Among the Bohemians (67 page)

catches fleas abroad,
237

childhood toys,
72–3

designs house interior after Ballets Russes,
107

dress in childhood,
138

education,
85
,
87

lives abroad  after  marriage  breakdown,
225–6

in old age,
287

outdoor holiday,
172

Beacon Hill School,
87–8

beards,
147–9
,
159

Beaton, Cecil:

decries vulgar taste,
116

and Diana Cooper,
85

on individual taste,
112–13
,
120

and interior decoration,
115–16
,
118–19
,
119
121

patronises Eiffel Tower  restaurant,
268

social life,
28

The Glass of Fashion
,
116
,
156

‘Beaton, George’
see
Brenan, Gerald

Beauman, Nicola:
A Very Great Profession
,
220

Bedales school,
85–6
,
90–1
,
93

Bedford, Sybille:

on baths and bathrooms,
197

on English food and eating,
164

living accommodation,
102

Jigsaw
,
248

Beecham, Sir Thomas,
50
,
64

Beerbohm, (Sir) Max,
69n
,
150–1

Beeton, Isabella:
Book of Household Management
,
164
,
176
,
194
,
196

Bell, Angelica (Vanessa’s daughter)
see
Garnett, Angelica

Bell, Clive:

affair with Mary Hutchinson,
230

Carrington criticises,
212

celebrates Armistice,
256

Francophilia,
229
,
232

at Garsington,
56
,
261

and Picasso,
162

provides refrigerator for Charleston,
177

wealth,
28

Bell, Julian (Vanessa’s son):

education,
92
,
94

killed in Spanish Civil War,
287

upbringing,
72–4
,
76

Bell, Quentin (Vanessa’s son):

academic career,
93

on being drunk,
265

dress,
152
,
162

education,
92
,
94–5

on Gordon Square front door,
115

musical education,
93

upbringing,
72–4

visits Mary Butts in Paris,
108

On Human Finery
,
161

Bell, Vanessa:

attachment to France,
231
,
233

camping,
172

and children’s education,
92–3

and children’s upbringing,
72
,
74
,
77
,
96–7

collecting and taste,
111–12

colours,
144

continental cookery,
167

criticises Berenson’s I Tatti,
125

dances half–naked,
264

dresses informally,
136

dressmaking,
143

employs cook,
175

at Garsington,
261

helps Helen Anrep,
18

and housework,
208–9
,
219

innocence of catering,
179

interior decorating and design,
113
,
115–16
,
118–19
,
124

and Keynes’s sexual proclivities,
46

knitting,
218

in later years,
287

and motor car,
245

Ottoline Morrell visits at Wissett Lodge,
202

paints everyday subjects,
220

relations with Duncan Grant,
44

and servants,
207–8
,
210

supported by Clive,
28

talks openly of sex,
33
,
39

visits Nan Hudson and Ethel Sands,
219

The Tub
(painting),
219

Bellotti’s restaurant,
268

Benois, Alexandre,
107–8

Berenson, Bernard,
125

Bergen, Edgar de,
186

Berlin: and homosexuality,
225

Berners, Gerald Tyrwhitt–Wilson, 14th Baron,
258

Bertorelli’s restaurant (London),
11
,
185–6
,
268

bestiality,
51–2

bigamy,
40–1

Bingham, Henrietta,
259

Birrell, Frankie,
256
,
263

birth control
see
contraception

blacks: sexual liaisons with,
49

Blanco–White, Amber (née Reeves),
35
,
92

Bloom, Ursula:

and bathing,
197

on children’s upbringing,
74

family background,
104

family’s expectations,
9–10

Bloomsbury Group:

character,
xvii

material comfort,
28

and sexual freedom,
41
,
51

Bohemia and Bohemians:

achievements and influence,
278–80

attitude to love and sex,
31
,
38–9
,
46
,
64

borrowing,
14–16

caricatured,
xiii
,
6
,
102
,
145
,
148

copied by imitators,
159

defined, xvi-xix

disdain for personal hygiene and tidiness,
198–204
,
216

and dress,
136–7

and fashion,
120

freemasonry,
147

and gypsy life,
128–32
,
244

and homosexuality,
47

and marriage,
52–4

in Paris,
3–5

poverty and attitude to money,
3–13
,
22–7
,
29
,
101–3
,
125
,
186–7

and purpose of life,
249

rejection of materialism,
124
,
191

rich,
28–9

social life and celebrations,
250–5
,
258–65

travel and living abroad,
223
,
226–36
,
238
,
248

wild behaviour,
273–4

zest for life,
265

Bohemian
, The (journal),
27

Bone, Muirhead,
90

Bone, Stephen,
90

Booth, William,
187

Borrow, George,
129
,
242

borrowing,
14–16

bouillabaisse,
168–9

bourgeoisie:

attitude to money,
7
,
17

material expectations and standards,
9–10

and sexual permissiveness,
54–5

Bowen, Stella:

embarrassed at visiting pubs,
254

endures domestic discomforts,
126

food and cookery,
167
,
178–9

infatuation with Pans,
230

moves to France,
167–8
,
230–2

prevented from painting by housekeeping,
214

separates from Ford and returns to England,
288

Boxall, Nelly,
207–8

Brangwyn, Frank,
145

Braque, Georges,
46
,
110

Brenan, Gerald:

accuses Carrington of shallowness,
212

adopts dress style,
160–1

affair with Carrington,
50
,
285

aspires to sordidness,
201

attempts overland journey to China,
238–40

later years,
285

letter from Carrington on Jarvis shop,
123

tutors Anrep children,
92

Jack Robinson
:
A Picaresque Novel
(by ‘George Beaton’),
7–8
,
26
,
203

A Life of One’s Own
,
239

Brereton, Mrs (Charleston governess),
92

Brett, Dorothy:

at Garsington,
56
,
261

helps Gertler with chores,
205
,
217

ignorance of cooking,
180

short hair,
149

suspected pregnancy,
58–9

upbringing,
77–8

wears trousers,
152–3

Brett, Sylvia:

condemns conscientious objectors,
56

upbringing,
77–8

Brodsky, Horace,
101
,
189

Brooke, Rupert:

goes barefoot,
141–2

helped by Marsh,
18

on John children,
69

naked bathing,
142

patronises Eustace Miles’s,
173

Browning, Robert,
222

Bullfrog club,
266

Bunny (model),
270
,
281

‘Burke, Leda’
see
Garnett, David

Butler, Samuel:
The Way of All Flesh
,
96

Butts, Mary:

cookery,
169

death,
282

drug–taking,
277
,
282

interior decoration,
108–9

jewellery,
154

Buxton, Anthony,
145

Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron,
222

Café Royal, London:

Beerbohm Tree on,
15

as Bohemian centre,
15
,
183
,
201
,
212
,
251
,
269–71
,
281

brawl at,
158
,
270

Nevinson at,
84

Nina Hamnett at,
20
,
264

Calder–Marshall, Arthur,
21–2
,
96
,
290

Cameron, Norman,
259

Campbell, Beatrice:

accompanies Gertler to Shearman’s,
273
,
274n