The Portable D. H. Lawrence (D. Trilling, ed.), 123–24
Porter, Katherine Anne, 109, 120, 223
Pouncey, Peter, 317
Power (Fast), 108
Prefaces to the Experience of Literature (L. Trilling), 257
pregnancy and childbirth, 129–32, 170
The Prisoner of Sex (Mailer), 263–64
psychoanalysis: child analysis, 144, 153, 180, 182–83; DT and, 74–75, 77–78, 95–98, 104, 114, 119, 121, 139, 154, 179–81, 205, 327–28; DT on, 180–81; LT and, 75–76, 101–2, 139, 154, 179–81, 203, 206, 235
Publisher’s Weekly, 288
Rabi, Isidor Isaac, 162
Rabinowitz, Dorothy, 321
Radcliffe, 2–3, 5–9, 11–12, 24, 30, 34
Rahv, Philip, 176–77, 314; and American Committee for Cultural Freedom, 166; DT’s review of Discovery of Europe, 110; and founding of the Partisan Review, 67, 102; friendship with the Trillings, 102; and New York Intellectual Family, 176; and Partisan Review social life, 103
Reader’s Subscription Book Club, 119, 155, 193
Redbook, 222, 324
Rees, Goronwy, 230, 274, 339, 340–41
Rees, Jenny, 340–41
Rees, Margaret, 230
Reinventing Womanhood (Heilbrun), 310
Reviewing the Forties (D. Trilling), 300–301
Richler, Mordecai, 289
Riesman, David, 106, 185–86, 270, 289–90
Riesman, Evey, 185, 270
Roane, Marianne, 117
Robeson, Paul, 313
Rorty, Jim and Winifred, 40–41
Rose, Daniel and Joanna, 305
Rosen, Victor, 213–14
Rosenfeld, Isaac, 309
Rosenthal, Henry, 28, 39
Rosenthal, Michael, 214
Ross, Nat, 74–75
Rovere, Eleanor, 245, 248
Rovere, Richard, 245
Rubin, Bettye, 228–29
Rubin, Cecilia (sister of Diana Trilling), 48, 114, 225; activities in late life, 287; and birth of Jim Trilling, 130; and DT’s childhood, 7; health issues and personal characteristics, 21–22; improved relations with DT, 114; LT and, 34–35; and wedding of DT and LT, 38, 40
Rubin, Joseph (father of Diana Trilling), 5, 10, 15, 22, 45; background of Rubin family, 3–4, 22; death of, 76; and DT’s childhood, 3–4; and DT’s psychoanalysis, 96–97; DT’s relationship with, 32; and Judaism, 23–24, 26; LT and, 34; and politics, 25–26; and proscription against “self-display,” 104; and stock market crash, 48; and trip to Germany (1914), 13–14; trust fund for children, 139; and wedding of DT and LT, 39, 40
Rubin, Sadie (mother of Diana Trilling). See Forbert, Sadie Helene
Rubin, Samuel (brother of Diana Trilling), 22–23; and childhood of DT, 7; death of, 273; and family business, 48; and finances, 157, 276; and Judaism, 23; personal characteristics, 22–23; relationship with DT, 23; and religion, 273; and visit to Oxford, 228–29; and wedding of DT and LT, 34
Rush, Pauline Elizabeth (“Polly”). See Fadiman, Polly
Russell, Bertrand, 166
Ryskamp, Charles, 308
Sachs, Paul J., 6
Sackville-West, Edward, 87
Said, Edward, 336–37
Salisbury, Leah, 2
Sarton, May, 134
The Saturday Review of Literature, 117
Sayles, Margaret (pseudonym for Diana Trilling), 116
Schapiro, Meyer, 103
Schilder, Paul, 74
Schmitt, Gladys, 117
Schwartz, Delmore, 103, 106, 176–77
Scottsboro case, 64–65
Scoundrel Time (Hellman), 278–80, 284, 290
Scrutiny (literary periodical), 87
Secker and Warburg, 231
Seeds of Treason (de Toledano and Lasky), 149
Selder, Gilbert, 165
The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence (D. Trilling, ed.), 188–89, 199, 261
sexism. See gender relations
sexual assault, 16, 121, 174
sexuality: and dating/courtship, 27, 28, 29, 174; DT on, 177, 266; and DT’s childhood/adolescence, 10–11, 15–16; and DT’s health problems, 51; and DT’s potential affairs, 174, 207, 208, 211–12; flirtation, 28, 103, 177; and friendships of middle age, 197–215; and guilt, 177; LT’s sexual difficulties, 95, 101, 205–6, 350; and Margaret Mead’s Male and Female, 148–49; and New York intellectuals, 103, 177; and summer camp, 341
Shapiro, Harvey, 288
Shaw, Peter, 321
Shawn, William, 138, 255, 267
Sheppard, R. Z., 323
Showboat (Ferber), 165
Shriver, Sargent, 315
Sifton, Elisabeth, 83, 145, 184, 305
Silvers, Robert, 220, 232–33
Simon, Norton, 317
Simpson, O. J., 337–38
Sincerity and Authenticity (L.Trilling), 236, 257
Sinclair, Bettina Mikol. See Hartenbach, Bettina Sinclair
Sinclair, David, 40, 66–67
Sinclair, Upton, 166
singing ability of Diana Trilling, 7, 16–17, 31–33, 44, 48, 52–53, 57, 59–60
Smith, Cork (Corlies), 332
Snitkin (unpublished play by D. Trilling), 1–2, 99, 321
Snow, C. P., 230, 232
Snow, Pamela Hansford Johnson, 230
Solotaroff, Ted, 311
South America, 23, 26, 29
Sovern, Michael, 320, 322
Soviet Union, 66–67
Spark, Muriel, 213
Spectator, 87
Spender, Stephen, 166
Stalin, Joseph, 67, 137
Stein, Sol, 191
Steinem, Gloria, 347
Stern, Fritz, 334, 336
stock market crash of 1929, 48
Styron, Rose and William, 223
summer camp. See Camp Lenore
Sutton Company, 47
Swados, Harvey, 245
swimming, 122
Talese, Gay, 222
Tarkington, Booth, 11
Tarnower, Herman, 318, 322
television, 251–52, 290–91, 311
The Temper of the West (Jovanovich), 287
tennis, 122–23
Then and Now (Maugham), 118
Thomas, Evan, 199
Thompson, Dorothy, 250
Thompson, Jack and Susan, 274
Thurkill, Angela, 106
Tilda (Van Doren), 110
Time magazine, 288, 323
The Times Literary Supplement, 267, 306
Tom Sawyer (Twain), 222–23
To the Finland Station (Wilson), 168
A Train of Powder (West), 186–87
Trilling, David (father of Lionel Trilling): death of, 271; family background, 26–27; and family turmoil, 48; fondness for DT, 34; rages, 99–100; relationship with LT, 39, 101; relationship with wife Fannie, 26, 34, 50, 99–101
Trilling, Diana: and Alger Hiss/Whittaker Chambers case, 149–50; and American Committee for Cultural Freedom, 166, 189–90; Atlas’s profile of, 333; beginning of career in writing, 104–11; detractors and dissenters, 135, 150–51, 192–93, 218, 241, 256; early critical writings, 11; early jobs and business ventures, 31–32, 47; as editor and collaborator for LT, 80–83, 85, 87–88, 90, 91, 114, 125, 141, 155, 257, 334; in England, 217, 225–31, 258–60; on English child-rearing, 259–60; and feminism, xiii–xiv, 30–31, 148, 184–86, 229, 237, 263–67, 305–6; Firing Line appearance, 290–91; on gender roles, 246; in Germany (1914), 13–14; in Germany (1967), 245–51; on growing old, 324; Guggenheim fellowships, 149, 330; on guilt, 177; Harris’s profile of, 332–33; at Hunter College, 76–77; interest in court cases, 315–16, 337–38 (see also Harris, Jean); legacy of, 347; literary education, 29; on LT as a writer, 141, 334; manuscript reading, 111; and National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, 63–64; and New York Intellectual Family, 176; on old age, 340; personal life (see marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling; Trilling, Diana, personal life); and politics, xii–xiii, 14, 25–26, 137, 150–51, 16
2, 184–85, 232, 313, 334–35; position on the edge of the literary community, 87–88, 102–3, 145, 218–19, 246; pseudonym, 116; at Radcliffe, 2–3, 5–9, 11–12, 24, 30, 34; reputation and celebrity, 199, 218–19, 236, 241, 251, 288, 291–92, 343; responses to posthumous essays about LT, 310–11, 314; works by (see Trilling, Diana, works by); at Yaddo, 58–61, 72
Trilling, Diana, personal life: alcohol use, 20–22, 35; assistance with daily tasks in later years, 311–13; baby nurses and breastfeeding, 135–36, 137–38; balancing writing and parenthood/home life, 136–37, 147, 219, 292, 324; at Camp Lenore, 12, 16, 72, 339, 341–42; cancer, 342–43; childhood, 3–4, 7–16, 22, 339; childlessness, 95–96, 121; and Christianity, 132, 250, 272; clothing, 46–47, 226–27; courtship with LT, 19–35; death, 343–46; death of LT, 269–75, 291–92; death of mother, 20; difficulties and complications of middle age, 197–215; emotional dependence on family, 31–33; eye problems, 242, 297–98, 325, 328–29; fear of success, 7; first meeting with LT, 19–21; friends and assistants in last years, 311–14, 325–27, 328–31; friendships and feuds in late life, 283–87, 306–8; friendships in middle age, 200–215; funeral, 345–46; health issues, 34, 51–54, 130, 241–42, 331, 342–43 (see also eye problems under this heading); high school education, 6, 12–13; and hostility among New York intellectuals, 176–77; hypnosis treatment, 73–74; and infidelity, 73–74, 173–74, 197, 200–215; introduction to Trilling family, 33–34; and jealousy or envy in social relationships, 103, 218, 284, 336; and Judaism, 2–3, 7, 13, 23–24, 121, 132, 140, 273, 335; lack of connection with other mothers, 137–38, 141–42; love of food and cooking, 47, 57, 198–99, 226, 228, 313, 326, 328; love of ledgers and account books, 7, 14, 47, 64; love of reading, 9–10; love of television, 251–52, 311; management of finances, 46–47; medications for anxiety and depression, 56, 63, 183, 349; menopause, 200; need for readers in later years, 328–31, 347; parenthood, xiv, 129–45, 147, 152–54, 181–86, 339–40; in Paris, 238–39; personality and temperament, 197–98, 202, 218, 291–92, 304, 305, 312, 313, 326, 328, 332, 343; phobias and anxieties, 14, 42–44, 56–57, 60, 75–77, 121, 241, 276, 327; pregnancy and childbirth, 129–32, 136, 170; psychoanalysis, 74–75, 77–78, 95–98, 104, 114, 119, 121, 139, 154, 179–81, 205, 327–28; relationship with brother, 23; relationship with daughter-in-law, 326; relationship with father, 32; relationship with in-laws, 33–34, 48–50, 213, 314–15; relationship with LT, xiv, 41, 50, 77, 78, 83, 97–98, 100, 103, 125, 126, 155, 197–98, 205, 211–14, 219, 242–43, 261, 324, 327, 328, 332–33 (see also marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling); relationship with mother, 7–9, 23; relationship with son, 239, 292, 326; relations with extended family following death of LT, 314–15; self-perception, 199, 201, 246, 292; and sense of betrayal, 8, 41, 52, 197–98, 307–8; sense of humor, 198, 333; sexual assault at age 21, 16, 121, 174; sexuality, 10–11, 15–16, 149, 174, 207, 266; and singing, 7, 16–17, 31–33, 44, 48, 52–53, 57, 59–60; and social hierarchies, 312, 328; in South America, 23, 25, 26, 29; suitors and dates, 16–17, 19–21, 27–28; summer home in Wellfleet in later years (the Colony), 326–27; tensions and fallings out with friends, 66–67, 190–91, 214, 246, 260, 277–92, 304–5, 307–8, 315, 335; thyroid surgery, 51–53, 56; trysts and dates after marriage, 73–74
Trilling, Diana, works by: beginning of career, 104–11; The Beginning of the Journey (see The Beginning of the Journey); book reviews, 104–11, 117–21, 133–35, 148–49, 186–87, 232, 259, 289, 309–10 (see also specific books and authors); Claremont Essays, 222, 231–35, 240–41; column in Junior Bazaar, 117; critical reception of books and essays, 231–35, 240–41, 287–91, 300–301, 320–21, 332–36, 347; essay on American women, 183–84; essay on anti-Communism leading to feud with Lillian Hellman, 279–82; essay on baby nurses, 138; essay on Beat poets, 192–95, 218, 233; essay on Camp Lenore, 339, 341–42; essay on Columbia protests of 1968, 254–56; essay on crazy neighbor, 339; essay on failing eyesight, 330; essay on feminism, 265–67, 305–6; essay on Germany, 249–50; essay on Goronwy Rees, 339–41; essay on JFK dinner, 223–25, 347; essay on LT, 298–300; essay on Marilyn Monroe, 222, 324, 347; essay on McCarthyism, 331; essay on Normal Mailer, 217, 219–20; essay on Oppenheimer, 161–64; essay on television, 251–52; evaluation of books for “American Shelf,” 164–65; and feelings about agents, 332; fiction writing, 105, 293–97, 354–55; and importance of titles, 287, 341; introduction to Tom Sawyer, 222–23; journal on motherhood, 186; letters to the editor, 180, 241, 250; Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, 291, 316–24; and the “new journalism,” 222; poems, 72, 92–96, 154–55; The Portable D. H. Lawrence (D. Trilling, ed.), 123–24; praise and criticism of DT’s book reviews, 110–11, 113, 116, 134, 187; and pseudonym, 116; Reviewing the Forties, 300–301; The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence (D. Trilling, ed.), 188–89, 199, 261; and “selling out,” 117; speeches and lectures, 195–96, 236–37, 305–6; unfinished autobiographical novel, 293–97, 354–55; unpublished articles and essays, 115–16; unpublished books and memoirs, xiv, 94–95, 97, 129–30, 136, 139–40, 149, 173–74, 243, 258, 293–300, 313; unpublished plays, 1–2, 59–60, 99, 321; unpublished short stories, 41–42, 71, 91–92, 105–6, 116, 231; unrealized writing projects, 115, 303–4, 338–39; use of married name, 104–5; variety of publications, 117; We Must March My Darlings, 287–91; work while in England, 230–37; writing process, 224–25, 298, 327–28; writing style, 117–21, 135, 188–89, 192, 222, 339; and writing without payment, 135, 339
Trilling, Fannie Cohen (mother of Lionel Trilling): death of, 230; and DT’s pregnancy, 130; literary and educational aspirations for LT, 29–30, 102, 127, 229; relationship with DT, 33–34, 48–50, 213; relationship with husband David, 34, 50, 99–101; relationship with LT, 102; and wedding of DT and LT, 33–35
Trilling, Gabriel and Julian, 345–46
Trilling, Harriet (sister of Lionel Trilling), 30, 33, 50; and DT’s pregnancy, 131; relationship with DT, 30, 114, 314–15; relationship with LT, 52, 136; and wedding of DT and LT, 40
Trilling, James Lionel (“Jim”; son of Lionel and Diana Trilling): and ADD, 348–49; Barzun and, 181; birth of, 129–32; career, 152, 326; and child analysis, 144, 153, 182–83; childhood, 135–45, 151–54, 181–83; and death of LT, 269; on DT’s feud with Lillian Hellman, 280; on DT’s friendships and their endings, 170; and DT’s later years, 326; on DT’s novel, 294–95, 297; on DT’s pregnancy and early parenting experiences, 136; on DT’s temperament, 197; on DT’s writing ability, 257; emotional and behavioral difficulties, 144, 152, 181, 182, 183, 349; in England, 238–39; fear of elevators, 142–43; and feminism, 263; and funeral of DT, 345–46; on “Great Instauration,” 200; and home on Claremont Avenue, 151–52; and LT’s ADD, 347–54; and LT’s funeral, 272; music studies, 239; on parents’ relationship, 211–14, 332–33; on professional relationship of DT and William Jovanovich, 276; relationship with DT, 239, 292, 326; on Stephen Marcus, 202, 209; on sublet of Claremont Avenue home, 228; on summer rental homes, 158; and trip to Paris, 238–39; wife (see Levy, Dore)
Trilling, Lionel: and Alger Hiss/Whittaker Chambers case, 149–50; and American Committee for Cultural Freedom, 166; and Columbia protests of 1968, 253–54; at Columbia University (see Columbia University); in England, 225–31, 258–60; in Germany, 245–51; and Ginsberg poem “Lion in the Room,” 194; at Harvard (1969), 236, 256–57; help with DT’s book reviews, 115; at Hunter College, 27, 50, 76; Jewish Week essay about (1977), 310–11; joint colloquium with Barzun, 88–89, 334; and Kazin’s A New York Jew, 289–90; Krupnick’s biography of, 313–14; and New York Intellectual Family, 176; in Paris, 238–39; as part-time editor at Menorah Journal, 42, 46; personal life (see marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling; Trilling, Lionel, personal life); and politics, 60–63, 150; posthumous essays about, 310–11, 314; sale of archives, 308; Schwartz’s critical essay on, 176–77; sources of income during early marriage, 46–47, 50, 57, 63; students’ impressions of, 88, 192, 201, 311; taped recollections of friends and acquaintances, 303–4; teaching f
ellowship at University of Wisconsin, 27, 28; works by (see Trilling, Lionel, works by); at Yaddo, 58–61, 63
Trilling, Lionel, personal life: ADD, 347–54; alcohol use, 35; athletic abilities, 122–23; attitude toward pleasure, 41; attitude toward women, 100–101, 102, 127, 136, 205; cancer, 269–71; careless driving, 123, 350; childhood, 30; clothing, 259; courtship with DT, 19–35; dancing, 243; death, 269–75; difficulties and complications of middle age, 199–215; disinterest in finances, 158; education at Columbia, 27; emotional difficulties, 86, 99–102, 109, 121, 181, 198, 349–52, 350; family background, 26–27; and family turmoil, 48; FBI file, xi–xii; financial assistance for parents, 49, 50; fondness for shopping, 39; funeral, 271–74; gift-buying, 157; health issues, 31, 78–79, 95, 230, 268–69; impotence, 95, 101, 205–6, 350; infidelity, 197, 200–215; jealousy, 136; Judaism, 25, 230, 272, 299–300, 310–11; leisure pastimes, 73; love of reading, 30; and masculinity, 129, 211–12; medications for anxiety and depression, 123, 183, 349; parenthood, 130, 135–36, 142–43, 156, 181–83; personality and temperament, 41, 43, 58, 101, 122–23, 136, 155–57, 201, 212, 347–54; psychoanalysis, 75–76, 101–2, 139, 154, 179–81, 203, 206, 235; recklessness in physical activity, 122–23, 349; relationship with DT, xiv, 41, 50, 77, 78, 83, 97–98, 100, 103, 125, 126, 155, 197–98, 205, 211–14, 219, 242–43, 261, 324, 327, 328, 332–33 (see also marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling); relationship with DT’s sister Cecilia, 34–35; relationship with father, 39, 101; relationship with mother, 102; self-perception, 79, 183; and sexuality, 29
Trilling, Lionel, works by: Beyond Culture, 235–36; book reviews, 57, 113–14; contributions to New York Evening Post, 57; critical reception of works, 87, 88, 176; destruction of manuscripts worked on by DT, 83, 141; DT as collaborator and editor, 80–83, 85, 101, 114, 141, 155, 257, 334; early publications, 27; and feelings about agents, 332; Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture, 155; A Gathering of Fugitives, 155; ideas for novels, 63–64; The Liberal Imagination, 140–41; Matthew Arnold, 59–60, 79–82, 85–87; The Middle of the Journey, xii, 124–28, 278; The Opposing Self, 155; plans for memoir, 275; Prefaces to the Experience of Literature, 257; short stories, 41–43, 116, 211, 212; Sincerity and Authenticity, 236, 257; snake story written during honeymoon, 42–43, 211, 212; uniform edition of complete works, 275–77, 300; and writing block, 101–2, 114, 350
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