Among the Bohemians (72 page)

drinking,
274

lets room to Caitlin,
205

refuses education for daughter,
91

Macnamara, Yvonne,
81

McNeill, Dorelia (Dorothy):

attends parties,
259

cookery,
167
,
174
,
180

death,
286

and death of Ida John,
66

dress,
143
,
156–7
,
156

food and eating,
169–70

gypsy role,
131

interior decoration,
109
,
118–19
,
124

and john children’s upbringing,
67–9
,
74
,
92
,
94

keeps house for John family,
214

motoring with Augustus John,
245

relations with Augustus John,
38
,
44

sandal–wearing,
141

supports Caspar’s John’s wish for naval career,
79

tends Augustus John in later years,
286

travel abroad,
238
,
240

McNeill, Edie (Dorelia’s sister),
38
,
69
,
92
,
143
,
259

McNeill, Vivien (Dorelia’s daughter)
see
White, Vivien

make–up,
154

Mallord Street, London,
251
,
255

Manners, Lady Diana
see
Cooper, Lady Diana

Mannin, Ethel:

on Bohemianism,
277–8

on contraceptive devices,
58

criticises philistines,
57

on dress conventions,
135
,
159

on English abroad,
235

flying,
245–7

on Gwen Otter’s interior decoration,
109

later life,
284

on permissiveness in children’s upbringing,
97

readers of,
249

resists sexual extremes,
51

on servants,
207

on smoking,
155

on Summerhill school,
89

on travel,
224

views on education,
91

All Experience
,
224

Commonsense and the Child
,
89

Confessions and Impressions
,
247

Ragged Banners
,
23
,
106
,
122
,
277

Sounding Brass
,
124

Mansfield, Katherine:

death,
282

diet,
191

entertains Beatrice Campbell,
182–3

looks after Middleton Murry,
214–15

shares darning with Beatrice Campbell,
218

wears hat,
150

and women’s role,
59

Marienbad,
165n

Maroussia: affair with Boris Anrep,
41

marriage:

from progressive schools,
90–1

as institution,
52–3

open,
61–2

and social ‘season’,
252

and subservience of women,
60–1

Marsh, Sir Edward:

and Gertler’s dress,
134

helps bath Gertler,
205

helps impoverished poets,
18

Medley entertains at Eiffel Tower,
184

patronises Eiffel Tower restaurant,
268

Marshall, Ray
see
Garnett, Ray

Masefield, John,
1

Masefield, Mrs John,
1–2

mass production: opposition to,
116

Massine, Léonide,
256

materialism: despised by artists,
7
,
12
,
124

Matisse, Henri,
167

Maugham, Harry,
5

Maugham, Syrie,
115

Maugham, W.
Somerset:

dismisses sanitation,
198

on Soho life,
185

Of Human Bondage
,
4–6
,
29

May, Betty (Epstein’s model):

admires Peggy Epstein,
59

adopts gypsy style,
131

at Café Royal,
269–70

cooks grilled mouse on toast,
179

dress,
144

drug-taking,
276

on First World War casualties,
255

housekeeping,
217

later years and disappearance,
290

and laundry,
216

mistaken for Nina Hamnett,
21

models for Epstein,
270

parties,
263

poverty,
13–14

singing at Golden Calf,
266

visits Anna Wickham,
218

in Fitzroy Tavern,
289

Tiger Woman
,
289–90

Medley, Robert:

decorates Strachey’s interior,
113

entertains Marsh at Eiffel Tower,
184

gives up eating meat,
174

homosexual liaison,
46–8

interior decoration,
107
,
115

later years,
288

memoirs,
287

near-nakedness,
142

schooling,
90–1

visits Carline family,
201

Mells Park, Somerset,
202

Melville, Harry,
134

Meninsky, Bernard,
18

Merrill, George,
45

mescaline,
275

Miles, Eustace,
173

Mitchison, G.R.
(Dick),
54
,
61

Mitchison, Naomi:

cooking,
180

dissatisfaction with Omega Workshops,
117

employs cook,
175

and freedom from housework,
210–11

and open marriage,
54
,
61

on servants,
207

and sexual permissiveness,
47
,
51
,
54

wears sandals,
141

Mitford, Jessica,
216
,
224

Mitford, Nancy,
216

models (artists’),
270

Mond, Henry,
257

monogamy: questioned,
40

Montaigne, Michel de,
236

Moody, ‘Badger’,
156

Moore, George:
A Modem Lover
,
190

Moore, Henry,
110

Moorman, John (
later
Bishop of Ripon),
90

Moorman, Mary (
née
Trevelyan),
90

Morrell, Lady Ottoline:

affair with gardener,
49

attitude to luxury,
125

celebrates Armistice,
256

decline and death,
286

dress,
131
,
135

employs cook,
176

Gertler mimics,
263

helps support T.S.
Eliot,
18

and Henry Lamb’s proposed commune,
44

hospitality and entertaining,
135
,
261
,
273

houses artists in First World War,
56

inadequate personal hygiene,
205

letter from Bertrand Russell on travel,
223

patronises Omega Workshops,
117

redecorates Garsington Manor,
114–15
,
124–5

reputation,
286–7

social entertaining,
255

takes Spencer brothers to Covent

Garden,
134–5

visits Katharine Asquith at Mells,
202

Morrell, Philip,
44
,
115
,
255
,
261
,
286

Morris, Sir Cedric,
262

Morris, William,
105–6
,
116
,
171

Mortimer, Raymond,
113

motor cars,
244–6

Murger, Henry:
Scè;nes de la Vie de Bohè;me
,
3–5
,
26
,
31–2
,
136
,
250
,
274

Murry, John Middleton:

entertains Beatrice Campbell,
182

Katherine Mansfield looks after,
214–15

liaison with Dorothy Brett,
58–9

nakedness,
142–3
,
264–5

nannies and nursemaids,
77–8

Nash, Christine (
née
Kühlenthal):

and Carrington’s aim to live in cottage,
126

dress,
157

pact for open marriage,
62

poverty,
11

sexual relations,
44–5
,
62

Nash, John:

dress,
151

helped by Marsh,
18

infatuation with Carrington,
62

marriage,
44

pact for open marriage,
62

poverty,
11

Nash, Paul,
240–1
,
241

neckties,
150

Neill, A.S.,
85
,
89–90

Nesbit, Edith,
152

Nest club,
266

Nettleship, Ada,
68–9

Nettleship, Ida
see
John, Ida

Nevinson, C.R.W.:

birthday party (21st),
264

in Café Royal,
158

celebrates Armistice (1918),
255–6

dislikes squalor,
206

and dress conventions,
134
,
158

education,
83–4

‘Iceland’ deceives,
270

later life,
284

on mother’s interior decorating,
118

on poverty,
6

on travel abroad,
237

New Age
, The (magazine),
240

Newnham College, Cambridge,
163

Nichols, John,
1

Nicholson, Ben,
90

Nicholson, Nancy
see
Graves, Nancy

Nicholson, Winifred (
née
Roberts),
90

Nijinsky, Vaslav,
46

Norton, Harry,
18