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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Killian of the Closes, 105, 108; Love is Enough, 110; News from Nowhere, 107—8, 118—19, 528; The Novel on Blue Paper (unpublished): Introduction to, 105—16; The Pilgrims of Hope, 119; Poems by the Way, 124; Sigurd the Volsung, 104; Songs of Proteus, 124; The Story of the Glittering Plain,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