* The radical historian, who had written on William Morris, and whose parents were missionaries in India, friends of Rabindranath Tagore, the poet, on whom Mary Lago was now working.
** The William Morris expert. The Ionides family were friends and patrons of Morris and Burne-Jones.
* J. Howard Woolmer.
* Christiana, Lady Herringham, popularised the use of tempera in the Edwardian period, copied the cave paintings near Hyderabad, and was therefore held by Mary Lago to have inspired the character of Mrs Moore in A Passage to India. She was instrumental in the establishment of the National Art Collections Fund.
* Philanthropist, creator of Dartington Hall, sometime school, art college and arts centre near Totnes, Devon.
* The house in Fulham where Edward Burne-Jones lived.
* The National Art Collection Fund.
* Bibliographer of the Hogarth and Samurai presses, he and PMF came together through a shared interest in the publications and personalities of Harold Monro’s Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury. He also brokered the sale of her papers to the University of Texas.
* Bertram Rota, antiquarian bookseller and literary manuscript dealer.
* A bibliography of the Samurai Press, a poetry book publisher founded in 1906, with connections to Harold Monro and the Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury.
* In the Notes to the diaries.
* The garage was in fact a former coach house. The house itself had been bought from the playwright Arnold Wesker and the changes he had made to it previously are amongst his papers at the Harry Ransom Center in Texas, where PMF’s papers are also kept.
* Innokenty Smoktunovsky, who played the title role in the Soviet film adaptation of Hamlet in 1964.
* The Gate of Angels.
* The Blue Flower.
* In the US.
* It had just been announced that The Blue Flower had won the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US for the year 1997.
* Historian and editor at Collins, to whom she took Offshore after feeling unwanted at Duckworth. He also saw Human Voices, At Freddie’s and Charlotte Mew through the press, before his retirement.
** Raleigh Trevelyan at Michael Joseph, who had published her biography of Burne-Jones in 1975.
* The TLS temporarily ceased publication owing to a lengthy printers’ strike.
* Richard Ollard’s assistant.
** On winning the Booker Prize for Offshore.
* Haycraft.
* Typescript of Human Voices.
* Ziegler.
* The biographer.
* Evelyn Waugh.
** The New Fiction Society.
* Haycraft.
** Bainbridge.
† Which would be published in 1982 as Novel on Blue Paper with an introduction by PMF.
* William Morris.
* With At Freddie’s.
* For At Freddie’s.
* The Inner Temple where she was staying with her friend Jean Fisher-Talbot while she looked for a London base.
* Where PMF’s grandson, Fergus, was being treated.
** She meant Clifton Hill.
† The novelist, Paul Bailey.
* Richard Ollard’s house in the country.
* Public Lending Right.
* Callil.
* Philip Ziegler’s biography of Lord Louis Mountbatten.
* The Rosemary Crawshay prize from the British Academy for Charlotte Mew.
* Innocence.
** Richard Ollard had now retired and Stuart Proffit became her new editor. PMF continued, however, to send Richard Ollard her manuscripts and to seek his editorial advice.
† At the old Collins premises. The company had just moved moved to larger premises in Grafton Street.
* Oliver Knox’s son, Dillwyn’s grandson.
** Managing director, Collins Trade division.
* A. E. Housman.
* Alan Bullock’s Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives.
* The Gate of Angels.
** The location of the new HarperCollins building in Hammersmith.
* Publisher, Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson.
* Bullock’s Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives.
*so, too, is the Booker list! I’m in favour of The Van, but there are a lot of dead weights (in my opinion) to get rid of.
* PMF was one of the judges for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
* A. L. Rowse.
* Took over from Richard Ollard as PMF’s editor at Collins. Unfortunately, we do not have the correspondence relating to Innocence and The Beginning of Spring. He remained her editor for The Gate of Angels and The Blue Flower, after which he left the firm for Penguin.
* Brookner.
* Karen Duffy, PMF’s publicist at HarperCollins.
** The Gate of Angels.
* The new HarperCollins building in Hammersmith.
** Ollard.
* Isabel Quigley, literary editor of the Tablet .
* Of The Beginning of Spring.
** Nan A. Talese, PMF’s American publisher.
† The Literary Festival.
* The French publisher.
* Publisher’s Weekly.
** Whom she interviewed for the video series on contemporary novelists.
* The dramatist.
* Wrote for help in his research into Edwardian Cambridge.
* The short-story writer and novelist, known as Pat to her friends. PMF taught fiction-writing with her for the Arvon Foundation.
* The novelist and writer on the British in Russia in the nineteenth century.
** The Beginning of Spring.
* The literary critic whom PMF most admired. He reviewed several of her novels, and wrote the introduction to the posthumous Everyman collection of her work.
* The poem by William Morris.
* The novelist, who reviewed PMF with great insight and appreciation.
* A reader and fan of PMF’s work.
* A friend and fellow member of the William Morris Society, to which PMF devoted much time and energy.
* Weaver, designer and expert on William Morris’s poetry.
* John W. Mackail, Burne-Jones’ son-in-law, and official biographer of Morris.
* Kelmscott House, headquarters of the William Morris Society, formerly his London home.
* The bardic clearing of the throat in Beowulf, to obtain silence.
** He wrote to his daughters that he had noticed the ‘sudden gust of wind’ which reportedly sank the Eurydice. The tragedy of the wreck, in sight of land, haunted Charlotte Mew.
* PMF first met the novelist, J. L. Carr, at the Arvon Foundation, where they both taught fiction-writing.
* The Gate of Angels.
* The novelist and doyenne of PEN International.
** On being shortlisted for the Booker Prize with Jigsaw.
† For lifetime achievement in literature.
* The novelist.
* The biographer and autobiographer. He and PMF worked together for the Royal Society of Literature.
* Royal Society of Literature.
* The novelist, anthologist, translator and critic.
* The Italian translator of all PMF’s fiction.
* PMF’s review of Holmes’s biography of Coleridge is one of her finest critical essays – and his review of The Blue Flower the most learned and interesting account of it so far.
* PMF’s editor at Flamingo/HarperCollins for The Blue Flower, The Means of Escape and A House of Air.
** As featured in The Bookshop.
† Fresco known as Boy Reading Cicero by Vincenzo Foppa in the Wallace Collection, used as cover for The Bookshop in its Flamingo edition.
* Arts and Crafts house in West Sussex, designed by Philip Webb for the Beale family.
* ‘The Likeness’ (published in Prize Writing: A Booker Anthology, 1989) and ‘Our Lives Are Only Lent to Us’ (an early story, published in Granta) were added to the paperback edition of The Means of Escape. Two stories remain unc
ollected.
** ‘Desideratus’ was, in fact, one of PMF’s three last stories, all written to commission, in 1997–8.
* This, with a letter to Chris Carduff, is one of PMF’s last letters – she had her first stroke a few days later.
** Carduff.
† PMF’s editor at Houghton Mifflin. Chris Carduff was no longer with the firm.
* PMF’s American editor, who brought out The Blue Flower with great success for Houghton Mifflin and subsequently published or republished all her other fiction. His new edition of The Knox Brothers appeared in the autumn of 2000, and he co-edited her essays, known as The Afterlife in the US.
* Carduff’s colleague and wife-to-be.
* Popular Flora books.
* An editorial assistant at Houghton Mifflin.
* The National Book Critics Circle Award.
* PMF meant Addison-Wesley.
* This is one of the last letters PMF wrote. The first of her strokes took place a day or so later. She died on 28 April.
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