Last Curtsey

by Fiona MacCarthy

Wheatley, Lord 1

  Wheeler, Sir Mortimer 1

  Whigham, Margaret see Argyll, Duchess of

  Whirley Hall, Macclesfield 1

  White-Thomson, Ian (author’s first husband) 1, 2

  White’s club, St James’s Street, London 1

  Wigan, Lola 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Wilde, Oscar 1

  Wilding, Dorothy 1

  Wilhelm II, Kaiser 1

  Willoughby, Lady Jane 1

  Wilton House, Wiltshire 1

  Windley, Davina (Countess of Portarlington) 1

  Windsor, Duke of see Edward VIII, King

  Windsor Castle, Berkshire 1, 2

  Windsor Forest, Berkshire 1

  Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire 1, 2, 3

  Woking, Surrey 1

  Wolfson, Sir Isaac 1

  Wolfson, Solomon 1

  Woman’s Mirror 1

  Women of the Year luncheon, Savoy Hotel (1958) 1

  Women’s Social and Political Union 1

  Wood, Natalie 1

  Woolf, Virginia 1 A Room of One’s Own 1

  Woollands department store, London 1 21 shop 1

  Work of Art (champion hunter) 1

  Workers’ Revolutionary Party 1

  World’s End, London 1, 2

  Worsley, Giles: England’s Lost Houses 1

  Worsley, Katharine see Kent, Katharine, Duchess of

  Worsthorne, Sir Peregrine 1

  Worth 1, 2

  Wren, Sir Christopher 1

  Wyatt, Woodrow (later Lord Wyatt) 1, 2

  Wycombe Abbey School, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Yardley 1

  Yarty Farm, Devon 1, 2

  Yeats, W.B. 1

  Yevonde, Madame 1

  York, Sonia (Mrs Giles Coode-Adams) 1, 2, 3

  York, Susannah 1

  Young Jaeger 1, 2

  Youth Justice Board for England and Wales 1

  Zouche of Haryngworth, 17th Baroness 1, 2

  About the Author

  With her widely acclaimed book Eric Gill, published in 1989, Fiona MacCarthy established herself as one of the leading writers of biography in Britain. John Carey called it ‘a wonderfully detailed account of [Gill’s] personality – so vivid, you feel you know just what it would have been like to visit him at one of his patriarchal communes’.

  Her biography of Byron was described by A. N. Wilson as ‘a flawless triumph’ and by Mark Bostridge as ‘one of the great literary biographies of our time’.

  Prizes for William Morris include the Wolfson History Prize and the Writers’ Guild Non-Fiction Award.

  Also a well known broadcaster and critic, Fiona MacCarthy writes for the Guardian and is currently working on the sequel to her life of William Morris – an eagerly anticipated new biography of Edward Burne-Jones.

  Copyright

  This ebook edition published in 2010

  by Faber and Faber Ltd

  Bloomsbury House

  74–77 Great Russell Street

  London WC1B 3DA

  All rights reserved

  © Fiona MacCarthy, 2006, 2007

  The right of Fiona MacCarthy to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

  This ebook is copyright material and must not be copied, reproduced, transferred, distributed, leased, licensed or publicly performed or used in any way except as specifically permitted in writing by the publishers, as allowed under the terms and conditions under which it was purchased or as strictly permitted by applicable copyright law. Any unauthorised distribution or use of this text may be a direct infringement of the author’s and publisher’s rights, and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly

  ISBN 978–0–571–26581–7