Fatal Glamour (51 page)
Authors: Paul Delany
10
Wells,
New Worlds
, Chapter 2.
11
Wells,
A Modern Utopia
, 303, 316.
12
The socialist had no chance of winning, and the Tory was William Joynson-Hicks (Jix), a notorious enemy of writers and artists.
13
Amber told her parents that she needed to go away on a reading party to prepare for her finals; in fact she went to lodgings in Southend with H.G. Returning to Cambridge in high spirits, and armed with useful tips from her mentor, she took a First in Part II of the moral science tripos. Wells's formal resignation from the Fabian Society, six months later, was made inevitable when news of his affair with Amber started to leak out.
14
Webb and Webb,
Letters
, 2:316.
15
Waley, a friend of Rupert's from Rugby, was then going by his birth name of Schloss; he became a prominent translator from the Chinese. Shove was reading economics at King's.
16
Webb and Webb,
Letters
, 2:316.
17
Or the Webbs themselves. “One only becomes thoroughly âadaptable'
after 50,” Beatrice observed, “before that age, one is so terribly handicapped by one's body.”
Letters
, 2:332.
18
Beatrice Webb,
Diary of Beatrice Webb
, 3:77; Webb and Webb,
Letters
, 2:280.
19
Webb,
Diary
2:142. Allen became chairman of the No-Conscription Fellowship during the First World War. Foss was a friend of Rupert's from Emmanuel. Beatrice Webb's resentment of the Cambridge men may have been partly caused by her lack of a university education; she had educated herself, and supported her work on her private income of £1,000 per year.
20
Hale,
Friends and Apostles
, 132.
21
Webb and Webb,
Letters
, 2:372. The Webbs defined themselves as “B's” â Bourgeois, Benevolent, and Bureaucratic.
22
Hassall,
Rupert Brooke
, 168.
23
Webb,
Our Partnership
, 417.
24
Ibid., 419.
25
Hassall,
Rupert Brooke
, 227.
26
Jacques Raverat to Ka Cox, 19 Jan. 1910, in possession of Val Arnold-Foster.
27
LRB
, 265.
28
Ibid., 258.
29
Holroyd,
Lytton Strachey
, 427. J.M. Keynes reported this to Duncan Grant.
30
LRB
, 259.
31
These are the words of Franz Seldte, Nazi minister for labour.
1
LRB
, 85.
2
Hale,
Friends and Apostles
, 119.
3
The Uranians were inspired by a Greek ideal of love between older men and adolescent males.
4
Oates, “Charles Edward Sayle,” 236â69. Sayle's “Diary” is in the Cambridge University Library, entry for 6 March 1908.
5
Sayle, “Diary,” 22 Feb. 1908.
6
Holroyd,
Lytton Strachey
, 278, 124.
7
Harry Norton to Lytton Strachey, 18 Oct., 24 Oct., 9 Oct. 1906,
BL
.
8
The intellectual disappointment can be put down to rather narrow Apostolic ideas about cleverness, which required a particular style of wordplay derived from G.E. Moore. Except for Keynes, Hobhouse had more influence on British life than any other twentieth-century Apostle, through the “Hobhouse Report,” which led to the establishment of the national park system in 1949.
9
Holroyd,
Lytton Strachey
, 281â2.
10
Gwen Raverat, Novel, 1.1.7, where James is given the pseudonym “Archie Hamilton.”
11
Holroyd,
Lytton Strachey
, 168. “Taupe” (French for mole) was Forster's nickname.
12
The possible exception was an affair with Arthur Hobhouse. See Chapter 8.
13
James Strachey to Lytton Strachey, 7 April 1909,
BL
.
14
James Strachey to Duncan Grant, 16 April 1909, quoted in Taddeo,
Lytton Strachey
, 91. The year before, James was taken aback when Rupert told him about his love for Noel: “Oh God! He's in love with a woman. Why did we think him a sodomite? . . . Don't you see now
why
he's kept everything so infernally dark? He's ashamed â because it's a woman.”
15
Whales
here refers to sardines. Rupert had just come from an Apostles meeting on Saturday, 30 October.
16
Hale,
Friends and Apostles
, 250â2.
17
Ibid., 155.
1
LRB
, 171.
2
LRB
, 173.
3
Hale,
Friends and Apostles
, 249.
4
LRB
, 139. The “elementalism” here consisted of four nights of camping out, while walking across Wales to the Fabian Summer School in August.
5
Carpenter,
Civilisation
, 46â7.
6
SOL
, 13.
7
SOL
, 16.
8
Raverat, Memoir, 3:8. The play, set in the American west, featured a good-hearted prostitute.
9
The first professor of English at Cambridge, A.W. Verrall, was appointed in 1911. He died soon after and was succeeded by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Rupert's stipend from his father was probably £150 per annum.
10
Although Rupert published nothing more in the
English Review
.
11
LRB
, 188.
12
Brooke,
Prose of Rupert Brooke
, 173.
13
There is a picture of the picnic in Hastings,
Handsomest Young Man
, 87. Dorothy, a Newnham student, was Henry Lamb's sister. She became an archaeologist and civil servant. Robertson became a fellow of Trinity.
14
Hassall,
Rupert Brooke
, 188.
15
Holroyd,
Augustus John
, 362.
16
Ibid., 95.
17
The vacancy arose through the resignation of Leslie Stephen, who was suffering from grievous doubts about Christianity, and also wanted to marry.
18
Carpenter,
My Days and Dreams
, 72, 77.
19
Ward,
Reddie of Abbotsholme
, 56.
20
Ibid., 53.
21
Ibid., 72.
22
Brandreth and Hendry,
John Haden Badley
, 18.
23
E.L. (Peter) Grant Watson, “Bedales,” in
The Old School
, ed. Greene, 215.
24
Greene,
The Old School
, 224, 27.
25
Raverat, “Memoir,” 21B.
26
Ibid., 32â3.
27
Garnett,
Golden Echo
, 166.
28
Ibid., 170.
29
Badley,
A Schoolmaster's Testament
, 45.
30
Bedales Record
, 1908.
31
Badley,
A Schoolmaster's Testament
, 169. Frances Partridge, who was at Bedales from 1915 to 1917, notes that Badley coached groups of naked teenage girls for their life-saving tests. She considered him, in retrospect, “an old hypocrite and a far from admirable character.”
Memories
, 48.
32
Garnett,
Golden Echo
, 169.
33
“Sally” to Noel Olivier, 2 Feb. 1912, private collection.
34
SOL
, 10 Feb. 1911, 81. Noel had not yet started at Bedales when she had these encounters in 1908, but the school culture certainly reinforced her habit of guarding her emotions.
35
LRB
, 135. Misdated; should be August 1909.
36
LRB
, 175; Rupert Brook to Dudley Ward,
BA
; Hassall,
Rupert Brooke
, 196.
37
Gwen Darwin to Frances Cornford, 25 Aug. 1908,
BL
.
38
LRB
, 194.
39
Ibid., 184, 192â4. Ben Keeling was invited, but refused.
40
Ibid., 195.
41
Ibid., 181.
42
In January 1910 he would flee his office and set sail for six months in California and British Columbia.
43
Gwen Raverat, Novel, 2.1.4â5. Pseudonyms have been replaced with names of the real-life models.
1
LRB
, 211.
2
In 1916 Allen served the first of several prison terms as leader of the No-Conscription Fellowship.
3
Hale,
Friends and Apostles
, 114.
4
LRB
, 248.
5
However, Rupert said the income was scheduled to go up to £900 in 1911, without giving a reason. That would imply a capital of more than £20,000. When Mrs Brooke died in 1930 she left £20,753.
6
SOL
, 36, 37.
7
Noel Olivier to David Garnett, Tuesday 22 (February or March 1910?), Northwestern University Library.
8
LRB
, 212.
9
Ka Cox to James Strachey, 2 Feb. 1912,
BL
.
10
Raverat, Memoir, 3:22â3.
11
Hale,
Friends and Apostles
, 256.
12
LRB
, 238.
13
Garnett,
The Golden Echo
, 222.
14
Mary Newbery Sturrock (who once accompanied her), interview with the author.
15
Hassall,
Rupert Brooke
, 230.
16
Raverat, Memoir, 3:24.
17
SOL
, 10 Feb. 1911, 82. Noel's eccentric spelling has been preserved throughout.
18
Mary Newbery Sturrock to Noel Olivier, 24 April 1914, private collection.
19
Justin Brooke to Noel Olivier, 9 July 1916, private collection. Justin would have been twenty-seven in 1912. He married Doris Mead in 1917.
20
Pye, “Memoir,” quoted in Hastings,
Handsomest Young Man
, 97.
21
Raverat, Memoir, 3:24. Raverat's pseudonyms in the memoir were “Yseult” for Noel and “Charles Rivers” for Rupert.
22
Rupert Brooke to Lytton Strachey, 11 Sept. 1910, Berg.
23
Gwen Raverat to Frances Cornford [Aug. 1910],
BL
.
24
Jacques Raverat to Ka Cox, 25 Aug. 1910, in possession of Val Arnold-Foster.
25
LRB
, 256. Noel did not go on this occasion.
26
Jacques Raverat to Ka Cox, 29 Sep., 19 Jan., 29 Sep. 1910, in possession of Val Arnold-Foster.
27
SOL
, 50.
1
Jacques Raverat to Ka Cox, 20 July, 29 Sept., 25 April [1910â11?], in possession of Val Arnold-Foster.
2
Gwen Raverat, Novel, 2.2.17; Mary Newbery Sturrock, interview with author.
3
See, for example, “Dust” and “The Life Beyond.”
4
Rosalind's father was Hamo Thorneycroft, sculptor and son of sculptors. Her mother, née Agatha Cox, was Lady Olivier's sister.
Rosalind divorced Baynes after the war and went to live in Italy, where she had an affair with D.H. Lawrence that was a partial inspiration for
Lady Chatterley's Lover
. She then married Hugh Popham, who had divorced Bryn Olivier.
5
Bryn Olivier to Hugh Popham, “Wednesday night” [12 Oct.? 1910], in possession of A.E. (Tony) Popham, Hugh's son.
6
Rupert Brooke to Ka Cox, 28 Nov. 1910,
BA
.
7
Jacques Raverat to Ka Cox, ?16 Dec. 1910, in possession of Val Arnold-Foster.
8
LRB
, 265.
9
Ibid., 270.
10
Gwen Raverat, Novel, 2.3.24.
11
Ibid., 2.3.28. Pseudonyms have been converted: “George” to Jacques; “Hubert” to Rupert.
12
LRB
, 269.
13
LRB
, 270.
14
Lawrence,
Letters
, 1:416. One of those artists, a failed one, was Adolf Hitler. He moved to Munich in May 1913 to avoid conscription in Austria. He lived at the north end of Schwabing, and supported himself by peddling watercolours and postcards in coffee houses.
15
See Green,
Mountain of Truth
.
16
Grohmann,
Wassily Kandinsky
, 65.
17
LRB
, 286.
18
Ibid., 286.
19
Ibid., 288.
20
Rupert Brooke to Ka Cox, 31 Mar. 1911,
BA
. The poem “Lust” is dated 1909 in the
Poetical Works
, but in an unpublished letter to Jacques (6 Dec. 1911) Rupert says it is about Elisabeth.
21
Rupert Brooke to Elisabeth van Rysselberghe, ?16 April 1911, private collection.
22
Rupert Brooke to James Strachey, 20 April 1911, Berg.
23
LRB
, 301â2.
24
Rupert Brooke to Ka Cox, ?3 Mar 1911,
BA
.
25
LRB
, 300. By the “writings of Jews,” Rupert was thinking mainly of Schnitzler.
26
Jacques Raverat to Ka Cox, Monday [late 1910], in possession of Val Arnold-Foster.
27
Gwen Raverat, Novel, 2.5.36.
