Christopher Isherwood: A Personal memoir (21 page)

‘September 1st 1939’ (Auden), 55 

Shaw, Bernard, 117n 

Shelley, Mary, 129n 

Single Man, A
(Isherwood), 77, 97, 102, 103

Sintra, 27-8, 31-2, 34

Sloss, D.J., 41

Smith, Dodie, 51, 78

Snow, C.P., 130

Southern, Terry, 105

Spanish Civil War, 34, 35, 40

Spender, Erica, 22

Spender, Inez, 36

Spender, Michael, 22

Spender, Stephen, 8-9, 27, 31, 61, 93

Steere, Douglas, 130

Steiner, Rudolf, 32

Stern, James, 35, 74

Stern, Tania, 35

Stravinsky, Igor, 81

Sur,
76

Tangier, 86 Tenerife, 20-22

Thames and Hudson, 137n, 141
n
 

Thomas, Dylan, 93 

Thomson, Virgil, 115 

Three Literary Friendships
(Lehmann), 142

Thrown to the Woolfs
(Lehmann), 141 

Thurau, Fräulein, 83 

Toller, Ernst, 53 

Totland Bay (I.o.W.), 45, 46 

Trier, 37

Turville-Petre, Francis, 14-16 

Tutin, Dorothy, 79, 90 

Twentieth Century Literature
, 136

Universal Studios, 129n

University of California: Los Angeles, 128-9; San Diego, 113; Santa Barbara, 102, 106

University of Texas, Austin, 113, 124 

Upward, Edward, 26, 80, 94; friendship with Isherwood, 1-2, 8, 46; and Mortmere fantasy world, 2, 119; his critical approval important to Isherwood, 2, 27, 95; his own work, 28, 39, 119

van Druten, John, 51, 78, 89 

Van der Lubbe, Marinus, 13 

Vancouver, 43 

Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 77 

Vaughan, Keith, 74 Vedanta, 55, 59, 63, 65, 84, 109 

Vedanta and the West
, 54, 80 

‘Vernon’: liaison with Isherwood, 43-4, 47, 49, 65; as representative ‘American Boy’, 44; in Hollywood, 50, 51, 52; return to New York, 65, end of relationship, 67 

Vidal, Gore, 76 

Vienna, 12, 15, 20, 28, 38 

Viertel, Berthold, 58; as film and stage director, 18-19, 41, 52; as Bergmann in
Prater Violet
, 19, 64 

Viertel, Salka, 19, 52, 59, 67, 135 

Virginia Woolf and Her World 
(Lehmann), 137 

‘Visit to Anselm Oakes’ 
(Isherwood), 86 

Vivekananda, Swami, 104 

Voix Humaine, La
(Cocteau), 44

Wall, Carey, 128 

Warner Brothers, 67 

Watson, Peter, 66, 77

Waugh, Evelyn, 55, 105 

Week, The,
16

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 141n 

Wells, H.G., 93 

Weybright, Victor, 90 

Where is Francis? -
see
Dog Beneath the Skin

Whispering Gallery, The
(Lehmann), 90n

White, Alan, 80, 91 

Wight, Isle of, 45-7, 132 

Williams, Clifford, 119n 

Williams, Tennessee, 65 

Willingham, Calder, 82 

Wintle, Hector, 46 

Woman in White, The
(Collins), 67 

Wood, Christopher, 52 

Woolf, Leonard, 121; and Hogarth Press, 7, 8, 9, 29, 32-3, 39 

Woolf, Virginia: and Hogarth Press, 7, 8, 9, 29; neglect of Isherwood, 33, 39; Lehmann’s lecture, book and film script on, 128, 137, 
138

World in the Evening, The 
(Isherwood), 103; slow writing of, 74, 79, 80; Lehmann’s opinion of, 80, 89, 90; as Isherwood’s ‘worst novel’, 80; handling of dialogue and queer theme, 80, 91-2

Wyberslegh Hall (Cheshire), 1, 72

Yale, John, 107 

Yoga, 53-4, 58, 62 

York, Michael, 134 

‘Younger, Jimmy’, 31

1
 
Christ the Hunter
was published in 1965 by Eyre & Spottiswoode.

§ A Vedanta swami.

2

The Ample Proposition
, the third volume of Lehmann’s autobiography, published in 1966 by Eyre & Spottiswoode.

3

William Plomer.

§ Virgil Thomson, the American composer who wrote the opera
Lord Byron.

4

Isherwood wrote a dramatized adaptation of Bernard Shaw’s story ‘The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God’ in 1968.

5

A production of
A Meeting by the River
had been proposed by stage director Clifford Williams.

6

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography. 

7

‘Frankenstein: The True Story’, an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s book commissioned by Universal Studios.

8

Douglas Steere(?). 

9

English-Speaking Union.

#    The poet, killed in the Second World War.

10

Jonathan Fryer’s
Isherwood, A Biography of Christopher Isherwood
, was

Published by the New English Library in 1977.

Thomas Laird, a friend of John Lehmann.

11

Author of
Christopher Isherwood, A Critical Biography
, published by Faber and Faber in 1979.

12

Edward Lear and His World,
published in 1977 by Thames and Hudson. 

13

Published by Quartet.