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comment on review of Paddy’s book in TLS ref1
friendship with Betjeman ref1
learns of Graham’s illness ref1
friendship with Greta Garbo ref1
comment on Joan ref1
death of ref1
The Bonus of Laughter ref1
People in the South ref1
The Spring Journey ref1
Pryce-Jones, David ref1
Pryce-Jones, Thérèse Fould-Springer ‘Poppy’ ref1, ref2, ref3
Pryce-Jones, Vere ref1
Psychoundakis, George ref1
PWB see Political Warfare Branch (PWB) 15th Army Group
PWE see Political Warfare Executive
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Quelques Fleurs (perfume) ref1
Quennell, Peter ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Spring in Sicily ref1
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Radiodiffusion française ref1
Rae, Kenneth ref1
Rainer, Luise ref1
Rawsthorne, Alan ref1
Rawsthorne, Isabel (Nicholas) ref1, ref2, ref3
at Bradwell Lodge ref1
coolness of Driberg towards ref1
friendship with Giacometti ref1, ref2, ref3
departs on last ship from France ref1
friendship with Joan ref1
produces pornographic wartime propaganda ref1
affair with Rayner and failure of her marriage ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
works at Bush House for Italian magazine ref1
marries Constant Lambert ref1
meets Bacon at the Gargoyle club ref1
Rayner, Amanda ref1
Rayner, Gertrude ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Rayner, Heulyn Dunlop ref1
Rayner, Jack ref1
Rayner, John
birth and family background ref1
education ref1
journalistic career ref1, ref2
uses the pseudonym ‘John Grosvenor’ ref1
character and description ref1, ref2
has affair with Joan ref1, ref2, ref3
marriage to Molly ref1, ref2
moves in with Driberg ref1
marriage to Joan ref1, ref2
falls ill with typhoid and flu ref1, ref2, ref3
reaction to Joan’s miscarriage ref1
buys artwork from Banting ref1
moves flats in London during wartime ref1, ref2
stays with friends at weekends ref1
correspondence with his mother ref1
wartime employment ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
dislikes Joan’s attitude to casual sexual encounters ref1, ref2
divides his book collection between Dumbleton and Devon ref1
spends compassionate leave with Joan at Dumbleton ref1
affair with Isabel ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
correspondence with Sefton Delmer ref1
breaks his back in a car accident ref1, ref2
arrives in Cairo ref1
agrees to divorce Joan ref1, ref2
moves to Singapore ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
marriage to Miranda ref1, ref2
correspondence with Joan ref1, ref2, ref3
comment on Driberg’s introduction to the House of Lords ref1
as executor of Driberg’s will ref1
friendship with Betjeman ref1
death of ref1
Rayner, John Peregrine ref1
Rayner, Miranda Lampson ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Rayner, Molly ref1, ref2
Redesdale, David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron ref1
Redesdale, Sydney Bowles, Lady ref1
Reeves, Jonathan ref1
RGS see Royal Geographical Society
Rhodes, Cecil ref1
Ribbentrop, Joachim von ref1
Riley, Peggy ref1, ref2
Riley, Richard ref1
Rilke, Rainer Maria, Letters to a Young Poet ref1
Robinson, Hamish ref1
‘Kalamitsi’ ref1
Rodd, Peter ref1
Röhm, Ernst ref1
Rome ref1
Ross Williamson, R. P. ref1
Royal Dragoons ref1
Royal Geographical Society (RGS) ref1, ref2, ref3
Rudolf, Crown Prince ref1
Runciman, Steven ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Russell, John ref1
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Sackville-West, Eddy ref1, ref2
St Bartholomew’s Church, Armley ref1, ref2
St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London ref1
St James’s School, Worcestershire ref1, ref2
St Peter’s Church, Dumbleton ref1, ref2, ref3
St Senan’s Well, County Clare ref1
St Wandrille de Fontanelle, Abbey of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Salonica ref1
Samarkand ref1
Sandbanks, Dorset ref1
Sandhurst ref1
Sandringham, Norfolk ref1, ref2
Sassoon, Siegfried ref1
Scarborough, Grand Hotel ref1
Schurhoff, George ref1
Second World War ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12
Seferis, George ref1, ref2, ref3
Sezincote, Gloucestershire ref1
Sharp, Arthur Henry ‘Harry’ ref1, ref2
Sharp, Caroline see Eyres, Caroline ‘Carrie’ Sharp
Sharp, Maria ref1
Sharp, Maud ref1
Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin ref1
Shell Guides ref1
Shelton Abbey, County Wicklow ref1
Shepheard’s Hotel, Cairo ref1
Sickert, Walter ref1
Sifton, Elizabeth ref1
Singapore ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Singh, Kranti ref1
Sitwell, Edith ref1, ref2
Sitwell, Osbert ref1
Skelton, Barbara ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Sketch ref1, ref2
Slater, Humphrey ref1n
Smart, Amy ref1, ref2
Smart, Walter ref1
Smith (chauffeur) ref1
SOE see Special Operations Executive
Solesmes, Abaye de St Jean de (Sablé sur Sarthe) ref1, ref2
Spanish Civil War ref1
Sparrow, John ref1
Special Operations Executive (SOE) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Spectator ref1, ref2
Spencer, Thomas ref1, ref2
Spender, Natasha ref1
Spender, Stephen ref1, ref2, ref3
‘Pylons’ ref1
Spitsbergen ref1
Spry, Constance ref1
Squire, Sir John ref1
SS Berengaria ref1
Stalin, Joseph ref1
Stanleyville ref1
Stark, Freya ref1, ref2
The Southern Gates of Arabia ref1
Stern, Lina ref1
Stewart, Damaris ref1
Stewart, Michael ref1, ref2
Stewart, Olivia ref1, ref2
Stokke, Great Bedwyn (Wiltshire) ref1
Strickland, Sir Peter ref1
Sunday Express ref1n
Sunday Times ref1, ref2
Sutro, John ref1
Sutton, Denys ref1
Switzerland ref1
Sykes, Christopher ref1, ref2, ref3
Symons, A. J. A. ref1
Symons, Arthur, A Study of Charles Baudelaire ref1
Synnott, Piers ref1
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Tangier ref1, ref2
Tara, Gezira Island ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Tarnowska, Sophie ref1, ref2
Tatler ref1, ref2
Tennant, David ref1, ref2
Tennant, Pauline ref1
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, Maud ref1
Third International Congress of Persian Art and Archaeology (1935) ref1
Thomas à Kempis ref1
Thompson, Darcy, Greek Birds ref1
Thorne, Mary Jean ref1
Tickerage Mill, Uckfield (Sussex) ref1, ref2, ref3
The Times ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
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TLS see Times Literary Supplement
Towards a Dictionary of the County of Southampton, commonly known as Hampshire or Hants ref1
Toynbee, Philip ref1, ref2, ref3
Treffry, Pamela ref1
Tudor Hart, Edith ref1
Turkey ref1, ref2
Turville-Petre, Francis ‘Fronny’ ref1
Tzara, Tristan ref1, ref2
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Upton Times ref1
US-British Psychological Warfare Branch ref1
Usborne, Richard ‘Dick’ ref1
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Vienna ref1, ref2, ref3
Villa Mauresque, Cap Ferrat ref1
Vogue ref1
Voigt, Jochen ref1, ref2
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Walker, Rita ref1
Walter, Ines ref1
Walton, William ref1
Warner, Barbara see Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, Barbara Warner
Warner, Rex ref1, ref2, ref3
Waters, Ethel ref1
Watkins family ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Watkins, Gino ref1, ref2
Watkins, Henry George ref1
Watkins, Jennie ref1
Watkins, Tony ref1
Watson, Peter ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Watt, Eddie ref1
Watt, Gertrude ref1, ref2
Waugh, Evelyn ref1
at Oxford ref1, ref2
attends Connolly’s parties ref1, ref2
joins John Rayner in Rome ref1
at Graham’s flat in London ref1
comment on the ‘Nicotine maniac and his girl’ (Paddy & Joan) ref1
Brideshead Revisited ref1, ref2, ref3
Vile Bodies ref1
Webb, Philip ref1
Weekly Dispatch ref1
Weidenfeld, George ref1
Wells Coates ref1
Westminster, Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke ref1
Whigham, Ian ref1
Whigham, Margaret, Duchess of Argyll ref1n
Whistler, Rex ref1
White, Antonia (pseud) (real name: Eirene Botting), Frost in May ref1
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Wickhamford Manor ref1 and note
Wicklow, William Howard Clonmore ‘Cracky’, 8th Earl ref1, ref2, ref3
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Wood Norton Hall, Worcestershire ref1
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Wyndham, Dick ‘Dirty Dick’ ref1, ref2, ref3
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Xan see Fielding, Alexander Henry ‘Xan’
Xanthi ref1
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Zoological Society of London ref1
l. Joan was born in February 1912 at her family’s house in Belgravia and christened Joan Elizabeth Eyres Monsell.
2. Charles Kettlewell in Kamchatka in 1882: ‘he had little in the way of camp lore.’
3. Dumbleton Hall, ‘a substantial, stone-built mansion containing accommodation for a Family of Distinction’, was purchased in 1875 and later extended.
4. The lion skin in the Dumbleton drawing room was one of the many trophies from Ewart Grogan’s African expedition.
5. Sir Bolton and Lady Eyres Monsell on the yacht Heartsease in 1934; they employed a full-time crew of fourteen.
6. Joan with her sister and cousins at Sandbanks in Dorset, c. Left to right: Diana Eyres Monsell, Gino Watkins, Peter Danieli, Pam Watkins, Joan, John Christian, Tony Watkins, Mary Christian.
7. Joan in 1926. Social life in the country revolved around fox-hunting and pony shows.
8. Joan as a debutante in 1930; she claimed that all she had learnt at school was how to curtsey.
9. Graham Eyres Monsell, c. 1930: ‘they sold me some oil called Huile de Bronze of Molinard, after three days application of which, one’s face takes on such a South-of-France tan as you can’t believe’.
10. Joan skiing in Austria in 1933: the mountains were ‘divine’.
11. John Betjeman at Dumbleton in 1933. Betjeman had published Ghastly Good Taste and captioned the picture, taken by Joan, ‘The author – an example of good taste if ever there was one.’
12. Brian Howard, photographed by Joan: ‘tall, pale, dark-faced with enormous eyes and very long eyelashes’.
13. Eddie Gathorne-Hardy in 1932. He and Brian Howard used to share a flat so decrepit that fungus grew on the walls.
14. Joan kept this photograph of Cyril Connolly in her bedroom in Greece, where it was eaten away by insects.
15. Joan by John Banting, a fashionable Art Deco painter. A handsome and glamorous figure, he used to throw knives ‘when in the mood’, but was a close friend.
16. In 1933 Joan was engaged to Alan Pryce-Jones but he fell out of love. He married in Austria the following year.
17. John Betjeman wrote to Billa Cresswell, ‘Whenever I feel sexless I only have to turn up those photographs Joan took of you.’
18. Joan at the races, c. 1938.
19. Joan and John Rayner: they had in common a love of places and nature, music, art, reading, wine and good food.
20. Tickerage Mill. Top row: Patrick Kinross, Constant Lambert, Angela Culme-Seymour, Dick Wyndham, Tom Driberg, Cyril Connolly, Stephen Spender; bottom row: Tony Hyndman (Spender’s boyfriend), Jean Connolly, Mamaine Paget, John Rayner.
21. John Rayner, Tom and Isabel Delmer, and Tom Driberg at Bradwell Lodge in Essex. There were considerable tensions within this group: ‘no two Toms could have disliked each other more’.
22. Isabel Delmer at Bradwell Lodge in 1940. An artist herself, she was a model for Epstein, Derain, Picasso, Giacometti and Francis Bacon.
23. John Rayner at the Political Warfare Executive in the early 1940s.
24. Letter from Joan in Madrid to John Rayner, 7 October 1943: ‘Do you really want to start our same old life again?’
25. The National Buildings Record commissioned Joan to take pictures of bomb damage, including at Haberdashers’ Hall.
26. ‘One sees groups of Kurds dressed in their baggy trousers, long coloured sashes and fringed turbans.’
27. A Kurdish dandy, May 1945.
28. Joan in Kurdistan, May 1945, with Sheikh Poosho Sayed Taha, her host in the mountains of Rowanduz.
29. and 30. Although Joan regarded her photographs principally as aides-mémoires for Paddy, these Athens street scenes of the early 1950s (some including John Craxton) show her great ability. The wording on the box of skulls reads ‘Stefanos Takos, S T, 23 years’.
31. After Joan, Paddy Leigh Fermor (left) loved Xan Fielding most of all.
32. Joan in bed – a picture taken for the eyes of a lover in the late 1940s.
33. Paddy on a beach on Ithaca – he was ‘Byronically handsome’.
34. Paddy wearing a sunhat in the Caribbean.
35. Fishermen at Kardamyli. Too remote to fear an influx of tourists, it seemed a good place to live.
36. The ecstatic Anastenaria fire-dancing ceremonies are performed in northern Greece during religious festivals.
37. Niko and Barbara Ghika, John Craxton, and Paddy and Joan Leigh Fermor on the terrace of the Ghikas’ house on Hydra, 1958.
38. While their house was being built, Paddy and Joan lived in tents on what was to be the site for the library.
39. Paddy and Joan during a stay in Nauplia when they were still looking for somewhere to live. They had to row across to an island for breakfast.<
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40. Paddy and Joan during a stay in Nauplia when they were still looking for somewhere to live. They had to row across to an island for breakfast.
41. Both of Joan’s weddings took place at Caxton Hall in Westminster; she married John Rayner in July 1939, and in January 1968 she married Paddy Leigh Fermor.
42. Janetta Parladé at Torre de Tramores, Malaga, Spain in the late 1960s.
43. In the early 1970s their new house was far less accessible than in later years and could only be reached by walking through olive groves.
44. Graham Eyres Monsell, Diana Casey (née Eyres Monsell), Paddy and Joan Leigh Fermor at Kardamyli. Graham is ‘a very retiring musical-literary hermit’ and Diana is ‘shy, tall, correct and well dressed’.
45. Joan and Diana, early 1970s.
46. Joan and Paddy picnicking.
47. Joan and Paddy at Kardamyli in the 1970s.
48. The house at Kardamyli was alive with cats, mice, insects, scorpions – and the occasional donkey.
49. Joan at Kardamyli, 1981: ‘even in a crowd she maintained a deep and private inner life’.
50. In 1978 Xan and Magouche Phillips married and moved to Ronda in Spain.
51. The Mill House, Dumbleton, was an old farmhouse surrounded by fields of sheep and an orchard. Inside the house was a mixture of shabby elegance and bohemia.