Among the Bohemians (66 page)

Special thanks to Elisabeth Agate for the picture research and to Douglas Matthews for the index.

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P.
Watt Ltd on behalf of the Literary Executors of the Estate of H.
G.
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Ann Veronica
; Chloё Green for permission to quote from
Time Which Spaces Us Apart
; the Estate of the late David Garnett and Richard Garnett for permission to quote from their unpublished writings; Mr Philip Denham-Cooke for use of excerpts from
Sixty Years of Home
by Ursula Bloom; the Trustees of the estate of Nicolette Devas for permission to quote from
Two Flamboyant Fathers
; J.
M.
Dent for permission to quote from
The Life of Dylan Thomas
and Selected Letters of Dylan Thomas by Constantine Fitzgibbon; to the Representative of Nancy Cunard’s heirs for permission to quote excerpts from two poems first printed in
Sublunary
, 1923; to the Estate of the late Gerald Brenan for permission to quote from
A Life of One’s Own and Jack Robinson
.
Excerpts from the works of Liam O’Flaherty are reprinted by permission of Peters Fraser and Dunlop on behalf of Liam O’Flaherty; excerpts from the memoirs of Harold Acton © the Estate of Harold Acton; quotations from Nina Hamnett’s works © Estate of Nina Hamnett; Arthur Ransome quotations © of the Arthur Ransome Literary Estate; excerpts from Betty May,
Tiger-Woman
reproduced by permission of Gerald Duckworth & Co.
Ltd.; quotations from
Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell
, edited by Regina Marler, reprinted with permission, © 1962 Estate of Vanessa Bell, courtesy of Henrietta Garnett; quotations from
Christabel Who
?
by kind permission of Jane Spottiswoode, who was the daughter of ‘Christabel’; excerpts from
The Constant Nymph
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The Glass of Fashion
by Cecil Beaton (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1954) by permission of the Author’s Literary Trustees and Rupert Crew Limited; quotation from ‘Liberty Hall’ from Herbert Farjeon’s
Nine Sharp and Earlier
(1938) by permission of the Farjeon Literary Estate; quotation from ‘Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night’ by Dylan Thomas, courtesy of J.
M.
Dent.

Acknowledgements are also due to the following whose works have been quoted from: W.
Somerset Maugham Of
Human Bondage
; Philip O’Connor
Memoirs of a Public Baby
; Geoffrey Grigson
Recollections – Mainly of Artists and Writers
; Caitlin Thomas
Double Drink Story
; Arthur Calder-Marshall
The Magic of My Youth
; Naomi Mitchison
You May Well Ask – A Memoir
, Douglas Goldring
The Nineteen Twenties
;
Robert Graves: Life on the Edge
; Michael Holroyd
Augustus John
; Ronald Blythe
First Friends
; Robert Medley
Drawn from the Life
; Roy Campbell
The Georgiad—A Satirical Fantasy in Verse, Light on a Dark Horse – An Autobiography and Broken Record – Reminiscences
; Victoria Glendinning
Vita
:
The Life of Vita Sackvilk-West
; Hugh Ford, ed.
Nancy Cunard – Brave Poet, Indomitable Rebel
; Wyndham Lewis
Blasting and Bombardiering
; Diana Cooper
The Rainbow Comes and Goes
; Adrian Daintrey
I Must Say; Sean Hignett Brett – From Bloomsbury to New Mexico
; David Garnett, ed.
Carrington – Letters and Extracts from Her Diaries
, pseud.
Leda Burke
Dope Darling
; Tristram Hillier
Leda and the Goose
; Andrew Motion
The Lamberts
; Stephen Spender
World Within World
; Peter Quennell
The Marble Foot – An Autobiography
; Pippa Harris, ed.
Song of Love – The Letters of Rupert Brooke and Noel Olivier
, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, trans.
Allan Bloom
Emile
; Daphne Fielding
The Rainbow Picnic – A Portrait of Iris Tree
; Ford Madox Ford
Memories and Impressions
; Rebecca John
Caspar John
; Anna Campbell Lyle
Poetic Justice – A Memoir of Roy Campbell
; Richard Aldington
Death of a Hero and Life for Life’s Sake – A Book of Reminiscences
; C.
R.
W.
Nevinson
Paint and Prejudice
; Evelyn Waugh
A Little Learning
; Frances Partridge
Julia
; Bertrand Russell
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
; Romilly John
The Seventh Child
; Kathleen Hale
A Slender Reputation
; Gwen Raverat
Period Piece – A Cambridge Childhood
; Theodora Fitzgibbon
With Love
; Horace Brodsky
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska 1891-1915
; Vita Sackville-West
The Edwardians
; Robert Gathorne-Hardy, ed.
Otto-line at Garsington – Memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell 1915 – 18
; Aldous Huxley
Antic Hay
; W.
H.
Hudson
Hampshire Days
; Augustus John
Chiaroscuro
; Seymour Leslie
The Silent Queen
; James Lees-Milne
Another Self
; Eric Gill
Clothes
; Diana Farr
Gilbert Cannan – A Georgian Prodigy
; St John Adcock
A Book of Bohemians
; Gilbert Cannan
Mendel
; Osbert Sitwell
Laughter in the Next Room and Great Morning
; Sisley Huddleston
Bohemian Literary and Social Life in Paris
; Angelica Garnett
Deceived with Kindness
; Mary Colum
Life and the Dream
; Havelock Ellis
My Life
; Virginia Woolf
A Room of One’s Own and Moments of Being
; Beatrice Lady Glenavy
Today We Will Only Gossip
; Sybille Bedford
jigsaw;
Michael Davie, ed.
The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh
; Clifford Bax
Inland Far
, Dodie Smith
I Capture the Castle
; Jean Rhys
The Left Bank and Other Stories
; Anne Olivier Bell, ed.
The Diaries of Virginia Woolf
, Margaret Powell
Below Stairs
; C.
K.
Stead, ed.
The Letters and Journals of Katherine Mansfield
; Jessica Mitford
Hons and Rebels
; Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows
; Mary Hutchinson
Fugitive Pieces
; Yvonne Kapp
Mediterranean Blues
; David Gascoyne
Paris Journal
; Cyril Connolly
The Rock Pool
; Jeremy Lewis
Cyril Connolly – A Life
; Marie-Jacqueline Lancaster, ed.
Brian Howard – Portrait of a Failure
; Eleanor Smith
Flamenco
; Evelyn Waugh
Vile Bodies
; Juliette Huxley
Leaves of the Tulip Tree
; Joanna Richardson
The Bohemians – La Vie de Bohème in Paris 1830–1914
; Julian Trevelyan
Indigo Days
; Claire Tomalin
Katherine Mansfield – A Secret Life
.

Index

Page numbers in
italic
indicate illustrations

abortion,
58–9

Acton, (Sir) Harold:

dines out,
183

employs cooks,
176

encourages servants’ literary talents,
209

later years in Italy,
286

on Paris,
229

on school food,
165
,
169

schooling,
84

on Waugh’s interior decoration,
113

Adams, John,
192–3

Adcock, St John,
147

Adlington, Fred:
A Book of Bohemians
,
148

aeroplanes
see
flying

Agate, James,
202

Alderney Manor, near Parkstone, Dorset,
70
,
81
,
91
,
94
,
114
,
118
,
121
,
169
,
261

Aldington, Richard:

on Gaudier-Brzeska’s squalor,
203

on motor car,
245

prefers cleanliness to squalor,
206–7

visits Paris,
230

Death of a Hero
,
82–3

Algerian Café, Dean Street,
144

Allbutt, Dr H.A.:
Wife’s Handbook
,
57

Allen, Grant:
The Woman  Who Did
,
34–5
,
79–80

Annan, Noël, Baron,
171

Anrep, Anastasia (‘Baba’):

education,
92–3

goes barefoot,
141

Anrep, Boris:

affair with Maroussia,
41–2

in London,
227

at parties,
263

starts affair with Helen,
41–2

Anrep, Helen (
née
Maitland):

Carrington entertains,
171

continental cookery,
167
,
169

dress,
143
,
155

helped by friends,
18

love relationships,
41

relations with Roger Fry,
93

and son’s informal upbringing,
74

Anrep, Igor:

education,
92–3

on father’s affairs,
41

goes barefoot,
141

paints bedroom walls,
114

upbringing,
74

Anrep, Yunia,
41

Arlen, Michael,
268

Piracy
,
183

Armistice (1918),
255–7
,
256

Arnim, Elisabeth von:
The Caravanners
,
242

Art Deco,
119

Art Nouveau,
119

Arts Council,
281

Arts and Crafts movement,
106
,
119
,
127

Ashcombe (house), Wiltshire,
115

Asheham (house), Sussex,
115
,
179

Ashton, Sir Frederick,
47
,
262

Asquith, Katharine,
202

Asquith, Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith,
50

Auden, W.H.,
46
,
233

Baden-Baden,
165n

Badley, J.H.,
85

Bagnold, Enid:

rents house to Connollys,
211

seduced by Frank Harris,
33

Bakst, Leon,
46
,
107
,
144

Balfour, Patrick (
later
3rd Baron Kinross),
29

Ballets Russes:

influence on taste,
xvii
,
106–7
,
108
,
117
,
127
,
144–5

in London,
46
,
227

Bankhead, Tallulah,
268

Barry, Griffin: child by Dora Russell,
88

baths and bathing,
197
,
205

Baudelaire, Charles,
110
,
275

Bauhaus,
119

Bax, Sir Arnold,
51

Bax, Clifford:

interior decoration,
115

in Ireland,
37

and Ransome’s clothing,
151

vegetarianism,
173

Baynes, Godwin:

interior decor,
107

later career and marriages,
287

marriage breakdown,
225

outdoor holiday,
172

and Rosalind Thornycroft,
37–8
,
172

Baynes, Rosalind (
née
Thornycroft;
later
Popham):

adultery and divorce,
64–5

affair and marriage with Godwin,
36–8
,
172