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  Monroe, Harriet, 166

  Montgomery, Bruce (Edmund Crispin), 375

  Monthly Review, 187

  Moore, George: biography by Tony Gray, 228—32; and Yeats’s relations with Maude Gonne, 220; Esther Waters, 228—30

  Moore, Janie (née Askins), 355

  Moreau, Gustave, 235

  Morgan, John and Mary (née Brent), 19—20

  Morrell, Lady Ottoline, 181, 328

  Morris, Isabella (William’s sister), 119

  Morris, Jane (née Burden): D.G. Rossetti and, 107, 109n, 120; disturbed by handicapped daughter, 117; embroidery, 117; on Mackail’s life of William Morris, 116; marriage relations, 119—20; and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 124

  Morris, May, 118, 126, 227

  Morris, William: death, 142; as designer, 117—18; finds solace in work, 110; at The Grange, 103, 136—7, 141; health problems, 122, 124, 141; inspires Guild of Handicrafts, 130; and Kelmscott Press, 122—5; on power of art, 530; rages, 110; relations with Burne-Jones, 139, 142; religious inclinations, 111; sexual attitudes, 107—8; and woman question, 116—21; Child Christopher, 105; The Defence of Guenevere, 103; A Dream of John Ball, 119; The Earthly Paradise, 103—4, 106, 112, 115—16; Fair Goldilind, 105; The Golden Legend, 124; Killian of the Closes, 105, 108; Love is Enough, 110; News from Nowhere, 107—8, 118—19, 528; The Novel on Blue Paper (unpublished): Introduction to, 105—16; The Pilgrims of Hope, 119; Poems by the Way, 124; Sigurd the Volsung, 104; Songs of Proteus, 124; The Story of the Glittering Plain, 104; The Well at the World’s End, 113

  Mosley, Diana, Lady, 334

  Motion, Andrew, 374, 379

  Muggeridge, Malcolm: on A.A. Milne, 214; edits Punch, 209

  Murdoch, Dame Iris: The Bell, 364

  Murphy, William M.: Family Secrets: William Butler Yeats and His Relations, 226—7

  Murray, Gilbert, 303

  Myers, Frederic William, 319—20

  Myers, Leopold Hamilton: The Root and the Flower: Introduction to, 319—26

  Nash, John, 168

  Nash, Paul, 167—8, 289

  Nash’s (magazine), 496

  National Trust, 79

  Nazism: and persecution of Jews, 432—8

  Neal, Patricia, 372

  Neame, Mrs (of Southwold), 476

  Neo-Pagans, 149

  Nerval, Gérard de, 496

  Nevinson, C.W., 289

  New Signatures, 339

  New Verse (magazine), 347

  New Writing see Penguin New Writing

  New Yorker, The (magazine), 204—5, 209, 246, 251

  Newbolt, Sir Henry: domestic and married life, 187—8; Monro publishes, 166; publishes Walter de la Mare’s poetry, 187; as Theresa Whistler’s grandfather, 185

  Newbolt, Margaret, Lady (‘Lad’), 187

  Newman, John Henry, Cardinal, 66, 111

  Nicholl, W. Robertson, 54

  Nicholson, Mary, 117

  Nicholson, William: Shadowlands, 355

  Nicolson, Benedict, 286

  Nightingale, Florence, 31

  Nightingale (secretary of Sanderson’s wallpapers), 30

  Noakes, Vivien: Edward Lear: The Life of a Wanderer, 86—7

  Noble, James Ashcroft, 149

  North End, Fulham see Grange, The

  Norton, Charles Eliot, 137

  O’Donovan, Gerald, 299, 301

  old age: and writers, 525—9

  Old Watercolour Society, 136, 143—5

  O’Leary, John, 219

  Oliphant, Francis (Margaret’s husband and cousin), 42—3, 44n

  Oliphant, Frank (Margaret’s brother), 43

  Oliphant, Maggie (Margaret’s daughter): death, 67

  Oliphant, Margaret: biography by Elisabeth Jay, 69—72; life and career, 40—2, 52—3, 510—11; literary earnings, 57—8, 67; nature of writings, 43—4, 47, 52, 57, 65, 68; on organized religion, 44—5, 47, 54—5, 58—9, 61—6; travels, 67; writes in instalments, 67; ‘Chronicles of Carlingford’ (series), 41 & n, 44—69, 71; The Doctor’s Family, 41n, 48—52, 61, 70; ‘Eleanor and Fair Rosamond’ (story), 71; ‘The Executor’, 41n; Hester, 51; Margaret Maitland, 68; ‘The Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow’ (story), 71; ‘The Open Door’ (story), 51; The Perpetual Curate, 41n, 61—9; Phoebe Junior, 44; The Rector, 41n, 46—8, 51, 54, 61, 64, 69; Salem Chapel, 41n, 48, 52—61, 67, 69; ‘Sensation Novels’ (article), 57

  Oliphant, Willie (Margaret’s brother), 42—3

  Olson, Stanley, 315

  Ormrod, Richard: Una Troubridge, 258

  Orwell, George: on Housman, 190; and Stevie Smith, 361; ‘Shooting an Elephant’, 341

  Owen, Wilfred, 160, 344

  Oxford Movement, 45, 111

  Packer, Lona Mosk, 99

  Palestine see Holy Land

  Palmer, Geoffrey and Noel Lloyd: Father of the Bensons, 73—8

  Pasternak, Boris, 527

  Pater, Walter, 104

  Paulin, Tom, 408

  Pear Tree Press, 153, 154—70

  Pearson, Karl, 242—4

  Pearson’s (magazine), 496

  Péguy, Charles, 167

  Penguin New Writing (earlier New Writing), 340, 342

  Peterson, William S.: The Kelmscott Press: A History of William Morris’s Typographical Adventure, 122—5

  Pissarro, Camille, 309

  Plomer, William, 169

  Poetry Bookshop, 153, 154—70, 180, 277, 471

  Poetry and Drama (magazine), 157, 160, 166—7

  Poetry Review, 157

  Poetry Society, 157

  Pollexfen family, 226

  Polunin, Oleg and Anthony Julian Huxley: Flowers of the Mediterranean, 457

  Polyanthus, HMS, 349—50

  Poor Folk Upon the Moors (society), 447

  Post-Impressionist Exhibition (1910), 289

  Potter, Beatrix, 215

  Pound, Ezra: on Ford Madox Ford, 294; influence in England, 155; prints Charlotte Mew poem, 179; promotes Eliot, 166; Des imagistes, 165

  Powell, Anthony, 333

  Prentis, Terence, 167

  Prickett, Miss (governess), 84

  Pringle, Alan, 376 printing: William Morris and, 122—5

  Pritchett, Sir Victor S., 480

  Pryce-Jones, Alan, 309

  Punch (magazine): E.V. Knox works for and edits, 201—2, 209, 471, 482, 486, 491; history and character of, 201—10

  Purnell (company), 341—2

  Pusey, Edward Bouverie, 98

  Pym, Barbara: Larkin encourages, 379; A Few Green Leaves, 393—8; Jane and Prudence, 395; Less Than Angels, 398; No Fond Return of Love, 396; Quartet in Autumn, 395; The Sweet Dove Died, 395

  Quièvrecourt, Yvonne de, 305, 308

  Quinn, John, 217

  Rackham, Arthur, 215

  Re, Arundel del, 155—6, 158, 162

  Reeves, James (ed.): Georgian Poetry, 186

  Reid, Forrest: Illustrators of the Eighteen-Sixties, 206

  Repton, Humphry, 448

  Reynolds, Barbara: Dorothy Sayers: Her Life and Soul, 271—4; The Passionate Intellect, 271

  Rhodes, Cecil, 243—5

  Rhys, Jean: biography by Carole Angier, 318—19; Ford Madox Ford and, 295; Good Morning, Midnight, 319; The Wide Sargasso Sea, 318—19

  Ricardo, Halsey, 127

  Richards, Grant, 165, 190; Memories of a Misspent Youth, 234

  Richardson, Samuel, 134

  Richmond, George, 14

  Ricks, Christopher, 94

  Ridley, Revd Roy, 273

  Rive, Richard (ed.): Olive Schreiner: Letters, Vol.1: 1871—1899, 238—45

  Rivière, Alain, 308

  Rivière, Isabelle (née Fournier), 305, 307—9

  Rivière, Jacques, 307—9

  Roberts, Michael, 338—9

  Robertson, Graham, 137; Time Was, 36, 138

  Rolfe, Frederick (‘Baron Corvo’), 177, 455—6

  Rooke, Thomas, 137, 140—1, 143

  Ross, Alan, 342

  Ross, Harold Wallace, 204—5

  Ross, Robert H.: Georgian Revolt, 2
11

  Rossetti, Christina: biography by Georgina Battiscombe, 97—100; ‘Goblin Market’, 98—9, 280

  Rossetti, Dante Gabriel: on Christina, 99; at Kelmscott Manor with Morris, 107; paints in watercolours, 103, 143—4; relations with Jane Morris, 107, 109n, 111; temperament, 98; Golden Head by Golden Head (drawing), 280

  Rossetti, Maria, 98—9

  Rossetti, William Michael, 95, 98

  Rottingdean, 140, 142, 146—7

  Rushdie, Salman: Haroun and the Sea of Stories, 422—3

  Ruskin, John: Ashbee on, 131; and C.A. Howell, 135; on Canaletto’s Venice paintings, 453, 455; helps Burne-Jones’s admission to Old Watercolour Society, 143; influences Edward Hicks, 470—1; on Octavia Hill’s dowdiness, 80; and small girls, 84; on women’s education, 119; Of Queen’s Gardens, 119

  Rutherford, Ernest, 1st Baron, 512

  Rutherston, Albert, 168

  Rylands, George (‘Dadie’), 343

  Sackville-West, Edward, 327

  Salinger, J.D.: The Catcher in the Rye, 501

  Sambourne, Linley, 206

  Samurai (movement), 154

  Sarzano, Frances, 413

  Sassoon, Siegfried, 237

  Saurat, Denis, 309

  Saxton, Nathalie, 189

  Sayers, Dorothy L.: biography by Barbara Reynolds, 271—4; ‘The Haunted Policeman’, 271; The Man Born to Be King, 272; The Mind of the Maker, 273; The Nine Tailors, 273

  Schelling, Friedrich, 20

  Schiller, Friedrich, 496

  Schreiner, Gottlob, 239

  Schreiner, Olive: Letters, Vol.1: 1871—1899 (ed. Richard Rive), 238—45; The Story of an African Farm, 240—1, 243—4

  Schreiner, Theo, 239

  Schreiner, Will, 243—4

  Scott, Ann see First, Ruth and Ann Scott

  Scott, Gilbert, 45

  Scott, William Bell, 42, 99

  Scott-James, R.A., 152

  Seaman, Sir Owen, 208—9

  Sellwood, Revd Henry, 92

  Shakespear, Olivia, 223

  Shakespeare & Co. (bookshop), 168

  Sharp, Evelyn, 177

  Shaw, George Bernard: on William de Morgan’s novels, 128; on William Morris, 107, 110

  Shepard, Ernest Howard, 212—15, 346

  Shepard, Graham, 346—7, 349—50

  Shields, Carol: Mary Swann, 417; The Republic of Love, 415; The Stone Diaries, 414—20

  Shrimpton, Ivy, 272

  Sinclair, Andrew: My Friend Judas, 364

  Sinclair, May: and Charlotte Mew, 178—81; on genius, 313; and Rebecca West, 312; The Combined Maze, 179

  Sitwell, Dame Edith, 182

  Sitwell, Sir Osbert, 167, 170

  Skelton, Robin, 351

  Smith, Agnes, 279

  Smith, Constance Babington: Rose Macaulay, 303n

  Smith, Leslie Tilden, 318

  Smith, Logan Pearsall, 158

  Smith, Naomi Royde, 189

  Smith, Stevie: Scorpion and Other Poems, 359; Uncollected Writings, 358—63

  Smyth, Dame Ethel, 76

  Solzhenitsyn, Alexander: Matyona’s House, 382

  Somerville, Edith Oenone and Martin Ross (Violet Florence Martin), 226

  Souline, Evgenia, 257—8

  Southwold, Suffolk, 475—6

  Spark, Dame Muriel: The Abbess of Crewe, 399—400; The Ballad of Peckham Rye, 399; The Comforters, 398; The Girls of Slender Means, 399; Memento Mori, 399; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 399—400; Reality and Dreams, 398—402

  Sparling, Henry Halliday, 123

  Spencer, Herbert: and George Eliot, 36; First Principles, 239

  Spender, Sir Stephen, 279, 339, 341

  Squire, Sir John C., 167

  Stallworthy, Jon: Louis MacNeice, 344—53

  Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, Dean of Westminster, 86

  Stannard, Martin: Evelyn Waugh: The Later Years, 1939—1966, 330—5

  Stead, William Thomas, 244

  Steer, Philip Wilson, 289

  Stephen, Julia, 282

  Stephen, Sir Leslie, 278—9, 281

  Stern, G.B., 180

  Sterne, Laurence, 203

  Stevenson, Robert Louis, 139, 297, 330

  Stirling, Wilhelmina (née Pickering), 127—8

  Stone, Reynolds, 250

  Stoppard, Sir Tom: The Invention of Love, 190

  Strachan, W.J. (ed. and transl.): Henri Alain Fournier: Towards the Lost Domain, Letters from London 1905, 305, 309

  Strachey family, 277, 280

  Strachey, Lytton: and Dora Carrington, 288, 290; on M.R. James, 193

  Strand, The (magazine), 496

  Strang, Patsy, 376

  Stravinsky, Igor, 332

  Stuart, Daniel, 19

  Stucley, Peter, 259

  Sullivan, Sir Arthur, 255

  Sunday Express, 253

  Sutton, Jim, 375, 379

  Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver’s Travels, 500

  Swinnerton, Frank, 288; The Georgian World, 273

  Sykes, Christopher, 331

  Syrett, Netta, 177

  Tanner, Robin, 123

  Tate Gallery: Burne-Jones watercolours exhibition (1993), 143

  Tate, Sir Henry, 143

  Tavistock, Devon, 443, 445—9

  Taylor, Martin, 337

  Tenniel, Sir John, 85

  Tennyson family, 81

  Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron: marriage, 92—3, 95; qualities as poet, 90—1; Idylls of the King, 103

  Tennyson, Emily, Lady (née Sellwood): life by Anne Thwaite, 91—6

  Tennyson, Hallam, 91, 94—5

  Tennyson, Lionel, 94—5

  Terry, Ellen, 84

  Thackeray, William Makepeace: and Punch, 201, 203, 205—6

  Thirkell, Angela (née Mackail): Three Houses, 140

  Thirkell, Lance, 137

  Thomas, Dylan, 351

  Thomas, Edward: army service, 152—3; character and behaviour, 148—9; Monro rejects, 165—6; poetry, 151—2; reputation, 277; and Walter de la Mare, 186, 188; works for Monro, 166; Selected Letters, ed. R. George Thomas, 148—55

  Thomas, Helen, 148—50, 153, 166; As It Was, 152

  Thomas, R. George, 148—50, 152—3

  Thomas, R.S., 378

  Thompson, E.P.: William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary, 102, 119

  Thwaite, Anne: Emily Tennyson: The Poet’s Wife, 91—6

  Thwaite, Anthony (ed.): Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940—1985, 374—9

  Ticehurst, Mrs (of Balcombe), 487, 489

  Times Literary Supplement, The: on Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness, 253

  Tolkien, J.R.R., 355—6

  Tolstoy, Lev, Count: Resurrection, 526—7, 530; War and Peace, 502

  Tompkins, Joyce M.S.: William Morris: An Approach to the Poetry, 101—5

  Tonks, Henry, 229, 289

  Tractarians, 62, 111

  Transatlantic Review, The, 295

  Treglown, Jeremy: Roald Dahl: A Biography, 371—3

  Tremain, Rose, 370

  Trevelyan, G.B.: Victorian Devotional Poetry, 100

  Trevor, William: Excursions in the Real World: Memoirs, 410—14; The Old Boys, 413; Two Lives, 412

  Trollope, Anthony: Mrs Oliphant compared with, 68, 71; on organized religion, 45; Can You Forgive Her?, 68; Framley Parsonage, 61n; He Knew He Was Right, 68

  Troubridge, Admiral Sir Ernest, 256, 258

  Troubridge, Una, Lady, 253, 256—8

  Truro, Cornwall, 77

  Tschaikovska, Vera, 170

  Turner, Joseph Mallord William, 96

  Twain, Mark, 497

  Untermeyer, Louis, 161

  Uzzell, Dad, 149

  Vaughan, Keith, 342

  Velázquez, Diego de Silva y: Hilanderas, 452

  Venice: Canaletto pictures of, 450—6

  Victoria, Queen: Emily Tennyson meets, 95; and Mrs Oliphant, 41

  Vorticists, 155

  Wain, John, 342

  Walker, Emery, 122, 124

  Ward, Stephen, 314

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sp; Wardle, Thomas, 117

  Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 169, 246—52; Collected Poems, 250—2; Lolly Willowes, 246—7; Whether a Dove or a Seagull (with Valentine Ackland), 250

  Warner, Val: ed. Charlotte Mew: Collected Poems and Prose, 171—84

  Warrell, Ian, 145

  Watts, Mary (née Fraser Tytler; G.F. Watts’s second wife), 91

  Waugh, Evelyn: biography by Martin Stannard, 330—5; plot surprises, 399; Brideshead Revisited, 330, 332; Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox, 333; The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, 331; Put Out More Flags, 332; Sword of Honour (trilogy), 332

  Waugh, Laura, 331—2, 334

  Wavell, Field Marshal Archibald Percival, 1st Earl: Other Men’s Flowers, 165n

  Webb, Beatrice and Sidney (Baron and Lady Passfield), 132

  Wedd, Nathaniel, 199

  Well Walk see Hampstead

  Wells, Herbert George, 296, 314—15

  West, Anthony, 325

  West, Dame Rebecca: biography by Victoria Glendinning, 310—17; on May Sinclair and Charlotte Mew, 179; on Olive Schreiner, 238; Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, 313, 317; The Meaning of Treason, 313, 316; Return of the Soldier, 312—13; The Thinking Reed, 313—14

  Westminster Review, 38

  Whistler, James Abbot McNeill, 144, 451

  Whistler, Theresa: Imagination of the Heart: The Life of Walter de la Mare, 184—90, 277

  White, Adrian: John Lehmann: A Pagan Adventure, 336—44

  White, Anna and A. Norman Jeffares (eds.): ‘Always Your Friend’: The Gonne-Yeats Letters, 1893—1938, 219—25

  White, Ethelbert, 167

  Wickham, Anna, 161, 165

  Wilde, Oscar: friendship with Ada Leverson, 233—4; rows Katie Lewis on Thames, 84; The Importance of Being Earnest, 238

  Wilkinson, Mrs (servant at The Grange), 139

  William Morris Today exhibition (1984), 121

  Wilson, A.N.: C.S. Lewis: A Biography, 353—7

  Wilson, Sir Angus: biography by Margaret Drabble, 367—71; Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, 368—9; Hemlock and After, 368, 370; The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot, 368; The Wild Garden, 370; The Wrong Set, 368

  Wilson, T.P. Cameron: Magpies in Picardy, 5

  Wimbush, Mary, 351

  Windsor, The (magazine), 496

  Winzer, Charles, 168—9

  Withers, Percy, 188

  women: William Morris’s views on, 116—21

  Woodcock, Dr Patrick, 329, 370

  Woolf, Leonard: at Rodmell, Sussex, 530; childlessness, 284; in Hermione Lee’s biography of Virginia Woolf, 276; and John Lehmann at Hogarth Press, 338, 340, 342; publishes Eliot’s poetry, 166; on Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness, 253; Beginning Again, 248

  Woolf, Virginia: on Arundel del Re, 155; at Hogarth Press, 338, 340; biography by Hermione Lee, 275—9; and Charlotte Mew, 178, 181; childlessness, 284; on Christina Rossetti, 99; and critics, 531; on Lydia Lopokova and Keynes, 291; on old age, 526; on power of art, 530; publishes Eliot’s poetry, 166; and Vanessa Bell, 280—4; and visual art and artists, 283—4; Between the Acts, 285—7, 530—1; Freshwater (play), 95; Mrs Dalloway, 292; A Room of One’s Own, 278—9; Three Guineas, 278—9; To the Lighthouse, 278, 282—4, 286; The Waves, 287

 

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