CHAPTER THREE
Russians, Radicals and Roman Catholics
Appearing between pages 32 and 49
40 Harold Nicolson, p. 132
41 Berners, Far From the Madding War, in Collected Tales, p. 392
42 Alan Wykes, ‘Lord Berners’, Music and Musicians, Sept. 1983
43 Berners, Percy Wallingford, in Collected Tales, p. 29
44 Gavin Bryars, interview with author
45 Lane, ‘Lord Berners’
46 Stravinsky, Selected Correspondence, p. 140
47 Constant Lambert, ‘The Musical Peer’, introduction to Osbert Lancaster’s ‘Uncommon People’, Strand Magazine, April 1947
48 Constant Lambert, ‘Tribute to Lord Berners’, BBC Radio 3, 16 February 1951
49 Stravinsky, Memories and Commentaries, p. 83
50 Dickinson, Lord Berners, p. 24
51 Grigoriev, p. 226
52 Gifford, ‘Lord Berners and the Triumph of Neptune’, p. 11
53 ibid., p. 13
54 Gramophone, December 1926
55 Fielding, The Face on the Sphinx, pp. 2–3
56 Mary Gifford, ‘The Eccentric Lord Berners’, lecture at Wantage Festival, 2013
57 Wellesley, Far Have I Travelled, p. 134
58 William Crack, interview with Gavin Bryars
59 Ibid.
60 Ibid.
61 Amory, Lord Berners, p. 113
62 Rose, p. 376
63 Kahan, p.240
64 Glendinning, Vita, p. 253
65 Kahan, p. 252
66 Brett, ‘Musicality, Essentialism, and the Closet’, in Brett, Wood and Thomas, pp. 16–17
67 Christopher Wood, letter to mother, in Ingleby, pp. 105 and 162
68 Rose, p. 129
69 Alan Hollinghurst, ‘The Dandy in the Desert: Ronald Firbank After the War’, Graham Storey Lecture, 2012
70 Berners, in Kyrle Fletcher, p. 145
71 Hobson, p. 146
72 Berners, in Kyrle Fletcher, pp. 149–50
73 Aberconway, pp. 124–5
74 Acton, More Memoirs of an Aesthete, p. 42
75 Sitwell, p. 181
76 Amory, Lord Berners, p. 66
CHAPTER FOUR
A Delightful Youth
Appearing between pages 51 and 71
77 Heber-Percy, pp. 21–22
78 Ibid., p. 32
79 Ibid., p. 18
80 Ibid., p. 20
81 Ibid., p. 30
82 Ibid., p. 18
83 Deirdre Curteis, interview
84 Mitford, Ross et al (eds), p. 22
85 Wheen, p. 27
86 Ibid.
87 Niven, p. 34
88 Heber-Percy, p. 118
89 Martin Green, p. 27
90 Heber-Percy, p. 117
91 Carpenter, p. 172
92 Fielding, The Duchess of Jermyn Street, p. 124
93 Luke, p. 27
94 Jonathan Burnham, interview
95 Houlbrook, p. 51
96 Tamagne, p. 46
97 Ackerley, p. 175
98 Meyrick, p. 22
99 Gardiner, p. 628 100
100 Luke, p. 31
101 Susanna Johnston, interview
102 Diana Mosley, Loved Ones, p. 104
103 Berners, The Girls of Radcliff Hall, p. 39
CHAPTER FIVE
Et in Arcadia Ego
Appearing between pages 74 and 98
104 Diana Mosley, Loved Ones, p. 104
105 Letter from Gerald Berners to Cecil Beaton, copy in Berners Archive, British Library
106 Diana Mosley, A Life of Contrasts, p. 105, and Edward James, interview with Gavin Bryars
107 Rose, p. 376
108 Dickinson, p. 78
109 Michael Duff, p. 94
110 Jonathan Burnham to Mark Amory, Lord Berners, p. 127 and note
111 Letter from Gerald Berners to Cecil Beaton, October 15 1933, in Berners Archive, British Library
112 A. L. Rowse to Mark Amory, Friends and Contemporaries, p. 214 and note
113 Henry James, p. 222
114 Dickinson, p. 74
115 Bridget Dickinson, interview
116 Wheen, p. 72
117 Ibid., p. 54
118 Edward James, interview with Gavin Bryars
119 Mark Girouard, ‘Faringdon House, Berkshire: The Home of Mr Robert Heber-Percy’, Country Life, 12 and 19 May 1966
120 Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love, p. 41
121 Rose, p. 376
122 Nancy Mitford, ‘Faringdon House’, House & Garden, Aug.– Sept. 1950
123 Alan Wykes, ‘Lord Berners’, Music and Musicians, Sept. 1983
124 Owen, p. 70
125 Berners, The Romance of a Nose, in Collected Tales, p. 304
126 Rowse, p.62, and Dickinson, p. 96
127 Nancy Mitford, op. cit.
128 Berners, unpublished notebook
129 Stravinsky, Memories and Commentaries, p. 84
130 Rose, p. 376
131 Berners, First Childhood, in Collected Tales, p. 29
132 Berners, interview in Lilliput, vol. XXIV, no. 1, January 1949
133 Derek Jackson, interview with Gavin Bryars
134 Wilson, p. 109
135 Kavanagh, p. 211
136 Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise, p. 34
137 Interview with Diana Mosley, in Dickinson, p. 91
138 John Betjeman, ‘Lord Berners: 1883-1950’ (obituary), Listener, 11 May 1950
139 Harris, p. 291
140 Diana Mosley, A Life of Contrasts, p. 191
141 Dickinson, p. 105
142 Carpenter, p. 263
143 Wilson, p. 104
144 Berners, unpublished notebook
145 Gavin Bryars, ‘The Versatile Peer’, Guardian, 22 February 2003
146 Interview with Harold Acton, in Dickinson, p. 56
147 Charlotte Mosley, The Mitfords, p. 86
148 Dickinson, p. 75
CHAPTER SIX
Boys and Girls
Appearing between pages 100 and 115
149 Mulvagh, p. 47
150 Byrne, p. 131
151 Ibid.
152 Ibid., p. 147
153 Ibid., p. 176
154 Ibid., p. 185
155 Mulvagh, p. 41
156 Luke, p. 91
157 John Betjeman, ‘Lord Berners: 1883–1950’ (obituary), Listener, 11 May 1950
158 Glendinning, Edith Sitwell, p. 104
159 Vickers, Cecil Beaton, p. 74
160 Evelyn Waugh, ‘Footlights and Chandeliers’, The Spectator, 21 July 1961
161 Deirdre Curteis, interview
162 Vickers, Cecil Beaton, p. 183
163 Alan Pryce-Jones, Adam International Review, no 385-90, 1 January 1974
164 Fielding, The Duchess of Jermyn Street, p. 170
165 Ibid., p. 174
166 Ibid.
167 Dickinson, p. 85
168 Fielding, The Duchess of Jermyn Street, p. 170
169 Vickers, Cecil Beaton, p. 161
170 Hugo Vickers, unpublished diary
171 Vickers, Cecil Beaton, p. 162
172 Hugo Vickers, interview
173 Ibid.
174 Vickers, op. cit.
175 Thomson, p. 75
176 Ibid.
177 Daphne Fielding, ‘Spirit of Ecstasy’, Harpers & Queen, 1989
178 Thomson, p. 159
179 Amory, Lord Berners, p. 148
180 John Byrne, introduction to Berners, The Girls of Radcliff Hall, p.vii
CHAPTER SEVEN
Fiends
Appearing between pages 116 and 131
181 Devonshire, p. 41
182 Ben Macintyre, ‘Those Utterly Maddening Mitford Girls’, The Times, 12 October 2007
183 Diana Mosley, A Life of Contrasts, p. 267
184 Ibid.
185 Gardiner, p. 433
186 Green, p. 322
187 Devonshire, p. 41
188 Deirdre Curt
eis, interview
189 Gardiner, p. 439
190 T. S. Eliot, ‘Burbank with a Beedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar’, 1920
191 Luke, p. 91
192 Interview with Robert Heber-Percy, in Dickinson, p. 79
193 Berners, unpublished notebook
194 Clarissa Eden, interview
195 Acton, More Memoirs of an Aesthete, p. 31
196 Lees-Milne, Prophesying Peace, p. 24
197 Sitwell, p. 181
198 Diana Mosley, A Life of Contrasts, p. 97
199 Harold Nicolson, ‘Marginal Comment’, The Spectator, vol. CLXXXV, 12 October 1950
200 Nichols, The Sweet and Twenties, p. 158
201 Woolf, ‘Am I a Snob?’, in Moments of Being, p. 195
202 Nichols, The Sweet and Twenties, p. 165
203 Ibid., p. 159
204 Richardson, p. 47
205 Amory, Lord Berners, p. 161
206 Dickinson, p. 95
207 Ibid., p. 94
208 Constant Lambert, introductory talk to concert of Lord Berners’ music, BBC Third Programme, 16 February 1951
209 Berners, First Childhood, in Collected Tales,
210 Noel Annan, ‘The Camel at the Door’,p. 66 New York Review of Books, 7 October 1999
CHAPTER EIGHT
Follies and Fur-lined Wombs
Appearing between pages 133 and 155
211 Glendinning, Vita, p. 223
212 Vickers, Cecil Beaton, p. 261
213 Berners, Far From the Madding War, in Collected Tales, p. 385
214 Gibson, p. 72
215 Richardson, p. 291
216 Interview with Robert Heber-Percy, in Dickinson, p. 107
217 Ibid.
218 Cohen, p. 138
219 Gibson, p. 191
220 Edward James, p. 2
221 Gibson, p. 241
222 Edward James, interview with Gavin Bryars
223 Amory, Lord Berners, p. 160
224 Richardson, p. 296
225 John Betjeman, ‘Lord Berners: 1883-1950’ (obituary), Listener, 11 May 1950
226 Rose, p. 56
227 Amory, The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, p. 234
228 Diana Mosley, Loved Ones, p. 127
229 Dickinson, p. 33
230 Stein, [ebook, no page numbers]
231 Nichols, Are They the Same at Home?, p. 50
232 Kavanagh, p. 211
233 Berners, unpublished notebook
234 Sitwell, p. 178
235 Glendinning, Edith Sitwell, pp. 26-8
236 Sitwell, p. 178
237 Motion, p. 187
238 Salter, p. 78
239 Buckle, p. 42
240 Rose, p. 358
241 Cyril Connolly, Previous Convictions, p. 282
242 Rose, p. 184
243 Malcolm, p. 159
244 Stein
245 Malcolm, p. 64
246 Jack Fox, interview
247 Toklas, pp. 285 and 283
CHAPTER NINE
The Orphan on the Top Floor
Appearing between pages 161 and 185
248 Sturgis, p. 601
249 Gathorne-Hardy, p. 80
250 Christopher Hussey, ‘Oare House, Wiltshire, The Property of Mr Geoffrey Fry’, Country Life, vol. LXIII, no. 1625, 10 March 1928
251 Byrne, p. 110
252 Taylor, p. 61
253 Davie, p. 300
254 Letter to Harold Acton, in Amory, The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, p. 38
255 ibid., p. 40
256 Janetta Parlade, interview
257 Cressida Connolly, interview
258 Francis Wyndham, interview
259 Amory, The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, p. 51
260 Francis Wyndam, interview
261 Martin Green, p. 241
262 Francis Wyndham, interview
263 Hastings, p. 73
264 Taylor, p. 203
265 Francis Wyndham, interview
266 Cressida Connolly, obituary of Jennifer Ross, Independent, 19 December 2003
267 Cressida Connolly, interview
268 Lewis, p. 200
269 Jack Fox, interview
CHAPTER TEN
In the City of the Dreaming Dons
Appearing between pages 186 and 214
270 Fielding, The Duchess of Jermyn Street, p. 178
271 Haste, p. 28
272 Amory, Lord Berners, p. 177
273 Kavanagh, p. 245
274 Lees-Milne, Diaries, 1942-1954, p. 10
275 De Gaury, p. 18
276 Ibid., p. 174
277 Isaiah Berlin in Lloyd-Jones, p. 18
278 Haste, p. 38
279 Lewis, p. 107
280 Luke, p. 35
281 Carpenter, p. 97
282 Berners, unpublished notebook
283 Diana Mosley, A Life of Contrasts, p. 155
284 Olson, p. 186
285 Haste, p. 54
286 Letter from Ann O’Neil (later Fleming) to Gerald Berners, in Berners Archive, British Library
287 Billa Harrod, interview with Gavin Bryars
288 Ibid.
289 Rowse, p. 51
290 Sylvia Crack, interview
291 Berners, Far From the Madding War, in Collected Tales, p. 417
292 De Gaury, p. 44
293 Ibid., p. 174
294 Ibid., p. 21
295 Andrew Crowden, eulogy for Robert Heber-Percy
296 Francis Wyndham, interview
297 Feigel, p. 4
298 Olson, p. 194
299 Ross, p. 142
300 Larkin, p. 11
301 Berners, Far From the Madding War, in Collected Tales, p. 406
302 Haste, p. 53
303 Kavanagh, p. 206
304 Francis Wyndham, interview
305 Charlotte Mosley, The Mitfords, p. 183
306 Wilson, p. 145
307 Skelton, p. 218
308 Sheldon, p. 80
309 De-la-Noy, p. 137
310 Billa Harrod, interview with Gavin Bryars
311 Haste, p. 33
312 Ibid., p. 34
313 Ibid., p. 42
314 Clarissa Eden, interview
315 Haste, p. 33
316 Lord Berners, ‘Private Opinion Poll’, Lilliput, vol. XXIV, no. 1, January 1949
317 Clarissa Eden, interview
318 Rowse, p. 61
319 David Cecil, interview with Gavin Bryars
320 Sir Thomas Armstrong, interviewed on Radio 3 on 11 December 1992
321 Michael Ratcliff, ‘Lord Berners, that Most Versatile Peer’, The Times, 3 September 1983
322 Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, p. 139
323 Rowse, p. 290
324 Amory, Lord Berners, p. 36
325 Prieto, Paintings and Drawings
326 Heber-Percy, p. 119
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Gosh I Think She’s Swell
Appearing between pages 217 and 237
327 Clarissa Eden, interview
328 Rowse, p. 72
329 Clarissa Eden, interview
330 Diana Mosley, A Life of Contrasts, p. 173
331 Kahan, p. 364
332 Sweet, p. 115-16
333 Haste, p. 60
334 Vickers, Cecil Beaton, p. 248
335 Ibid., p. 217
336 Leonard Mosley, p. 183
337 Cannadine, p. 635
338 Hastings, p. 158
339 Nancy Mitford, ‘Faringdon House’, House & Garden, Aug.-Sept. 1950
340 Fielding, Mercury Presides, p. 210
341 Amory, Lord Berners, p. 194
342 Gardiner, p. 552
343 Crisp, p. 160
344 Obituary of Michael Luke, Independent, 19 April 2005
345 Luke, p. 174
346 Sheldon, p. 63
347 Lewis, p. 398
348 Letter from Elizabeth Bowen to Charles Ritchie, in Glendinning, Love’s Civil War, p. 51
349 Muggeridge, p. 104
350 Davi
e, p. 608
351 Rowse, p. 72
352 Oxford Magazine, 4 June 1942
353 Joy Skinner, interview
354 Dickinson, p. 17
355 Joan Wyndham, p. 45
CHAPTER TWELVE
The Pram in the Hall
Appearing between pages 243 and 259
356 Jack Fox, interview
357 Francis Wyndham, interview
358 Cooper, A Durable Fire, p. 310
359 Clarissa Eden, interview
360 Niven, p. 230
361 Ibid., p. 44
362 Victoria Zinovieff, interview
363 Billa Harrod, interview with Gavin Bryars
364 Charles Duff, interview
365 Hill, p. 173
366 Hastings, p. 141
367 Lees-Milne, Prophesying Peace, p. 28
368 Diana Mosley, A Life of Contrasts, p. 178
369 Ibid., p. 181
370 Ibid.
371 Sheldon, p. 115
372 Lees-Milne, Prophesying Peace, p. 53
373 Ibid., p. 54
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Put in a Van
Appearing between pages 262 and 286
374 Letter to Roy Harrod, undated, 1994, in Billa Harrod’s private papers
375 Amory, Lord Berners, p. 218
376 Obituary of Michael Luke, Daily Telegraph, 11 April 2005
377 Luke, p. 172
378 Obituary of Michael Luke, op. cit.
379 Francis Wyndham, interview
380 Clarissa Eden, interview
381 Francis Wyndham, interview
382 Amory, Lord Berners, p. 220, refers to Glendinning, Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer
383 Cyril Connolly, Horizon, vols XV-XVI, August 1947
384 Interview with Robert Heber-Percy, in Dickinson, p. 84
385 Rachel Cecil, interview with Gavin Bryars
386 Glendinning, Love’s Civil War, p. 100
387 Constant Lambert, ‘The Musical Peer’, introduction to Osbert Lancaster’s ‘Uncommon People’, Strand, April 1947, p. 62
388 Billa Harrod, interview with Gavin Bryars
389 Diana Mosley, Loved Ones, p. 102
390 Amory, Lord Berners, p. 232
391 Vickers, Cecil Beaton, p. 462
392 Billa Harrod, interview with Gavin Bryars
393 Lewis, p. 413
394 Quennell, p. 137
395 Diana Mosley, A Life of Contrasts, p. 200
396 Amory, Lord Berners, p. 224
397 Ibid.
398 Diana Mosley, interview with Gavin Bryars
399 Francis Wyndham, interview
400 Niven, p. 247
401 Cyril Connolly, London Magazine, Feb.–March 1975
402 Lees-Milne, Diaries, 1942-1954, p. 330
403 Henry Green, p. 58
404 Treglown, p. 53
405 Feigel p. 44
406 Ibid., p. 92
407 Charlotte Mosley, The Letters of Nancy Mitford, p. 254
408 Terry Southern, ‘Henry Green, The Art of Fiction No. 22’, Paris Review, Summer 1958
409 Ross, p. 196
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