Rupert Brooke

by Nigel Jones

  Keynes, John Maynard (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii); Apostles reading party (i); and Békássy (i), (ii), (iii); Chairman of the Arts Council (i); at Clevedon (i); at the Clifford’s Bridge camp (i), (ii); doctrine of state-aided public works (i); and Duncan Grant (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); in Grantchester (i); homosexuality (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); and horse riding (i); at Lulworth (i), (ii); The Gates of Memory (i)

  King’s College, Cambridge (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii); Charles Oldham Award (i); RB elected a Fellow (i), (ii), (iii)

  Kingsley, Charles (i)

  Kipling, Rudyard (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); ‘Cities and Thrones and Powers’ (i)

  Kitchener, Lord (i), (ii)

  Klaw, theatrical entrepreneur (i)

  Klee, Paul (i)

  Klosters, Switzerland (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Krafft-Ebing, Richard (i)

  Labour Party (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Lamb, Dorothy (i), (ii)

  Lamb, Henry (i), (ii), (iii); appearance (i), (ii), (iii); character (i), (ii); health (i); heterosexuality (i); John influences (i); Ka and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv); and Lady Ottoline (i), (ii), (iii); and Lulworth (i), (ii); and Lytton (i), (ii); a womanizer (i), (ii)

  Lamb House, Rye (i)

  Lamb, Nina (‘Eupheinia’; née Forrest) (i)

  Lamb, Walter ‘Watty’ (i), (ii), (iii)

  Lancing College, Sussex (i)

  Landor, Walter Savage (i)

  Landseer, Sir Edwin (i)

  Larkin, Jim (i)

  Larkin, Philip (i)

  Lascelles, Charles (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

  Lauder, Harry (i)

  Laughton, Charles (i)

  Laurier, Sir Wilfrid (i)

  Lavery, Sir John (i)

  Lawrence, D.H. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); meets RB (i); ‘Snapdragon’ (i); Sons and Lovers (i)

  Lawrence, Frieda (i), (ii)

  Layton, Walter (i), (ii)

  Le Gallienne, Mildred (i)

  Le Gallienne, Richard (i)

  Leeds, Duchess of (i)

  Lehmann, John (i), (ii); Rupert Brooke: His Life and Legend (i), (ii)

  Lemnos (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  Lenzerheide, Switzerland (i)

  Leopold, Prince of Belgium (i)

  Levey, Ethel (i)

  Leylands, Wotton, Surrey (i)

  Liberal Party (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Liebknecht, Karl (i)

  Limpsfield Chart, Surrey (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii)

  Linder, Estrid (i)

  ‘list’ poems (i)

  Lister, Charles (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  Little Theater, Chicago (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Lloyd George, David (i), (ii)

  Loines, Russell H. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  London Hippodrome (i)

  London School of Economics (i)

  Lowell, Amy (i), (ii)

  Lowes Dickinson, Goldsworthy (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

  Lucas, St John Lucas (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); homosexuality (i), (ii), (iii); RB sends poems to (i)

  Luce, Gordon (i)

  Ludlow Castle, Shropshire (i)

  Lulworth Cove (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii), (xxiii), (xxiv)

  Lupton, Geoffrey (i)

  The Lyons Mail (a popular drama) (i)

  McAlpin Hotel, New York (i)

  Macaulay, C.G. (i)

  Macaulay, Rose (i)

  Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 1st Baron (i)

  Macaulay, W.H. (i)

  MacCarthy, Desmond (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); and Lady Ottoline (i)

  MacCarthy, Lillah (i)

  McCracken, Dr, Divisional Surgeon (i)

  Macdonald, Ramsay (i), (ii), (iii)

  Macke, August (i)

  Magdalene College, Cambridge (i)

  The Magic Flute (Mozart) (i)

  Mallory, George (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Malory, Sir Thomas: Morte d’Arthur (i)

  Malta (i), (ii), (iii)

  Manchester Guardian (i)

  Manners, Lady Diana (i)

  Manor Farm, near Cambridge (i), (ii)

  Mansfield, Katherine (i), (ii), (iii)

  Marc, Franz (i)

  Marconi scandal (i), (ii)

  Marlborough College, Wiltshire (i)

  Marlowe, Christopher: Dr Faustus (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Marlowe Dramatic Society (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi)

  Marsh, Eddie (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii), (xxiii), (xxiv), (xxv); battle for RB’s literary estate (i); and Churchill (i); at Clevedon (i); farewell gift to RB (i); generosity (i); Georgian Poetry (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); Hassall’s biography (i), (ii); homosexuality (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); introduced RB to Lawrence (i); introduces RB to society (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); memoir-cum-biography (i); Mrs Brooke dislikes (i), (ii), (iii); obituary on RB (i); party for RB (i), (ii); RB maintains contact with (i), (ii); RB meets (i); and RB’s commission (i); RB’s instructions (i); RB’s literary executor (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); RB’s patron (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); RB’s unofficial London residence (Raymond Buildings) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix); reaction to RB’s death (i), (ii); reviews RB (i); and the Sidney Street siege (i); told of RB’s septicaemia (i); tour of his protégés (i); unpaid copy-editor for Churchill (i), (ii)

  Marsh, Professor Howard (i)

  Marvell, Andrew (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Masefield, Constance (i)

  Masefield, John (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); ‘The Everlasting Mercy’ (i)

  Mataia, Tahiti (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Matisse, Henri (i)

  Maugham, W. Somerset (i), (ii); The Moon and Sixpence (i)

  Meredith, George (i); Modern Love (i)

  Mermaid Inn (previously Mermaid Club), Rye (i), (ii)

  The Meteor (school magazine) (i)

  Metropole Hotel, Brighton (i), (ii)

  Milton, John (i), (ii), (iii); Comus (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); Paradise Lost (i); Paradise Regained (i)

  modernism (i), (ii)

  Moffat, near Dumfries (i)

  Monro, Harold (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)

  Montague, Paulie (i)

  Montague, Ruth (i)

  Montaigne (i)

  Montreal (i)

  Montreal Express (i)

  Moore, G.E. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); Principia Ethica (i), (ii)

  Moorea (i)

  Moorehead, Alan (i)

  Morning Post (i), (ii), (iii)

  Morrell, Lady Ottoline (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  Morrell, Philip (i)

  Morris, Edmund (i), (ii)

  Morris, William (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); News from Nowhere (i), (ii)

  Morrison, Herbert (i)

  Motion, Andrew (i), (ii)

  Munich (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii)

  Müritz (i)

  Murphy, Mr (the Dublin strike) (i)

  Murray, Gilbert (i), (ii), (iii)

  Murray, Rosalind (i), (ii)

  Murry, John Middleton (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  Mussolini, Benito (i), (ii)

  Mutiny on the Bounty (film) (i)

  Nash, Paul (i)

  The Nation radical weekly (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  National Committee for the Prevention of Destitution (i)

 
National Gallery, London (i)

  National Liberal Club, London (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  National Portrait Gallery, London (i), (ii)

  Neeve, Cyril (i), (ii)

  Neeve, Florence (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  Neeve, Henry (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Nelson Battalion (RND) (i)

  Nelson (battleship) (i)

  Nelson, Lieutenant (i)

  Neo-Paganism (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii), (xxiii), (xxiv), (xxv), (xxvi), (xxvii), (xxviii), (xxix)

  Nesbitt, Cathleen (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv); and Ainley (i), (ii); annoys RB with her success (i); appearance (i), (ii), (iii); last meeting with RB (Great Yarmouth) (i), (ii); love affair with RB (i), (ii), (iii); notices RB’s cooling towards her (i); in Quality Street (i); RB criticizes (i); RB hates women acting (i), (ii), (iii); and RB’s commission (i); RB’s fantasy (i); RB’s rejection of (i); on RB’s uncertainty (i)

  Neustrelitz (i)

  Nevinson, H.W. (i), (ii)

  New Age (i)

  New Numbers magazine (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  New Statesman (i)

  New Theatre, Cambridge (i)

  New Theatre, London (i)

  New York (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  New Zealand (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Newberry, Mary (i), (ii)

  Newbolt, Sir Henry (i), (ii)

  Newcastle University (i)

  Newnham College, Cambridge (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Newnham Grange (i), (ii)

  Niagara Falls (i)

  Niagara (ship) (i)

  Nicholas, Grand Duke (i), (ii)

  Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (i), (ii)

  Nijinsky, Vaslav (i)

  Norfolk Broads (i)

  Norton, Harry (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Noyes, Alfred (i), (ii)

  Observer (i)

  Officer Training Corps (OTC) (i), (ii), (iii),

  Okes, Provost (i)

  Old Nailshop, Greenway, near Ledbury (i)

  Old Vicarage, Grantchester (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii), (xxiii), (xxiv), (xxv), (xxvi), (xxvii)

  Olivier, Brynhild (later Popham) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii); appearance (i), (ii); at Bank with RB (i); and Baynes (i), (ii), (iii); at Clevedon (i), (ii), (iii); at the Clifford’s Bridge camp (i), (ii); engagement (i), (ii); farewell letter from RB (i); hankers for marriage (i); last meeting with RB (i); marries Popham (i); Popham courts (i), (ii); RB admits dishonesty (i); RB attacks (i); RB’s fantasy (i), (ii); and RB’s mental breakdown (i); and RB’s plans (i), (ii), (iii); rebuffs RB (i), (ii); remarries (Raymond Sherrard) (i); rock climbing (i); runs out of patience with RB (i); terminal illness (i)

  Olivier, Daphne (later Harwood) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi); at the Clifford’s Bridge camp (i); mental illness (i)

  Olivier, Laurence (i)

  Olivier, Lady Margaret (i), (ii), (iii)

  Olivier, Margery (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi); at Clevedon (i), (ii); ever-suspicious of RB (i), (ii); insanity (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); warns RB to stay away from Noel (i), (ii)

  Olivier, Noel (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv); Adrian Stephen courts (i); advice to RB (i); affair with James Strachey (i), (ii); appearance (i), (ii), (iii); and Badley (i); and Békássy (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); and Bloomsbury (i); breach with RB (i); and Bunny Garnett (i); childhood (i); at the Clifford’s Bridge camp (i), (ii), (iii); collectedness (i); death (i); at Edenbridge (i), (ii), (iii); ‘engaged’ to RB (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); first surviving letter from RB (i); and Hastings (i); intelligence and achievement (i); invited to the Basle reunion (i); James courts (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); last meeting with RB (i); loveless marriage (i); Margery warns RB (i), (ii); and Margery’s insanity (i); marries Arthur Richards (i); medical student (i), (ii); put-downs of RB (i), (ii), (iii); RB defends (i); RB proposes (i); RB’s abduction fears (i), (ii), (iii); and RB’s affair with Elisabeth (i); RB’s confession (i); RB’s last letter to her (i); RB’s letter from Germany (i); and RB’s mental breakdown (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); RB’s obsession (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi); RB’s plans (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); the real Noel (i); relationship with James (i); runs out of patience with RB (i); suspicious of RB’s intentions (i); Song of Love (ed. Harris) (i)

  Olivier, Sir Sydney (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Olivier family (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix)

  O’Malley, Owen (i), (ii), (iii)

  Orchard, Grantchester (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix)

  Orwell, George (i), (ii)

  Osmaston, Dorothy (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Ostend (i)

  Ottawa (i)

  Ovid (i)

  Owen, Wilfred (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  The Oxford Book of French Verse (i)

  Oxford University (i), (ii)

  Pakenham, Lady Pansy (i)

  Palace Hotel, Hastings (i)

  Pall Mall Haymarket, London (i)

  Pankhurst, Emmeline (i)

  Papeete, Tahiti (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Les Papillons (Schumann) (i)

  Paris, Major-General (later General) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Parker, John (i)

  Parker, Matthew (i)

  Partridge, Dora (i)

  Passchendaele (i)

  Pater, Walter (i), (ii)

  Pavlova, Anna (i)

  Pease family (i)

  Péguy, Charles (i), (ii), (iii)

  Pembroke College, Cambridge (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Penguin Dictionary of Quotations (i)

  Penmenner House, Lizard (i)

  Penshurst, Kent (i), (ii), (iii)

  Penshurst Place (i)

  Perceval, Spencer (i), (ii)

  Peter Pan (Barrie) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Philadelphia (Atlantic liner) (i), (ii)

  The Phoenix school magazine (i)

  Pindar (i)

  Pink and Lily pub (i), (ii)

  Plymouth, Lady (i)

  Poetry Bookshop, Devonshire Street, London (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Poetry and Drama (previously Poetry Review) (i)

  Poetry Review (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Pole, Reginald (i), (ii)

  Poor Law (1834) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  Poor Law Commission (i)

  Popham, A.E. (‘Hugh’) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv)

  Popham, Brynhild see Olivier, Brynhild

  Port Said, Egypt (i)

  Portland (i)

  Portland, Duke of (i)

  Post-Impressionists (i)

  Post-Impressionist exhibition (Cologne) (i)

  Post-Impressionist exhibition (Grafton Galleries, London) (i), (ii)

  Post-Impressionist exhibition (London, 1910) (i)

  Post Office Rifles (i), (ii)

  Potts, Dr (i)

  Pound, Ezra (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Pre-Raphaelites (i), (ii)

  Primmer, Mrs, landlady (i), (ii), (iii)

  Princip, Gavrilo (i)

  Propertius (i)

  Prunoy, northern Burgundy (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Punch (i)

  Purbeck peninsula (i),
(ii)

  Pye, David (i)

  Pye, Ethel (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi),

  Pye, Sybil (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Pye family (i)

  Quebec (i), (ii)

  Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (i), (ii)

  Queen’s College, Cambridge (i)

  Queen’s Hall, London (i)

  Quiller-Couch, Arthur (i)

  Quilter, Colonel Arnold (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Racine, Jean (i)

  Radford, Evelyn (i)

  Radford, Maitland (i), (ii); at the Clifford’s Bridge camp (i), (ii)

  Radley school (i)

  Rapallo, Italy (i)

  Raputo, Arlice (i), (ii), (iii)

  Raverat, Gwen (née Darwin) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii); and the caravan tour (i); at Clevedon (i); and ‘Dining Room Tea’ (i); Jacques courts (i), (ii); loyalty to RB (i); marries Jacques (i), (ii); Noel poses for (i); Noel stays with (i); and RB’s breakdown (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); and Rhythm (i); at the Slade (i); Period Piece (i)

  Raverat, Jacques (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii), (xxiii), (xxiv), (xxv), (xxvi), (xxvii); against modernism in the arts (i); anti-Semitism (i), (ii); anxious to join up (i); at Buckler’s Hard (i); describes Noel (i); a Germanophobe (i); and Gwen Darwin (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); homophobia (i), (ii); and Ka Cox (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); at Lulworth (i), (ii); marries Gwen (i), (ii); in Minorca (i); multiple sclerosis (i), (ii), (iii); Noel poses for (i); Noel stays with (i); at Prunoy (i), (ii); and RB’s breakdown (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); on RB’s friends (i); and RB’s papers (i); studies printing in Chelsea (i); Virginia Stephen on (i)

  Raverat family (i)

  Read, Mike. Forever England (i), (ii)

  Rectory Farm, near Great Hampden, Chilterns (i)

  Reeve, Amber (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)