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and ballet,
227
,
231
celebrates Armistice,
256
influence,
144
in London,
46
Dickens, Charles:
on poor,
7
Great Expectations
,
75
Dieren, Bernard van,
271
Ditchling, Sussex,
177
divorce,
64–5
Dolores (model),
270
,
281
domestic duties
see
housework
Doone, Rupert,
47
,
174
,
287
Dorelia
see
McNeill, Dorelia
Douglas, Norman,
233
Dowdall, Mary (
née
Borthwick, ‘Rani’),
67
,
131
Dowson, Ernest,
84
Dreadnought, HMS,
145
dress:
conventional,
132–6
inspired by gypsies,
130
relaxation and extravagance of,
138–46
,
140
,
150–61
,
156
see also
underwear
drinking,
265
,
274–5
Drogheda, Kathleen, Countess of,
117
drugs,
272
,
275–7
Dublin,
229
du Maurier, George:
Trilby
,
28
,
31–2
,
32
,
59
,
228–9
Duncan, Isadora,
36
,
37
,
63–4
Durbins (house), near Guildford,
116n
Durrell, Lawrence and Gerald,
233
Earle, George,
87
education,
82–5
,
96–8
see also
schools
Edward VII, King,
7
Edwards, Eva,
92
Eiffel Tower restaurant, Percy Street, London,
28
,
183–4
,
184
,
268–9
,
272
,
281
Einstein, Albert,
146
Eliot, T.S.,
18
,
160
Ellis, Edith,
62
Ellis, Henry Havelock,
38
,
62
,
161
epidemics,
198
Epstein, (Sir) Jacob:
bust of Chiquita,
131
and children’s upbringing,
80
dress,
159
early poverty,
11
,
101
entertaining,
261
at Golden Calf club,
266
improvidence,
13
interest in exotic art,
110
laundry bill,
215
marriage,
59
public acclaim and knighthood,
283
spots Betty May at Café Royal,
269–70
Epstein, Kathleen, Lady (
née
Garman):
avoids housework,
216
relations and children with Epstein,
13
,
80–1
title,
283
Epstein, Kitty (Jacob’s daughter):
and mother’s avoidance of housework,
216
schooling,
94
upbringing,
80
Epstein, Margaret (Peggy):
collects objects,
110
married life,
59–60
shoots husband’s lover in arm,
63
Epstein, Theo (Jacob’s son),
80
Eriksson, Harry and Signe,
164
Esher, Reginald Baliol Brett, 2nd Viscount (Dorothy Brett’s father),
77
Fabianism,
7
family: Bohemian view of,
44
,
265–6
Farjeon, Herbert:
Nine Sharp and Earlier
,
89
fashion,
120
,
157
,
161–2
Fedorovitch, Sophie,
11
,
102
,
259
feminism:
advances in,
249
see also
women
Fielding, Daphne,
288–9
Firbank, Ronald,
268
,
271
First World War,
255
Fitzgibbon, Constantine:
deceives gas meter,
16
drinking,
274
on Dylan Thomas,
8–9
,
39
,
137
,
215
on hardship among artists,
11
marriage,
169
on pubs,
271
seeks abortion for pregnant girlfriend,58
Fitzgibbon, Theodora (
née
Rosling):
in Paris,
99
A Taste of Paris
,
169
Fitzrovia (London district),
271–2
Fitzroy Tavern, London (‘Kleinfeld’s’),
20–1
,
150
,
251
,
271
,
281
Fletcher, Fanny,
259
Fletcher, Margaret,
58
flying,
246–8
,
247
Fokine, Mikhail,
46
food and eating:
attitudes to,
163–7
continental influences on,
166–9
convenience and tinned foods,
181
,
189
and poverty,
186–91
preparation and cooking,
176–83
,
188–9
see also
restaurants
footwear,
141
Ford, Ford Madox:
affair with Violet Hunt,
225
avoids poetic appearance,
160
bronchitis in France,
230
cooking,
178–9
death,
288
deplores convenience food,
181
on dress colours,
144
and Gaudier–Brzeska’s squalor,
203–4
on inhibited upbringing,
75–6
life with Stella Bowen,
214
moves to France,
167–8
,
231
opposes mass production,
116
Ford, Ford Madox –
cont
.
parties,
263
rural living,
126
Stella Bowen separates from,
288
Ford, Julie,
214
Forster, E.M.:
Two Cheers for Democracy
,
253
Forte, Charles,
271
Fothergill, John,
147
,
151
France:
and bodily functions,
204
cost of living,
234
dress style in,
161
English exiles and travellers in,
23
,
168
,
227–33
food and eating in,
165–9
see also
Paris
Frazer, Mrs J.G.:
First Aid to the Servantless
,
182
,
195
Freud, Lucian,
216
Freud, Sigmund:
and children’s upbringing,
96
and sexual freedom,
40
Fry, Isabel (Roger’s sister),
93
Fry, Roger:
advises on Bell boys’ education,
94
camping,
172
celebrates Armistice,
256
encourages new taste,
116–17
entertains Osbert Sitwell,
181–2
founds Omega Workshops,
116
friendship with Nina Hamnett,
20
helps Marjorie Strachey’s school drama,
93
on living out of England,
233
philanthropy,
18
Post-Impressionist exhibitions,
226
relations with Helen Anrep,
93
reviews Mohammedan exhibition in Munich,
110
Vanessa Bell proposes bawdy pictures to,
39
and Vanessa Bell’s boredom with Sands and Hudson cleanliness,
219
furnishing and interiors,
101–27
,
102
,
108
Fussell, Paul,
232
Galsworthy, John,
19
Gargoyle Club, London,
18
,
266–8
Garnett, Angelica (
née
Bell):
Clive Bell supports,
28
dress,
143
education,
93
on Helen Anrep’s appearance,
155
marriage breakdown,
286
on mother’s Bohemianism,
29
upbringing,
72
,
77
,
95–6
Deceived with Kindness
,
77
Garnett, Constance,
73–4
,
227
Garnett, David (‘Bunny’):
birthday party,
259
celebrates Armistice,
256
and conversation,
262
Edward Thomas takes to lunch at Eustace Miles’s,
173–4
enjoys bawdy songs,
263
flying,
246–7
and Graves’s love relationships,
42–3
later years,
285–6
naked bathing,
142
on progress in enlightened living,
249–50
schooling,
95
sexual urges,
33
and son’s education,
87–8
subsidised by Keynes,
17
in three-way ménage at Charleston,
44
upbringing,
73–4
visits Russia,
227
zest for life,
265
Dope Darling
(by ‘Leda Burke’),
276
The Grasshoppers Come
,
247
A Rabbit in the Air
,
246
Garnett, Edward:
helps W.H.
Davies,
18
letter from O’Flaherty,
236
and son’s upbringing,
73–4
Garnett, Ray (
née
Marshall; David’s wife),
43
,
227
illustration,
247
Garnett, Richard,
87–8
garrets,
99–101
,
103
Garrick Club,
284
Garsington Manor,
56
,
114–15
,
124
,
261
,
263
Gascoyne, David,
233
Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri:
death in Great War,
283
food and cooking,
189–90
friendship with Nina Hamnett,
20
influenced by exotic art,
110

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