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by Diana Souhami


  327

  The rain pours

  ibid, 30 October 1939

  My suspicions

  ibid, 17 October 1939

  36 At the Wayside

  328

  horrible spectacle

  UVT Daybook, 7 January 1940 (Texas)

  I may despise

  ibid, 5 February 1940

  329

  languidly served

  ibid, 15 January 1940

  Suppose you had

  RH to ES, 28 April 1940 (Texas)

  331

  As Evguenia

  UVT Daybook, 10 May 1940 (Texas)

  The implication

  ibid, 26 February 1941

  331

  As Evguenia The implication Are you a nurse

  ibid, 22 September 1941

  332

  This woman has

  ibid, 14 February 1941

  So there goes

  ibid, 19 April 1941

  We demurred

  ibid, 12 June 1941

  333

  After all,

  ibid, June 1941

  Henceforward

  ibid, 22 June 1941

  I advised John

  ibid, 15 August 1941

  334

  I write daily

  ibid, 29 August 1941

  I am sorry Miss

  ES, autobiographical notes (Texas)

  335

  I was happy

  ibid, 24 September 1941

  336

  we Bolshevists

  UVT Daybook, 27 October 1941

  May I ask

  ibid, 6 November 1941

  Then follows

  ibid, 17 November 1941

  337

  She sat there

  ibid, 10 November 1941

  I simply prayed

  ibid, 1 December 1941

  so as to avoid

  ibid, 9 December 1941

  37 John’s Calvary

  338

  The bitch

  UVT Daybook, 15 January 1942 (Texas)

  339

  I told her

  ibid, 29 January 1942

  She is terribly

  UVT to ES, 5 February 1942 (Texas)

  These are grim

  RH to ES, 6 February 1942.

  340

  Don’t you remember

  ibid, 30 March 1942

  Oh how weary

  ibid, 21 February 1942

  the dreadful creature

  UVT Daybook, 6 April 1942 (Texas)

  I think it only right

  UVT to ES, 6 April 1942 (Texas)

  342

  And all because

  UVT Daybook, 12 August 1942 (Texas)

  I have had very many

  RH to ES, 24 December 1942

  343

  There a veritable

  UVT Daybook, 25 February 1943

  The memory of

  ibid

  344

  I sealed my mouth

  ES, autobiographical notes (Monica Still)

  345

  When you began

  UVT Daybook, 30 December 1945

  346

  I saw your eyes

  ibid, 25 December 1943

  347

  My John is dying

  ibid, 29 September 1943

  You must be friends

  ES to UVT, 29 July 1950 (Monica Still)

  You’ll be good

  UVT Letters to John, 27 March 1944

  348

  There was never

  UVT Daybook, 9 March 1943

  She looked up

  ibid, dated 21 June 1943, but written four months later

  I said that she had

  Naomi Jacob, Me and the Swans (Kimber 1963)

  Ivory clear and pale

  UVT Daybook, 7 October 1943

  349

  resting together

  ibid

  MY JOHN, MY JOHNNIE

  38 Mine for ever

  353

  would have the

  UVT Letters to John, May 1944

  strength

  I feel I must

  ibid, 27 January 1944

  354

  Such a decision

  The Life and Death of RH

  There is nothing

  UVT Letters to John, 18 January 1949

  My diary shows

  2 January 1944

  355

  You are with Him

  ibid, 6 February 1944

  It won’t matter

  ibid, 23 June 1944

  Cards on the

  ibid, 27 February 1944

  356

  after all my precious

  ibid, 6 February 1944

  It’s all horrible

  ibid, 28 March 1944

  grave provocation

  UVT, statement to the executors of her will, 23 September 1944

  357

  Your letter

  Harold Rubinstein to Horatio Lovat

  Dickson, 14 February 1975

  I would only be

  UVT Letters to John, 3 November 1944

  358

  I wear your poplin

  ibid, 12 January 1944

  nothing ever for a

  ibid, December 1944

  359

  nothing can hurt

  ibid

  She showed me

  Maria Visetti to Jane Caruth, 13 October 1943

  all these years

  ibid

  360

  If I comply

  ibid, 11 February 1944

  361

  Truly your mantle

  UVT Letters to John, 6 March 1945

  darling little

  ibid, 1 February 1944

  will never in this

  ibid, 23 June 1945

  362

  I think such solemn

  ibid

  The answer of course

  ibid, 22 February 1945

  363

  I certainly don’t

  ibid, 21 March 1945

  I have done for

  ibid, 14 April 1945

  on a larger scale

  ibid, June 1944

  364

  I will not have

  ibid, October 1944

  That is a result

  ibid, August 1945

  I hung on to

  ibid, 14 September 1945

  365

  It was all settled

  UVT Letters to John, 5 July 1946

  This marriage

  ibid, 14 August 1946

  39 He is my occupation

  366

  I can’t remember

  UVT Letters to John, April 1945

  367

  a ghastly wreck

  ibid, 26 January 1944

  I will not let her

  ibid, 27 January 1944

  They want me

  ibid, 25 January 1944

  368

  I am not really

  Peter Davies to Sir Oscar Dowson, 15 June 1946 (PRO)

  the impression that

  memorandum from Chuter Ede to F. H. Logan, 19 June 1946 (PRO)

  From the Home Office

  memorandum from F. H. Logan to Chuter Ede, 22 June 1946 (PRO)

  369

  in case the priest’s

  UVT Letters to John, December 1946

  If only she didn’t

  ibid, 25 June 1948

  I simply can’t

  ibid, 5 May 1948

  I am not rising

  ibid, 31 August 1948

  371

  I am deeply

  ibid, 14 May 1948

  I beg of you

  ES to UVT, 12 April 1950

  She can’t be

  UVT Letters to John, 15 April 1950

  372

  My dear Evguenia

  UVT to ES, 4 August 1950

  374

  When we were alone

  UVT Letters to John, February 1957

  He looks so beautiful

&nbs
p; ibid, 29 January 1956

  375

  Nika asked me

  ibid, February 1956

  There is the usual

  ibid, 11 October 1956

  Her decision that

  ibid

  376

  After all, the money

  ibid, 3 February 1957

  I am willing

  ibid, 6 September 1957

  377

  I think that being

  RH to ES, 7 September 1934

  My poor sweet

  UVT Letters to John, 6 October 1957

  378

  It would not even be

  UVT Daybook, February 1944

  INDEX

  NOTE: Writings by Radclyffe Hall appear directly under title; works by others appear under author’s name

  Acosta, Mercedes de, 147, 159

  Adam’s Breed (RH; earlier Food; novel), 138–47, 159, 167, 171, 197

  Adcock, Sir John, 135

  Agate, James, 195

  Albania, 320

  Amherst, Jeffery, 240

  Amyat, Katinka, 360, 363

  Anderman, Dr, 327–8, 330–2, 344

  Anderson, Sir John, 190

  Anderson, Sherwood, 228

  Annie (maid), 313, 324

  Annunzio, Gabriele d’, 122, 261, 266, 285, 316

  Arbuthnot, Father, 253

  Arlen, Michael, 135

  Arrowsmith, J.W. (publisher), 126–7, 134

  Asbury, Herbert, 228

  Attkins, Susan, 33, 43, 48

  Atwood, Tony (Claire), 241, 254, 305, 363

  Bagnoles de l’Orne, 258, 261

  Baird-Douglas, Lillian, 320

  Baker, Mrs (Evguenia’s American patient), 268, 275, 327

  Baker, Joe, 249–50

  Baldrey, Mrs (RH’s godmother), 7

  Baldwin, Nurse, 344–5

  Baldwin, Oliver, 197

  Baldwin, Stanley, 200, 215

  Balfour, Gerald, 88, 100, 111, 118

  Ballou, Robert (US publisher), 245

  Bankhead, Tallulah, 130–1, 136, 156, 167

  Barker, Lilian, 218

  Barnet, Revd Mr (of Rye), 252

  Barney, Natalie: and Romaine Brooks, 122; in Florence, 124; lesbian social life, 125, 147, 222; RH visits in Paris, 135, 261, 276, 290; depicted in The Well of Loneliness, 160; privileged social position, 167; Compton Mackenzie satirizes, 171; on French Riviera, 234, 284; and RH’s relations with Evguenia, 279; criticizes fascism, 303

  Bath, Hubert, 43

  Batten, Cara see Harris, Cara

  Batten, George, 33–9, 41, 43, 48, 58, 96; death, 50–1, 80

  Batten, Mabel Veronica (née Hatch; ‘Ladye’): relations with RH, 33–5, 40–4, 47–53, 559, 65, 74–9, 85, 273, 314; background, character and amours, 35–9; Sargent portrait of, 39, 136, 213; diaries, 47, 51, 62, 67, 85, 99; Catholicism, 48, 54; ill-health, 55, 57, 66, 79; in Great War, 60–1, 65–6; injured in motor accident, 61–2, 66; edits RH’s stories, 65; will, 65–6, 80, 101; and RH’s attachment to Una, 74–6, 78; Una Troubridge usurps, 74, 124, 302; death, 79–81, 85–6; RH seeks spiritualist contact with, 86, 88–93, 95–6, 99, 155, 243; and accusations of immorality against RH, 106, 108–9; RH’s posthumous devotion to, 116, 118, 124, 136, 169, 238; RH dedicates The Unlit Lamp (Octopi) to, 126, 132; and RH’s theories of inversion, 155; and RH’s The Well of Loneliness, 159; Una ceases anniversary tributes, 358

  Beach, Sylvia, 214, 222

  Beauclerc, Helen, 148

  Begley, Revd Walter, 6, 24–5

  Bell, Mr & Mrs Hamilton, 60

  Bell, Quentin, 198

  Bell, Vanessa, 186

  Benn, Mr (friend of Evguenia), 335–6

  Bennett, Arnold, 173–4, 183, 185, 206, 221

  Benson, E.F, 241–2, 325

  Benson, Monsignor Hugh, 241

  Bertha (parlourmaid), 244, 247, 249

  Besant, Annie, 55, 67

  Birkett, Norman (later 1st Baron), 198–9, 204–8

  Birley, Dr, 217

  Biron, Sir Chartres: tries and condemns The Well of Loneliness, 180, 183, 191–3, 199–212, 214, 237, 250; Cape publishes, 249

  Black Boy (house), Rye, 238, 240, 245, 252–4

  Bloomsbury Group, 186

  Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 38

  Bodkin, Sir Archibald, 180, 191, 200, 204, 214, 217–18

  Bonaventura, Father, 174, 193, 238, 240, 247, 249, 252, 255, 257

  Bourdet, Edouard: La Prisonnière, 147

  Bourke, Edward, 36, 38, 42

  Bourne, Mabel, 240, 249, 253, 258, 280

  Bradley (chauffeur), 143, 146

  Brandt, Carl (US literary agent), 170, 189

  Braun, Father Wendelin, 257

  Breeds (Rye builder), 243

  Breslau (German cruiser), 72

  Brewster, Henry, 118

  Brittain, Vera, 173

  Brogli, Princesse de, 284

  Brooks, Romaine: paintings, 52, 122; invites RH to Capri, 122, 124; RH meets, 122; lesbian social life, 125; and RH’s The Forge, 126–7, 135; RH and Una give fancy-dress ball for, 130; portrait of Una, 132; privileged social position, 167; Compton Mackenzie satirizes, 171; and suppression of RH’s Well of Loneliness, 198; on French Riviera, 234, 284; RH visits in Paris, 261; visits RH at Sirmione, 266; absent in USA, 276; in Italy after war, 369

  Bruce, Miss (nurse), 131

  Buchel, Charles, 159, 370

  Buck, Pearl S., 317

  Bullock, Molly, 252

  Bumpus, John and Edward (publishers), 32, 42, 49

  Burnelones, Sir Edward, 69

  Burroughes-Burroughes, Dorothy (‘Budge’), 122, 135, 137

  Bushell, Judge Hyman, 222–3

  Butes, Alfred, 196

  Butt, Sir Charles Parker, 14

  Cameron, Julia Margaret, 206

  Cape, Jonathan (publisher): publishes The Well of Loneliness, 168, 170–2, 187, 208; and campaign to ban Well of Loneliness, 175–6, 178–81, 183–4, 191–2, 195, 218, 220; summoned, 193, 203; increases RH’s royalties, 214; relations with RH, 237; and RH’s The Master of the House, 245; RH attacks, 246, 249

  ‘Career of Mark Anthony Brake, The’ (RH; story), 63–4

  Carnarvon, Catherine, Countess of, 344–6

  Carolina, Maria, 320

  Carpenter, Edward, 187

  Carpenter, William Boyd, Bishop of Ripon, 187

  Carpenter’s Son, The see Master of the House, The

  Caruth, Harry, 31

  Caruth, Jane see Randolph, Jane

  Cassell (publishers), 135–6, 141, 144

  Casson, (Sir) Lewis, 148

  Chains see Forge, The

  Chamberlain, Neville, 315, 320, 324

  Chambers, Dorothea, 33, 40

  Chaplin, Olive, 305, 314

  Chapman’s pet shop (London), 253

  Cheattle, Dr, 61

  Chesterton, G.K., 147

  Cheyney, Mr (of Rye), 252

  Child, Dr Armando, 344, 346, 357, 360, 375, 377

  Chip Chase, Hadley Wood, Middlesex, 101–2, 104, 115–16, 118, 120–1

  Chivers, Mr & Mrs (Lynton hotel keepers), 329–30

  Churchill, Dr Stella, 197

  Churchill, (Sir) Winston S., 72–3, 200, 330, 333

  Clarendon, Edward Hyde Villiers, 5th Earl of, 42, 67

  Clarendon, Emma, Countess of (née Hatch; then Bourke), 36, 42, 47, 50, 67, 80

  Clark, Miss (RH’s secretary), 139, 146

  Clarke, Dolly (née Diehl; RH’s cousin): RH’s affair with, 31–3, 40–1; allowance from RH, 44, 66; marriage, 44, 51; RH maintains relations with, 47, 55, 58–9; in Great War, 60–1; children, 66, 85, 93; RH stays with, 79, 85; disagreements with Una Troubridge, 98; attends RH’s psychic reading, 100; in Malvern with RH, 314

  Clarke, Jacqueline (Cara Harris’s daughter), 85

  Clarke, Robert Coningsby, 40, 43–4, 51–2, 60

  Clermont Tonnerre, Duchess of, 147, 221

  Cochran, (Sir) Charles B., 253

  Cockburn, Sir Alexander James Edmund (Lord Chie
f Justice), 201

  Cocteau, Jean, 284

  Cole, Mrs (schoolteacher), 17

  Colefax, Sibyl, Lady, 40

  Colette, 147–8, 167, 221, 233, 261, 284; Chéri (adapted by Una Troubridge), 238, 240, 242

  Collingwood, Father, 248

  Collins, Dr Joseph, 227

  Collins (publishers), 126

  Connolly, Cyril, 174

  Conran, Dr, 247

  Cook, James, 191

  Corsini, Maria, 369

  Coster, Howard, 130, 246

  Coventry, Cicely, 119

  Covici, Pascal, 213, 220, 223–4

  Covici-Friede (US publishers), 213, 220, 224, 229–30, 310

  Coward, (Sir) Noël, 129–30, 159, 187, 240, 242

  Craig, Edy, 240–1, 254, 305, 314

  Crichton-Miller, Dr Hugh, 71, 74, 77, 88, 94, 97, 100, 101–4

 

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