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and dress conventions,
135
entertaining,
261
Hutchinson, Jack,
256
,
263
Hutchinson, Mary,
212
,
230
,
256
,
261
,
263
Huxley, Aldous:
at Garsington in First War,
56
on Connolly’s household squalor,
211
conversation,
262
lives in Italy,
23
Antic Hay
,
121
,
148–9
Huxley, Juliette,
261
,
263
hygiene
see
cleanliness and hygiene
‘Iceland’
see
Hamar, Haraldur
incest,
51
industrialism,
126
interior decoration
see
furnishing and interiors
Isherwood, Christopher,
233
Italy: English exiles in,
225–7
Jaeger, Dr Gustav:
Essays on Health Culture
,
138
James, Henry,
135
Japps, the,
171
Jarvis (Newbury shopkeeper),
123
jazz,
257
Jazz Age,
119
Jennings, Mrs H.J.:
Our Homes and How to Beautify Them
,
105
,
112–13
,
121–2
jewellery,
154
John, Augustus:
attempts vegetarianism,
173
attends parties,
259
Bohemianism,
29
,
130–1
,
153
at Café Royal,
13
,
158
,
183
,
271
celebrates Armistice,
256
at Chelsea Arts Club,
145
children and family life,
67–70
,
69
,
76
and children’s education,
91–2
,
94
colours,
144
dines out,
183
dispute with Kramer at Campbell’s wedding,
53
dress,
130
,
153–4
,
157
drinking,
274
,
286
Dylan Thomas sponges on,
269
,
272
food and eating,
169–70
friends borrow from,
14
friendship with Nina Hamnett,
20
in Gargoyle Club,
268
grows long hair and beard,
147–8
helps Kathleen Hale,
17
and Henry Lamb’s proposed commune,
44
improvidence,
13
,
15
involvement with gypsies,
130–1
,
242
later years and death,
286
London parties,
255
motoring,
245
opposes Caspar’s wish to join navy,
79
patronises Eiffel Tower restaurant,
269
promiscuity,
38–9
,
41
reacts against parental home interior,
103
relations with Dorelia,
38
,
44
takes hashish,
276
travel urge,
221–2
,
242
wealth,
29
and wife Ida’s death,
65–6
John, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Caspar (Augustus’s son):
education,
94
on father’s parties,
255
naval career,
78–9
upbringing,
67–8
John, David (Augustus’s son):
education,
94
upbringing,
67–8
John, Edwin (Augustus’s son),
67
John, Gwen (Augustus’s sister):
attempts vegetarianism,
173
poverty,
11
travel abroad,
238
,
240
John, Henry (Augustus’s son),
65
,
67
,
69
John, Ida (
née
Nettleship; Augustus’s wife):
children,
67–8
cooking,
178–9
,
191
death from puerperal fever,
65–6
,
67
,
69
,
191
housekeeping,
214
,
215
,
217
marriage relations,
44
material shortages,
11–12
wears hair short,
149
John, Poppet (Augustus’s daughter),
69–70
,
91
John, Pyramus (Augustus’s son),
69
John, Robin (Augustus’s son),
67
John, Romilly (Augustus’s son):
childhood,
69n
,
70
,
74
education,
92
,
94
infatuation with Viva King,
259
at parents’ meals,
170
John, Vivien
see
White, Vivien
Johnston, Edward,
105
Joyce, James:
influence,
146
lives abroad,
233
jumble and junk,
122–3
Kapp, Yvonne:
Mediterranean Blues
,
233
Keats, John,
222
Kennedy, Margaret:
The Constant Nymph
,
70–1
,
95
,
120
Keynes, John Maynard, Baron:
Gertler mimics,
263
sexual proclivities,
46
subsides friends,
17
King Alfred’s School, Hampstead,
87
King, Viva (
née
Booth):
attends parties,
259–60
copies Dorelia’s dress,
157
on dress conventions,
135
on Francis Macnamara,
14–15
helps Nina Hamnett,
19–20
on homosexuals,
47
idealises love,
64
interior decorating,
115
on Kathleen Hale’s marriage,
61
marriage and later life,
284
on parties,
255
patronises Eiffel Tower restaurant,
268–9
Philip Heseltine’s affair with,
62–3
resists Augustus John,
38
travels abroad,
237
on women’s cross–dressing,
153
yearning for studio life,
32–3
zest for life,
265
,
284
King, Willie,
284
Kleinfeld’s
see
Fitzroy Tavern
Koteliansky, S.S.,
215n
,
227
,
270
,
273–4
Kramer, Jacob,
53
,
249
,
273
Kühlenthal, Christine
see
Nash, Christine
Labour Party: formed,
7
Laclos, Choderlos de:
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
,
51
Lamb, Euphemia,
41
,
270
Lamb, Henry:
affair with Helen Maitland,
41
grows hair long,
147
proposes commune,
44
Lambert, Constant:
drinking,
274
lives in squalor,
200
marriage breakdown,
65
Lambert, Flo,
65
,
200
Lancaster, (Sir) Osbert,
Homes Sweet Homes
,
106–7
,
108
Lanchester, Elsa,
46–7
,
267
Lancing College,
83
Lane, Homer,
85
Langham club,
266
laundry,
215–16
lavatories,
197–8
,
204
Lawrence, D.
H.:
celebrates Armistice,
256
exile abroad,
225–6
,
233
farewell party at Café Royal,
270
helps decorate Garsington Manor,
114
helps Rosalind Thornycroft,
225–6
soothes rages with needlework,
218
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
,
49
The Rainbow
,
225
Women In Love
,
226
Lawrence, Frieda,
114
Lawrence, T.E.,
2
,
43
Lees-Milne, James,
133–4
le Gallienne, Richard,
100
Legg, Mrs (Ham Spray cook),
212–14
Lehmann, Mesdemoiselles (dressmakers),
135
Leighton Park School,
94
lesbianism:
and married couples,
62
tolerance and practice of,
48–9
Leslie, Seymour:
The Silent Queen
,
131
,
183–4
,
256
Lett-Haines, Arthur,
262
Leverson, Ada,
261
Lewis, Lesley:
mother employs dressmaker,
135
upbringing,
75
The Private Life of an English Country House 1912–1939
,
103
Lewis, Rosa,
253
,
281
Lewis, Wyndham:
at Golden Calf club,
266
as guest at Campbell wedding,
53
interior decorating,
113
resists dress conventions,
134
supported by Wadsworth,
18
wears hat constantly,
150
The Apes of God
,
18
London: poverty in,
4
London Sketch Club,
266
Lopokova, Lydia (Lady Keynes),
227
,
256
,
259
,
263
Lords Day Observance Society,
228
love:
Bohemian attitude to,
38
,
52
,
60
see also
sex
Loveday, Raoul,
21n
Lowry, Malcolm: alcoholism,
274
Lucas, Mrs E.
V.,
110
Lutyens, Sir Edwin,
105
luxury: eschewed by Bohemians,
124
McCarthy, (Sir) Desmond,
262
McClean, Douglas: marriage to Kathleen Hale,
61
,
96
Machray, Robert:
The Night Side of London
,
185
McKinnon, Sine,
157
Macnamara, Francis:
at Alderney Manor with John family,
70
attends parties,
259
borrowing,
14–15

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