Carrington's Letters
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Carrington, Noel 3; portrait (DC) 6; with DC 8, 10; at Oxford 10; joins up 10, 12, 55n; wounded 25, 119; with DC in Sussex 28; brings RP back with him 34; in Scotland with RP and DC 87–9, 90; ‘razzel-dazzeling’ with friends 90; at Mill House 113, 114; in Spain with DC, RP and his sister 116, 139; wants LS to talk on Shakespeare 121; with DC and RP in Oxford 122, 123; at Garsington 122, 123 130; at Oxford balls 124, 125; joins Clarendon Press 125 and n; holidays in Cornwall with DC 126, 127, 128; goes to Bombay 125, 126; meets DC and RP in Oxford 130; impressed by Gertler 130; unhappy over an affair 217, 218; and Lawrence 268; engaged 288, 290; at Ham Spray for Christmas (1926) 310; DC’s letters to xiii, 58–61, 62–3, 65–6, 67–8, 91–2, 101–2, 134–5, 175, 178–9, 190–91, 217–18
Carrington, Sam (brother) 3, 10, 13, 16, 55n, 223, 228
Carrington, Samuel (father) 3, 17, 18, 21, 34, 48, 78, 100, 269, 342; death and memories 108–9, 110–11, 112, 115–16; DC inherits from 268n
Carrington, Teddy 3, 10, 21, 96; joins up 10; reported missing 55 and n; death and memories 70, 96, 111, 380
Cézanne, Paul xvi, 24, 33, 45, 128; Still Life of Apples 112 and n
Chaplin, Charlie 189, 190, 234
Charleston, Sussex xv, 53, 54, 69, 93
Charltons, the 200
Chekhov [Tchekhov], Anton 141–2, 189, 224, 227, 228; notebooks 166; The Three Sisters 217
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire 12, 13, 74, 95, 97, 102, 306
Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire 27n, 36n, 45, 108
Churchill, Winston 62
Clarendon Press 125 and n, 132
Clearwell, Exmouth 10–13
Cochran, Sir Charles Blake 358 and n, 382
Cole, Horace de Vere 63 and n, 100, 343 and n
Cole, Mavis de Vere 63n, 100, 343 and n
Colefax, Sybil, Lady 293 and n
Combe House, Hampshire 41—2, 190
Cook, Thomas 117, 241, 261, 262
Coombe Bissett, Salisbury 337, 362, 370
Coward, Noël 343
Cranium Club, the 289 and n
Creighton, Bishop Mandell 125 and n
Criterion, The (periodical) 234 and n
Cross, Paul 381 and n
Cunard, Lady Maud (Emerald) 166 and n, 358
Daily Mail 166
Daily News 100, 121
Daily Telegraph 86, 114
Daneway House, Gloucestershire 130
d’Aranyi, Adila and Jelly 51 and n
Dare, Zena 21 and n
Daudet, Alphonse 107 and n
Davidson, Angus 318
Davidson, Douglas 293, 318, 333, 334
Davies, Michael Llewelyn 142 and n
Dell, Ethel M. 328
Diaghilev, Sergei 113n, 123 and n
Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes (‘Goldie’) 95 and n, 123, 125
Dillon, Kathleen 338
Dobrée, Bonamy 170n
Dobrée, Valentine 170n, 202; sees DC in Paris 170, 172; has Brenan to stay 185n, 186, 187, 188; becomes his confidante 198, 201; ‘a marvellous person’ 199; has Brenan, RP and DC to stay 200; affair with RP 200, 204n, 210, 216; tells him about DC’s affair with Brenan 205, 208, 209, 220; never wants to see RP again 233–4, 257; DC asks Brenan to avoid 283
Doggart, James (‘Dog’) 157 and n, 326
Donne, John 43, 45, 48, 50, 52, 53, 119; ‘Confined Love’ 43
Douglas, Norman 251 and n, 286, 289, 333, 342; Alone 251; South Wind 251; In the Beginning 330 and n
Dreadnought Hoax (1910) 63n
Dunn, Sir James 358 and n, 362
Dunn, Kit 358, 362
Durbins, Surrey 66 and n
Dürer, Albrecht 14
Duse, Eleanora 247 and n
Earp, T. W. (‘Tommy’) 359 and n, 383–4
Edward VIII (as Prince of Wales) 103, 305–6
Eiffel Tower restaurant, London 81, 82, 101, 342n
Eleanor House, Wittering, Sussex 40 and n, 42, 44
Eliot, T. S. 234
Ellis, Henry Havelock 22 and n
Esher, Reginald Brett, 2nd Viscount 4, 6, 7, 40n
Evening Standard 318
Fairbanks, Douglas 293 and n
Falmouth, Cornwall 305, 374, 379, 380
Fergusson, Inez 165, 179, 225
Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones 50
Fitzroy, A. T. (Rose Allatini): Despised and Rejected 94 and n
Fletcher, Fanny 359 and n
Florence, Madame Philip 197
Ford, John: The Broken Heart 306
Forster, E. M[organ] 131n, 161 and n, 208, 222, 223, 246, 284, 333, 335, 355; Howards End 131n; Maurice 131 and n; portrait (DC) xvii
France, Anatole 88n; La Révolte des anges 88 and n
Freud, Sigmund 105, 106, 153, 160n, 196, 198n, 212, 217, 238
Fry, Margery 222
Fry, Roger 51n; exhibitions 33; restores Hampton Court frescoes 51 and n; starts Omega Club/Workshop 60, 74n; gives DC order for woodblock print 66; his Surrey house 66 and n; and Helen Anrep 82n; and Dickinson 95n; at Gordon Square 95; and RP 103; likes Gertler’s work 107, 108; success in Paris 160; and Philippa Strachey 163; and DC’s work xvi, xvii, 164, 167, 172n; lectures 221, 222, 234; at Mill House 222, 223
Fryern House, Hampshire 327 and n, 336, 339, 345–6, 350, 354, 362, 384
Garnett, David (‘Bunny’): meets DC 17; and LS 33; works as fruit farmer with Grant 41n; and Charleston 54; and Alix Sargant-Florence 64, 80, 129; compared with Geoffrey Nelson 100; visits DC at Mill House 107—8, 167; sets up bookshop with Birrell 162n, 237, 280n; marriage 165n; his Lady into Fox a success 218–19 and n, 222, 251; sends books to Brenan 236; his American girl friends view Mill House 236–7; gives birthday party 248; forms Cranium Club 289 and n; sick at Penrose’s party 348; invited by Sir Philip Sassoon to Lympne 384; and DC’s death 404; edits her letters (1970) xiii, xvi, 406; DC’s letters to 51, 93–4, 218–19
Garnett, Rachel (Ray) (née Marshall) 143n, 165 and n, 167, 190, 232, 356; woodcuts 218–19
Garsington Manor, Oxfordshire 15 and n; a refuge for pacifists 38; DC sleeps on roof 44; naked bathing 43 and n; ‘like Clapham Junction’ 49, 50, 51, 52; weekend guests 65–6 (1917) 122–3 (1919); the garden 85–6
Gathorne-Hardy, Hon. Edward (‘Eddie’) 318, 384–5
Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri 86 and n
General Strike (1926) 305–6
George V 306
Gertler, Mark: at the Slade xvii, 5; exempted from military service 10, 84; befriended by Lady Ottoline Morrell 17; relationship with DC xiv, 5, 16, 17, 18–20, 21, 23, 24, 29, 33, 34, 36–7, 38, 42, 43, 47, 48; and LS 18, 21, 46 and n; picture rejected by New English Club 24, 26; portrayed in Cannan’s novel 27n; and Monty Shearman 40; and Loulou Harcourt 40–41; swims with DC and the Hutchinsons 44; at Cholesbury 45; professionally photographed 53; finally goes to bed with DC 54–5, 57; unhappy about her relationship with LS 64–5, 70; their affair continues 65, 70, 75; attacks LS 81, 82; on Armistice Day 102; entertains DC 103; his paintings liked by DC and Fry 103, 107, 108, 135; kept in the dark by DC 126; with her at Garsington 130; and Valentine Dobrée 170n, 209, 213–14; ‘white and worn’ 156; paintings too expensive 196; ill with TB 300; with Lady Morrell 309; and Katherine Mansfield 381; suicide 405; DC’s letters to xiii, 5, 17–21, 24, 26–9, 36–7, 45–6, 48, 51–3, 54–5, 56, 57, 73–4, 77–8, 82–4, 106–8, 112–14, 116–17, 126–7, 300–1
Gerzina, Gretchen: Carrington: A Life xvi, 406
Gilbert (W. S.) and Sullivan (A.): HMS Pinafore 199
Gimson, Ernest 130
Glover, Mr 161
Gogol, Nikolai: The Nose 315
‘Goldie’ see Dickinson, Goldsworthy
Gosling, Tom 349
Gosse, Edmund 161n
Gosse, Sylvia 161 and n
Gower Street, London: No. 3 49, 50, 51, 52, 55, 57, 58, 63, 64, 65, 233; see also Slade, the
Goya, Francisco 13, 116, 117, 118
Grant, Duncan 25n; and Vanessa Bell xv; former lovers 25n, 160n; and DC’s painting xvi, xvii, 33, 150; with DC at Asheham House 25, 26;
rents Wissett Lodge with David Garnett 41n; and Omega Workshop 74n; critique of his painting 142–3; his picture interests DC 161; and Philippa Strachey 163; holds a studio party 221–2; ‘a nautical beauty’ 318; and LS’s death 396
Greco, El 112, 116, 117, 118, 227
Guevara, Alvaro (‘Chili’) 133 and n, 161, 165
Guinness, Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron 384 and n, 385, 386, 389, 402, 403; DC’s letter to 390
Guinness, Diana (née Mitford) 384 and n, 385, 386, 389, 395; DC’s letter to 390
Gurdjieff, George 233
Ham Spray House, Berkshire xv, xvii, 257; buying 35, 252, 253, 261, 262, 266; sale of relics 269; redecoration 272, 274, 358; DC’s studio 257, 276, 288, 30, 314, 342, 343, 346, 358, 392, 405; garden 330, 363–4, 366, 388, 399, 401, 404, 405; repairs and improvements 341, 342, 343, 345, 347, 348, 355; LS’s library 309, 349, 354, 355, 359, 401; Tomlin’s sculpture 358
Hambourg, Mark 97–8
Hamilton, Lady Ian 43, 61
Hammersley, Violet 389 and n
Hampton, Christopher: Carrington xvii
Hampton Court: Mantegna frescoes 51 and n
Hannay, Howard 105 and n
Harcourt, Sir Lewis (‘Loulou’) 40 and n, 42, 86
Hawtrey, Charles 192
Heard, Gerald 355
Heinemann, Geoffrey 121
Heinemann, William 93 and n
Henderson, Faith (née Bagenal) 41, 75, 105, 162, 165 and n, 288–9, 307, 362
Henderson, Hubert 165 and n, 362
Henson, Leslie 163
Hiles, Barbara see Bagenal, Barbara
Hill, Jane: The Art of Dora Carrington xvii
Hogarth Press: DC’s woodcuts 69, 74n; Two Stories 128 and n; Brenan’s ‘Bestiary’ 199; Freud translation (James Strachey) 106, 198n; Julia Strachey’s Cheerful Weather for the Wedding 388n; see also Partridge, Ralph
Hogg, Thomas: The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley 227 and n, 400
Holroyd, Michael xviii; Lytton Strachey xvi, xvii, 29n, 66
Hope-Johnstone, John 159 and n, 160, 161, 180, 187, 190, 193, 208, 209, 221, 222
Howard, Brian 381 and n
Hudson, Nan 130n
Hudson, W. H. 219 and n
Humphries, Ruth see Selby-Bigge, Ruth
Hurstbourne Tarrant, Hampshire: Ibthorpe House 14, 16, 18, 22, 23, 57, 70, 74, 76, 77, 78, 96, 190, 230
Hutchinson, Mary 26 and n, 40, 44, 82, 85, 88, 92, 93, 95, 139, 140–41, 236, 350, 362; DC’s letter to 395–6
Hutchinson, St John (‘Jack’) 26n, 40n, 42, 44, 74, 93, 98
Huth, Major 307 and n, 326
Huxley, Aldous xvii, 44, 103, 288, 387; DC dreams of 114–15; Crome Yellow 44n, 193
Huxley, Juliette (née Baillot; ‘Mademoiselle’) 49 and n, 65
Huxley, Maria (née Nys) 49 and n, 50, 52
Ibsen, Henrik 196; Ghosts 247 and n
Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique 112, 173
Inkpen, Hampshire: post office 305–6
Inkpen Hill, Hampshire 16, 39, 41
Irving, H. B. 93 and n
Jackson, Derek 382 and n, 384
James, Henry 92
Janze, Viscount Henri de 228, 230
Japp, Darsie 293 and n, 299–300
Japp family 299, 310
John, Augustus 4, 60n, 63n; and Brenan 159n; and Lamb 284n, 300; shows DC his drawings 60; falls for her charms 63; and Boris Anrep 82n; at Monty Shearman’s party 102; ‘like a diseased Fish King’ 133; has drunken conversation with DC 161–2; on Ischia with Dorelia 290; and Darsie Japp 293n; moves to Fryern House 327n; patronises Eiffel Tower restaurant 342n; has ‘strangest of strange’ conversation with DC 346; pub crawls with DC 356; paints Dunn family 358; at Fryern 362, 363; on French holiday 364–6; and Julia Strachey 375; DC’s letter to 350–51
John, Dorelia (‘Dodo’) (née McNeill) 60n, 82n; ‘amazingly beautiful’ 99, 161; DC and RP in love with 161; her ‘magical charm’ 277; and Henry Lamb 284 and n, 290, 299, 300; at Ham Spray 289–90, 299; sends DC Christmas present 310; at Fryern House 327n, 336, 337, 339; invites DC to dinner party 342; like a ‘voluminous Sibyl’ at Fryern 346; DC deserts her for Penrose 351; on holiday in France 356; at Ham Spray 359; visits Penrose’s ship with DC 363; in France again with DC 364–6; and Julia Strachey 375; invites DC to Fryern 376; takes her to see Vivien dance 378–9; and LS’s illness and death 391, 398; DC’s letters to 327–8, 330
John, Edwin 363, 376
John, Ida 60n
John, Poppet: DC’s interest in 328, 336, 342, 347; her ‘passionate affaire’ with 348, 350, 353; in Monte Carlo 356; falls in love with new young man every day 358; horse jumping 362; engagement 382 and n; dinner with DC 384; DC’s letters to xiii, 338–40, 342–6, 347, 349, 353–4
John, Robin 199 and n, 234
John, Romilly 346, 354
John, Vivien 328, 336, 339, 340, 342, 347, 349, 350, 353, 354, 356, 358, 362, 378–9
Jones, E. B. C. see Lucas, ‘Topsy’
Jones, Ernest 238, 272, 281
Jordan, Dorothea 228 and n
Keats, John 227, 271, 400; ‘Endymion’ 240; ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ 240
Kerensky, Alexander 62 and n
Keynes, John Maynard: and LS 43; living arrangements 49, 51; gives ‘Government Gossip’ 60; and air raid 73; and Mill House 79; and Gertler’s attack on LS 81; severely criticised 86; has bad table manners 99; takes DC out 106; buys Cézanne still life 112; exhausted by work at Paris Peace Conference 121 and n; brings out The Economic Consequences of the Peace 135 and n, 138; and LS 185; at Mill House for Christmas (1922) 222, 223, 224; and Lydia Lopokova 224–5; does conjuring tricks 225; wears LS out with ‘weighty conversation’ 226; DC’s letters to 46–7, 79
Keynes, Lydia (née Lopokova) 99, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 382
Kid, The (film) 189
King’s College, Cambridge 157n, 329, 330, 332–3
Kipling, Rudyard 93n, 122
Kirstein, Mina 236, 238, 248n, 277
Koteliansky, S. S. 73 and n, 156, 184, 381
Kuhlenthal, Christine see Nash, Christine
Laking, Joan 73, 75
Lamb, Henry xiii, 284n; and Dorelia John 284n, 289, 290; meets DC 284; at Ham Spray 288, 289–90, 299, 300; and Julia Strachey 297; gives DC sleeping pills 299; ‘pathetic’ 300; has ‘dismal’ walk with DC and Tomlin 306; sends DC wine 310; goes riding with her 315n, 336; with Johns in France 328; DC paints panel picture for 370
Lamb, Lady Pansy (née Pakenham) 370, 385
Lambert, Constant 382
Lane, Constance (‘Cooie’) 6, 7, 9, 134
La Rochefoucauld, François, duc de 353
Lawrence, D. H. xvii; Sons and Lovers liked by DC 17; plans to set up commune 28 and n; and Koteliansky 73; at Garsington 86; rude to DC 267; returns to New Mexico 268; attacked by Norman Douglas 288, 289
Lawrence, Frieda (née von Richhtofen) 17 and n, 267, 268
Lawrence, T. E. 362 and n
Legg, Mrs (cook-housekeeper) 81 and n, 88, 93, 94, 98, 119, 139, 140
Lehmann, Rosamond 320n, 321, 327, 349, 356, 363n, 385, 399; Dusty Answer 327; DC’s letters to 334–5, 363–4, 380–82, 389–90, 399–400
Lewis, Percy Wyndham xvii
Liberty’s, London 192, 229
Lifar, Serge 318
Little, Neil 142
Lloyd George, David 66n, 100
Lloyd, Marie 377 and n
Lloyd, Rosie 377 and n
London Group 155 and n, 171, 248
Low, John 189
Lucas, F. L. (‘Peter’) xiii, 258, 319 and n, 329, 341, 350, 356; DC’s letter to 335
Lucas, ‘Topsy’ (E. B. C. Jones) 319 and n, 329, 335, 337, 341, 350
Mabel (cook) 358
Macaulay, Thomas Babington: Ranke’s History of the Popes 108 and n
MacCarthy, Desmond 157, 301
MacCarthy, Michael 360
MacCarthy, Rachel 360, 361
MacDonald, James Ramsay 387n
MacIver, Alan 142, 149, 150, 163, 171, 172, 175, 183, 192, 21
3, 229; portrait (DC) 151
MacIver, Mrs Alan 149, 151
MacKenna, Pamela 66
MacKenna, Reginald 65–6
McKenzie, Colin 280 and n
Macnamara, Edie (née McNeill) 343 and n, 363, 376
Macnamara, Francis 343 and n, 363, 376
Malleson, Lady Constance 86 and n
Mansfield, Katherine (Murry) 49n, 288; with DC at Garsington 49, 50, 52; at 3 Gower Street 49, 51, 52; DC regaled with stories about 130; her contempt for 222; and Brett 381; death 233
Mantegna, Andrea: Triumph of Caesar 51 and n
Maria (Brenan’s housekeeper) 153, 155, 237 and n
Marlowe, Christopher 57
Marsh, Sir Edward (‘Eddie’) 24 and n, 28
Marshall, Frances (FM) (‘Fanny’) (later Partridge) xiii, xv, 143n, 219 and n; and ‘Bloomsbury’ 232; meets RP 219; RP in pursuit of 231, 232, 244, 250, 252, 253; sings at party 252; in Paris with DC and RP 262, 263; helps DC redecorate Ham Spray 272; friendship with Brenan 273 and n; refuses to sleep with RP 278; in Italy with friends 280 and n; at Ham Spray 257–8, 282, 285, 289; ‘a dim character’ 289; and Henry Lamb 290; and Julia Strachey 297; in Spain with RP 300; wants to live with him in London 302, 303; is prepared to share him 304; moves into 41 Gordon Square 305; at Ham Spray for Christmas (1927) 328, and Whitsun (1928) 341; at Fryern with DC and RP 346; hurt when LS suggests she should not come to Ham Spray so often 354; illness 354, 356; at Ham Spray 360, 372; sings at New Forest picnic 363; and DC’s death 404, 405; marriage and birth of son 405; DC’s letters to 259–60, 265, 279–80, 285–6, 303–4