene plays Russian roulette, 154–60; mortal sin of, 245, 277–8; Greene recommends for brother, 497
Sutro, John, 119
Sweden, Greene and Hugh visit, 487–90
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 420
Swinnerton, Frank, 396, 404
Symons, A. J. A., 645
Tallents, Sir Stephen, 585
Teasdale, Sarah, 338
Teignmouth, Lord, & Chas Harper, The Smugglers, 362
Temple, Shirley: Greene’s review of, 619–20; libel case, 619–24, 656–8
Tessimond, A. S. J., 617
The Third Man (Greene), 603
Thomas, Beach, 585
Thornbury, G. W., 17
‘Tick of the Clock’ [story] (Greene), 80–1, 103
The Times: Greene too inexperienced for, 171–2, 247–9; Greene joins, 282–4, 286–8; General Strike, 299–303; gives Greene medical leave, 319; Greene’s marriage and, 339–40; Greene resigns from, 376–9; unforgiving of Greene’s resignation, 429, 567
Topolski, Feliks, 618
trains, Greene’s love for, 209, 407
Tranmire, Lord, see Turton, Robin
Trench, Hilary (gloomy alter-ego), 158, 211, 276–7
Trevelyan, G. M., 143
‘Trial of Pan’ [story] (Greene), 126
Trollope, Anthony, comfort in Mexico, 681
Trollope, Father, 257–9
Trotsky, Leon, 671
Turton, Robin (later Lord Tranmire), 121, 124; on Greene’s atheism, 127, 255; on Greene’s Russian roulette, 159; in Hungary, 246
Twentieth Century Fox, 622, 624–5
‘Tyranny of Realism’ [story] (Greene), 113–14
Ulysses (Joyce), 163
United States, Greene critical of culture, 592–3
Updike, John, 445
Urquhart, F. F. ‘Sligger’, 120, 283
Valentino, Rudolf, 243
Van der Post, Laurens, 407
Venusberg (Powell), 450
Verschoyle, Derek, 587
Veracruz, 683, 689
Vigil (Williams), 147
Walker, J. G. (nephew), 143
Walpole, Hugh, 430
, 437
war: effect on Berkhamsted School, 41, 52, 53–4, 56–60; Armistice Day uprising at Berkhamsted, 60–2; Second World (War) looms, 659–60, 725; Spanish Civil, 610–13, 655–6
Ward, Barrington, 376–7, 429
Watts, Cedric, 631
Waugh, Alec, The Loom of Youth, 42
Waugh, Evelyn, 612, 617, 623; at Oxford, 119–20, 121; expensive critic, 609–10; race around the world, 606; reviews The Name of Action, 385
We from Kronstadt (film), 597–8
Weaver, Stella, 331, 332, 351–2
Webb, Beatrice, 296
Weekly Westminster, 246; sends Greene to Ireland, 134; introduces Sitwell & Greene, 141–2
Wells, H. G., 599–600
West, Mae, 589; model for Ida in Brighton Rock, 635–6
Westminster Gazette, 245–6
Wharton, Edith, 454
Wheeler, A. H., 76–7, 78–9; betrays Greene, 82–3; Greene’s childhood betrayer, 74
Whitemore, George, 121, 130
Wilkinson, Ellen, 123
Williams, Emlyn, Vigil, 147
Wilmot, John (Earl of Rochester), 391–5, 409
Wilson, James B., 31, 82, 115; on Charles Greene, 39, 40, 60; on Berkhamsted, 41–2, 43, 44, 502; on Greene after analysis, 116; compares Raymond and Graham, 70–1
Wilson, Trevor, 36–7
Wilson, Witaker, 347
Wimbush (the young pilot), 31
Winn, Godfrey, 621–2
Woolf, Virginia, 369–70
Wordsworth, William, 618–19, 638
Wright, Basil, 594, 598
Wright, Col Henry, 4
Wright, Maud (great-aunt), 4
writing: characterisation and, 241, 412–13; ice, splinter of, 8–9, 322–3, 413, 418; method of work, 133, 308–10; Greene’s search for structure, 405–6; influence of cinema, 414–16; novelist’s moral role, 451–5; romanticism to realism, 411, 413, 417–18
Wylde, Geoffrey, sketch of Greene, 653–4
Yambo Ouologuem, borrows from It’s a Battlefield, 482–3
Yeats, William Butler, 310, 695
Yorkshire Post, 233
Young, Francis Brett, 454, 610
Ziegfeld, Florenz, 403
Ziman, H. D., 178
Zog, King, 400
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