The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym

by Paula Byrne

  Cleveland, John, 195

  clothes/fashion: Pym as always well dressed, 2, 23, 84, 174, 198, 206, 333, 492, 528–9, 562; portrayal of clothing in Pym’s novels, 9, 10, 128, 233, 239, 391, 398, 427–8, 429, 431, 435, 451, 477, 535, 606; tweed, 9, 16, 62, 128, 280, 398, 427–8, 561, 606; as abiding passion for Pym, 26, 34, 88, 89–90, 113, 198, 206, 333; and alter ego Sandra, 69, 80, 113, 492; and alter ego Pymska, 159; and Finnish persona, 224; and ‘bluestocking’ women, 232–3; clothes rationing, 300, 330, 379, 391, 397; Dior’s ‘New Look,’ 397–8; post-war ‘miracle fabrics,’ 398; shoes as indicator of class, 431, 479; of 1960s, 2, 477, 478; and academic life of early 1970s, 543, 544; and Sylvia Plath, 569; in Pym’s diaries and letters, 611–12

  Cologne, 106, 107–8, 109–11, 116, 122, 139–40, 330

  communism, 94, 141, 152, 218

  Compton-Burnett, Ivy (ICB), 196, 340, 380, 421; Pym’s love of novels of, 80–1, 162, 182, 184, 186; and Jock Liddell, 162, 182, 183–4, 185–6, 191, 281, 296–7; letters in style of, 182, 184, 187–8, 197–8, 210–13, 216–17, 386–7; multiple tragedies in life of, 183–4; dialogue of, 183, 184, 185, 186, 430; influence on Pym’s novels, 186, 191, 281, 297, 430, 434; More Women Than Men, 80–1, 185–6, 297; Pastors and Masters, 183; Brothers and Sisters, 297

  Confessions of a Nazi Spy (Anatole Litvak film, 1939), 282

  Conrad, Joseph, 180

  Constable (publisher), 552–3

  Cooke, Betty, 347–8

  Cooke, Helen, 347–9

  Cooper, Jilly, 582, 597

  Cornbury (royal hunting lodge), 592

  Coward, Noël, 117, 543

  Cox, David, 423–4

  Crampton, Fiennes Henry, 12–13

  Crampton Hodnet (North Oxford novel), 52, 281, 282–3, 409, 551, 607; title of, 13, 282; Pym begins writing, 235–6; plot of, 237–9, 241–2, 244–7, 249; characterisation in, 239–42, 244–7, 249, 271, 273, 437, 579; and Jock Liddell, 242, 285; Jessie Morrow’s appearance in, 428–9

  Crockford’s (clerical directory), 467, 579

  Crouch, village of (Kent), 457, 458

  Currie, Ailsa, 457, 528

  Dahl, Roald, 453

  Davies, Meurig, 159

  Defoe, Daniel, Moll Flanders, 29, 88

  diaries/journals/notebooks: appellation ‘Miss Pym’ in, 3; Oxford diary, 28–9; destroyed pages in, 54, 55, 59, 90, 93, 94, 95, 109, 112, 334, 609; Sandra diary, 82; ‘third volume,’ 126; diary resumed (March 1939), 248; ‘sentimental journal,’ 250, 303–4; war journals and stories, 257, 258, 259–61, 262–7, 274–6, 278–9, 288, 289–92, 294–5, 303, 316, 364; 1933-4 diary expurgated, 281; diary for 1942 destroyed, 332–3, 334, 563; Glover notebooks (’After Christmas’), 334, 337, 427, 563; Naples journal, 364, 372; moves from journals to notebooks, 381, 399–400, 585; Pym discusses on Desert Island Discs, 589; Barbara Pym archive at Bodleian, 608, 609, 611–12

  Dietrich, Marlene, 92

  Dinis, Júlio, 109–10

  Dior, Christian, ‘New Look,’ 397–8

  domestic service, 10–11, 12–13

  Donne, John, 35, 57, 133

  Doriot, Jacques, 205

  Dors, Diana, 597

  Douglas, Norman, South Wind, 79

  Douglas-Home, Alec, 513–14

  Drabble, Margaret, 528

  Drayton, Michael, 195

  Dresden, 208, 218–19

  Dublin, 543

  Eden, Anthony, 229

  Edward VIII, King, 161

  Einstein, Albert, 107

  Elgar, Sir Edward, 524

  Eliot, T.S., 556, 564, 601

  Elizabeth II, Queen, 436, 437; silver jubilee (1977), 573

  Ellidge, George, 322, 330, 333, 339

  Elliston’s department store, Oxford, 33–4, 40, 43, 44, 82, 85, 233, 544, 561

  Excellent Women (novel): first-person narrative, 309, 399; Mildred Lathbury character, 309, 324, 356, 378, 400, 401–4, 405–10, 423–4, 505; spinster theme in, 356, 401–2, 405–6, 423–4; Pimlico setting, 378, 399, 402, 403; Pym begins writing, 399–400; Betjeman’s review of, 400, 423; critical response, 400, 422–4; Pym’s description of, 400; characterisation in, 402–10, 423–4; Pym’s proto-feminism, 403–5; anthropology in, 403, 405, 406–7, 412, 418–19; plot of, 403, 405–10; and Jock Liddell, 405–6, 416, 423; rage at Gordon Glover in, 408–9; published (March 1952), 421, 422–3; Skipper’s view of, 498–9; Philip Larkin on, 505, 519, 550; Larkin sends to Monteith, 519; Library Association reprint, 532, 533; David Cecil on, 570; read on BBC Story Time, 572; Penguin reissues in paperback, 596; extraordinary voice in, 608

  Faber and Faber, 500, 518–19, 521–2

  Fendrich, Anton, 118, 119

  Ferguson, Rachel, 448–9, 450, 452

  Feuchtwanger, Lion: Jew Süss, 114; The Oppermanns, 140–1, 214, 226, 270

  Field, William J., 452

  Fielding, Henry, 411; Tom Jones, 3, 29

  film and cinema, 27; at Oxford, 27, 40, 42, 91–2; WW2 propagandistic films, 282, 300–2; Fox considers option on Less Than Angels, 447

  Finland, 269, 278

  Finstock (Cotswold hamlet), 555–6, 558, 559, 562–3; and Pym’s retirement, 560–1, 562–5; Larkin’s visits to Barn Cottage, 564, 574; T. S. Eliot memorial, 564, 601; and Queen’s silver jubilee (1977), 573; BBC film Pym in, 575; garden of Barn Cottage, 575, 576–7; in A Few Green Leaves, 592–4; Pym’s funeral in, 601

  First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) Club, 523

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 17

  Fleming, Ian, 420, 571

  Forde, Daryll, 382–3, 418, 419, 421, 426, 430, 498, 543, 552, 583, 610; death of, 557

  Forster, E.M., 520–1, 548, 571

  Forsyth, Frederick, The Day of the Jackal, 552

  Freud, Sigmund, 107, 571

  Friedan, Betty, The Feminine Mystique, 487

  Fuller’s cafe (Oxford), 53, 98, 143, 238, 245, 561

  Gaelic language, 298

  Galsworthy, John, 508

  Gardiner, Edward, 96

  Garsington Manor, 17

  Gathorne-Hardy, Edward, 385

  George, Daniel, 420, 421, 433–4

  George V, King, 161

  George VI, King, 436

  Gielgud, John, 452

  Gifford, Emma, 593

  A Glass of Blessings (novel): Prudence Bates reappears in, 427, 464; clergy theme, 447, 460, 461, 470; and Bear and Squirrel saga, 451, 452, 458, 464; homosexuality in, 452, 458, 460–4, 499, 579, 610; critical response, 459–60; Bayley and Cecil admire, 459, 460; characterisation in, 460–1, 462–5; plot of, 460–4; and woman at furniture storage unit, 471, 502; copy given to Skipper, 498–9; and Philip Larkin, 501, 542; David Cecil on, 570; Penguin reissues in paperback, 596

  Gleadow, Rupert, 37–40, 41–4, 45–50, 52–6, 57–9, 69, 72, 609; on Nazi Germany, 125, 148, 347; death of wife Marguerite (1938), 346–7; relationship with Helen Cooke, 347–9; death of, 563

  Glen, Sandy, 278, 282, 311, 313

  Glover, Gordon: character of, 321–2, 325, 326, 334, 342, 344, 345, 353, 360, 361–2, 422, 427; Pym meets, 324; Pym’s relationship with, 325–6, 330, 332–4, 368, 370, 422; ends relationship with Pym, 333–4, 335–7, 338–9, 340, 343–4, 350–1, 353, 360; divorce from Wyatt, 334, 343, 344–5, 350, 360, 361; Pym heartbroken over, 335–40, 343–4, 348, 350–1, 352, 353, 357; column in the Radio Times, 335, 361; presents ‘Introducing This Week’ (radio show), 338–9; Pym’s rage at in Excellent Women, 408–9; and Some Tame Gazelle, 413–14; in Jane and Prudence, 414, 427–8, 430–2; death of, 563; Farewell Helen (radio play), 345, 351–2; Cocktails (novel), 353

  Glover, Julian, 321, 322, 323, 325–6, 333, 336, 339, 354

  Glover, Prue, 321, 322–3, 333, 336, 343, 354, 425, 601

  Glück, Friedbert: Pym meets in Cologne, 107–8; as officer in SS, 107, 111, 120, 153, 218–21; Pym’s relationship with, 110–11, 139–40, 142, 148–9, 153, 218–21, 222, 248, 288, 301–2, 372, 605, 609; swastika pin gift for Pym, 112; correspondence with Pym, 113, 114, 120, 208, 217, 270, 302, 316, 374, 609; Pym’s feelings for, 1
13, 114, 116, 117, 121–2, 140, 142, 152–3, 161, 169; Pym’s photograph of, 113, 114, 115; as close to Hitler, 120, 149, 605; and 1936 Summer Olympics, 149, 164; in Some Tame Gazelle, 149, 153–7, 217; on the Anschluss (March 1938), 208; Pym’s last visit to (May 1938), 218–21, 222; Nora Waln on, 316; writes to Pym after war, 374

  Goebbels, Joseph, 106, 107, 139

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 121, 194, 217

  Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming film, 1939), 333

  Good Housekeeping, 401

  Graves, Robert, 322, 335, 339–40

  Greece, 312, 313, 505–6, 527, 547, 602

  Green, Desmond, 294

  Greene, Graham, 560

  Griffith, Dewi Morgan, 21

  Griffith-Jones, Mervyn, 486

  the Guardian, 473, 575–6

  Gunn, Bert, 338

  Haddon Hall, 465

  Hadzapi people, 412

  Hamburg, 123, 124–5

  Hamish Hamilton (publisher), 565

  Handley, Tommy, 338

  Hansford Johnson, Pamela, 572

  Hardy, Thomas, 383, 522, 524, 593

  Harker, Henry (‘Harry’) Howard, 62–3, 84, 85, 86, 88, 91–2, 131, 163

  Harlovin (Oxford suitor), 33, 69–70

  Harpers & Queen, 576

  Harpers magazine, 399

  Harvey, Elsie (née Godenhjelm), 142, 143, 177, 210–12, 591; and Jock Liddell, 150, 175, 181–2, 188, 210–11; in Gervase and Flora, 188, 190; marries Henry Harvey, 191, 192, 195–6, 197–8; Pym embraces/accepts, 212, 213, 223; Pym meets (1938), 223, 348; Pym’s correspondence with, 223, 229, 235, 236, 247, 248; fictional death of in ‘Beatrice Wyatt,’ 231, 234, 235; in Finland at outbreak of war, 269, 278; birth of daughter (1942), 329, 330–1; divorce from Henry, 381, 414, 422

  Harvey, Gabriel, 69

  Harvey, Henry Stanley: Pym’s first impressions of, 60, 61–2; background of, 61; physical appearance, 61, 66; Pym calls ‘Lorenzo,’ 61, 66; Pym’s ‘stalking’ of, 61, 62–3, 72, 82, 84, 92; friendship with Jock Liddell, 62, 71–2, 75, 88–9, 95, 97, 117–18, 143–4; sneering smile of, 62; speaks to Pym, 65–6; first date with Pym (10 May 1933), 67–9, 91, 287; Pym’s passion for, 67–70, 71, 72–3, 75–7, 79, 80, 81, 108, 112; awarded second-class degree, 77; return to Oxford (autumn 1933), 84, 85–6; Pym refuses invitation to visit, 86–7; sexual relationship with Pym, 90, 93, 94, 95–7, 113–14, 116, 117–18, 122, 135–6, 174; unkindness to Pym, 93, 94, 95–7, 98, 100, 115, 117, 132, 143–4, 145–7, 153, 164, 170, 175, 176; and Alison West-Watson, 95–6, 98–100; character of, 100, 143–5, 166, 170, 393–5, 414; Liddell’s love/hate attitude towards, 100, 159, 162, 415–16, 422; in Some Tame Gazelle, 100, 127–8, 132–3, 134, 144, 154, 155, 393–5, 414, 416, 599; Pym darns socks of, 114–15, 133, 293; Pym arouses jealousy in, 114, 153; and Pym’s final period at Oxford, 118–19; Finnish girlfriends, 122, 131, 135, 142, 143, 150, 175, 177, 181–2, 187–8; as lecturer in Helsinki, 122, 130, 131–2, 135, 158; Pym’s abandoned novel about, 126; compares Pym to Jane Austen, 129; news of in Finland relayed by Jock, 130, 135, 136, 142, 143, 159, 181–2; nasty incident on the Cherwell, 145–6; and Pym’s German persona, 145; trip to Basingstoke with Pym, 146–7, 162–3; on Glück’s Nazism, 148–9, 316; stays at Morda Lodge (summer 1935), 149; Pym’s continuing obsession with, 158, 159, 162–3, 169–71, 173–5, 176–7, 189–91; Pym as secretary of, 173–5, 177; flying visit to Shropshire, 177; in Adam and Cassandra, 178–9; on Barnicot, 181; as not fan of ICB, 185; in Gervase and Flora, 188–9, 190–1, 192, 230–1; marries Elsie Godenhjelm, 191, 192, 195–6, 197–8; Pym receives news of marriage of, 195–6, 197–8; Pym’s letters to after his marriage, 210–11, 212–13, 231, 325–6, 329–31, 332, 334, 361–2, 380, 381, 382, 386; married life with Elsie, 210–12, 247; Pym’s embrace of Elsie Harvey, 212, 213, 223; in ‘Beatrice Wyatt,’ 231, 233–5; in Crampton Hodnet (novel), 242; ‘Respect and Esteem’ letter, 246, 306; in Finland at outbreak of war, 269, 278; Pym’s letters to about Glover, 325–6, 332, 334, 361–2; birth of daughter (1942), 329, 330–1; writes on hearing of Pym’s mother’s death, 378; divorce from Elsie, 381, 414, 422; Pym destroys most of letters from, 384; Pym’s passion for ends, 396, 422; marriage to Susi, 414, 422, 505; in Liddell’s The Last Enchantments, 415–16; with Pym in Greece (1966), 527; Pym’s friendship with in final years, 563–4, 584, 591–2, 599; returns to England, 563–4; lives in Willersey, 564, 584, 591; visits Barn Cottage, 564; during Pym’s final illness, 599

  Hatchards’ Authors of the Year party (1979), 596–7

  Heine, Heinrich, 156–7, 193, 196

  Heinemann (publisher), 542

  Helsinki, 122, 130, 131, 135, 158, 188, 210, 214, 269, 278

  Hess, Rudolf, 121

  Himmler, Heinrich, 315

  Hitler, Adolf, 92, 105, 120–1, 164–5, 213–14; and the Mitford sisters, 105, 139, 362; Hamburg speech (August 1934), 124–5; the Anschluss (March 1938), 208, 233; Chamberlain’s meetings with, 225–6, 228–9; invasion of Soviet Union (1941), 327; relatives of in Liverpool, 328

  Holt, Hazel, 45, 411–13, 434, 437, 449, 451, 524; on Pym and Bob Smith, 433; enthusiasm for Denton Welch, 456, 457; and An Academic Question, 551; during Pym’s final illness, 598; son Tom at Oxford, 598; A Lot to Ask, 608

  homosexuality: Pym as magnet for gay men, 27; of Jock Liddell, 72, 89, 378, 385, 453; language/terms used about, 76, 117; Rumbold’s Little Victims, 76, 80, 89; Pym’s fascination with, 89, 452, 453–5, 456–8, 476, 490–1, 610; and SA leaders in Nazi Germany, 121; in Compton-Burnett’s novels, 185–6; in Crampton Hodnet (novel), 240–1; Queen’s Head in Chelsea, 249; as more tolerated in Mediterranean, 378, 506; and tea with Elizabeth Bowen, 419–20; Bear and Squirrel saga at Barnes, 449–52, 458, 464, 466, 469, 470; as still illegal in 1950s, 451–2; in A Glass of Blessings, 452, 458, 460–4, 499, 579, 610; in No Fond Return of Love, 476; Wolfenden Report (1957), 490; Pym’s love for Skipper, 493, 506, 507–11, 512–17, 518, 519, 523, 524–6, 527–8, 529–30; in The Sweet Dove Died, 503–4, 534, 535, 536–8, 579, 610; decriminalisation of (1967), 548; E.M. Forster’s Maurice, 548

  Hood, Canon Freddie, 447

  Hope, Sandy, 201

  Hope-Wallace, Jacqueline, 419

  Hope-Wallace, Philip, 419

  Hopi Native Americans of New Mexico, 382

  Horizon magazine, 296

  Housman, A. E.,. A Shropshire Lad, 7

  Howard, Elizabeth Jane, 563

  Howard, Wren, 489, 543

  Hughes, Ted, 521, 569

  Hull, 473, 500, 521, 559, 560

  Hunt, Herbert J., 33, 34

  Hussey, Bill, 113, 114

  Hutchinson, R. C., The Fire and the Wood, 298–9

  Huxley, Aldous, Crome Yellow, 17–18, 19–20, 177, 179

  Hylton, Jack, 75, 543

  Ibsen, Heinrich, Ghosts, 201–2

  ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’ (Christmas carol), 589

  Instone, Anna, 322, 325, 345

  International African Institute (London): Pym takes job at (February 1946), 379, 381–3; Pym’s colleagues at, 381–2, 383, 411–13, 419, 434, 450, 554, 557; Pym’s modest wage at, 382, 399; Pym’s roles at, 383, 412, 421, 434, 610; influence on Pym’s novels, 395, 412, 414, 418–19, 426, 429–30, 437–8, 495, 552; new premises in Fetter Lane, 411; Pym finds work at not fulfilling, 418, 498; Pym’s busy life at, 498, 519, 532, 533; Pym’s new office carpet, 519; moves to Bloomsbury, 553, 554; Pym rents room in Balcombe Street, 556, 560; offices in Fetter Lane demolished, 557–8; death of Forde, 557; Pym’s retirement party, 560

  Ireland, Bill, 89

  Ischia, island of, 370

  Italy: enters Second World War, 289; invasion of Greece (October 1940), 312; Allied invasion of (1943), 364; Pym visits Rome (spring 1945), 371–2; Pym visits (spring 1961), 471–2; in An Unsuitable Attachment, 480–1

  Jacques, Hattie, 338

  James, Henry, 180, 537, 538; The Golden Bowl, 589

  Jane and Prudence (novel): Irena Pym in, 9, 428–9; and Pym’s Oxford years, 26–7, 414, 425–6; African Institute in
, 414, 418–19, 426, 429–30; Gordon Glover in, 414, 427–8, 430–2; Daryll Forde in, 419, 426, 430; spinster theme in, 424, 425–6; characterisation in, 425–6, 427–32; plot of, 425–6, 427–32; manuscript sent to Daniel George, 433–4; friends’ reactions to, 434–5, 446; critical response, 434; published (September 1953), 434, 443; Marks and Spencer object to, 435; Library Association reprint, 546; Cape reprints (1979), 597

  jazz music, 27, 356, 543

  Johnson, Samuel, 304

  Jonathan Cape (publisher), 420, 421, 497, 571–2, 576, 597; rejects An Unsuitable Attachment, 1–2, 481–2, 487–8, 489, 490–1, 496, 498, 500, 588; shows interest in Some Tame Gazelle, 176–7, 180, 242; as Jock Liddell’s publisher, 242, 386–7; advises Pym to be more malicious, 387, 393, 396; accepts Some Tame Gazelle for publication (1949), 388; and letter from Marks and Spencer, 435; Cape himself enjoys Less Than Angels, 446; Jock Liddell leaves, 489; Pym turns down, 573; the Pyms invent Maschler pudding, 574; reissues of Pym’s novels, 575, 577

  Jones, Monica, 475, 501, 518, 550

  Jones, Ruth, 381

  Jourdain, Eleanor, 297

  Jourdain, Margaret, 297

  Joyce, James, 175, 180

  Katowice, 223–6, 227, 253

  Keats, John, 90, 529, 537

  Keats’s house (Hampstead), 496–7, 538, 544–5

  Keble, John, ‘New Every Morning is the Love,’ 186, 404, 611

  Keeler, Christine, 487

  Kendrick, Thomas, 426–7

  King’s College, London, 445

  Kinsey Report, 487

  Knox, Ronald, The Belief of Catholics, 90

  Königswinter (Germany), 110–11

  Laing, R. D., 570

  Lamb, Lady Caroline, 551