by Nigel Jones
Reeve, William Pember (i)
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Rhys, Jean (i)
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Richards, Noel see Olivier, Noel
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Robertson, Donald (i), (ii)
Robinson, Edward Arlington (i)
Rodomontini, Countess (i)
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Rosenberg, Isaac (i), (ii), (iii)
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Russell, Bertrand (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Russell-Smith, Denham (i); death (i), (ii), (iii); homosexual romance with RB (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)
Russell-Smith, Hugh: background (i); at Cambridge (i), (ii); Cambridge scholarship exams (i); death (i); in Munich (i); and RB’s amatory plans (i); RB’s school holiday visits (i), (ii), (iii); at Rugby (i), (ii), (iii); walking tours with RB (i), (ii), (iii)
Russell-Smith family (i), (ii), (iii)
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Strauss, Richard: Der Rosenkavalier (i)
Stravinsky, Igor: Petrouchka (i); Le Rossignol (i)
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Synge, J.M.: Deirdre of the Sorrows (i)
Taatamata (‘Mamuta’) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii)
Tahiti (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
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Thomas, Helen (i), (ii)
Thomson, James: ‘The City of Dreadful Night’ (i)
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Victoria, Queen (i), (ii)
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Walpole, Hugh (i), (ii)
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Ward, Dudley (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); and Annemarie von der Panitz (i), (ii); Berlin correspondent of the Economist (i); at Buckler’s Hard (i); caravan tour (i); a career civil servant (i); at Clevedon (i), (ii); investigates reports of RB’s child (i); marriage (i), (ii); orthodox dullness (i); RB on (i), (ii); RB visits in Berlin (i), (ii), (iii); RB’s instructions (i), (ii), (iii); reports on Ka’s emotional state (i); suspicious and over-loyal (i); and Taatamata’s letter (i)
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Ward, Peter (i), (ii)
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Webb, Beatrice (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)
Webb, Sidney (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
Webster, John (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii), (xxiii)
Wedd, Nathaniel (i)
Wedekind, Frank (i); Spring’s Awakening (i)
Wellesley, Lady Eileen (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii)
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of (i), (ii)
Wellington, New Zealand (i)
Wells, H.G. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x); Ann Veronica (i)
Wells, Professor Chauncey (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Westminster Gazette (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii)
Westminster School, London (i)
Whistler, J.M. (i)
Whitelaw, Robert (i), (ii), (iii)
Wilde, Oscar (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix); De Profundis (i), (ii), (iii); The Importance of Being Earnest (i)
Wilhelm II, Kaiser (i)
William III, King (i), (ii)
Wilson, Hugh (i)
Wilson, Steuart (i), (ii)
Wimborne, Lady (i)
Winchelsea (i)
Winchester College, Hampshire (i)
Witney, Oxon. (i)
Wolfskehl, Karl (i)
Women’s Social and Political Union (i)
women’s suffrage campaign (i), (ii), (iii)
Woolf, Leonard (i), (ii), (iii); as Jewish (i), (ii); marries Virginia (i), (ii); RB meets (i)
Woolf, Virginia (née Stephen) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi); appearance (i); bathes naked with RB (i); at the Clifford’s Bridge camp (i), (ii), (iii); on Eddie’s memoir (i); friendship with Ka (i); and Ka (i); and Lady Ottoline (i); on Lamb (i); marries Leonard (i), (ii); mental breakdowns (i), (ii), (iii); on the Raverat ménage à trois (i); RB meets (i); visits RB in Grantchester (i); The Voyage Out (i)
Wordsworth, William (i)
Wyndham, George (i), (ii)
Yale University (i), (ii)
Ye Olde George Hotel, Chatteris (i), (ii)
Yeats, W.B. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); The Land of Heart’s Desire (i)
Yellow Book (i), (ii)
Young, Hilton (i)
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Picture credits
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Ownership (and copyright, if any survives) of original photographs of Brooke and his circle is frequently unknown. The publishers would be happy to correct any oversights in attribution in a later edition, should new information come to light. For the following images, the author and publishers are grateful to:
Charleston Trust/Richard Shone: 18.
Imperial War Museums: 30 (Q 071074).
King’s College Library, Cambridge: 1 (RCB-Ph-009); 2 (RCB-Ph-004); 5 (RCB-Ph-004); 10 (RCB-Ph-094); 11 (RCB-Ph-129); 12 (RCB-Ph-100); 26 (RCB-Ph-199); 27 (RCB-Ph-224); 28 (RCB-Ph-255); 31 (RCB-Ph-272); 32 (RCB-Ph-303).
The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images: 6.
Tate, London: 9 © Tate, London 2014.
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About this Book
Paragon of youthful beauty, romantic symbol of a lost England and precociously gifted poet, Rupert Chawner Brooke died in a hospital ship off the Aegean island of Skyros in April 1915, aged just twenty-seven. All England mourned his passing.
But behind the glow of myth lies a darker reality. At the height of his promise a disappointment in love triggered a mental and physical collapse that brought his inner complexities to the surface. Letters reveal a man who was sexually ambivalent, misogynistic, anti-Semitic – and sometimes alarmingly unstable.
This updated, revised edition of Nigel Jones’s admired biography includes an account of a love affair that had lain buried for eighty-five years after Brooke’s death, and a new Appendix on the last, mysterious hours of Ka Cox, with whom the poet had his longest and most tortured relationship. It reveals a Brooke for the twenty-first century, a surprisingly modern man who was conflicted, confused and troubled, but who was also the quintessential star of the Edwardian idyll so brutally snuffed out in 1914.
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Reviews
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‘Intelligent, witty and definitive: this is literary biography at its best’
Andrew Roberts
‘Wonderfully rollicking history… told with relish’
Daily Mail
‘Jones is a consummate storyteller’
New Statesman
‘Jones has a hawk’s eye for fascinating historical detail’
Sunday Express
‘Nigel Jones knows how to tell a tale…thrilling history’
Sunday Telegraph
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About the Author
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NIGEL JONES is the author of Tower: An Epic History of the Tower of London and Peace and War: Britain in 1914. A former editor at History Today and BBC History magazines, he has appeared on historical documentaries on TV and radio. Nigel conducts War Poets’ tours of the Western Front with www.historicaltrips.com.
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