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published memoirs, 459
relationship with Cambridge, 205–6
suspicion of outsiders, 513–14
Bodkin, Sir Archibald, 230
Boer War, 21, 78
Bolt, Robert, 451
Bordeaux School of Anatomy, 551
Boué, Valentine Andrée, 207–9
Boulton, James T., 513
Boyd, Robin, 523
Bragg, Melvyn, 543–4
Bréal, Louise, 100
Brenan, Gamel, 470
Brenan, Gerald, 189, 195, 212, 216, 218, 267, 459
and Carrington letters, 513–14
DG visits in Spain, 470–1, 533–4
Brett, Dorothy, 491–2
Brewer & Warren (publishers), 263
British Museum, 5, 20–1, 33
British Talking Pictures, 243–4
Brixton Gaol, 42–5
Brooke, Rupert, 49–51, 60–2, 79, 108, 136, 382, 555
Brown, Malcolm, 463
Browning, Robert, 325
Bruccoli, Matthew J., 548
Bruce Lockhart, Robert, 356, 368
Buchan, John, 546
Bulley, Margaret, 148, 156
Bumpus (booksellers), 170
Burlington Magazine, 156
Burton, Richard, 391
Bussy, Jane, 184, 379
Butler, Samuel, 233, 545
Byatt, A.S., 188
Byrne, Johnny, 512
Caesar’s Gallic Wars, 160
Café Royal, 69–70, 79, 82, 90
Caldecott, Randolph, 8
Calder, Ritchie, 361
Cambridge Apostles, 60, 79
Cambridge Magazine, 147–8
Cano, Dr, 512
Cape, Jonathan (publishers), 179, 305–6, 308, 317, 374, 391, 503, 505, 515
Carey, Clementina, 532, 539
Caroline Club, 78–9, 126, 171, 284, 558
Carr, E.H., 355
Carrington, Dora, 118, 121–3, 129, 141, 165, 179, 195, 205, 326
commits suicide, 256
and end of old Bloomsbury, 377
exhibition of her paintings, 513
her letters and diaries, 505–6, 509, 513
Carrington, Noel, 505
Carrington, Teddy, 141
Cave of the Golden Calf, 70
Cavell, Nurse Edith, 336
censorship, 104, 213, 230, 235, 413, 423–424, 442
Chambers, David, 476
Chambers, Jessie, 476
Chapelbrook Foundation, 404, 416, 428, 434, 450
Chaplin, Charlie, 250
Chapman, George, 233
Chapman, Thomas Robert, 233
Chatto & Windus (publishers), 177, 192, 216, 218, 245, 288, 297–8, 302, 308, 426
DG leaves, 432, 438
and DG’s literary renaissance, 522
and DG’s memoirs, 403, 405, 413, 459
and Hogarth Press, 374, 384
Chattopadhyaya, Virendranath (‘Chatto’), 44–6
Chesterton, G.K., 185
Childs, Harry, 386, 400, 432, 479
Churchill, Winston, 343, 355, 364
cocaine, 90–1
Coldstream, William, 399
Collins, Jackie, 519
Collins (publishers), 399, 401
Conington Flying Ground, 243
Connolly, Cyril, 372, 501, 548
Connolly, Deirdre, 501
Conrad, Jessie, 268
Conrad, Joseph, 6, 10, 18–20, 23, 119, 149, 179, 224, 266, 407, 447, 538
featured in Great Friends, 546
Jessie Conrad’s memoir, 268
Copeau, Jacques, 102
Coren, Alan, 541
Cornford, John, 464
Coward, Noël, 295, 355
Cowlishaw, Harrison, 11, 41
Cowlishaw, Lucy, 41
cows, 386, 388–9, 400, 426–7, 463
Cox, Ursula, 54, 56–7, 63
Cranbourne Chase School, 450
Crane, Stephen, 19
Cranium Club, 211–12, 216, 390–1, 399, 433, 439, 502
Crosby Hall, 60–1, 78, 157
Crossman, Richard, 355
Croucher, Nan, 169
Cruickshank, Charles, 355
Cunningham, ‘Flatfish’, 33
Curtis, Anthony, 503
Curtis, Mrs, 346
Curtiss, Henry Tomlinson, 259
Curtiss, Mina (née Kirstein)
and Aspects of Love, 416, 419, 428
and Chapelbrook Foundation, 404, 416, 428, 434, 450
and DG’s first American trip, 259–61
and DG’s memoirs, 407–8, 460
embarrassment over reader’s report, 297–8
friendship with DG (pre-war), 173–4, 179–81, 184, 186–8, 190, 328, 330
friendship with DG (post-war), 373, 381, 383–4, 389, 391, 393, 397–8, 403–4, 411–12, 432, 449, 463, 476, 549
lifelong friendship with DG, 552–3
pays for Amaryllis’s education, 450
Curzon, Lord, 38–9
Cyriax, Dr James, 366–7
dancing, 65, 81, 211, 245
Dante, 289, 364
Dartington College, 456, 467
Darwin, Charles, 56
Davenport, John, 441
David, Elizabeth, 197
Davies, Russell, 526
de la Mare, Walter, 149, 188
Defoe, Daniel, 178, 184, 248
Degas, Edgar, 397
Delaney, Shelagh, 447–8
Delany, Paul, 556
Dent, J.M., 185
Derville, Angela, 479–80
Derville, Joe, 479–80, 533
Dhingra, Madanlal, 39–40
Diaghilev, Sergei, 137
Dickins, Jane, see Garnett, Jane
dictionaries, 268
divorce laws, 229
Dobell, Clifford, 56
Dobson, Frank, 174
Donne, John, 184
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 10
Drury, Robert, 37
Dryhurst, Florence, 43, 45
Duchene, Anne, 469
Duckworth, George, 21, 40, 80, 103
Dunkirk evacuation, 343, 457
Dutt, Sukhasagan, 36–7, 40–1
East Chaldon, 174–5, 188, 193, 201, 222, 228, 237
Edel, Leon, 464
Edwards, Dorothy, 230–2, 234, 250, 267, 269, 273, 293
commits suicide, 275–6
Edwards, Ness, 380
Elgar, Sir Edward, 5
Eliot, T.S., 289
Elstob, Bysshe and Meg, 512, 550
Epstein, Jacob, 70, 255
Ertel, Aleksandr Ivanovich (and family), 23, 25–6, 28–30, 56–7
Ertel, Elena (‘Lolya’), 26
Ertel, Natalie (‘Natasha’), 26
Evans, Kim, 544
Everitt, Mollie, 217–18, 240
Everyman magazine, 246
Fairbanks, Douglas, 211
Fairchild, Priscilla, 261, 435, 437
Farjeon, Eleanor, 34–5, 89
Farjeon, Harry, 34
Farjeon, Herbert (Bertie), 34, 107, 263
Farjeon, Joe, 34
Farmer, J.B., 56
Fedden, Renee, 490, 497, 547
Fenimore Cooper, James, 19, 266, 526
Fielding, Xan, 534–6
Fiennes, William, 185
films, 243–4, 288, 294–5, 299–300, 398, 519, 538, 541, 544
see also Lawrence of Arabia
Finzi, Dr N.S., 335
First World War
conscientious objectors, 106–9, 123–4, 288
introduction of conscription, 102, 105–6
outbreak of, 77–80, 85–6
war ends, 135–6
fishing, 296–7, 523
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 548
Flaubert, Gustave, 413
Fleming, Peter, 376
flying, 243, 246–7, 253, 270–2, 278, 280, 287
Ford, Ford Madox (Ford Madox Hueffer), 19, 52, 54, 56, 447, 491
Fordham, Michael, 79, 245, 481
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p; Fordham, Theadora, 156–7, 159–61, 163, 165, 170, 181, 186–7, 217, 293
commits suicide, 245–6
Forster, E.M., 149, 179, 188, 212, 341, 344, 409, 448, 502
and DG’s journalism, 267–8
featured in Great Friends, 546
and Lawrence Letters, 305–6
foxes, 172, 177–8, 185, 208, 375, 541
Foyle, Christina, 519–20
Franzen, Jonathan, 188
Freud, Sigmund, 61
Friends Relief Mission (Quakers), 92–101, 103–4, 284, 288, 530
Fry, Roger, 84, 90, 137, 139, 271, 370, 421
and end of old Bloomsbury, 377
fungi, 68, 71, 517–18
Galsworthy, John, 6, 19–20, 32, 115, 407, 448
featured in Great Friends, 546
Garland, Patrick, 519, 541
Garnett, Amaryllis, 365–7, 371–2, 381, 383, 390, 415–16, 434, 446, 497
birth and naming, 362
and Carrington’s letters, 509
death, 526–9
education and acting career, 450, 456, 463
Garnett, Angelica (née Bell)
affair with Abdel-Ali Taïtaï, 504–5, 518
affair with Claude Rogers, 429–32, 438–9, 443
affair with George Bergen, 492, 494–5
and Amaryllis’s death, 526–7
attracted to Eribert, 336–7
begins relationship with DG, 308–24
birth, 138–9, 163, 420
and brother’s death, 309, 316
and children’s births, 362, 371, 378–9
compared with Ray Garnett, 475
and conscription, 346, 352
contracts breast cancer, 493–4
early life, 242, 244–5, 254, 272, 289, 298, 300, 304
financial independence, 474–5
first Memoir Club paper, 393
friendship with Giovanna Madonia, 409–10
friendship with Rosemary Hinchingbrooke, 396–7
‘gangs up’ on DG, 533
and Hart-Davis firm, 375–6
marital relations, 383, 386–90, 393, 397–402, 405, 412–13, 428, 433–4, 443–4, 470–83, 490, 493–6, 520, 523–4
marriage to DG, 351–3, 357–60
and her mother’s death, 452
and A Net for Venus, 445
and outbreak of war, 329, 342–7, 352
and painting, 397, 400
parentage, 316, 324, 353, 360, 553
and Ray Garnett’s death, 338, 340, 342
self-analysis, 481–2
suffers boredom, 442–3
taken ill in France, 326–8
writes Deceived with Kindness, 552–8
Garnett, Arthur, 22, 58
Garnett, Constance (née Black), 3–8
appreciation of George Moore, 199
awarded Civil List pension, 40, 293
and The Cearne, 11–13
comments on DG as farmer, 125
and danger from bombing, 343, 345
death, 380–1
dedicatee of Up She Rises, 540
and DG’s childhood, 10, 16, 21
and DG’s conscientious objection, 109–11, 113–15
and DG’s education, 31–2, 40–1
and DG’s marriage, 162, 164–5
and DG’s relationship with Angelica, 322–3, 343–4
and DG’s wartime service, 99–101
and Edward Garnett’s death, 300–1
friendship with Sergey Stepniak, 8–9, 15
and Heilbrun’s Garnett Family, 453–4
letter to DG, 52–3
marriage, 10–11, 13, 326
physical frailty, 9–10
and Ray Garnett’s cancer, 320, 338–40
suffers mild stroke, 353–4
translations from Russian, 9–10, 13, 20, 80, 291, 380
visits Russia, 8–9, 22–30
Garnett, David (‘Bunny’)
acquires Hilton Hall, 193–7, 205–6
affair with Ann Hopkin, 394, 399, 405
affair with Alix Sargant-Florence, 126–34
affair with Marie Harvey, 537–8
and Amaryllis’s death, 526–9
and Angelica Bell’s birth, 138–9
appeal to women, 112
appearance, 57–8, 96, 124–5, 270, 353–4
and Armistice, 136–7
art dealership project, 137, 139–40
attitude to marriage, 163, 194, 213, 221–2, 227, 352
attitude to marriage in Aspects of Love, 417, 419–20
awarded CBE, 399, 424–5
begins autobiography, 395–6
and Birrell & Garnett bookshop, 140–1, 146–51, 170–1, 192
birth and early childhood, 7–8, 10, 15–22
buys house in France, 458–9
car accidents, 510–11
and The Cearne, 12, 33, 195, 526
change in his fiction, 442
character described by Strachey, 118
and conscientious objection, 103, 105–20
death, 550–1
D.H. Lawrence breaks with, 88–9
discovers Bohemia, 69–71
dislike of organised religion, 191, 214–15
drawn into Bloomsbury Group, 79, 83, 105
education, 17, 20–2, 31–4, 36
eightieth birthday, 519–20
emotional outbursts, 427–8
enters publishing business, 182–6
establishes Hart-Davis firm, 374–6
eye defect, 8, 109
failing eyesight, 517–18, 540–1, 543
farming in Sussex, 123–6
farming project, 109–20
and his father’s death, 300–2
financial difficulties, 219, 230, 243, 246–7, 286, 288, 454, 463, 479
first visit to America, 259–61
and fluidity of sexuality, 87, 105, 214, 424, 546
friendship with D.H. Lawrence, 63–6
friendship with Dorothy Edwards, 230–2, 250
friendship with Giovanna Madonia, 409–10
friendship with Magouche Philips, 501–5, 534–6
friendship with Stephen Tomlin, 173–6
friendship with Sukhasagan Dutt, 36–7
friendship with T.H. White, 296–7
generosity, 479
Hampstead friendships, 34–6
and homosexuality, 61–2, 67–8, 72–4, 87–9, 105, 422–3, 485, 546
and Indian nationalists, 37–47
journalism, 219, 261–3, 266–9, 273–5, 285–6
and Lawrence of Arabia, 451–2, 462–3
leaves Hart-Davis, 402–4
literary influence, 216–17
literary legacy, 557–8
marriage in crisis, 208–10, 220–4, 226–30, 282–3
marriage recovers, 242–3
marriage with Angelica, 351–3, 357–60
marriage with Ray, 157–67
meets T.E. Lawrence, 232–4
and neo-paganism, 35, 49–51, 60, 62, 69, 71, 73, 77, 105
his nickname, 8
and Noel Olivier’s death, 507–8
obsession with Norah McGuinness, 225–6
and outbreak of (first) war, 77–80, 85–6
and outbreak of (second) war, 328–31
as ‘outsider’, 4
over-indulgence in alcohol, 277, 281
in Paris, 102–3
passion for farming, 386, 388–9, 393, 400–1, 522
passion for flying, 243, 246–7, 253, 270–2, 287
photograph portraits, 270
play writing, 99
poems, 55, 67–8, 131–2, 163–4, 314, 321–2, 493
pride in his children, 381, 456–7
and prospect of war, 288–9, 295–6, 303
and Ray’s cancer, 335–40
and Ray’s death, 340–3, 450, 455
records ‘confession’, 146
rejected by publishers, 210, 432–3
relationship with Angelica Bell, 308–24
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relationship with Barbara Ker-Seymer, 272, 276–8, 281–3, 287, 289
relationship with Duncan Grant, 81–8, 141–2, 165–7, 326, 554
relationship with Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, 84, 101–5, 124, 132–4, 136
relationship with James Strachey, 61–2, 88, 126
relationship with Mina Kirstein, 173, 186
relationship with Mollie Everitt, 217–18
relationship with Rayne Garnett, 140–2, 145
relationship with Thea Fordham, 159–61, 186–7
and sale of manuscripts, 448–9
selfishness, 209–10, 402
and sexual freedom, 52–3
shyness, 159
stops writing memoirs, 529
suffers boredom, 290
suffers sciatica, 284, 533–4
undergoes literary renaissance, 522
undergoes operation, 366–7
university education, 40–1, 48, 56–7, 60, 68, 71, 92
university honours, 428, 539
and US universities, 446–8, 473–6, 490–1
visits Germany, 52–6, 63–5
visits Russia, 22–30, 56–7
wins literary prizes, 185, 188
work for PWE, 347, 354–6, 360–5, 368–9
work for RAF, 334, 336–9, 343, 346–7
work with Quakers, 92–101, 103–4, 288
Garnett, David, WORKS
The Appendix, 522
Aspects of Love, 416–21, 428, 432, 492, 538, 541, 557
Beany-Eye, 291–3, 522
Castle Bigod, 246, 248, 251–2, 295, 299, 302, 411, 429
A Clean Slate, 518–19
Colonel Beech’s Bear, 526
Dope-Darling, 142–4, 179, 184
The Familiar Faces, 459
The Flowers of the Forest, 416, 421–6
Go She Must!, 213–16, 218, 426
The Golden Echo, 405–7, 426, 522
The Grasshoppers Come, 248–50, 522
Great Friends, 544–6
Lady into Fox, 172, 177–9, 181, 184–5, 190–1, 198, 213, 275, 294, 324, 370, 375, 383, 404, 519, 540–1, 544, 548, 557
A Man in the Zoo, 185, 189–92, 288, 391, 398, 541
The Master Cat, 529, 532, 536–7
A Net for Venus, 432, 439, 444–6
No Love, 217, 224–5, 230, 235, 238–41, 243–4
The Novels of Thomas Love Peacock, 391
Plough Over the Bones, 530–2
Pocahontas, 251–2, 255, 258–61, 263–6, 288, 294
Purl and Plain, 391, 525–6
A Rabbit in the Air, 247, 391
The Sailor’s Return, 198–200, 288, 383, 401, 541, 544
The Secret History of PWE, 368–71, 375, 378–9
Seek No Further, 429
A Shot in the Dark, 439–42, 445
The Sons of the Falcon, 519–22
Two by Two, 468–70
Ulterior Motives, 484–6
Up She Rises, 539–40
War in the Air, 346, 371
Garnett, Dicky, 297, 502, 523, 532, 547
Garnett, Edward, 3–4, 6–7
approves of DG’s marriage, 164
and Beany-Eye, 291, 293
and The Cearne, 11–13, 32