by Lara Feigel
‘old, stuffy, solid place’: HS, diary, 18 April 1941 (HS NLV).
‘wave of defeatism’: Harold Nicolson, diary, 21 April 1941(Diaries and Letters).
‘This war is going to’: HS, diary, 23 April 1941 (HS NLV).
‘very sad war news’: HS, diary, 27 April 1941 (HS NLV).
‘not only reassured’: Churchill, speech, 10 December 1942 (War Speeches).
8: ‘So much else is on the way to be lost’
‘this time she believed she would not’: for a discussion of Woolf’s suicide see Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf (London: Chatto & Windus, 1996), pp. 757–67.
‘a great deal of’: EB to Leonard Woolf, 8 April 1941, The Mulberry Tree: Writings of Elizabeth Bowen, ed. Hermione Lee (London: Vintage, 1999).
‘debating suicide during’: see Virginia Woolf, diary, 7 June 1940, The Diary of Virginia Woolf , ed. Anne Olivier Bell and Andrew McNeillie (London: Hogarth Press, 1977–1984).
‘personal charm’: RM, obituary for Virginia Woolf, Spectator, 11 April 1941.
‘a wretched way’: RM to Sylvia Lynd, 23 April 1941, in Sarah LeFanu, Rose Macaulay (London: Virago, 2003), p. 231.
‘continual, disturbing, restless’: RM, What Not: A Prophetic Comedy (London: Constable and Company, 1918), p. 157.
‘muddy red of a stained’: Gerald O’Donovan, Father Ralph (London: Macmillan, 1913), p. 316.
‘gay, young and enthusiastic’: Beryl O’Donovan in LeFanu, Rose Macaulay, p. 132.
‘considerably older’: Beryl O’Donovan in ibid., p. 131.
‘his manners were bad’: RM, What Not, pp. 24, 7, 82.
‘so departmental’: ibid., pp. 113, 114–15.
‘decidedly entertaining’: ibid., pp. 7, 121, 127.
‘negligent, foppish’: RM, Told by an Idiot (London: Collins, 1965), part 1, ch. 4, part 2, ch. 2.
‘beastly half-way house’: RM, What Not, pp. 149–53.
‘The fact remained’: ibid., pp. 157, 180.
‘I’m not going to take you’: RM, Told by an Idiot, part 2, ch. 3, part 2, ch. 4.
‘caught into a deep’: ibid., part 2, ch. 4, part 2, ch. 5.
‘his real work’: RM to Rosamond Lehmann, 20 August 1942 (RL KC).
‘weak to think of him’: Gerald O’Donovan, The Holy Tree (London: William Heinemann, 1922), pp. 145, 152, 161, 163–4.
‘Beloved, gaze in thine’: W. B. Yeats, ‘The Holy Tree’, Collected Poems (London: Vintage, 2009).
‘the like of which’: O’Donovan, The Holy Tree, pp. 171, 203, 225–6.
‘two stunted souls’: ibid., pp. 287, 299, 314.
‘a faint weariness’: RM, Told by an Idiot, part 2, ch. 13.
‘the best kept secret’: Victor Gollancz, Reminiscences of Affection (London: Victor Gollancz, 1968), p. 83.
‘at immediate impact’: Anthony Powell, ‘The Pleasures of Knowing Rose Macaulay’, in Constance Babington Smith, Rose Macaulay: A Biography (London: Collins, 1972).
‘the clearest case of sexual’: Storm Jameson, in Jennifer Birkett, Storm Jameson: A Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 75.
‘felt anyone so utterly’: Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, 25 May 1928, The Letters of Virginia Woolf, ed. Nigel Nicolson and Joanna Trautmann (London: Hogarth Press, 1975–1980).
‘There are other things’: RM, Dangerous Ages (London: Collins, 1921), chs 3viii, 13iii.
‘is the important part’: RM to Jean Macaulay, 14 April 1927 (RM TC).
‘It is stupid’: RM, in Alan Pryce-Jones, ‘The Pleasures of Knowing Rose Macaulay’, 1959 (in Constance Babington Smith, Rose Macaulay).
‘While you hold me’: RM, Told by an Idiot, part 2, ch. 3.
‘her limbs and every’: O’Donovan, The Holy Tree, p. 161.
‘the longer I live’: RM, And No Man’s Wit (London: Collins, 1940), p. 272.
‘amphibious days’: RM, What Not, p. 183.
‘lapped in the clear’: RM, ‘Bathing’, Personal Pleasures (London: Victor Gollancz, 1935).
‘To swim out agin’: O’Donovan, The Holy Tree, p. 24.
‘if one is so fortunate’: RM, ‘In Deep and Shallow Waters’, The Listener, 30 January 1936.
‘507 aircraft’: see Neil Wallington, Firemen at War (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1981), p. 172.
‘at 4 a.m. the fire brigade’: see Westminster, SMBC file 584.
‘it got first an HE’: RM to Storm Jameson, in Jameson, Journey from the North (London: Vintage, 1984), vol. 2, p. 112.
‘House no more’: RM to Daniel George, 12 May 1941 (RM TC).
‘Luxborough Towers have fallen’: RM to Victor Gollancz, 18 May 1941, in Gollancz, Reminiscences of Affection, p. 78.
‘all my lovely seventeenth’: RM to Storm Jameson, in Jameson, Journey to the North, vol. 2, p. 112.
‘a superb and monstrous’: RM, Milton (London: Duckworth, 1934), p. 10.
‘I wish one of his wives’: RM to Helen Waddell, 1 November 1932 (RM TC).
‘my darling Dictionary’: RM to Victor and Ruth Gollancz, 28 May 1941 (RM TC).
‘the only objects to survive’: see Jameson, Journey from the North, vol. 2, p. 112.
‘very very charming’: HS, diary, 5 September 1941 (HS NLV).
‘I am an Englishman’: Peter de Mendelssohn, ‘Writers without Language’, PEN, Writers in Freedom: A Symposium based on the 17th International Congress of the PEN, ed. Hermon Ould (London: Hutchinson & Co, 1942).
‘You’re very tired’: Storm Jameson, Journey to the North, vol. 2, p. 113.
‘It happened to me’: RM, ‘Losing One’s Books’, Spectator, 7 November 1941.
9: ‘You are the ultimate of something’
‘We are puzzled’: Harold Nicolson, diary, 17 June 1941, Diaries and Letters 1939–45, ed. Nigel Nicolson (London: Collins, 1967).
‘a monster of wickedness’: Winston Churchill, speech, 22 June 1941, War Speeches, 1939–45, compiled by Charles Eade, 3 vols (London: Cassell & Co, 1951–2).
‘War moved from the’: EB, HoD, ch. 5.
‘The pay is very good’: GG to Marion Greene, 20 August 1941, Richard Greene, Graham Greene, A Life in Letters (London: Little, Brown, 2007).
‘he had been taught’: GG to John Betjeman, 18 October 1941 (A Life in Letters).
‘Everyone has a sort of false’: HS, diary, July 1941 (HS NLV).
‘Beloved, I can’t believe’: EB to CR, 17 January 1945 (LCW).
‘She says it began’: CR, diary, 2 September 1941 (LCW).
‘well-dressed middle-aged’: CR, diary, 10 February 1941 (LCW).
‘Wartime London’: CR, introduction to The Siren Years: Undiplomatic Diaries 1937–1945 (London: Macmillan, 1974).
‘symptoms of sexual happiness’: CR, diary, 12 January 1941 (The Siren Years).
‘present hectic life’: CR, diary, 29 March 1941 (The Siren Years).
‘looking back on’: CR, diary, 21 May 1941 (The Siren Years).
‘some woman’s name’: CR, diary, 30 May 1941 (The Siren Years).
‘We go from one’: CR, diary, 4 July 1941 (The Siren Years).
‘It was not that she’: EB, draft typescript of The Heat of the Day (EB HRC).
‘As we walked together’: CR, diary,29 September 1941 (The Siren Years).
‘great globular roses’: EB, HoD, ch. 1.
‘A particular gentle’: EB to CR, 13 January 1950 (LCW).
‘Charles recalled’: CR, diary, 24 February 1961 (LCW).
‘More, it was a sort of’: EB, HoD, ch. 5.
‘My fancy turns’: CR, diary, 10 May 1942 (LCW).
‘I and my friends all’: EB, ‘Pictures and Conversations’, The Mulberry Tree: Writings of Elizabeth Bowen, ed. Hermione Lee (London: Vintage, 1999).
‘Do you realise how’: EB to Alan Cameron, 1923 (The Mulberry Tree).
‘Why Elizabeth’: Humphry House to EB, 23 July 1934 (private collection).
‘temperament and tastes’: Peter Quennell, Customs and Characters, Contemporary Portraits (London
: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982), p. 88.
‘He was quite stout’: May Sarton, A World of Light (New York: Norton, 1988), p. 192.
‘I believe his love’: EB, B’s C, p. 174.
‘War makes us more’: EB, ‘The Christmas Toast is “Home”’, People, Places, Things: Essays by Elizabeth Bowen, ed. Allan Hepburn (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008).
‘Alan was like a character’: see CR, diary, 19 September 1942 (LCW).
‘to atmosphere’: Sarton, A World of Light, p. 197.
‘overwhelming love’: EB to Humphry House, 18 May 1935 (private collection).
‘a middle-class complaint’: CR, diary, 22 October 1941 (The Siren Years).
‘engage in extramarital’: Sarton, A World of Light, p. 213.
‘Vacuum as to future’: EB, HoD, ch. 5.
‘campers in rooms’: ibid.
‘The extraordinary time’: EB, draft typescript of The Heat of the Day (EB HRC).
‘to protract itself’: EB, publisher’s blurb for The Heat of the Day (EB HRC).
‘a’ within’: CR, diary, 1 June 1941 (The Siren Years).
‘Would I ever have’: CR, diary, 2 September 1941 (LCW).
‘his youthfulness’: EB, HoD, ch. 5.
‘the tree-lined’: see CR, diary, 27 October 1941 (The Siren Years).
‘The capacity for’: CR, diary, 10 November 1941 (The Siren Years).
‘Old men in clubs’: CR, diary, 1 October 1941 (The Siren Years).
‘The picture is that’: CR, diary, 7 December 1941 (The Siren Years).
‘crowded and dead’: Evelyn Waugh, diary, December 1941, The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Michael Davie (London: Phoenix, 2009).
‘it felt odd’: GG, diary, 3 January 1942, in Norman Sherry, The Life of Graham Greene (London: Pimlico, 2004–5), vol. 2, p. 98.
‘Operation Menace’: see Martin Gilbert, Second World War (London: Fontana, 1990), p. 127.
‘Dakar has set us’: RM to Jean Macaulay, 29 September 1940 (RM TC).
‘Henry Yorke no doubt’: Evelyn Waugh, diary, 19 October 1940 (The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh).
‘Nothing that I ever wrote’: GG to Elisabeth Greene, 2 June 1942, in Sherry, The Life of Graham Greene, vol. 2, p. 114.
‘Ambitiously, Greene wondered’: see ibid., p. 120.
‘I suppose’: GG, A Sort of Life: An Autobiography (Bath: Chivers, 1981), ch. 7iii.
‘he and his brother’: see GG, A World of my Own: A Dream Diary (London: Penguin, 1993), p. 24.
‘Lying awake at night’: see GG, preface to The Ministry of Fear, collected edition (London: William Heinemann, 1973).
‘broken glass’: see GG, The Ministry of Fear, ch. 1i.
‘After being the centre’: CR, diary, 4 December 1941 (The Siren Years).
‘I should hate to lose her friendship’: CR, diary, 21 December 1941 (LCW).
‘E is sad’: CR, diary, 11 January 1942 (LCW).
‘A little indifference’: CR, diary, 21 April 1942 (LCW).
‘I told her’: CR, diary, 9 April 1942 (LCW).
‘desolating’: CR, diary, 21 April 1942 (LCW).
‘broken her fairytale’: EB, ‘Summer Night’, Collected Stories (London: Vintage, 1999).
‘She holds me by’: CR, diary, 29 September 1941 (LCW).
‘One of the luxuries’: CR, diary, 24 May 1942 (LCW).
‘I am in love with E’: CR, diary, 25 May 1942 (LCW).
‘Of what is her magic’: CR, diary, 2 June 1942 (The Siren Years).
‘more and more of her’: ibid.
‘It’s not too easy’: RM to Jean Smith, 25 February 1942, in Dearest Jean: Rose Macaulay’s Letters to a Cousin, ed. Martin Ferguson Smith (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011).
‘cut in two’: RM, ‘Miss Anstruther’s Letters’, in Constance Babington Smith, Rose Macaulay: A Biography (London: Collins, 1972).
‘Is there anything to be said’: RM, ‘A Spectator’s Notebook’, June 1942 (unpublished, in RM TC).
‘he didn’t linger’: RM to Rosamond Lehmann, 20 August 1942 (RL KC).
‘in parts brilliant’: RM obituary for Gerald O’Donovan, The Times, 10 August 1942.
‘I always talked’: RM to Hamilton Johnson, 16 April 1951, in Letters to a Friend 1950–1952, ed. Constance Babington Smith (London: Collins, 1961).
‘Her want of Maurice’: RM, WMW, ch. 3.
‘And now the joy’: RM, ToT, ch. 25.
‘how long we should’: ibid., ch. 16.
‘really she bored him’: ibid., ch. 25.
‘Marjorie Grant Cook’: see Babington Smith, Rose Macaulay, p. 105.
‘some men and women’: RM, ‘People who Should Not Marry’, in ibid., p. 106.
‘to be with the beloved’: RM, ‘Problems of Married Life’, A Casual Commentary (London: Methuen, 1925).
‘How does one know’: ‘Inquiry into the Sanctity of the Home’, in ibid.
‘a fetter on what shouldn’t’: RM, Dangerous Ages (London: Collins, 1921), ch. 10ii.
‘a handicap’: RM, Potterism: A Tragi-farcical Tract (London: Collins, 1920), part 6, ch. 2i.
‘a good one’: RM to Sylvia Lynd, 30 July 1942, in Sarah LeFanu, Rose Macaulay (London: Virago, 2003), p. 237.
‘Oh why was there’: RM to Hamilton Johnson, 16 April 1951 (Letters to a Friend).
10: ‘Can pain and danger exist?’
‘a painful series’: Winston Churchill, speech, 23 April 1942, War Speeches, 1939–45, compiled by Charles Eade (London: Cassell & Co, 1951–2).
‘Even Hitler makes’: Churchill, speech, 10 May 1942 (War Speeches).
‘We shall go out to bomb’: in Juliet Gardiner, Wartime: Britain 1939–1945 (London: Headline, 2005), p. 613.
‘a breathless glory’: EB, HoD, ch. 9.
‘the light’: EB, B’s C, p. 248.
‘Only the wireless’: afterword to B’s C, p. 457.
‘Harold Nicolson reflected’: see Harold Nicolson, diary, 22 July 1942, Diaries and Letters 1939–45, ed. Nigel Nicolson (London: Collins, 1967).
‘a greater degree of cut-offness’: EB, report, 31 July 1942, Notes on Eire, Espionage Reports to Winston Churchill, 1940–2, Aubane Historical Society, ed. Jack Lane and Brendan Clifford, 3rd edn.
‘Irish newspapers and radio stations’: see Clair Wills, That Neutral Island (London: Faber, 2008), p. 274.
‘Eire feels as strongly’: EB, ‘Eire’, New Statesman and Nation, 12 April 1941.
‘an ocean of indifference’: Hubert Butler, ‘The Barriers’, The Bell, July 1941.
‘not in the true’: James Dillon, in Wills, That Neutral Island, p. 130.
‘no responsibility’: Éamon de Valera, in ibid., p. 131.
‘if, in some awful’: James Dillon, in Maurice Manning, James Dillon: A Biography (Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1999), p. 173.
‘even I distrust’: EB, report, 9 November 1940 (Notes on Eire).
‘Mr Dillon’s uncompromising’: EB, report, 9 February 1942 (Notes on Eire).
‘an almost neurotic’: EB, report, 20 February 1942 (Notes on Eire).
‘dishonesty, of turning’: EB, report, 31 July 1942 (Notes on Eire).
‘stop thinking of’: Cyril Connolly, editorial, Horizon, January 1942.
‘fearless lights’: EB, HoD, ch. 9.
‘queer feeling of’: Sean O’Faolain, in Wills, That Neutral Island, p. 277.
‘general impression of’: EB, report, 20 February 1942 (Notes on Eire).
‘live and act in the’: O’Faolain, editorial, The Bell, July 1942.
‘small but very vocal’: O’Faolain, editorial, The Bell, November 1942.
‘minor errors’: D. A. Binchy, review of Bowen’s Court, The Bell, August 1942.
‘in whose shadow’: EB, ‘Sunday Afternoon’, Collected Stories (London: Vintage, 1999).
‘could do untold good’: EB, report, 12 July 1942 (Notes on Eire).
‘aristocrat’s capacity’: The Bellman, interview with Elizabeth Bowen, The
Bell, September 1942.
‘the timidity of an intruder’: EB, HoD, ch. 10.
‘somehow less remarkable’: CR, diary, 15 August 1942 (LCW).
‘Spent the day with’: CR, diary, 14 September 1942 (The Siren Years).
‘It is like their deciding’: Stephen Spender to T. S. Eliot, 30 August 1943 (Spender archive, Bod).
‘It would be true to say’: Stephen Spender, journal, 28 December 1942, New Selected Journals, ed. Lara Feigel and John Sutherland (London: Faber, 2012).
‘a childish-looking uniformity’: Spender, World Within World (New York: Modern Library Classics, 2001), p. 293.
‘I sit in my swivel’: HY, 21 July 1942, in Jeremy Treglown, Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green (London: Faber, 2000), p. 154.
‘Yorke had processed orders’: see HY to Rosamond Lehmann, 21 June 1943 (RL KC).
‘if life in a fire station’: HG, ‘The Lull’, Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green (London: Harvill, 1993).
‘I have been thinking over’: HY to John Lehmann, 18 November 1942 (John Lehmann archive, HRC).
‘he could not leave’: HG, Caught (London: Harvill Press, 2001), p. 30.
‘he could not, this time’: HG, draft typescript of Caught (HY archive).
‘There is a great advantage’: Churchill, speech, 11 November 1942 (War Speeches).
‘noble Desert Army’: ibid.
‘Montgomery’s through’: EB, HoD, ch. 9.
‘the best work you have’: HY to Evelyn Waugh, 24 December 1942 (Evelyn Waugh archive, HRC).
11: ‘Only at night I cry’
‘1942, still with no’: EB, HoD, ch. 17.
‘First made me’: HS, diary, 18 January 1943 (HS NLV).
‘beastly Luftwaffe’: HS, diary, 21 January 1943 (HS NLV).
‘tiny, perfect, absolutely’: HS, diary, 12 February 1943 (HS NLV).
‘breaking down only’: HS, diary, 10 February 1943 (HS NLV).
‘in a way’: HS, diary, 13 February 1943 (HS NLV).
‘glad to be alive’: HS, diary, 15 February 1943 (HS NLV).
‘nervous breakdown’: HS, diary, 17 February 1943 (HS NLV).
‘Very charming’: HS, diary, 22 February 1943 (HS NLV).
‘Scenes from Dante’s’: HS, DaB, p. 133.
‘the goodwill’: ibid., p. 134
‘Peter was informed’: see HS, diary, 3 December 1942 (HS NLV).