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nudism,
142

see also
nakedness

O’Connor, Philip:

drinking,
274

O’Connor, Philip –
cont
.

on living expenses,
11

steals from sister’s gas meter,
16

tramps around England,
240–2

upbringing,
78

Odeh, Bunty,
241

Odle, Alan,
270–1

O’Flaherty, Liam:

in Donegal,
236

given grant by Royal Literary Fund,
19

laments passing of Bohemian world,
281

lives in France,
231

living conditions,
206
,
219

takes up catering to earn money,
13

O’Henry, Eileen,
270
,
281

Olivier, Noel,
74
,
142

Omega Workshops,
18
,
116–17
,
127

open air: and simple life,
171–2
,
241
,
242–3

opium,
275–6

Ormonde, Reine,
157

Orwell, George:

in Paris,
23

on working class conditions,
4
,
227

Otter, Gwen: salon,
109
,
261

Paris:

caters to tourists,
235–6

early Bohemians in,
3–5
,
250
,
274

English visitors to,
228–30

studio life in,
31–2

see also
France

parties,
254–5
,
257–65
,
273–4
,
277–8

Partridge, Frances (née Marshall):

at Bedales school,
86

on Café Royal,
271

on Carrington’s collusion in Ralph’s

sexual activities,
50–1

later years,
284–5

on money,
26

travels abroad,
238

on vegetarianism,
173

on visiting Russia,
227

Partridge, Ralph:

and Lytton Strachey,
44

marriage to Dora Carrington,
24
,
50–1

marriage to Frances,
26

visits Jarvis shop with Carrington,
123

Paul, Brenda Dean,
13
,
265
,
268
,
277

Phibbs, Geoffrey,
42–4

Phibbs, Norah,
42

Phillips, May,
17–18

Phillips, Stephen:

alcoholism,
274

extravagance,
28

success as poet,
27

Picasso, Pablo:

and Clive Bell,
162

influence,
108

influenced by exotic art,
110

Pitcher, Mrs (Vanessa Bell’s servant),
208

Poets’ Store, The, Boar’s Hill (near Oxford),
1–2

Poiret, Paul,
144

Pont (cartoonist),
97

Pooley, Mrs (Dane Court headmaster’s wife),
94

Popham, Rosalind
see
Baynes, Rosalind

Post-Impressionists:

exhibitions in London,
117
,
226

influence,
xvii
,
117
,
146

Pound, Ezra:

dancing,
257

dress,
155

Gaudier-Brzeska’s statue of,
204

influence,
xvii

on Pans,
229

Stella Bowen meets,
254

wears hat,
150

poverty:

among deprived classes,
187

as Bohemian characteristic,
2–15
,
6
,
22–6
,
29
,
125

and food,
186–91

Powell, Anthony:

on Betty May’s gypsy style,
131

on Cyril Connolly’s cooks,
175

patronises Eiffel Tower restaurant,
268

social life,
28

Powell, Margaret:
Below Stairs
,
209–10

Powell, Mrs (Osbert Sitwell’s cook),
117

Pre-Raphaelites,
138

Proust, Marcel,
146

public houses (pubs),
271–2

public schools,
82–3

Puccini, Giacomo: La Bohè;me,
3
,
31

‘Puma’ (model)
see
Heseltine, Bobby

Punch
(magazine),
xiii
,
6
,
60
,
97
,
102
,
151
,
158
,
185
,
199
,
243

Quennell, (Sir) Peter:

marriage breakdown,
65

on Roy Campbell’s appearance,
160

and upbringing of children,
76

railways:

in France,
231

and travel,
222
,
244

Ransome, Arthur:

on being Bohemian,
146
,
280
,
281
,
283

and Bohemian social life,
250–1

dress,
151

drinking,
265

food and eating,
179
,
186
,
188
,
190

and interior decoration,
122

later life,
283–4

learns Romany,
129

moves to Chelsea,
100
,
103

nostalgia in later life,
29
,
101
,
190

poverty,
10
,
28
,
29
,
101
,
186
,
188
,
190

on smoking,
155

Bohemia
in London
,
12
,
144
,
250
,
283

Ransome, Evgenia (
née
Shelepin),
284

Rational Dress Society,
138

Raverat, Elizabeth,
93

Raverat, Gwen:

childhood dress,
132–3
,
141

on make–up,
154

naked bathing,
142

woodcut,
98

Rebel Art Centre,
113

Reddie, Dr Cecil,
85

Redesdale, David Freeman–Mitford, 2nd Baron,
224

Reed, Trelawney Dayrell,
259

Reeves, Amber
see
Blanco–White, Amber

restaurants,
183–6
,
185
,
268–70

Rhondda, Margaret Haig, Viscountess,
132

Rhys, Jean,
274

‘Hunger’ (story),
187

Richardson, Dorothy,
102

Richardson, Joanna: The
Bohemians
,
275n

Riding, Laura:

and cooking,
180

relations with Graves,
42–4

Ridley, Guy,
145

Roberts, Mervyn,
90

Rodin, Auguste,
229

Romanticism: and Bohemianism,
3

Rosenberg, Isaac,
18

Rosling, Theodora
see
Fitzgibbon, Theodora

Rothenstein, Alice (William’s wife),
68

Rothenstein, Sir William,
68

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
71–3
,
75
,
87
,
89
,
93

Rowntree, Benjamin Seebohm,
187

Royal Literary Fund,
19

Ruskin,John,
139

Russell, Bertrand:

educational ideas and practice,
85
,
87–8
,
90

at Garsington,
261

helps redecorate Garsington Manor,
114

marriage breakdown,
88

on travel,
223

Problems of Philosophy
,
86

Russell, Dora:

educational ideas,
85
,
87–8

marriage breakdown,
88

on role of women in home,
211

Russell, Marion:
Five Women and a Caravan
,
242

Russia (USSR): English travellers to,
227–8

Sackville-West, Vita:

on food and eating,
165
& n

lesbianism,
48–9

on social behaviour,
252

The Edwardians
,
55
,
105
,
165
,
252

St Christopher’s School, Letchworth Garden City,
86

St Ives, Cornwall,
13
,
160

St John’s Wood, London,
251

Salt, Henry,
172–3

Sampson, John,
129–31
,
242

Sands, Ethel,
112
,
219

Sanitary Woollen System,
138

Sargent, John Singer,
145

Savage Club,
266

Schmidt’s restaurant, London,
185

schools:

conventional,
83–4

food at,
165

progressive,
85–91
,
94–5

Scott, Harold,
267

Seager House (school),
94

‘season, the’ (social),
251–2

Secret Society of Beavers,
148

Selfridges store, London,
198n

Selwood, Mabel,
92

servants,
9–10
,
77
,
174–6
,
179–80
,
195
,
207–10

sex:

freedom and permissiveness in,
33–4
,
39–40
,
44
,
46–54
,
52
,
57
,
280

and promiscuity,
38–9

social constraints on,
54–6

Seymour, Miranda,
49

Sharp, Cecil,
87

Sharp, Nancy,
200–1

Shaw, George Bernard:

Acton reads as schoolboy,
84

beard,
148

dress,
138

patronage to young authors,
19

vegetarianism,
173

Shearman, Monty,
151
,
256
,
273–4

Shelley, Lilian,
258
,
270
,
281

Shelley, Percy Bysshe,
222