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Fairfield, Letitia (Lettie), 311
Farjeon, Eleanor: early happiness, 98; and Edward Thomas, 148; readings at Poetry Bookshop, 170, 184, 277
Farrell, J.G.: biography by Lavinia Greacen, 363—7; A Girl in the Head, 365; The Lung, 365; The Man from Elsewhere, 365; The Siege of Krishnapur, 366; The Singapore Grip, 366; Troubles, 365
Faulkner, Charles, 120
Fellowship of the New Life, 242
Felpham, Sussex, 13—14
fiction: plot in, 494—8; speaking and dialogue in, 498—507
Fields, Annie, 24
First, Ruth and Anne Scott: Olive Schreiner, 241
Fitzgerald, Edward, 95—6
Fitzgerald, Penelope: background and career, 467—80; childhood, 481—93; on writing, 508—19; At Freddie’s, 479; The Beginning of Spring, 480; The Bookshop, 476, 499; The Gate of Angels, 500, 511—19; Human Voices, 474—5; Innocence, 480; The Means of Escape (collection), 472n; Offshore, 478
Flaubert, Gustave, 84
Flint, Frank, 156, 159—60, 166—7; Cadences, 165
Flying Fame rhyme sheets, 168
Foote, Samuel, 203
Ford, Ford Madox: biography by Alan Judd, 294—8
Forster, Edward Morgan: accompanies Elizabeth von Arnim on caravan tour, 149; on Lydia Lopokova, 291; plot surprises, 399; and Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, 284; writes pageants, 285; A Passage to India, 498; A Room with a View, 268
Fortescue, Chichester, 89
Fouqué, H. de la Motte: Sintram, 112 & n
Fournier, Henri Alain see Alain-Fournier
Fowles, John, 310
Fraser, Lovat, 168—70, 180
Freud, Sigmund: Beyond the Pleasure Principle, 312
Friend, The ( journal), 18
Frost, Robert: Alida Klementaski detests, 153, 166; at Poetry Bookshop, 160; and Edward Thomas, 149—52; reads Ralph Hodgson’s ‘Eve’, 168—9; North of Boston, 151
Fry, Roger: death, 289; friendship with C.R. Ashbee, 130; Post-Impressionist Exhibition (1910), 289
Futurists, 155, 165
Gardner, Stanley, 15
Garnett, David, 249, 288, 290
Garnett, Edward, 150
Garrett, Tony, 369—70
Gaskell, Helen, 141—2
Gaudier-Bržeska, Henri, 158
George VI, King, 473
George, Prince Regent (later King George IV), 6
Georgian Poetry (series), 153, 157—8, 164, 166, 188
Georgian poets, 155, 165, 167
Gertler, Mark, 289—90
Gerzina, Gretchen: Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893—1932, 288—91
Gibson, Robert, 310
Gide, André, 188, 309, 529
Gilchrist, Anne, 95
Gillman, Dr James and Ann, 20
Giorgione: Europa and the Bull, 137—8
Girton College, Cambridge, 31
Gladstone, Catherine (née Glynne), 93
Gladstone, William Ewart: on accepting future, 33; on death of Edward White Benson, 78; indulges granddaughter, 84, 141; as Lewis Carroll’s Unicorn, 85; praises Minnie Benson, 75
Glasier, Bruce, 118
Gleeson, Evelyn, 227
Glendinning, Victoria: Rebecca West: A Life, 310—17
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 496
Golding, Sir William: Lord of the Flies, 364
Gollancz, Sir Victor, 272
Gonne, Maud: correspondence with Yeats, 219—25
Goodman, Elizabeth, 173
Gordon Riots (1780), 13
Gore-Booth, Constance (later Countess Markievicz), 224
Gore-Booth, Eva, 224
Gosse, Sir Edmund, 91
Grace (Thames barge), 477—9
Graham, Frances, 137
Graham, William, 137
Grahame, Kenneth, 215
Grange, The, North End, Fulham, 133—42
Grant, Duncan, 289
Graves, Robert, 165
Gray, Tony: A Peculiar Man: A Life of George Moore, 228—32
Greacen, Lavinia: J.G. Farrell: The Making of a Writer, 363—7
Green, Arthur Romney, 156, 159, 163
Green, Roger Lancelyn, 82
Green, Romney, 130
Greene, Graham, 332
Greener, Amy, 174
Gregory, Augusta, Lady, 217, 219
Grigson, Geoffrey, 347
Grossmith, George and Weedon: The Diary of a Nobody, 208
Grosvenor Galleries: Burne-Jones exhibits at, 137—8
Guild of Handicrafts, 129—30, 132—3
Guthrie, James, 153
Guy, Revd F.B., 111
‘Gyp’ (i.e. la comtesse S.G.M.R. de Martel de Janville), 235, 500
Haggard, Sir Henry Rider, 297
Haight, Gordon, 36—7
Hall, Radclyffe (‘John’): Michael Baker’s biography of, 253—8; Adam’s Breed, 255; Unlit Lamp, 255; The Well of Loneliness, 253—4, 258
Hallam, Arthur, 92
Hamilton, Ian, 149
Hamilton, Mark: Rare Spirit: A Life of William de Morgan, 125
Hampstead, 471—2, 481—6, 490—1
Hardwick, Joan: The Yeats Sisters: A Biography of Susan and Elizabeth Yeats, 226—8
Hardy, Florence, 18, 173, 182
Hardy, Thomas: fictional plots, 497; promotes Charlotte Mew, 173, 178, 182, 184; Jude the Obscure, 527—8; Under the Greenwood Tree, 115
Harland, Henry, 176—7
Harman, Claire (ed.): Sylvia Townsend Warner: Collected Poems, 246, 250—2
Harrison, Lucy, 173—5, 177
Hart, Ruth, 217
Hart-Davis, Sir Rupert, 258; Hugh Walpole, 370
Hartley, Enid, 327
Hartley, George, 375
Hartley, Leslie Poles: biography by Adrian Wright, 326—9; on F.W. Myers, 320; praises The Well of Loneliness, 253; The Go-Between, 329, 525
Hartley, Norah, 326—7
Heaney, Seamus, 378
Heath-Stubbs, John: Hindsights, 343
Heeley, Wilfred, 134
Herbert, George: ‘Hope’, 393
Hersey, John, 205
Hicks family, 470
Hicks, Edward Lee, Bishop of Lincoln (Penelope Fitzgerald’s grandfather), 91, 470
Hill, Miranda (‘Andy’), 280
Hill, Octavia, 31, 79—80, 173, 280
Hill, Polly and Richard Keynes (eds): Lydia and Maynard: Letters Between Lydia Lokopova and John Maynard Keynes, 1918—1925, 288, 291—3
Hitchman, Janet: Such a Strange Lady, 271
Hodgson, Ralph: ‘Eve’, 169
Hogarth Press: John Lehmann works at, 338, 340, 342; publishes Eliot, 166
Holliday, Catherine, 17
Holmes, Richard: on the Apocrypha, 194; Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804—1834, 17—21
Holroyd, Michael: Lytton Strachey, 277; Unreceived Opinions, 380
Holt, Charlie, 328
Holy Land, 456—61
Hone, Joseph: edits J.B. Yeats letters, 216; life of George Moore, 228
Honour, Hugh, 451
Hood, Thomas: Song of the Shirt, 205
Hooton, Harry, 150
Horizon (magazine), 341
Housman, A.E., 190, 201; Last Poems, 190—1
Housman, Laurence, 132
Howard, Rosalind, 109
Howell, Charles Augustus, 135
Hueffer, Ford Madox see Ford, Ford Madox
Hughes, David, 342
Hughes, Ted, 352, 378
humour, 202—3
Hunt, Violet, 295
Hutchinson, Sara, 18
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 198
Hyde, Douglas, 230
Hynes, Samuel, 311
Iles, Frank, 126
Imagists, 155, 165
Inklings (Oxford group), 355
Ionides, Constantine, 108 & n
Irving, Edward, 55
Isherwood, Christopher: relations with John Lehmann, 339, 341, 343
Ishiguro, Kazuo: A Pale View of Hills, 502—3; The Remains of the Day, 421; The Unconso
led, 420—2
Italia Conti (theatrical school, London), 479
Jackson, Moses, 190
Jacobs, W.W., 513
James, Henry: on Ada Leverson, 234; on Charles Keene and George du Maurier, 206—7; and dialogue, 505; on E.W. Benson’s ghost account, 78; visits The Grange, 139; The Aspern Papers, 456; The Awkward Age, 269, 500
James, Montague Rhodes: life, career and writings, 192—3, 195; Eton and King’s, 193, 198; The Haunted Doll’s House and Other Stories: Introduction, 192—200
James, William, 12
Jameson Raid (1895), 244
Jameson, Storm, 189, 310—11
Jammes, Francis, 306
Jay, Elisabeth: Mrs Oliphant, ‘A Fiction to Herself’: A Literary Life, 69—72
Jeffares, A. Norman, 221, 224
Jeffrey, Francis, 68
Jerusalem, 457—9
Jewett, Sarah Orne: background and career, 22—4; death, 27; novels and stories, 22—7; A Country Doctor, 23; ‘Miss Tempy’s Watchers’, 26; The Country of the Pointed Firs, 22, 24—6
Jews: in Nazi Germany, 432—8
John Lehmann Ltd, 341—2
Jones, David, 168
Jones, Jo Elwyn and J. Francis Gladstone: The Red King’s Dream, or Lewis Carroll in Wonderland, 80, 85—6
Jones, Monica, 374—5
Jowett, Benjamin, 94—5
Joyce, James: on art, 222, 530; epiphanies, 208; and Ford Madox Ford’s liking for women, 298; and language, 529; on romantic imagination, 395; Finnegans Wake, 529; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 222, 405, 414, 516; Ulysses, 286, 497, 527
Joyce, Stanislaus, 527
Judd, Alan: Ford Madox Ford, 294—8
Jung Chang: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, 427—31
Kafka, Franz, 314; The Trial, 501
Kallin, Anna, 358
Karl, Frederick R.: George Eliot, Voice of a Century: A Biography, 36—9
Katzman, Charles, 348
Kauffer, McKnight, 162—3, 168
Keats, John: on Coleridge, 21; in Hampstead, 471, 482—3
Keats, Tom, 482
Keble, John, 98, 111
Keene, Charles, 206—8, 212—13
Kelman, James, 407
Kelmscott Manor House, 107, 134, 528
Kelmscott Press, The, 122—5, 141
Kendall, H.E., 172
Kennedy, Richard: A Boy at the Hogarth Press, 284
Kermode, Frank, 30, 38
Keynes, John Maynard, Baron: correspondence with Lydia Lopokova, 288, 291—3
King, Cecil, 342
King, Edward, Bishop of Lincoln, 77
King, Francis: Yesterday Came Suddenly, 370
King, Gunning, 208
Kingsley, Charles, 86
Kingsley, Henry, 86
Kipling, Alice, 135
Kipling, Rudyard: Angus Wilson and, 371; with Burne-Joneses at The Grange, 136, 140, 142; meets William Morris, 101—3, 136; praises Sarah Orne Jewett’s Country of the Pointed Firs, 26; Something of Myself, 136
Klementaski, Alida (Mrs Harold Monro): and Charlotte Mew, 180—2; and Poetry Bookshop, 153, 158—9, 161—7, 170
Klemperer, Eva (née Schlemmer), 432, 435, 437
Klemperer, Victor: I Shall Bear Witness (transl. Martin Chalmers), 432—8
Knox family, 469
Knox, Dillwyn (Penelope Fitzgerald’s uncle), 469
Knox, Revd Edward (Penelope Fitzgerald’s grandfather), 469
Knox, E.V. (Penelope Fitzgerald’s father): on difference between journalism and literature, 202, 495; edits Punch, 201, 209, 468; homes and family life, 468, 482, 486, 491; writes for Punch, 201—2, 468, 471, 482, 486; In My Old Days: foreword, 210—12
Knox, Rawle (Penelope Fitzgerald’s brother), 468, 485, 488—9; The Work of E.H. Shepard, 214
Knox, Monsignor Ronald (Penelope Fitzgerald’s uncle), 333, 469—70
Knox, Revd Wilfred (Penelope Fitzgerald’s uncle), 469—70
Kocmanova, Jessie: The Maturing of William Morris, 104
Lamb, Charles, 19
Lane, Allen, 341—2
Lane, John, 177
Lanza, Clara, 229
Larkin, Philip: The Less Deceived, 375; Selected Letters, 1940—1985 (ed. Anthony Thwaite), 374—9; ‘The Whitsun Wedding’, 377
Latham, David and Sheila, 102
Lawrence, D.H.: dialogue in, 504—5; lives in Well Walk, 482; at Poetry Bookshop, 160; Rebecca West and, 313; The Captain’s Doll, 504; Kangaroo, 504; Sons and Lovers, 417, 503; Women in Love, 504
Lear, Anne (Edward’s sister), 87
Lear, Edward, 93—4; Excursions in Italy, 87—8
Leavis, F.R., 36, 152
Lee, Alice, 174
Lee, Hermione: Virginia Woolf, 275—9, 338
Leech, John, 206
le Gallienne, Richard, 235
Legrand, Edy, 168
Lehmann, Beatrix, 337
Lehmann, Helen, 337
Lehmann, John: biography by Adrian White, 336—44; ‘A Dream of Winter’, 341; In the Purely Pagan Sense, 337, 340; The Whispering Gallery, 340
Lehmann, Rosamond: place in family, 337; relations with brother John, 342; on Rose Macaulay, 299; Dusty Answer, 253, 338
Lehmann, Rude, 337
Leighton House, London, 126
Lemon, Mark, 204—5
Leonard, Mrs (medium), 256
Leonardo da Vinci: Mona Lisa, 450
lesbianism: Radclyffe Hall and, 253—7
Lessing, Doris: The Golden Notebook, 364
Leverson, Ada: The Little Ottleys, 233—8
Leverson, Ernest, 233—4, 236
Levi, Peter: Edward Lear: A Biography, 86—90
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 496
Lewes, George Henry, 36—8
Lewis, Clive Staples: biography by A.N. Wilson, 353—7; A Grief Observed, 357; Surprised by Joy, 356
Lewis, George, 140
Lewis, Joy (née Davidman), 355
Lewis, Katie, 84
Lewis, Warren Hamilton (‘Warnie’), 354—6
Lewis, Wyndham, 146
Liddell, Alice, 82—4
Liddell, Henry George, Dean of Christ Church, 82
Liddell, Lorina (née Reeve), 82
Liddon, Henry Parry, Canon of St Paul’s, 81
Lincoln, Bishops of see Hicks, Edward Lee; King, Edward
Links, J.G., 452
Lissine, Alexis, 342—3
Locke, John, 20
Loize, Jean, 308
London Magazine, 342—3
London Mercury, The (periodical), 167
Longfellow, Alice, 24
Lopokova, Lydia: correspondence with J.M. Keynes, 288, 291—3; effect on Bloomsbury, 291
Lowell, Amy, 169
Lucas, Miss (later Green; teacher), 483, 485
Lushington, Frank, 89
Lutyens, Sir Edwin, 444—6
Mac Liammoir, Micheál, 220
Macaulay, (Dame) Rose: convictions, 310; on poetry intoxication in 1920s, 162; The World My Wilderness: Introduction to, 298—305
MacBride, John, 221—2
McBryde, James, 193
McBryde, Jane, 193
MacCarthy, Fiona: The Simple Life: C.R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds, 129—33
MacDonald, George: Phantastes, 85
Macdonald, George (church minister), 55
McGahern, John: Collected Stories, 403—5; Introduction to J.B. Yeats letters, 216—18; The Dark, 405; The Leavetaking, 405
McGibbon, James, 361
Mach, Ernst, 512
Mackail, John W. (‘Jack’), 106—7, 110, 116, 139
Mackail, Margaret (née Burne-Jones), 134, 139, 141—2
Macmillan, Harold (later 1st Earl of Stockton), 333
MacNeice, Dan, 348
MacNeice, Elisabeth, 345
MacNeice, Hedli (née Anderson), 350
MacNeice, John, Bishop of Belfast, 345, 347, 352
MacNeice, Louis: biography by Jon Stallworthy, 344—53; Autumn Journal, 349, 351; ‘The Casualty’, 350; ‘Charo
n’, 352—3; ‘Memoranda’, 353; ‘The Taxis’, 352; ‘Valediction’, 348
MacNeice, Marie (née Ezra; Louis’ first wife), 347—8
MacNeice, William, 345—6
Malta, 17—18
Manet, Édouard, 229
Mann, Thomas: ‘Death in Venice’, 456
Mansfield, Katherine, 486
Mao Zedong, 425—6, 428
Marinetti, Emilio Filippo Tommaso, 165
Markievicz, Constance, Countess see Gore-Booth, Constance
Marsh, Sir Edward: and Edward Thomas, 153; and Georgian Poetry, 153, 164—5, 188; and Harold Monro, 157
Martin, Francis, 74
Masefield, John: and Ashbee, 132; standing, 277; supports Charlotte Mew, 182
Maurice, Frederick Denison, 86, 96
Maxwell, William (ed.): Sylvia Townsend Warner: Letters, 246—52
May, Phil, 206, 213
Men and Women’s Club, 243
Meredith, George, 241
Merriman, John Xavier, 245
Methodism, 54
Mew, Anne (Charlotte’s sister), 182—3
Mew, Charlotte: appearance and personality, 171—2, 176—7, 181; Civil List pension, 181; death, 183; early happiness, 98, 172—3; early writing, 176; homosexuality, 180; influences on, 175; life and works, 171; Monro publishes, 165; poetry, 177—8; and Poetry Bookshop, 161—2, 180—1; ‘The Changeling’, 170; Collected Poems and Prose (ed. Val Warner): reviewed, 171—84; ‘The Farmer’s Bride’, 178, 180—1; The Farmer’s Bride (collection), 161, 180; ‘Fin de Fête’, 173, 179; ‘In Nunhead Cemetery’, 171, 175, 178; ‘Ken’, 175; ‘On the Asylum Road’, 178; ‘Passed’ (story), 176; The Rambling Sailor, 183; ‘Saturday Market’, 178; ‘The Shade Catchers’, 182
Mew, Fred (Charlotte’s father), 172, 174, 176
Mew, Mrs Fred (Charlotte’s mother), 176—7, 182
Mew, Freda (Charlotte’s sister), 175
Mew, Henry (Charlotte’s brother), 175
Mexico, 494
Mill, John Stuart, 239
Millais, Sir John Everett, 86
Millevoye, Lucien, 219—20, 222
Milne, A.A., 209, 214
Milton Abbot, west Devon, 241—7
Minton, John, 342
Mitford, Nancy, 332
Mizener, Arthur: The Saddest Story, 296
Modern European Library (published by John Lehmann), 341
Monro, Alida (Harold’s wife) see Klementaski, Alida
Monro, Harold: and Alida Klementaski, 158—9; Alida recites Charlotte Mew’s ‘Farmer’s Bride’ to, 180; background and career, 154—5, 157; commissions illustrators, 168; death, 164; disavows Georgians, 165; drinking, 163—5; and Edward Thomas, 153; in First World War, 162; homosexuality, 159; launches second Bookshop, 163—4; marries Alida, 162; pessimism, 344; and Poetry Bookshop, 154, 156—60, 170; publishing, 160, 165—70; Collected Poems, 166; One Day Awake, 167—8; ‘Overheard on a Saltmarsh’, 170