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Porter, Cole

Porter, Katherine Anne

Portrait of a Lady, The
(James)

“Portrait of Mabel Dodge at Villa Curiona” (Stein)

Port-Royal
(Sainte-Beuve)

Post-Impressionism

Pound, Ezra

Powell, Anthony

Powell, Dawn

Powell, Violet

Pride and Prejudice
(Austen)

Princeton University

Pringle, Colombe

Professor’s House, The
(Cather)

Prohibition

Protestanism

Proust, Marcel

Provincetown Players

 

Queen Mary

Queeny, John Francis

Queeny, Olga Mendez Monsanto

Queeny, Olguita; death of; marriage of; MG’s relationship with

Quest for Corvo, The: An Experiment in Biography
(Symons)

Quicksands
(Bedford)

Quietism

“Quotation and Originality” (Emerson)

 

Racine, Jean

Radiguet, Raymond

Rambova, Natacha

Raphael

Rawlings, Margaret

Ray, Man

Reconstruction

Redfern Gallery

Reed, John

Reform Club

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste

Representative Men
(Emerson)

Republican Party

Restaurant Boulestin

Reynolds, Graham

Ricardo, Halsey

Rice, Elmer

Richardson, Samuel

Ritz Hotel

RKO Pictures

Robeson, Eslanda

Robeson, Paul

Robinson, Alice

Rochas

Rodin, Auguste

Roger, Neil “Bunny,”

Rolfe, Frederick

Rolls House Publishing

Room of One’s Own, A
(Woolf)

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano; administration of; death of; EM on; opposition to

Roosevelt, Theodore

Root, Aida de Acosta

Root, Elihu

Root, Oren

Rosenbach, Abraham S. W.

Rosenbach, Philip

Rosenbach Museum & Library;
Garbo Unsealed
exhibit at; MdA Papers in

Ross, Harold

Rothenstein, John

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Royal Flying Corps

Royal Society of Arts

Rubinstein, Arthur

Runciman, Steven

Russell, Bertrand

Russell, Jane

Russell, Peter

Russian Revolution

Rylands, George “Dadie,”

 

Sackville-West, Vita

Sacred Heart Academy

Sainsbury, Lord and Lady

St. Augustine, Order of

Saint-Cyr

St. Denis, Ruth

Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin

St. Joan
(Shaw)

St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church

St. Mary’s Church

Saint-Mihiel, Battle of

St. Patrick’s Cathedral

Saint-Simon, Duc de

Salmond, Felix

Salon d’Automne

Salon des Artistes Décorateurs

Sandage, Scott

San Francisco
Chronicle

San Quentin prison

Sapphism

Sargent, Andrew R.

Sargent, John Singer

Sartoris, Cecile

Sassoon, David

Sassoon, Siegfried

Savoy Hotel

Scarron, Paul

Schiaparelli, Elsa

Schrijver, Herman

Scott-James, Anne

Scudéry, Mademoiselle de

Seebohm, Carolyn

Sekers, Miki (Sir Nicholas)

Seldes, Amanda (Alice Hall)

Seldes, Gilbert

Seldes, Marian

Selfridges

Settle, Alison

Seven Ages of Fashion

Seven Years’ War

Sévigné, Madame de

sexual liberation

sexual politics

sexual studies

sexual subcultures, in Hollywood; in New York City;
see also
lesbian networks

Shakespeare, William

Shaw, George Bernard

Shaw, Irwin

Sheean, Vincent

Sheppard, Dick

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Simpson, Celia

Sinclair, Upton

Sitwell, Edith

Sitwell, Osbert

Sitwell, Sacheverell

Six Red Months in Russia
(Bryant)

$64,000 Question

Small, Susan

Small Garden in the City, The
(Garland)

Smith, Al

Snow, Carmel

Snowden, Philip

socialism

Socialist Review

Solano, Solita

Somme, Battle of the

Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems
(Teasdale)

Sontag, Susan

Sorel, Albert

Soustelle, Jacques

Southampton Club

Spanish Civil War

Spectator, The

Spectre de la Rose, Le

Speyer, Leonora

Spinoza, Baruch

Spry, Constance

Spurling, Hilary

Stanhope, Lady Hester

Stark, Frederick

Steffens, Lincoln

Steichen, Edward

Stein, Gertrude; works of

Stiebel, Victor

Stokes, William

Strachey, Amabel,
see
Williams-Ellis, Amabel

Strachey, Amy

Strachey, John; background and education of; death of; marriage and divorce of EM and; political career of

Strachey, Lytton

Strauss, George

Stravinsky, Igor

Streets and Shadows
(de Acosta)

style, definitions of

Sur les Quatre Routes
(Corbusier)

Surrealism

Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
(Phillips)

Suzy (milliner)

Swenson, Karen

Symons, A.J.A.

Symons, Julian

Syndicat de la Soie

 

Taft, William Howard

Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles-Maurice de

Tammany Hall

Tanqueray, Paul

Taylor, Jeremy

Taylor, Laurette

Tchelichew, Pavel

Teasdale, Sara

temperance movement

Temptress, The
(film)

Ten Days That Shook the World
(Reed)

Tender Buttons
(Stein)

Tender Is the Night
(Fitzgerald)

Teresa of Avila, Saint

Terylene

Thaarup, Aage

Thalberg, Irving

Theatre Union

Thesiger, Ernest

Thesiger, Janette

Thirty Years’ War

This Circle of Flesh
(Morris)

“This Fashion Business” (Garland)

Thomas, Edna

Thompson, Dorothy

Thomson, Virgil

Time-Life

Times
(London)

Times Literary Supplement Time to Be Born, A
(Powell)

“To a Picture of Eleonora Duse as

‘Francesca da Rimini’” (Teasdale)

“Toccata of Galuppi’s, A” (Browning)

Tocqueville, Alexis de

Todd, Alfred Guy Eric; death of; education of

Todd, Christopher

Todd, Dorothy “Dody,”; alcoholism of; bankruptcy of; as British

Vogue

editor; character and personality of; childhood and adolescence of; death of; education of; family background of; illegitimate daughter of; MdA on; MG’s personal and professional relationship with; notoriety of; personal problems of; stylish appearance of

Todd, Dorothy Helen

Todd, Olivier

Todd, Ruthella Hetherington

“To Eleonora Duse in ‘The Dead City’” (Teasdale)

Toklas, Alice B.

Tomorrow

Toscanini, Arturo

Towne, Charles Hanson

Townsend Warner, Sylvia

Tragedy of Fashion, A
(ballet)

Treaty of Versailles

Tree, Herbert Beerbohm

Tree, Viola

Tribus Impostoribus, De

Turgenev, Ivan

Turgot, A.R.J.

Turing, Alan

Twain, Mark

Tyner, Chloe

Tyrrell, Anne

 

Ulysses
(Joyce)

Union des Artistes Modernes

Until the Day Break
(de Acosta)

Ursuline nuns

Utopian Society

 

Valentino, Rudolf

Vanderbilt, Emily

Vanderbilt family

Vanity Fair

Van Vechten, Carl

Vatican library

Versailles

Vickers, Hugo

Victoria, Queen of England

Victoria and Albert Museum

Victoria Brewery

Victorian age; art and architecture of

Viertel, Salka

Vionnet

Visit to Don Otavio, A: A Traveller’s Tale from Mexico
(Bedford)

Vivien, Renée

Vogue
(American)

Vogue
(British); Alison Settle as editor of; Audrey Withers as editor of; Dorothy Todd as editor of; Elizabeth Penrose as editor of; Elspeth Champcommunal as editor of; as forum for art, literature, fashion, and society; masthead lacking on; MG as fashion editor at; MG fired from; MG’s fashion journalism at; MG’s first job at; Ruth Anderson as editor of; staff of; Virginia Woolf and

Voltaire

Vreeland, Diana

Vuillard, Edouard

 

Wagner, Richard

Walker, June

Wallace, Henry

Wallace Collection

Wall Street crash of 1929

Walton, Allan

War and Peace
(Tolstoy)

Ward-Jackson, Peter

Ward-Jackson, Shaunagh

Warhol, Andy

War of 1812

Waterloo, Battle of

Watsons, The
(Austen)

Watts, Alan

Watts, David

Waugh, Evelyn

Webb, Clifton

Wellington, Duke of

Well of Loneliness, The
(Hall)

Wells, H. G.

West, Rebecca; H. G. Wells and; on MG

West Cumberland Silk Mills

Westminster Cathedral

Weston, Edward

Wharton, Edith; EM and; EM influenced by; German honorary degree rejected by

White, Katharine

White, Stanford

Whitehead, Alfred North

Whitfield, Emily Vanderbilt

Whitman, Walt

Wiborg, Frank

Widener, Harry Elkins

Wilde, Dorothy

Wilde, Oscar

Wildeblood, Peter

Wilder, Thornton

Willard, Frances

Williams, Hope

Williams, William Carlos

Williams-Ellis, Amabel

Williams-Ellis, Clough

Wilson, Edith Galt

Wilson, Edmund; on EM; EM and

Wilson, John

Wilson, Woodrow

Winchell, Walter

Winter, Ella

Withers, Audrey

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Wolfe, Edward “Teddy,”

Wolfe, Thomas

woman suffrage

Women’s Christian Temperance Union

Women’s Wear Daily

Wood, William

Woodcock, Patrick

Woolf, Leonard

Woolf, Virginia; British

Vogue
and; MG and; on professional lives of women; works of

Woollcott, Alexander

Woolley, Monty

World War I; Allied casualties of; Armistice signed in; Arras offensive in; English war effort in; German submarine attacks in; women freed to enter workforce by

World War II; England in

Worth, London

Wyld, Evelyn

Wylie, Elinor

Wyndham, Olivia

Wyndham, Francis

 

Yale University

Yantorny, Pietro

Young, Marguerite

Yoxall, Harry

 

Zadkine, Ossip

Ziegfeld Follies

A Note About the Author

Lisa Cohen’s writing has appeared in
Fashion Theory
,
Bookforum
,
GLQ
,
Ploughshares
,
Boston Review
, and other journals and anthologies. She teaches at Wesleyan University.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
18 West 18th Street, New York 10011

Copyright © 2012 by Lisa Cohen
All rights reserved
Distributed in Canada by D&M Publishers, Inc.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the Society of Authors for permission to print an unpublished excerpt from Virginia Woolf’s Diary and excerpts from “The New Dress” and to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company for permission to quote Woolf’s Diary and Letters; to the Estate of Edmund Wilson for permission to quote his letters, diaries, and essays; to Bruce Kellner and the Estate of Carl Van Vechten for permission to reproduce Van Vechten’s photographs of Esther Murphy and Muriel Draper; to the estate of Dawn Powell, with thanks to Peter Skolnik, for permission to quote excerpts from Powell’s diaries, published and unpublished correspondence, A Time to Be Born, and The Happy Island; and to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company for permission to quote Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy.

Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data

Cohen, Lisa, 1962–

All we know : three lives / Lisa Cohen. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN: 978-1-4668-2010-4

1. Murphy, Esther, 1898– 1962. 2. Acosta, Mercedes de, 1893– 1968.
3. Garland, Madge, 1896–1990. 4. Women— Biography. 5. Biography—
20th century. 6. Modernism (Aesthetics)—History— 20th century.
7. Women intellectuals— Biography. 8. Socialites— United States— Biography.
9. Women authors, American— 19th century— Biography. 10. Women
fashion designers— England— Biography. I. Title.

CT3235 .C64 2012

920.72— dc23

2011041055

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