by Gary Lachman
Sexton, Mr, (i), (ii), (iii)
Sexton, Mrs, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Sexton, Nana, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Schopenhauer, Arthur, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Shakespeare, William, (i), (ii), (iii)
Shaw, George Bernard, (i), (ii)
Sheba, Queen of, (i)
Shelley, Mary, (i), (ii)
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, (i), (ii)
Shestov, Lev, (i)
Silberer, Herbert, (i)
Simmias, (i)
Sisyphus, (i), (ii)
Smith, Clark Ashton, (i)
Socrates, (i), (ii), (iii)
Sorrell, George, (i)
Soupault, Philippe, (i), (ii)
Southey, Robert, (i)
Stalin, Joseph, (i), (ii), (iii)
Starr, Kevin, (i)
Stephen, Adrian, (i), (ii)
Stephen, Julia Jackson, (i), (ii), (iii)
Stephen, Laura, (i),
Stephen, Sir Leslie, (i), (ii), (iii)
Stephen, Thoby, (i), (ii), (iii)
Sterling, George, (i)
Stevenson, Anne, (i)
Stevenson, Robert Louis, (i), (ii)
Stieglitz, Charlotte, (i)
Stieglitz, Heinrich, (i)
Stifter, Adalbert, (i), (ii), (iii)
Stokes, Henry Scott, (i)
Storr, Anthony, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Strachey, Lytton, (i), (ii)
Streicher, Gustav, (i)
Strindberg, Arthur, (i)
Styron, William, (i), (ii), (iii)
Swedenborg, (i)
Symons, Arthur, (i)
Szymanowski, Karol, (i), (ii)
Tacitus, (i)
Taisha, Abelar, (i)
Tausk, Victor, (i)
Taylor, Elizabeth, (i)
Teasdale, Sara, (i)
Tennyson, Alfred, (i)
Thackeray, William Makepeace, (i)
Thatcher, Margaret, (i)
Thomas, David Inspector, (i)
Thomas, Trevor, (i), (ii)
Thompson, Doug, (i) (note 81)
Thompson, Francis, (i), (ii), (iii)
Thompson, Hunter S., (i)
Tigellinus, (i)
Tims, Margaret, (i) (note 96)
Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel, (i)
Toller, Ernst, (i)
Tolstoy, Leo, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Toole, John Kennedy, (i), (ii), (iii)
Trakl, Georg, (i), (ii), (parents (iii), (iv), (v)), (vi), (vii)
Trakl, Grete, (i), (ii)
Trocchi, Alexander, (i)
Tsvetaeva, Marina, (i)
Turing, Alan, (i)
Tzara, Tristan, (i), (ii)
Vaché, Jacques, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi)
Vigny, Alfred de, (i)
Vogel, Henriette, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (husband (v), (vi), (vii))
Van Gogh, Vincent, (i), (ii)
Verne, Jules, (i)
Vesseldoom, Theobald (pseudonym of Thomas Lovell Beddoes) (i)
Villiers, de L’Isle Adam, (i), (ii)
Wagner, Richard, (i), (ii), (iii)
Wallace, Amy, (i)
Wallis, Henry, (i)
Warhol, Andy, (i)
Walpole, Horace, (i), (ii), (iii)
Wat, Alexander, (i)
Waterlow, Sydney Mrs, (i)
Webb, James, (i)
Weber, Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von, (i)
Wedekind, Frank, (i), (ii)
Wells, H.G., (i), (ii)
Weininger, Leopold, (i), (ii), (iii)
Weininger, Otto, (i), (ii), (iii), (parents (iv), sister (v)), (vi)
Weld, Andrew Davis, (i)
Werfel, Franz, (i), (ii)
West, Vita Sackville, (i), (ii)
Wevill, Assia, (i), (ii)
Whitman, Walt, (i), (ii)
Wieland, (i)
Wilde, Oscar, (i)
Williams, William Carlos, (i), (ii)
Wilson, Colin, (i), (ii)
Witkacy (Stanislaw Ignacy
Witkiewicz), (i), (father and his mistress (ii)), (mother, father (iii), fiancée (iv)), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
Wittgenstein, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Eliza, Wollstonecraft, (i)
Wollstonecraft, Fanny, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Wollstonecraft, Mary, (i), (ii), (iii), (parents (iv), (v), sisters (vi), nursemaid (vii), fishermen (viii))
Woynow, (i), (ii)
Wolff, Geoffrey, (i), (ii), (iii)
Wolff, Kurt, (i)
Woolf, Leonard, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Woolf, Virginia, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
Wordsworth, William, (i), (ii), (iii)
Yakovleia, Tatiana, (i)
Yeats, William Butler, (i), (ii)
Yesenin, Sergei, (i)
Zamyatin Evgeny Ivanovich, (i)
Zenge, Wilhelmine von, (i)
Zen, (i)
Zeno, (i)
Zweig, Lotte, (i)
Zweig, Stefan, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
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