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by Dora Carrington


  Marshall, Margaret 232

  Marshall, Thomas H. 143 and n, 280n

  Marvell, Andrew 306–7; ‘To His Coy Mistress’ 48, 51–2

  Mason, Mrs (cook) 120–21, 124

  Massine, Léonide 123 and n

  Matisse, Henri xvi, 33, 173, 226, 248

  Merton College, Oxford 121n, 125

  Mill Cottage see Swallowcliffe

  Mill House see Tidmarsh

  Milton, John 91, 143

  Mitford, Diana see Guinness, Diana

  Mitford, Thomas 384

  Mitford, Unity 385

  Mitford sisters 385

  Mond, Henry 99n

  Monro, Harold 355

  ‘Monty’ see Shearman, Sir Montague

  Moore, G. E. 103

  Moore, George: Celibates 368 and n

  Morrell, Julian 130 and n

  Morrell, Lady Ottoline (née Cavendish Bentinck) 15n, 17; and DC 15, 17, 28, 33; ridiculed by ‘Bloomsbury’ 26; her pugs 38n, 39; and Bertrand Russell 86n; turns Garsington into refuge for pacifists 38; interested in DC’s love life 38, 42, 43, 44, 53; dines with DC at Brett’s studio 41, 42; sends Brett out with Russell 43; reads poetry 43; photographs DC 43n; attitude changes towards DC 49, 52, 65, 86; Maria Nys in love with 50, 52; painted by Brett 52; gossips with a pearl-stringer 75; and the arrival of DC and her ‘cortege’ 123; raves about RP 123; and LS 123; regales DC with grim stories 130; and Henry Lamb 284n; and Aldous Huxley 288; fails to arrive for tea at Ham Spray 309–10; DC’s letters to 38, 90, 396

  Morrell, Philip 15n, 38, 41 and n, 42, 43, 49, 53, 123

  Morris, Peter 314

  Mortimer, Raymond 328, 356, 392

  Morwenstow, Cornwall: Bush Inn 127

  Munster, Lady 221

  Murry, John Middleton 49n, 130, 202; at War Office 49; at Garsington Manor 49; at 3 Gower Street 49, 51; tennis with Brett 156; DC’s contempt for 222; and Katherine Mansfield’s death 233; and the Adelphi 247, 268; ‘the great decaying mushroom’ 267, 268

  Nash, Christine (née Kuhlenthal) xiii, 14 and n, 151, 229–30, 359–60; DC’s letters to 15–17, 21–3

  Nash, John: at the Slade 5; goes to Florence 6; his pictures xvii, 9; relationship with DC 5, 10; in Cheltenham 12, 13; and Christine Kuhlenthal 14; as war artist 10, 33, 66; visits DC 151; at Ham Spray 359, 360; DC’s letters to xiii, 6–14

  Nash, Margaret (‘Bunty’) (née Odeh) 14 and n

  Nash, Paul xvii, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 14n, 33, 360

  Nation, The 106

  Nelson, Geoffrey 98 and n, 99, 100

  Nevinson, Richard 5, 10, 33

  New English Art Club 16 and n, 24, 26, 165

  New Republic 194

  New Statesman 157, 223

  Newbury, Berksire: fair (1924) 278–9

  Newnham College, Cambridge 67, 143, 160n

  Nichols, Philip 285 and n

  Nicoll, Rev. Dr Robertson (‘Claudius Clear’) 88 and n

  Normandy, France 220–21

  Norton, Harry 43 and n, 67, 79, 99, 100, 131, 139, 280n

  Norton, Jane 280 and n

  Novello, Ivor 343

  Nuremberg, Germany 196–7

  Olive (cook-housekeeper) 290, 313, 315, 319, 328, 332, 340, 347, 355, 358, 366, 377, 379, 385, 388, 402

  Olivier, Noel 124 and n, 173

  Omega Workshop 60, 74 and n, 75

  Oxford University 10, 14n, 34, 67, 87, 90, 116, 121n, 124, 142, 274n; balls 125, 126; Boat 144 and n, 147

  Partridge, Dorothy 135, 175, 221, 252

  Partridge, Frances see Marshall, Frances

  Partridge, Jessie 135

  Partridge, Dorothy 116, 117, 139

  Partridge, Mrs 133, 135, 173, 175, 221, 235, 249, 252, 262; death

  and funeral 387, 388

  Partridge, Reginald Sherring (‘Rex’; ‘Ralph’) (RP) xiii, 87n

  1918–22 brought to Mill House by Noel Carrington 34, 87; in Scotland with Noel and DC 87–9; DC’s judgement on 91–2; and LS 91–2, 94; begins to fall for DC 92; takes her to ballet 94; writes to her from Italy 100, 102; intolerant and conventional 113; in Spain with DC, Noel and his sister 116, 139; gardens at Mill House 119; influenced by DC and LS 34–5, 120; portrayed by her 121, 124, 126, 127, 138; swims with Noel 122; at Garsington 122, 123; a perfect dancer 125; in training for Henley 125; in Cornwall with DC and Noel 127–8; LS infatuated by 126, 128; with DC and Brenan in the Cotswolds 129–31; leaves for Spain 130 and n; weekends at Mill House 132; out with DC in London 133, 134; helps Barbara Bagenal paint 135; has closer relationship with DC 136, and LS 135, 137, 138; reads DC’s letters to Brenan 138; and LS’s four-poster 141–2; dances with DC at Oxford 142; loves Cambridge 143; turns down place in Oxford boat 144 and n; visits Brenan in Spain with DC and LS 145, 147, 153; in Madrid 145–6; in triangular relationship with DC and LS 146, 147, 148; with DC at the MacIvers 149, 150, 151; employed at Hogarth Press 152, 153, 160, 162, 166; pressures DC to live with him 152–3, 156; weekends at Mill House 154, 155; and Forster 161 and n; and Augustus John 162; drawn by DC and Brett 165; at Gordon Square party 165; busy with Hogarth Press books 166, 167; and Ray Garnett 167; has breakdown over DC 168–9; DC agrees to marry 169–70, 172, 174; and Mill House chickens 171, 193; marriage and honeymoon 35, 175, 176; visits the Woolfs 177; his future with Hogarth Press discussed 177, 178; works hard 178; with DC and Brenan in the Lake District 179, 183, 184–5; suspicious of DC 186, 187, 198; picks apples at Mill House 189; works in London 189, 191; DC’s Christmas presents to him 192; cured of wanting children 194; goes to Vienna with DC 196; with her at the Dobrées 200; his affair with Valentine Dobrée 200, 204n, 210, 213, 214, 217; and the ‘Great Row’ 205, 206, 208, 209, 213, 214, 220; happier 214, 216; has further affairs 35, 217, 226; argues with Alix Strachey 217; employment at Hogarth Press ends 200, 217, 218, 219, 222, 223, 224, 234, 244

  1922–35 meets FM 219; importance of DC/LS triangle to 219–20; meets DC back from Normandy 221; goes to Fry’s lecture and Grant’s party 221–2; and Garnett’s Lady into Fox 222; relationship with DC improves 225; and Brenan 226 and n, 236, 237; ‘completely altered’ 227; dines with Anrep 229; in London with DC 229, 230; no longer jealous 231; falls in love with FM 231, 232, 244, 250, 252, 253; plans to set up Tidmarsh Press 234; and Rudolph Valentino 234; in North Africa with DC and LS 238–41, 242; gloomy at Brenan’s engagement 243, 244; cuts DC’s hair 248; and father’s death 249, 252; visits Brenan with DC 249–50, 251, 253, 259, 260, 263; in Paris with her and FM 262, 263–4, 265; still jealous of Brenan 264–5, 266, 270; dislikes Henrietta Bingham 272; helps DC redecorate Ham Spray 272; dislikes Tomlin 274n; moves into Ham Spray 276; and DC’s difficulties with Brenan 276–7, 292, 296, 310; makes compact not to quarrel with her 277, 282; still in pursuit of FM 278, 282; sits to DC 279; angry at LS giving party without telling him 281, 282; doing well bookbinding 251, 282; his relationship with DC changes 296; in Spain with FM 299, 300; they move into 41 Gordon Square 257, 302–5; makes a scene on Christmas Day (1927) 327–8; at Ham Spray with FM for Whitsun 341; with DC and FM at Fryern 345, 346; angry with central heating men 345; furious at LS’s suggestion that FM should not go Ham Spray so often 354; and FM’s illness 354; at Ham Spray 358, 360, 361, 372; and DC’s abortion 367, 369, 370; has tea with her 375; tells her of Brenan’s engagement 376; delighted when she wins writing competition 383; worried she will kill herself 383; and LS’s death and after 393–4, 397, 401; DC arranges for him and FM to go away for a few days 399, 400; and DC’s death 404, 405; marriage and birth of son 405

  Pearsall Smith, Logan 221 and n

  Penrose, Alec 329, 340, 356, 374, 375

  Penrose, Bernard (‘Beakus’; ‘The Seagull’; ‘Snipe’) 330; affair with DC xiii, 258, 330, 338, 348; and Poppet John 339; DC with him on his ship (Sans Pareil) 351–2; makes a film at Ham Spray 360–61; turns up at Fryern House 362; DC and Dorelia John visit his ship 363; DC pregnant by 367; considers RP ‘damn decent’ for arranging abortion 369; affair with DC continues unsatisfactorily 370, 371–4, 375; and family feud 374; weekends at Ham Sp
ray 375; on pub crawl with DC, Julia Strachey and the Macnamaras 376–7; Julia and DC stay on his ship 377; in Falmouth 379–80; nursed by DC at Ham Spray 380 and n, 381; in Lisbon 386

  Penrose, Lionel 326

  Penrose, Margaret (née Leathes) 326, 356

  Penrose, Roland 196 and n

  Philipps, Hugo 363 and n

  Philipps, Wogan 320 and n, 334, 335, 349, 356, 363, 380, 381, 385, 399

  Picasso, Pablo 123 and n, 234

  Pickford, Mary 293 and n

  Piero della Francesca 10 and n

  Piero di Cosimo 173; The Forest Fire 165 and n

  Pound, Ezra 234

  Poussin, Nicolas: Ruth and Boaz 246

  Powys, T. F. 306; The Left Leg 306n

  Prewett, Frank (‘Toronto’) 123 and n, 130

  Prior, Matthew 138 and n

  Proust, Marcel 122n, 261, 335, 379; Swann’s Way 332

  Puss see Tiber

  Racine, Jean: Phèdre 342

  Raleigh, Walter 121 and n

  Ramsay, Lettice 375

  Raphael 173

  Reading, Berkshire 110, 169, 189, 223, 266; station 80, 91, 189

  Redesdale, Sydney Mitford, Lady 385

  Reekes, Mrs (housekeeper) 66

  Rendel, Dr Elinor (‘Ellie’) 315, 316

  Rendel, Judy (née Marshall) 232

  Rendel, Richard (‘Dick’) 232

  Rimbaud, Arthur 41, 43, 261; ‘Le Bateau ivre’ 39, 40 and n

  Ritchie, Philip 274 and n, 281, 293, 324

  Rivière, Joan 198 and n

  Robertson, Field Marshal Sir William 87 and n

  Robey, George 377 and n

  Rogers, Samuel 400 and n

  Rothenstein, Sir John xvii

  Rothiemurchus, Scotland 90

  Royal Academy, London 4, 16n

  Runciman, Steven 329 and n

  Russell, Bertrand 114, 221n; and Lady Ottoline Morrell 43; his new mistress 86n; a pupil of his 103; publishes Proposed Roads to Freedom … 113 and n; back in Cambridge 142; marries 190; and Wittgenstein 225 and n

  Russell, Dora (née Black) 190

  Rutherston, Albert 191 and n

  Rylands, George (‘Dadie’) 281n; and LS 281 and n, 334, 364, 366; gives party in London 293; and snow fights at Ham Spray 314; a ‘nautical beauty’ 318; has brief affair with DC 319n; has his rooms decorated by DC 329, 330, 332–3, 334, 342; in love with a ‘sweet scotch boy’ 350; in ‘highest high brow mood’ at Ham Spray 374; DC’s letters to 332–3, 348

  Sackville-West, Vita: Sissinghurst 381 and n

  Sands, Ethel 130 and n

  Sans Pareil (Penrose’s ship) 351, 377, 379, 386

  Santer, Charlie 123

  Sargant, Willie 196

  Sargant-Florence, Alix see Strachey, Alix

  Sargent, John Singer 317 and n

  Sassoon, Sir Philip 384

  Savernake Forest, Wiltshire 50, 190, 379, 394

  ‘Seagull’ see Penrose, Bernard

  Selby-Bigge, John 88

  Selby-Bigge, Ruth (formerly Humphries) 6, 7, 73, 74, 82, 88, 147, 148, 204, 301

  Senhouse, Roger xiii, 257, 298 and n, 316, 324, 325, 350; DC’s letters to 392–3, 394–5

  Shakespeare, William 91, 121, 150; King Lear 107, 356; Othello 247; Sonnets 45, 91, 374

  Shalbourne, Wiltshire 290, 296, 314, 362; Downs 347; Hill 295

  Shaw, George Bernard 124, 194, 195

  Shearman, Sir Montague (‘Monty’) 40 and n, 82, 95, 101

  Sheik, The (film) 234

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe 43, 227n, 246, 271, 400

  Sheppard, John 49 and n, 92, 99, 100, 143

  Shone, Richard xvii

  Shove, Fredegond 143–4 and n

  Sickert, Walter 4, 24n, 161n; works 24

  Sitwell, Sir George 103

  Sitwell, Osbert 103

  Sitwells, the 90, 91, 102

  Skye, Isle of 90

  Slade School of Art xvi, xvii, 4–5, 14, 16, 33, 52n, 63n, 73n, 90n, 107, 229, 288, 290n, 360; model 20 and n; Fancy Dress dance 134, 135

  Smollett, Tobias: Roderick Random 24 and n

  Sneddon, Mrs (cook) 165

  Snowden, Philip (later 1st Viscount) 38 and n

  Southampton: Horse and Groom pub 376–7

  Spencer, Stanley xvii, 33

  Sprott, Walter John Herbert (‘Sebastian’) 191 and n, 222, 223, 249, 296; DC’s letters to 333–4, 341–2, 349–50, 355–6, 370–71, 374, 390–91, 398, 401–2

  Stein, Gertrude 234 and n

  Stephen, Adrian 160–61 and n

  Stephen, Karin (née Costelloe) 160–61 and n, 293

  Stevenson, R. L. 93n

  Stoll, Sir Oswald 224 and n

  Stone, Patrick 77, 78

  Strachey, Alix (née Sargant-Florence) xiii, 63n; friendship with DC 63, 64, 65, 75, 77, 140, 154, 215, 217, 295; shares house with her 65; and air raids 73; ‘a dull green toad’ 80; at Mill House 90; at ballet with DC 94; drunk at Gordon Square 99–100; with DC on Armistice Day 101, 102; brings her a letter from LS 104; accidentally swallows mercury 105; nurses DC 106; takes wrong train 122; arrives at Garsington 123; and RP 123; stays with DC 126; ‘entirely reformed’ 129; has nose operation 134–5; with James Strachey in Paris 144; marriage 153; in the Lake District 179, 180, 181, 182, 183; ill in Vienna 196, 197, 198; has arguments with RP at Mill House 217; in an aesthetic mood and never disappoints 246; doesn’t notice DC’s hair 273; her ‘magical charm’ 277; in analysis 281; her bisexuality 281; commissions DC to paint gramophone 316; gives her a passionate embrace 318–19; in a huff 348; dyes carpet after parties 348; has ‘operation for Tonsils’ 354; has ‘septic eye’ 356; getting over illness 381; DC’s letters to 166–7, 211–13, 281–2, 288–9

  Strachey, James 381; lover of Harry Norton 43n, and Rupert Brooke 67n; pursued by Alix Sargant-Florence (see Strachey, Alix) 64, 77, 129; and DC 69, 77, 90, 215; upsets inkpot 105; and Freud 106; at Mill House 124 and n, 139; in Paris 144; marriage 153; studies under Freud 106, 153; holidays in the Lake District 179, 181, 183; with Alix in Viennese nursing home 196, 197, 198; in Germany 216, 217; supports buying of Ham Spray 252; sees Brenan and FM at Wembley 273; and RP and FM’s move to 41 Gordon Square 305; gives DC caviare for Christmas (1926) 310; at Ham Spray for Christmas (1927) 328; sees Mickey Mouse film with DC 375–6; reports on Alix’s health 381; and DC’s attempted suicide 393; sorts out LS’s books and papers 398

  Strachey, Lady Jane Maria (née Grant) 163 and n, 172, 188

  Strachey, Julia: description of DC xvii–xviii; a frequent guest at Ham Spray 293, 297, 310; portrait painted by DC 293; and Tomlin 258, 297; at nautical party 318; affair with Wogan Philipps over 320 and n; marriage 319, 320; DC stays at their cottage 325–6, 370; at Ham Spray for Christmas (1927) 328; with DC and Penrose in Southampton 376–7; stays at Ham Spray 384, 385, 386; lunches with DC at Diana Guinness’s 385; first novel (Cheerful Weather for the Wedding) published 388n;

  DC’s letter to 297–8, 302–3, 305, 306–7, 311, 312, 314, 316, 320–23, 340–41, 351–2, 353, 356–8, 366–7, 371, 372–3, 375, 388

  Strachey, Lytton (LS) 25n

  1915–22 and Mark Gertler 18, 21, 46; DC’s first reference to 18; meets her 25, 26; tries to kiss her 28; DC falls in love with 29; their subsequent relationship xvi, 33–4, 35, 38, 46n; in Wales and Somerset with DC and the Bagenals 45, 46; and DC’s loss of virginity 47, 54; and search for house 49, 53; portrait painted by DC 58; with her at the Johns’ 60; reads Shakespeare to her 60; loathes war 62; discusses with DC her relationship with Gertler 64–5; moves into Frith Street flat with DC 66; invites her to Cambridge 67; Mill House found for 70–72; works on Eminent Victorians 34, 76 and n; talks politics with Oliver Strachey 79; Christmas at the Mill House 80; attacked by Gertler 81; exempted from military service 62, 84; and publication of Eminent Victorians (1918) 84, 85, 86–7, 88 and n, 91–2, 166, 174; remains elusive 84, 90; reads Shakespeare to DC 91, 107, 247; meets and is attracted to RP 34, 35, 91–2; and Henry James’s letters 92; miserable with shingles 94, 95–6; amused by Vi
rginia Woolf’s letter 94–5; stays with Mary Hutchinson 95; joins party on Armistice Day 102; described in DC’s diary 115; relationship with RP 120, 126, 135, 137, 138; at Oxford essay club 121, 124; and Brenan 132, 133, 135; studies Spanish grammar 140; works on Queen Victoria 132 and n, 135, 151, 153, 156, 159, 163, 164; goes to Parsifal with DC and James Strachey 135; buys four-poster bed 141; visits Brenan in Spain with DC and RP 145, 147, 153; tries to reassure DC over her move to Gordon Square 152; praises Brenan’s writing 154, 158; and his sister 155; walks with DC 159–60; Brenan’s critique of his work 164; encourages DC’s painting 164; and London society 166; and publication of Queen Victoria 166 and n; takes DC and RP to Hampton Court 166–7; and her decision to marry RP 169–70, 171, 176; in Italy with DC and RP 176; in the Lake District 179, 180, 181, 182, 183; in London 188; goes for drive with DC 190, and to the theatre 192; takes her and RP to dinner and HMS Pinafore 199; invited to Mill House 200, 201, 203; praises Brenan’s photography 201; brings DC books 202; likes Brenan 203

  1922–32 picks up the pieces after the ‘Great Row’ 205, 206, 207, 209, 210, 212; goes to Venice 213; reads Wittgenstein 225; exhausted from conversation with Keynes 226; reads Dante 227; dines with Anrep 229; writes good dialogue 230; reads Molière to DC 231; his letters left unscathed by mice 232; overspends on books 233; impressed by Mansfield 233; his 43rd birthday 236; forbids lease of Mill House to American ladies 238; in North Africa with DC and RP 238–41, 242; and young men 244; his effect on DC 245; and her plan to visits Brenan in Spain 249–50, 253; and Ham Spray 252; likes Garnett’s Lady into Fox 222; joins DC and RP in Paris 262, 263; illness 267, 268, 269; dislikes Henrietta Bingham 272, 288; in love with Ritchie 274n, 278, 281–2; moves into Ham Spray 276; in Brittany 277; at Ham Spray xv, xvi, 257, 283, 284, 306, 309; and FM 257; gives party without telling DC and RP 281; and Tomlin 274n; and Dadie Rylands 281 and n, 350, 364, 366; and Henry Lamb 284n; belongs to Cranium Club 289n; and Norman Douglas 289, 333; and FM and RP’s living arrangements 303; gives DC a pony 307 and n; reads to her 313, 314, 342; his Gordon Square room painted by DC 316; his appearance at party described in Evening Standard 318; and Elizabeth and Essex 319, 320n, 330, 334, 337, 342–3, 350, 355; upset by Ritchie’s death 324, 325; Christmas (1927) at Ham Spray 328; ‘worn and ill’ 332, 333, 334; in Provence with DC 337–8; goes to Sweden 341; his new library at Ham Spray 349, 354, 355, 359, 376; stays with Rosamond Lehmann 356; long walks with DC 358; at review with Cochran and Lady Cunard 358; has crabs 364; head sculpted by Tomlin 367 and n; in Rome 371; health deteriorates 378, 387; asks the Tomlins for the weekend 381; pleased that DC wins writing competition 383; in Nancy 386, 397; illness 389, 390–91, 392–4; death 394

 

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