The Untold Journey

by Natalie Robins

  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