Lister, Laura. See Lovat, Lady
Littlecourt (Agnews’ country house), 200
Little Dot’s Playbox, 246
Little Gidding, 86, 153
Lloyds (Birmingham Quaker family), 13
Lobel, Edgar, 190, 217
Local Defence Volunteers (L.D.V.), Bletchley, 232
Loch Ness monster, 264
Locker’s Park School (Hemel Hempstead), 34
Loewe, Dr., 241
Lovat, Lady (Laura Lister), 169, 177, 213
Lovat, Lord, 169
Love, Mabel, 47
Low, David, 176
Lucas, E. V., 105, 106, 160, 170, 174
Lucy Cavendish Foundation, 234
Lug, River (Radnorshire), 198, 263
Lynd, Robert, 69
Lyon, Jean, 202
Lyons, Mrs (R.A.K.’s housekeeper), 184–185
Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith), 190
MacCarthy, Desmond, 73–74, 127
Macaulay, Thomas B.: Lays of Ancient Rome, 18, 36
Macaulay, Rose, 244, 270
McClaren, Mrs, 34
MacDonald, Murray, 235
Mackenzie, Iain, 238
Macmillan, Daniel, 55, 109
Macmillan, Harold, 109, 114, 119, 132, 167, 269
McTaggart, Ellis, 187
Madras, 5, 6, 40
Magdalen College Choir School (Oxford), 102
Maitland, Alexander, 19–20, 21
Malory, Thomas, 43
Malta, 248
Man, Isle of, 29
Manchester, 52–53, 108, 245
Manchester Courier, 68, 70
Manchester Grammar School, 68
Manchester Guardian, 68, 72, 73, 132
Manilius, 83
Mansfield, Katherine, 144
Market Harborough (Leicestershire), 192
Marsh, Edward, 64
Martindale, Charlie, S.J., 122–124, 177, 185, 211, 214, 240–241, 243
Masterman, J. C., 268
Matapan, battle of, 248
Maurice, F. D., 50
May, Phil, 104, 105, 202
M’bebi (Actons’ farm in Rhodesia), 256, 265
Meler (Soviet emissary), 180
Mells (Somerset), 257–258, 267–268
Menin Road, 139
Meredith, George, 49, 165
Merton College (Oxford), 10–11, 15, 173, 261
Mexico City, 134
Middlesbrough, Catholic Bishop of, 253
Miles, Eustace, 72
Milne, A. A., 105, 173, 201
Milner-White, Eric, 152
Milton, John, 189, 233
Modernism, 96–97
Mokotov-Pyry (Poland), 227
Moneymore (Co. Derry), 3, 4
Moore, George, 43
Moore, G. E., 59, 60
Moore, Temple, 30
More Hall (Gloucestershire), 114
Morris, Mrs Helen, 230
Morris, William, 32, 33, 43
Morton, H. V., 198
Morton, J. B. (“Beachcomber” of the Daily Express), 206, 261
Moscow Bank for Foreign Trade, 178
Moses, Mr., 235
Moses, Mrs., 199, 235
Mount Carmel, 237
Muggeridge, Malcolm, 153
Munich Conference (1938), 219
Murry, J. Middleton, 144
Muscat, 19, 21, 65
Nagasaki (1945), 255
Naphill (Bucks), 247
National Insurance Bill (1911–12), 91
Nazi Government, 222, 226
Needham, Joseph, 154
Newcastle, Lord Mayor of, 176
Newman, John Henry, 9, 52, 76, 87, 88, 94, 124, 132, 177, 215, 222, 241
News of the World, 166, 202
Newton, Ethel. See Knox, Ethel Mary
Newton, Horace (Bishop Knox’s father-in-law), 30
Newton, Professor (Cambridge), 56
New Yorker, 174, 200, 202, 203, 204
New Zealand, 237
Nichol, Robertson, 72
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 196
Nietzsche, F. W., 50
Night and Day, 204
Nixon, J. E., 82, 124
North Africa, 237, 246
North Dean (Bucks), 181
North Manchester Preparatory School, 68
Nottingham, 145
Novello, Ivor, 104, 171
Nowell, A. T., R.A., 147
Nuffield, Lord, 219
Nugent, George, 4
Oberammergau Passion Play, 93
Observer, 71, 105
Offa’s Dyke, 236
O.G.S. See Oratory of the Good Shepherd
Old Palace (Oxford Catholic Chaplaincy), 184
Omar Khayyam Society, 264
Oratorians, 123
Oratory (London), 133, 141
Oratory of the Good Shepherd, 150–153, 258
Oratory House (Cambridge), 153–154, 234
Orthodox Club (Oxford), 90
Oxford, 8–11, 15, 43, 45, 46, 67, 68, 76, 102–103, 109, 173, 184, 261 See also Balliol College; Corpus Christi College; Merton College; Old Palace; Trinity College
Oxford Magazine, 97
Oxford Movement, 87
Oxford Union Society, 94–95
Oxyrhyncus papyri, 65–67, 101, 190
Paddington Station, 266
Pain, Barry, 105
Palestine, 179
Pall Mall Gazette, 69
Pall Mall Magazine, 74–75, 104, 113
Parting Pot, The (Edmundthorpe public house), 27
Partridge, Bernard, 174, 202, 206, 246
Pascal, Blaise, 266
Pass, H. L., O.G.S., 151
Passchendaele, battle of (1917), 139–140
Peace Rally (1928), 212–213
Pearson’s Magazine, 69
Peck, Anthony Dillwyn, 211
Peck, James, 108
Peck, Lady (Winifred Frances Knox, sister), 15, 16, 25, 42–43, 67, 75, 92, 93, 107–108, 114, 130, 157, 267
Pelissier’s Follies, 137
Pembroke College (Cambridge), 234–235, 258, 262
Pentelopes (verse form invented by A.D.K.), 193–194, 249
Penzance (Cornwall), 17, 29
Perowne, J. J. S., 29, 30
Pettiward, Roger (“Paul Crum”), 204
Philby, Kim, 233
Philo of Alexandria, 173
Philogelus, 100
Philologus, 163
Pinkie and the Fairies, 75
Pius XII, 264
Plato, 46, 48
Plotinus, 199
Poetry Bookshop, 203
Poland, 226, 228
Porlock (Somerset), 107
Postgate, John, 59
Prayer Book (Book of Common Prayer), 93, 148, 161
Prehen (Co. Derry), 3
Price, Richard, 206–207
Punch, 67, 70, 72, 104, 116, 125, 138, 144–145, 173–174, 199–207, 244–247, 261
Pusey, Edward, 9
Pyrenees, 230
Quakers (Society of Friends), 5, 88
Queen Mary, 202
R.A.F. See Royal Air Force
Ragged Schools, 23, 54
Rathmullen (Co. Donegal), 3
Rawalpindi, 237
Rawstone, Richard, 110, 111, 119, 121
Redditch (Worcester), 30
Redhill (Surrey), 187
“Red Revolution”, 178
Reynolds, Frances. See Knox, Frances
Reynolds, Mary Ann. See Arbuthnott, Mary Ann
Reynolds, Sophia Daniell (great-grandmother), 5
Reynolds, Thomas (great-grandfather), 5
Rhys, Ernest, 203
“Richmond” (Bishop Knox’s parlour maid), 54, 93, 147
Ritualism, 87
Roberts, S. C., 261
Rock, Margaret, 30, 248, 250
Roddam, Lt.-Col., 136
Roddam, Olive. See Knox, Olive
Rolls, C. S., 61
Roman Catholic Church, 167–168
Rome, 67–68
Room 40. See Admiralty,
British
Ross, Harold, 174, 200, 203
Rossetti, Christina, 43, 45
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 45, 169, 257
Rothermere, Lord, 175
Royal Academy, 147
Royal Air Force (R.A.F.), 228, 229, 234
Royal Court Theatre, 171
Rugby School, 12, 34–37, 49
Ruskin, John, 7, 50, 103
Russell, Bertrand, 166
Rutherford, W. G., 65–66
St Anselm’s (Cambridge), 112
St Ebbe’s (Oxford), 11
St Edmund’s Old Hall (Hems), 143, 217
St Francis de Sales, 259
St Jerome, 216–217, 252
St John’s College (Agra), 13
St John’s Wood (London), 244
St Mary’s (Graham St.), 92
St Paul (Apostle), 197–198, 207, 216, 243, 249, 252
St Paul’s School, 8, 68
SS Peter and Paul, Society of, 97, 112–113, 149
St Philip’s Church and Rectory (Birmingham), 29, 33, 40
St Philip’s Military and Pioneering Tramway Society, 39
St Saviour’s (Hoxton), 172
Salford (Lancashire), 103
Samurai (early-20th-century elitist society), 105
San Remo, 110–111
Saturday Review, 73, 74
Savile Club, 160
Savoy Hotel, 141
Schiller, Friedrich von, 135–136, 231
Scotland, 10, 30
Scotsman, 148
Seaman, Owen, 74, 104–105, 106, 116, 138, 159, 171, 173, 174, 175, 178, 199–200, 203
Seven Bells, The (Bletchley public house), 232
Shaw, G. B., 157, 171, 202
Shepard, Ernest, 173, 202, 244
Shepard, Graham, 246–247
Shepard, Mary. See Knox, Mary
Sheppard, John, 62, 66, 76, 80–81, 98, 101
Ship, The (Whitehall public house), 129
Shorter, Clement, 68
Shrewsbury School, 119, 124
Sib (Gulf of Oman), 21
Sicily, 246
Simpson’s-in-the-Strand, 254
Sisters of Nazareth, 185
Smiles, Samuel, 34, 249
Smith, F. E. (Lord Birkenhead), 77
Smith, Mr, 155, 195
Socialism, 90–91
Soho (London), 70
Somme, River, 137, 253
Souls (high-minded Edwardian clique), 84, 169, 214
Southampton Buildings (ARCOS HQ), 180
Southwark, Catholic Bishop of, 243
Spain, 230, 248
Spencer, Gilbert, R.A., 189–190
Spencer, Stanley, R.A., 170, 189
Sphere, 68
Stalin, Josef, 178
Stampa, George, 202
Standard, 70, 73, 166
Stanley, H. M., 19
Stephen, Virginia, 75
Stevenson, Evelyn, 47–48, 49
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 33
Strachey, Lytton, 59, 60, 64, 80–82, 85, 114, 187
Straight, Douglas (M.P.), 74, 113
Strand (magazine), 69
Stratford (E. London), 89–90, 120, 262
Strube, Sidney, 171, 176
Suggia, Madame, 129
Sunshine Apostle, 72
Sussex, 157–158
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 49
Swithinbank, Bernard, 55, 82
Switzerland, 180
Symonds, John Addington, 60
Tablet, 177, 252, 254, 255, 267
Talgarth Road (Hammersmith), 68, 75
Tasso, 4
Tatler, 260
Temple, Shirley, 204
Temple, William (Archbishop of Canterbury), 37, 50, 91, 96, 97, 147
Territorial Army, 114, 118
Thompson, George, 76
Thucydides, 83
Tibbatts, George, O.G.S., 151
Tildsley’s Farm Dairies, 240
Tim (W.L.K.’s dog), 199, 207
Times (London), 28, 244, 250, 258
Tit-Bits, 69
Tomlinson, H. M., 69
Torquay, 267
Tractarianism, 9, 52, 87, 148
Tribune (London), 71
Trinity College (Oxford), 63, 76
Trollope, Anthony, 10, 53, 165
Turing, Alan, 233
Turks, 121
Tutankhamen, 166, 175
Twinn, Peter, 221, 229
U-boat campaign, 134–135, 141
Ulster, 3
Umble language, 169–170
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), 178–181
United Irishmen, Rising of (1798), 3
United States, 242, 245, 254
Universities Catholic Education Board, 177
Urquhart, Francis, 142, 177
Vale of Health Hotel (Hampstead), 170
Valpy, Richard, 12
Van Dyck, Anthony, 51
Vatican, 177
Vaughan, Henry: “Peace”, 52, 171–172
Verdun, 118
Victoria, Queen, 40, 42, 80, 209
Vidler, Alec, O.G.S., 195–196, 207
Vignolles, Château de, 228
Waddon (Surrey), 6
Waggett, P. N., O.G.S., 151
War Office Chaplains’ Department (1914), 118, M.I.D.7, 129–130, 140
Warsaw, 227
Wasp (U.S. aircraft carrier), 248
Waterhouse, Gilbert, 126
Waugh, Evelyn, 112, 215, 265 biography of R.A.K., 266, 267 Brideshead Revisited, 211, 256
Wedd, Nathaniel, 55–56, 57, 60, 62, 100, 187
Well Walk (Hampstead), 170–171, 207–208
Wells, H. G., 113
Wembley Empire Exhibitions, 174–175
West Indies, 3
Westminster, Catholic Archbishop of (Cardinal Hinsley), 253
Westminster Gazette, 131–132
Whitby (Yorkshire), 115
Whitelaw, Robert, 36
Wilde, Oscar, 43, 83, 187, 202
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 113
Willey, Basil, 238
Williams, Dr (R.A.K.’s G.P.), 269
Williams, E. C., 35
Willoughby, Leonard, 126
Wilson, Woodrow, 193
Wilton, Richard, 31
Winchester School, 110
Wingfield-Stratford, Esmé, 187
Wood, J. G.: Natural History, 39, 165, 256, 265
Woodruff, Douglas, 254
Woolf, Leonard, 60
Woolwich, 50
Worcester College, 40
Wozencroft, George, 199
Wye, River, 198
Wynne, Edward, 234, 235
Yeats, Jack (“William Bird”), 203
Yeats, W. B., 49, 203
Ypres, 116, 139–140, 186
Zeppelin raids, 119, 130, 141
Zimmermann telegram, 134
Zinoviev Letter, 179
Zudyakov (Soviet emissary), 180
About the Author
Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most elegant and distinctive voices in British fiction. She was the author of a collection of stories entitled The Means of Escape, nine novels, three of which – The Bookshop, The Beginning of Spring and The Gate of Angels – were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. And she won the Prize in 1979 for Offshore. Her most recent novel, The Blue Flower, was the most admired novel of 1995, chosen no fewer than nineteen times in the press as the ‘Book of the Year’. It won America’s National Book Critics’ Circle Award, and this helped introduce her to a wider international readership.
A superb biographer and critic, Penelope Fitzgerald was also the author of lives of the artist Edward Burne-Jones (her first book), and the poet Charlotte Mew.
Penelope Fitzgerald did not embark on her literary career until the age of sixty. After graduating from Somerville College, Oxford, she worked at the BBC during the war, edited a literary journal, ran a bookshop and taught at various schools, including a theatrical school; her early novels drew upon many of these experiences.
/> She died in April 2000, at the age of eighty-three.
RICHARD HOLMES’ first book was Shelley: The Pursuit which won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1974. Coleridge: Early Visions won the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Prize, and was followed in 1998 by its highly-acclaimed sequel Coleridge: Darker Reflections, which covers the latter part of the poet’s life. He is also the author of Dr Johnson & Mr Savage (1993), Footsteps (1985), and Sidetracks (2000). Richard Holmes is a Fellow of the British Academy and in 1992 was awarded an OBE. He lives in Norwich and London with the novelist Rose Tremain.
Also by the Author
Also by Penelope Fitzgerald
EDWARD BURNE-JONES
THE GOLDEN CHILD
THE BOOKSHOP
OFFSHORE
HUMAN VOICES
AT FREDDIE’S
CHARLOTTE MEW AND HER FRIENDS
INNOCENCE
THE BEGINNING OF SPRING
THE GATE OF ANGELS
THE BLUE FLOWER
THE MEANS OF ESCAPE
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