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by Margaret Forster


  Northcott, C., Robert Moffat: Pioneer in Africa (1961).

  Oswell, W. E., William Cotton Oswell, 2 vols (1900).

  Parsons, J. W., The Livingstones at Kolobeng 1847–1852 (1997).

  Schapera, I. (ed.), Apprenticeship at Kuruman: being the journal and letters of Robert and Mary Moffat 1821–8 (1951); David Livingstone: Family Letters 1841–56, 2 vols (1959); Livingstone’s Private Journals 1851–3 (1960); Livingstone’s African Journal 1853–6, 2 vols (1963).

  Seaver, G., David Livingstone: His Life and Letters (1957).

  Wallis, J. P. R. (ed.), The Matabele Mission: A Selection from the Correspondence of John and Emily Moffat, David Livingstone and others 1858–1878 (1945); The Zambesi Journal of James Stewart 1862–1863 (1952); The Zambesi Expedition of David Livingstone, 1858–1863 (1956).

  Fanny Stevenson

  Printed Sources

  Boodle, A., Robert Louis Stevenson and his Sine Qua Non (1926).

  Booth, Bradford A. and Mehew, Ernest (eds), The Letters of Robert

  Louis Stevenson, 8 vols (1994).

  Field, I., This Life I Have Loved (1937).

  Furnas, J. C., Voyage to Windward (1952).

  Lapierre, A., Fanny Stevenson: A Romance of Destiny (1995).

  Lockett, W. G., Robert Louis Stevenson at Davos (1940).

  Mackay, M., The Violent Friend: The Story of Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson (1968).

  McLynn, F., Robert Louis Stevenson (1993).

  Sanchez, N. Van de Grift, Life of Mrs R. L. Stevenson (1920).

  Stevenson, F., The Cruise of the ‘Janet Nichol’ Among the South Sea Islands – A Diary (1915).

  Stevenson, Margaret, From Saranac to the Marquesas: being letters written to her sister Jane 1887–8; Letters from Samoa 1891–95.

  Stevenson, R. L. and Stevenson, F., Our Samoan Adventure (1956).

  Jennie Lee

  Manuscript Material

  1. Jennie Lee Papers (60 boxes) – Open University Library.

  Printed Sources

  Campbell, J., Nye Bevan (1997).

  Castle, B., Fighting All the Way (1993).

  Foot, M., Aneurin Bevan, 2 vols (1975).

  Hollis, P., Jennie Lee: A Life (1997).

  Lee, J., Tomorrow is a New Day (1939); My Life With Nye (1980).

  MacKenzie, Norman and Jeanne (eds), The Diary of Beatrice Webb, 4 vols (1982–5).

  Vallance, E., Women in the House (1979).

  Index

  The page references in this index correspond to the printed edition from which this ebook was created. To find a specific word or phrase from the index, please use the search feature of your ebook reader.

  ‘AB’ indicates Aneurin Bevan, ‘DL’ David Livingstone, ‘JL’ Jennie Lee, ‘ML’ Mary Livingstone, ‘FS’ Fanny Stevenson, ‘RLS’ Robert Louis Stevenson.

  Alcott, Louisa May: Good Wives 317

  American Civil War 115

  Annie (JL’s cleaner) 232

  Antwerp 119–20

  Apemana 164

  Apia, Samoa 165, 166, 169, 178, 179, 181, 182, 185, 186

  Archer, Jeffrey, Baron 297

  Archer, Mary 297

  Asheridge farm, near Chesham, Chilterns 259–60, 262, 263, 265, 268, 269, 272, 274, 275, 276, 278, 281

  Ashley Street school, Carlisle 288

  Ashton, Mrs 69

  Ashton family 68

  Astor, Lady 221

  Attlee, Clement 237, 254, 255

  Auckland 168

  Bacon, Francis 8

  Bakwain tribe 89

  Balfour, Dr 156–7

  Bath 153

  Baxter, Charles 124, 132, 139, 166, 169

  Beatles 306

  Beaverbrook, Max 234

  Bennett, Mr (physician) 50

  Bevan, Aneurin; marries JL 10, 231, 286; Minister of Health and Housing 10, 237, 240, 241, 244, 245, 249, 251, 252; and the National Health Service 10, 245, 250–51, 253, 255, 256, 283; relationship with JL 225, 226–7; personality 226, 229, 246, 252; education 228; MP for Ebbw Vale 228, 237; meets JL 228–9, 288; as a speaker 229, 232, 254, 256, 267–8; JL’s support 236; JL protects 240–41; health 241, 247, 272–9; appoints JL to housing committee 243–4; travels abroad 251–2, 259, 260, 262; and steel nationalisation 253–4; Minister of Labour 255; resignation 256, 257; buys a farm 259–60; the Gosfield Street flat 261, 265; sues the Spectator 262; Party Treasurer 264; Shadow Foreign Secretary 264; and nuclear disarmament 266–9; meets Khrushchev 271; death and services 279–81

  Bevan, Arianwen (AB’s sister) 228, 248, 273, 279

  Bevan, Billy (AB’s brother) 231

  Bevan, Mr (AB’s father) 228, 272

  Bevan, Phoebe (AB’s mother) 228, 248

  Bevan family 233, 247–9, 279, 303, 308

  Blair, Cherie 101

  Blantyre 22–3

  Blue Ball pub, near Chesham 269

  Boers 35, 36, 39, 54, 69

  Boodle, Adelaide 152, 201, 202

  Botei river 42

  Botswana 109

  Bournemouth 150, 151, 154, 155, 156, 194

  Braemar 142

  Braithwaite, Anna 68

  Braithwaite family 55, 56

  Brighton 278

  Bristol Central by-election 235

  Browning, Elizabeth Barrett 206

  Browning, Robert 155

  Brussels 220

  Buchan, Jack 278, 279

  Buckland, Mr (‘Tin Jack’) 168

  Burdett-Coutts, Angela 71

  Burne-Jones, Sir Edward 155

  Burrup, Mr 85

  Burrup, Mrs (missionary’s wife) 76, 77, 81, 85–6

  Bushman 18

  Caldewgate, Carlisle 2

  California 160, 164

  Cannock, Staffordshire 236–7, 244, 246, 247, 258, 264, 282, 283, 284

  Cape, the, South Africa 23, 24, 31, 48, 49, 50, 55, 56, 65, 66, 67, 69, 72, 77, 78, 85

  Cape Province 18, 35

  Cape Town, South Africa 13, 15, 19, 39, 49–50, 59, 66, 67, 73, 75, 76

  Capri 251

  Carlisle 2, 3, 98, 102, 198, 288, 289, 290, 301

  Casco (schooner) 160, 161–2, 163

  Cassell’s publishers 154

  Castle, Barbara 282

  Central Housing Advisory Committee 244

  Central Labour College, London 228

  Chalet la Solitude, Hyères 147

  Cheetham, Manchester 5

  Cheever, George 38

  Chobe river 46

  Chonwane 29–36

  Church of Scotland 156

  Churchill, Sir Winston 234, 236

  Clark, Sir Andrew 150

  Clinton, Hillary Rodham 296–7

  Colorado 157

  Colvin, Sidney 124, 125–6, 130, 133, 137, 139, 144, 152, 155, 169, 179, 182, 186

  Conservative Party; Bevan on 254; majority in 1959 election 272

  Cornwall 199

  Cowdenbeath, Fifeshire 213, 217

  Crossman, Richard 262

  Daily Mirror 234

  David, Elizabeth 107

  Davies, Annabel 289, 296

  Davies, Dan 275, 276, 278

  Davies, Hunter 4–5, 95–105, 107, 108, 190–96, 198–206, 288–96, 299–302, 304–8, 310, 311

  Davies, Rosa 316

  Davies family 95

  Davos, Switzerland 139–42, 143, 145, 146, 147, 150, 153, 157, 159

  Derbyshire 154

  Devereux, W. C. 76–81, 83

  du Maurier, Daphne 199

  Dublin 61

  Durban 74, 75, 76

  Durham University 102, 204, 205

  East Oakland 118, 133, 134, 147

  Ebbw Vale constituency 228, 233–4, 237

  Edinburgh 126, 139, 146, 156, 157, 171, 281

  Edinburgh University 217

  Edwards, Mr (missionary at Mabotsa) 23, 29

  Edwards, Mrs 23, 25

  Epsom, Surrey 56

  Equator (schooner) 164, 165, 168

  feminism 9, 317, 319, 321

  Fiji 178

  Foot, Michae
l 272, 280

  Forster, Arthur 3–4, 109, 197, 198

  Forster, Lily 1–4, 6, 109–10, 194, 195, 197, 198

  Fox, Dr 150

  Free Kirk Foreign Mission Committee 70

  Gaitskell, Dora 271

  Gaitskell, Hugh 255, 256, 269, 270, 271

  General Election; 1929 (‘Flapper election’) 221–2; 1945 236, 237, 243, 253; 1950 253, 254; 1959 269, 271, 272; 1964 282

  General Strike (1926) 218, 219

  Gerhardt family 120

  Gilbert Islands 164

  Gillies, Dan 217, 218

  Glasgow 51, 55, 70, 75, 91

  Good Housekeeping 107

  Goodman, Arnold 283

  Gorgon (ship) 77, 85

  Gosse, Edmund 134, 139, 140, 169, 186

  Grahamstown, Cape Province 18, 19

  Grez 121–4, 125, 129

  Griquatown 23, 50

  Guardian 277

  Hadley Green, Barnet, Hertfordshire 61

  Hall, Mrs (sitting tenant) 104, 292, 296, 305–6

  Hamilton, near Glasgow 51, 52, 53, 63

  Hamilton Academy 62

  Harrison, Birge 122

  Healey, Denis 271

  Healey, Edna 271

  Helmore, Holloway 69

  Henley, W. E. 131, 133, 137, 139, 140, 144, 146, 153, 169, 186, 203

  Hetty Ellen (ship) 76

  Highland clans 143

  Hitler, Adolf 235

  Honolulu 162–4, 171

  House of Commons 9, 221

  Hyères, near Toulon 147–50, 169

  Independent Labour Party (ILP) 221, 222, 229, 235, 237

  Indiana 113, 117, 159, 162

  Indianapolis 115, 118, 124, 128, 131, 157

  Ingraham Cottage, Burnbank Road, Hamilton 52

  International Women’s Committee 232

  Islington Town Hall 316

  Italian Socialist Party 262

  Janet Nicholl (a steamer) 168, 169, 170

  Jeal, Tim 8

  Johanna island 85

  Johnson, Dr Samuel 93

  Julien’s Atelier des Dames, Paris 120

  Kate, Miss (a governess) 119–22

  Kendal 54, 55, 56; Quaker school 56, 70

  Kgatta tribe 29

  Khrushchev, Madame 271

  Khrushchev, Nikita 271

  Kilburn, London 6, 300–301

  King, Cecil 234

  King’s Cross Nose and Throat Hospital, London 273

  Kirk, Dr John 65, 66, 75, 76, 77, 80, 81, 86, 87–8, 90, 91

  Kolobeng 33–44, 46, 49, 54, 84, 89

  Kuruman mission station 13, 15–18, 20–25, 27, 29, 32, 33, 36, 39, 40, 41, 44, 48, 66–9

  Labour Party 244, 257, 309; conferences 220, 266, 268, 269, 270; and Europe 232; JL’s Bristol Central candidacy 235; JL’s re-entry to 235–6; comes into office (1945) 237, 243; and steel nationalisation 253; small majority in 1950 election 254; National Executive Committee (NEC) 258, 260, 264; nuclear disarmament 266; the October 1959 election disaster 272; organises AB’s memorial service 280; wins 1964 election 282

  Lake Ngami 39, 42

  Lake Nyasa 82

  Lake Ujiji 94

  The Lancet 149

  Lane End Cottage, near Reading 233, 234, 238, 259, 260, 263

  Lauder Brunton, Dr 150

  Lee, Euphemia (JL’s mother) 212–13, 215, 216, 219, 220, 232, 238, 247, 249, 250, 257–61, 264, 265, 273, 274, 276, 277–8, 280, 281, 286, 287

  Lee, James (JL’s father) 213, 215, 216, 219–20, 228, 232–3, 247, 249, 250, 257–8, 286

  Lee, Jennie; birth (1904) 9; decision not to marry 9, 10, 211, 212, 286; dedication to socialism 10; marries Aneurin Bevan (1934) 10, 231, 286; a disaster as a trainee wife 213–14; childhood 215; education 216, 217, 219; appearance 217, 218, 221, 246; first trip abroad 220; first appearance in the Commons 221; affair with Frank Wise 222–6; and Frank’s death 225–6, 230; loses her seat (1931) 223; meets AB 228–9, 288; works for Beaverbrook 234; Daily Mirror political correspondent 234; support of AB 236; contests and wins Cannock 236–7; life-style with AB 238–9; decision not to have children 239–40, 307–9; protects AB 240–41, 304–5; AB appoints her to the Central Housing Advisory Committee 243–4; personality 246; attitude to the Bevan family 247–9; travels abroad 251–2; buys a farm 259–60; the Gosfield Street flat 261–2, 264, 301; ‘mad’ letter 265–6, 309; and nuclear disarmament 266–8; meets Khrushchev 271; AB’s illness and death 274–81; helped by her cousin Bettina 282; Minister for the Arts 282–4; loses Cannock seat 283, 284; created Baroness Lee of Asheridge 283; and founding of the Open University 284; death 284–5; Russia, Our Ally pamphlet 235

  Lee, Jennie (JL’s niece) 249

  Lee, Jim (JL’s nephew) 249

  Lee, Meg (JL’s aunt) 215–16

  Lee, Rose (JL’s sister-in-law) 249, 250

  Lee, Tommy (JL’s brother) 214, 220, 249–50, 258, 281

  Lennon, John 306

  Lennox, Jessie 74, 76

  Lewinsky, Monica 297

  Linyanti 46

  Livingstone, Agnes (DL’s mother) 48, 62

  Livingstone, Agnes (ML’s daughter); birth 33; childhood 41, 42, 43, 48–9, 61, 72; education 56; relationship with ML 62

  Livingstone, Anna (ML’s daughter) 68, 69, 70, 72, 91, 104

  Livingstone, Annie (DL’s sister) 48–9

  Livingstone, David; attitude to marriage 8, 22, 23–4, 28; and Mrs Sewell 22–5, 28, 38, 66; influenced by Robert Moffat 22; early life 22–3; travels to Kuruman (1841) 22–3; wounded by a lion 24, 25; attitude to women and to family 24–5; personality 26, 34, 51, 81, 82; love for ML 26; marries ML (1845) 27; ML’s dependency 30, 48, 102–3; birth of his children 30–31, 33, 38–9, 47; and Lake Ngami 39, 42; death of daughter Elizabeth 43, 90; discovers Victoria Falls 57; reunited with ML in England 57–8; appearance 58, 60, 76, 99; honours 58–9; appointed Consul at Quelimane 64; leader of the Zambesi Expedition 64; reunion with ML in Africa 76–7; and ML’s religious doubts 84; and ML’s death 87–91, 94; Stanley finds 94; death 94; Missionary Travels and Researches in Southern Africa 61

  Livingstone, Elizabeth (ML’s daughter) 42–3, 90

  Livingstone, Janet (DL’s sister) 48–9

  Livingstone, Mary (née Moffat); birth (1821) 13, 17; marries DL (1845) 9, 27; attitude to her marriage 9; death of her brother James 14; education 18–19, 20; personality 18, 19, 21–2, 25, 26, 34, 53; in England (1839–43) 21; appearance 21, 25, 26, 32–3, 49–50, 59, 63, 77, 79, 93; helps to nurse DL 25; as a teacher 26, 29, 37, 38; in Mabotsa 28–30; dependency on DL 30, 48, 102–3; pregnancies 29–32, 38–9, 41–7, 63, 65–8, 72; in Chonwane 31–5; in Kolobeng 36–44, 49, 89; mild stroke 43, 50–51; death of daughter Elizabeth 43; in Britain 51–64; and alcohol 53, 71, 75–6, 86, 93; reunited with DL in England 57–8; her poem 57–8, 62, 103; birth of Anna at Kuruman 68; returns to Britain 69; religious doubts 72, 84; rumours about her and Stewart 72–5, 77, 86, 88, 93; reunion with DL in Africa 77; death and burial (1862) 87–8; fatal degree of obedience to DL 92, 109; good/bad wife 93–4

  Livingstone, Neil (DL’s father) 49, 51–2, 62, 98

  Livingstone, Oswell (ML’s son); birth 47, 71; childhood 48–9, 56, 61, 63–4, 65, 68; DL writes of ML’s death 88

  Livingstone, Robert (ML’s son) 63; birth 30; childhood 31, 41, 42, 48–9; personality 51, 62; education 56, 62, 70; plays truant from medical school 70–71; ML’s worries 72–3

  Livingstone, Thomas (ML’s son); birth 39; childhood 40, 47, 56, 61; health 42, 43, 62–3, 70; education 70

  Logan, Olive 155

  London 200, 291; ML and 51, 54, 55, 57, 60; DL fêted in 71; RLS in 125, 139, 146, 154–5, I56; FS in 125, 139, 153, 154–5, 156; dynamite outrages 148; JL’s boast 221; JL buys 23 Cliveden Place 238

  London Missionary Society 13, 18, 22, 25, 32, 50, 54, 55, 56, 61, 64

  Loverock, Joan 246

  Mabotsa 25, 28–30, 33

  Mackenzie, Anne 74–81, 85–6

  Mackenzie, Bishop 74, 75, 76, 85

  Major,
Norma 101

  Makololo country 68–9

  Manchester 4, 5, 51, 54, 55, 254, 300

  Manchester Evening Chronicle 4

  Marquesa Islands 161

  marriage ceremony 1–3, 6, 110, 313–16

  Married Women’s Property Act 113, 293

  Marseilles 147

  Martineau, Harriet 92

  Mary (a maid) 177

  Mataafa (Samoan chief) 184–5

  Matthews, William Henry 18–19

  Mennell, Dr 150

  Mercantile Library 119

  Metal Box 3

  Moë, Princess 162

  Moffat, Ann (ML’s sister) 17–21, 30, 39, 48, 55

  Moffat, Elizabeth (ML’s sister) 14, 21, 55, 68, 69

  Moffat, Ellen (ML’s sister–in–law) 68

  Moffat, Emily (ML’s sister–in–law) 67, 68, 71

  Moffat, Helen (ML’s sister) 17, 48, 55

  Moffat, James (ML’s brother) 14

  Moffat, Jane (ML’s sister) 20, 55, 67, 68, 69

  Moffat, John (ML’s brother) 67, 68, 69, 90

  Moffat, Mary (ML’s mother); pregnancies 13; attitude to her marriage 13, 15; death of James 14; physical labour at Kuruman 15–16; disciplined household 17, 24, 102; her children’s education 18, 19; in England (1839–43) 20–21; and DL 22, 24, 44–5; visits Chonwane 31–2; dominates ML 34; visits Kolobeng 43–4; birth of Anna 68; told of ML’s death 88–9

  Moffat, Robert (ML’s brother); birth 17; education 19, 20; in England (1839–43) 21; at Kuruman 68; in Durban 75

  Moffat, Robert (ML’s father) 102; translation of the New Testament 13, 20; marries Mary 15; establishes Kuruman mission station 15; in England (1839–43) 20, 21; appearance 21, 49; and DL 22

  Montana 117

  Monterey 129–33, 160

  Montpellier 146

  Montreal 159

  Moors (a trader in Samoa) 165, 166, 173

  Mosley, Diana 247

  Mosley, Oswald 247

  Mount Veia, Samoa 187

  MS magazine 321

  MS Society 190

  Murchison Cataracts 82, 85

  Murray, John 61

  Murray, Mungo 39

  Napa Valley 135

  Naples 251

  Nassau 169–70

  National Executive Committee (NEC) 260; constituency section 258; Women’s section 264

  National Health Service 10, 245, 250–51, 253, 255, 256, 283

  National Theatre, London 283

  National Women’s Political Caucus 321

  National Women’s Suffrage Association 113

  Native American Indians 116

  Navigator Islands 165

  Nevada 115

 

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