35 It’s a Battlefield, p. 39.
36 Ibid., p. 189.
32 ‘The skeletons of other people’s people’
1 Diary, 4 August 1932. Samuel Pepys, in his diary, expressed his curiosity as to how the Italian sport of buggery was performed: ‘Blessed be God, I do not to this day know what is the meaning of this sin, nor which is the agent nor which is the patient.’
2 Ibid., 6 April 1933.
3 Ibid., 12July 1933.
4 Ibid., 2 August 1933.
5 It’s a Battlefield, Penguin edition, 1981, p. 125.
6 Ibid., p. 126.
7 Diary, 12 July 1932.
8 Ibid., 5 October 1932.
9 Ibid., 12 February 1933.
10 Ibid., 2–10 September 1932.
11 Letter to his mother, 21 April 1933.
12 Letter, 4 October 1925.
13 Interview, 26 July 1979.
14 Interview, 10 August 1983.
15 Diary, 21 May 1933.
16 Ibid., 24 May 1933.
17 The End of the Affair, Heinemann, 1951, pp. 192–3.
18 Letter to his mother, 5 May 1933.
19 Diary, 27 February 1933.
20 Ibid., 16 June 1933.
21 Ibid., 10 July 1932.
22 Spectator, 15 December 1933.
33 England Made Me – and the Black Sheep of the Family
1 ‘Gold Bricks’, Spectator, 3 March 1933, p. 308.
2 Diary, 1–6 July 1933.
3 Ibid., 13 July 1933.
4 Ibid., 21 July 1933.
5 Ibid., 28 July 1933.
6 Michael Tracey, A Variety of Lives: A Biography of Sir Hugh Greene, Bodley Head, 1983, p. 27.
7 Interview with Sir Hugh Greene, 19 May 1981.
8 Letter, 18 August 1932.
9 Ways of Escape, Penguin edition, 1981, p. 30.
10 Ibid.
11 ‘Two Capitals’, Spectator, 20 October 1933, pp. 520–1.
12 Ways of Escape, p. 31.
13 England Made Me, Penguin edition, 1970, p. 15.
14 Ibid., p. 83.
15 ‘Fiction’, Spectator, 30 June 1933, p. 956.
16 Diary, 22 July 1933.
17 The Old School, Jonathan Cape, 1934, p. 253.
18 Ways of Escape, p. 31.
19 England Made Me, pp. 9 & 14.
20 Ibid., p. 16.
21 Ibid., p. 21.
22 Ibid., p. 10.
23 ‘Across the Border (an unfinished novel)’, Penguin New Writing, Volume 30, 1947, p. 73.
24 Ibid., pp. 69–70.
25 England Made Me, p. 184.
26 ‘Across the Border’, p. 70.
27 Letter from Olga Franklin, 26 November 1980.
28 Interview with Edward Greene, 19 December 1976.
29 Interview with Felix Greene, 2 March 1977.
30 Letter to Vivien, 10 March 1926.
31 Ibid., 22 March 1926.
32 Ibid., 31 May 1926.
33 The Old School, p. 248.
34 Postcard to his mother, August 1933.
35 A Sort of Life, Penguin edition, 1974, p. 21.
36 England Made Me, p. 63.
37 ‘Across the Border’, p. 70.
38 Letter to Vivien, 22 February 1927.
39 England Made Me, pp. 13–14.
40 Ways of Escape, p. 31.
41 England Made Me, p. 17.
42 Ibid., pp. 16–19.
43 Ibid., p. 141.
44 Ibid., p. 201.
45 Letter to his mother, 2 January 1934.
34 Champagne and Fate
1 Ways of Escape, Penguin edition, 1981, p. 37.
2 Barbara Greene, Land Benighted, Geoffrey Bles, 1938, p. 1.
3 Ways of Escape, pp. 37–8.
4 News Chronicle, 4 January 1935.
5 Letter to Hugh Greene, 18 August 1934.
6 Ibid.
7 Ways of Escape, p. 37.
8 Papers Concerning Affairs in Liberia, December 1930-May 1934, HMSO, May 1934, p. 61.
9 Postscript to letter to Hugh Greene in Berlin, 26 November 1934.
10 Journey Without Maps, Penguin edition, 1978, p. 23.
11 Ways of Escape, p. 38.
12 Land Benighted, p. 6.
13 Journey Without Maps, p. 30.
14 Diary, p. 1.
15 Land Benighted, p. 5.
16 Journey Without Maps, p. 37.
17 Ibid., p. 38.
18 Ibid.
19 Ibid., p. 53.
20 The Pleasure Dome, Oxford University Press, 1980, p. 157.
21 Journey Without Maps, p. 43.
22 ‘The Soupsweet Land’, Collected Essays, Penguin edition, 1970, p. 343.
23 Journey Without Maps, p. 43.
24 Collected Essays, p. 343.
25 Time and Tide, 19 October 1940.
26 Interview, 1976.
27 Land Benighted, p. 6.
28 Ibid.
29 Journey Without Maps, pp. 49–50.
30 Ibid., p. 51.
31 Ibid., p. 53.
32 Ibid.
33 Ibid., p. 54.
34 Ibid., p. 53.
35 Ibid., p. 55.
36 Ibid., p. 54.
37 Ibid., p. 59.
38 Land Benighted, p. 14.
39 Diary, p. 19.
40 Journey Without Maps, p. 64.
41 Ibid., p. 68.
42 Diary, p. 10.
43 Journey Without Maps, p. 68.
44 Diary, p. 10.
45 Journey Without Maps, p. 78.
46 Diary, p. 16.
47 Diary, p. 11.
48 Land Benighted, p. 18.
49 Diary, p. 6.
50 Journey Without Maps, p. 79.
51 Ibid., pp. 79–80.
52 Ibid., p. 80.
53 Ibid., p. 81.
54 Ibid., p. 82.
55 Ibid.
56 Ibid.
57 Land Benighted, p. 9.
58 Ibid.
59 Journey Without Maps, p. 83.
60 Ibid.
61 Diary, p. 12.
62 Land Benighted, p. 21.
63 Journey Without Maps, p. 86.
64 Ibid.
65 Ibid., p. 87.
66 Jeremy Gavron, ‘Dark Journey into Greeneland’, Daily Telegraph, 16 January 1988.
67 Journey Without Maps, pp. 98–9.
68 Ibid., p. 95.
69 Ibid., p. 97.
70 Ibid.
71 Diary, p. 27.
35 Whisky and Epsom Salts
1 Barbara Greene, Land Benighted, Geoffrey Bles, 1938, p. 32.
2 Journey Without Maps, Penguin Books, 1978, p. 85.
3 Ibid., pp. 103–4.
4 Ibid., p. 85.
5 Ibid., p. 105.
6 Ibid.
7 Ibid., p. 108.
8 Ibid., p. 105.
9 Ibid., p. 110.
10 Ibid.
11 Ibid., p. 111.
12 Ibid., p. 112.
13 Ibid., p. 115.
14 Ibid., p. 118.
15 Ibid., pp. 119–20.
16 Ibid., pp. 120–1.
17 Ibid., p. 122.
18 Ibid., p. 124.
19 Ibid., p. 125.
20 Diary, p. 31.
21 Journey Without Maps, pp. 126–7.
22 Undated letter to her mother from Monrovia.
23 Journey Without Maps, p. 129.
24 Land Benighted, p. 55.
25 Journey Without Maps, p. 132.
26 Ibid., p. 133.
27 Land Benighted, p. 69.
28 Ibid., pp. 63–4.
29 Journey Without Maps, p. 134.
30 Ibid.
31 Land Benighted, p. 61.
32 Ibid., p. 68.
33 Journey Without Maps, p. 137.
34 Land Benighted, p. 72.
35 Ibid., p. 65.
36 Ibid.
37 Journey Without Maps, p. 137.
38 Ibid., p. 141.
39 Land Benighted, pp. 79–80.
40 Ibid., p. 81.
42 Ibid., p. 88.
43 Ibid.
44 Journey Without Maps, p. 150.
45 ‘A Chance for Mr Lever’, Twenty-One Stories, Penguin Books, 1973, p. 101.
46 Land Benighted, p. 96.
47 ‘A Chance for Mr Lever’, p. 99.
48 Journey Without Maps, p. 154.
49 Ibid.
50 Ibid.
51 Ibid., p. 155.
52 Ibid., p. 162.
53 Land Benighted, p. 109.
54 Ibid., p. 112.
55 Diary, pp. 44–5.
56 Land Benighted, pp. 118–19.
57 Journey Without Maps, p. 171.
58 Ibid., p. 183.
59 Diary, pp. 51–2.
60 Land Benighted, p. 136.
61 Ibid., p. 137.
62 Ibid., p. 135.
63 Journey Without Maps, p. 157.
64 Ibid., p. 192.
65 Ibid., p. 193.
66 Ibid., p. 200.
67 ‘At Home’, Collected Essays, Penguin Books, 1970, p. 335.
68 Journey Without Maps, pp. 205–6.
69 Ibid., pp. 200–1.
70 Ibid., p. 211.
71 Land Benighted, p. 159.
72 Diary, p. 67.
73 Journey Without Maps, p. 211.
74 Land Benighted, pp. 173–4.
75 Ibid., pp. 176–7.
76 Journey Without Maps, p. 213.
77 ‘A Chance for Mr Lever’, p. 107.
78 Journey Without Maps, p. 215.
79 Land Benighted, p. 179.
80 Diary, p. 68.
81 Journey Without Maps, p. 220.
82 Land Benighted, pp. 189–90.
83 Ibid., p. 192.
84 Journey Without Maps, p. 224.
85 Land Benighted, p. 193.
86 Journey Without Maps, p. 226.
87 Land Benighted, p. 194.
88 Journey Without Maps, p. 228.
89 Ibid., p. 235.
90 Ibid., p. 234.
91 Diary, entry on last page.
92 Land Benighted, p. 202.
93 Journey Without Maps, p. 248.
94 Land Benighted, p. 204.
95 Journey Without Maps, pp. 248–9.
96 Ibid., p. 250.
97 ‘Books in General’, New Statesman and Nation, 21 June 1952, p. 745.
98 Journey Without Maps, p. 19.
99 Ibid., p. 244.
100 Ibid., p. 21.
101 Ibid., p. 249.
102 Ibid., p. 248.
103 Ibid., p. 21.
104 Ibid., p. 250.
105 Spectator, 5 July 1935.
106 Letter to Hugh Greene, 19 December 1937.
107 Letter to Louise Callendar, 11 October 1946.
108 Spectator, 15 May 1936.
109 Letter to Countess Strachwitz, 11 January 1975.
36 14 North Side
1 Letter to his mother, 18 April 1935.
2 Ibid.
3 Interview with Vivien Greene, 10 August 1983.
4 Letter to his mother, 18 April 1935.
5 ‘West Coast’, Spectator, 12 April 1935.
6 Letter to his mother, 8 September 1936.
7 ‘Two Tall Travellers’, Spectator, 11 September 1936.
8 Letter to his mother, 9 May 1935.
9 Ibid.
10 ‘The Basement Room’, Twenty-One Stories, Penguin edition, 1973, p. 19.
11 Ibid., p. 17.
12 Undated letter of 1935.
13 Ibid.
14 The review entitled ‘The Domestic Background’ appeared in the Spectator, 26 July 1935.
15 Undated letter of 1935.
16 The Times Literary Supplement, 23 November 1935.
17 William Plomer, Spectator, 22 November 1935.
18 The Times Literary Supplement, 4 June 1935.
19 Spectator, 28 June 1935.
20 Letter to David Higham, 26 March 1939.
21 Letter to Nancy Pearn, 20 October 1935.
22 Ibid., 21 October 1935.
23 Ibid., 11 November 1935.
24 Letter to his mother, 3 April 1936.
25 Letter to Nancy Pearn, 13 January 1936.
26 Ibid., 7 January 1936.
27 Ibid., 11 January 1936.
28 The Times, 23 January 1936.
29 Letter from Nancy Pearn, 10 February 1936.
30 Letter to Nancy Pearn, 13 March 1936.
31 Letter from Nancy Pearn, 8 May 1936.
32 Letter to his mother, 3 April 1936.
37 The Pleasure Dome
1 Letter, 9 May 1936.
2 Letter, January 1936.
3 Ways of Escape, Penguin edition, 1981, p. 45.
4 ‘Screen Greene’, London Magazine, April 1968, p. 54.
5 Spectator, 11 October 1935.
6 Letter to his mother, 3 November 1935.
7 Spectator, 25 December 1936.
8 Night and Day, 30 September 1937.
9 Spectator, 22 May 1936.
10 Ibid., 18 December 1936.
11 Night and Day, 29July 1937.
12 Ibid., 26 August 1937.
13 Spectator, 20 November 1936.
14 Ibid., 11 December 1936 and 18 December 1936.
15 Ibid., 4 October 1935.
16 Journey Without Maps, Penguin edition, 1978, p. 27.
17 Ibid., pp. 28–9.
18 Night and Day, 22 July 1937.
19 Ibid.
20 Ibid., 4 November 1937.
21 Ibid., 7 October 1937.
22 Ibid.
23 Spectator, 6 September 1935.
24 Ibid., 2 April 1937.
25 Ibid., 5 July 1935.
26 ‘Subjects and Stories’, Footnotes to the Film, ed. Charles Davey, Lovat Dickson (U.S.A.), 1938.
27 Spectator, 17 April 1936.
28 Ways of Escape, p. 47.
29 Spectator, 27 December 1935.
30 Ibid., 5 March 1937.
31 ‘Ideas in the Cinema’, Spectator, 19 November 1937.
32 Footnotes to the Film.
33 Ibid.
34 Letter to Hugh Greene, 29 February 1936.
35 Ibid.
36 Spectator, 4 September 1936.
37 Ways of Escape, p. 50.
38 Ibid.
39 ‘The Novelist and the Cinema – A Personal Experience’, International Film Annual, No. 2, ed. William Whitebait, Calder, 1958.
40 Basil Dean, Mind’s Eye, Hutchinson, 1973, p. 251.
41 Ibid., p. 252.
42 Spectator, 12 January 1940.
43 ‘The Novelist and the Cinema’.
44 Ways of Escape, pp. 50–1.
38 Night and Day
1 Letter from Arthur Calder-Marshall, 8 October 1977.
2 Basil Dean, Mind’s Eye, Hutchinson, 1973, p. 250.
3 Letter to Hugh Greene, 11 June 1936.
4 Letter in Graham Greene’s possession. Also quoted in The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Mark Amory, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1980, pp. 108–9. Amory dates the letter 30 July 1936.
5 Letter to his mother, 29 August 1936.
6 Letter to Hugh Greene, 31 August 1936.
7 Letter to his mother, 8 September 1936.
8 Ibid.
9 Letter from Ian Parsons, 30 December 1976.
10 Letter undated, but Mark Amory dates it March or April 1937.
11 Waugh’s letters to Graham Greene are still in Greene’s possession. Not all of them have been published. They are all undated.
12 Dated by Amory, August 1937.
13 Quoted by Hugh Thomas in his Spanish Civil War, Billing & Sons, 1961, pp. 171–5, from Antonio Montero’s study La Persecucion religiosa en España.
14 Alan Jenkins, The Thirties, Heinemann, 1976, p. 85.
15 Hugh Thomas, op. cit., p. 410.
16 Ways of Escape, Penguin edition, 1981, pp. 59–60.
17 Interview with Sir Hugh Greene, 19 May 1981.
18 A selection from the entire run of the magazine was published
in 1985. Well edited by Christopher Hawtree, preface by Graham Greene.
19 Quoted by Hawtree in his wide-ranging introduction to the selection of Night and Day.
20 Preface to Night and Day, Chatto & Windus, 1985, p. vii.
21 Walter Allen, As I Walked Down New Grub Street: Memories of A Writing Life, University of Chicago Press, 1982, pp. 64–5.
22 Interview with Lady Read, June 1977.
23 Night and Day, 19 August 1937.
24 Ibid., 21 October 1937.
25 Spectator, 24 May 1936.
26 Anne Edwards, Shirley Temple: American Princess, William Morrow & Co., (U.S.A.), 1988, p. 105.
27 Diary, 24 September 1938.
28 Night and Day, 18 November 1937.
29 Letter to Hugh Greene, 16 January 1938.
30 Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Michael Davie, Penguin Books, 1976, p. 426.
31 Quoted by Hawtree in his introduction to the selected Night and Day.
32 Letter from Ian Parsons, 30 December 1976.
33 Ibid.
34 John Atkins, Graham Greene, Calder and Boyars, 1969, p. 86.
35 Letter to Mrs Stine, 21 April 1969.
36 Letter to Hugh Greene, 16 January 1938.
37 Spectator, 5 August 1938.
39 Brighton Rock
1 Martin Shuttleworth and Simon Raven, ‘Graham Greene Interviewed’, Graham Greene: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Samuel L. Hynes, Prentice-Hall, 1973, pp. 161–3.
2 Letter to Vivien, 15 December 1925.
3 J. Maclaren-Ross, ‘Excursion in Greeneland’, Memories of the Forties, Alan Ross, 1965, p. 25.
4 Letter from Nancy Pearn, 25 July 1936.
5 Ways of Escape, Penguin edition, 1981, p. 62.
6 Letter to Hugh Greene, 30 July 1936.
7 Brighton Rock, Penguin edition, 1975, p. 129.
8 Ways of Escape, p. 61.
9 Brighton Rock, pp. 99–100.
10 J. Maclaren-Ross, op. cit., p. 21.
11 Brighton Rock, p. 102.
12 Ibid., p. 5.
13 Ibid., p. 6.
14 Ibid., p. 86.
15 Ibid., p. 140.
16 Ibid., p. 64.
17 Ways of Escape, p. 61.
18 A Gun for Sale, Penguin edition, 1974, p. 127.
19 Ways of Escape, p. 61.
20 Spectator, 22 May 1936.
21 Brighton Rock, pp. 6–7.
22 Ibid., p. 80.
23 Ibid., p. 10.
24 Ibid., p. 146.
25 Ibid.
26 Letter from Arthur Calder-Marshall, 8 October 1977.
27 Brighton Rock, p. 106.
28 Ibid., p. 102.
29 Ibid., p. 101.
30 Ibid., p. 68.
31 Marie-Françoise Allain, The Other Man: Conversations with Graham Greene, trans. Guido Waldman, Bodley Head, 1983, pp. 158–9.
32 Rose Macaulay, Letters to a Friend 1950–2, ed. C. B. Smith, Collins, 1961, p. 124.
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