Philip Larkin (82 page)

  
21.
   
Jill
, p. 19.

  
22.
   To his parents, 27 June 1943.

  
23.
   
SL
, p. 60.

  
24.
   Motion, p. 106. A fragmentary
jeu d’esprit
, ‘Ante Meridian: The Autobiography of Brunette Coleman’ interrupts the manuscript of
Michaelmas Term at St. Bride’s
for nine pages, but its broad farce and lack of girls’-school references set it apart from the main Brunette canon.

  
25.
   To Amis, 24 October 1943. Not in
SL
. Motion wrote parts of his biography by dictation, which causes some mistakes. Vicary becomes ‘Vickery’, Breary becomes ‘Breany’, Burch becomes ‘Birch’, and Melibee becomes ‘Mellaby’ (Motion, pp. 100, 93, 184). ‘What Are We Writing For?’ becomes, inadvertently, ‘What We Are Writing For’ (pp. 100–1).

  
26.
   Sue Sims, review of
Trouble at Willow Gables and Other Fictions
by Philip Larkin,
AL
14 (October 2002), pp. 37–9, at p. 38.

  
27.
   
TWG
, p. 12.

  
28.
   Ibid., 49–50.

  
29.
   Théophile Gautier,
Mademoiselle de Maupin
, trans. R. and E. Powys Mathers (London: Folio Society, 1948), p. 17.

  
30.
   Ibid., p. 266.

  
31.
   
TWG
, p. 84.

  
32.
   Ibid., p. 89.

  
33.
   Vicary,
Niece of the Headmistress
, p. 119.

  
34.
   
TWG
, p. 105.

  
35.
   Ibid., p. 128.

  
36.
   Motion, p. 62.

  
37.
   12 October 1943.
SL
, p. 75.

  
38.
   To Amis, 24 October 1943. Not in
SL
.

  
39.
   To Amis, 7 September 1943. Not in
SL
.

  
40.
   Julian Hall,
The Senior Commoner
(London: Martin Secker, 1934). See
TWG
, p. xiv. At one point in Hall’s novel a visitor to the school recalls a particularly attractive pupil: ‘A brunette, isn’t he?’ (p. 373).

  
41.
   ‘The Lesbianism of Philip Larkin’,
The Movement Reconsidered
, ed. Zachary Leader (Oxford: OUP, 2009), p. 96.

  
42.
   http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/modern/montgomery/montgomery.html.

  
43.
   12 October 1943.
SL
, p. 75.

  
44.
   See ‘A Catalogue of the Papers of Victor Gollancz’, University of Warwick, MSS.157/3/P/DOM/3/1–67.

  
45.
   Bodleian, MS Eng. C.3894, fol. 132.

  
46.
   Trevor Tolley and John White (eds),
Larkin’s Jazz
, Properbox 155 (four-CD set), disc 2 ‘Oxford’, track 8.

  
47.
   
LKA
, p. 17.

  
48.
   
The Complete Works of George Orwell
, vol. 12:
1940–1
, ed. Peter Davison (London: Secker & Warburg, 1998), pp. 57–79.

  
49.
   
The Complete Works of George Orwell
, vol. 14:
1941–2
, ed. Peter Davison (London: Secker & Warburg, 1998), p. 65.

  
50.
   Rosemary Auchmuty,
The World of Girls
(London: The Women’s Press, 1992), p. 205.

  
51.
   
TWG
, p. 256.

  
52.
   Ibid., p. 269.

  
53.
   Larkin kept one of the four copies of
Sugar and Spice
himself (now in the University of Hull Collection, The History Centre, Hull, DPL(2)/1/11), gave one to Bruce Montgomery (now in the Bodleian), one to Kingsley Amis (now in the Huntington Library, California) and one to Miriam Plaut, a possible model for Katherine in
A Girl in Winter
(see
SL
, pp. 77–8).

  
54.
   Fairlie Bruce’s poem forms the epigraph to
Dimsie Moves Up Again
, p. 6. See
TWG
, p. 266.

  
55.
   ‘The hills in their recumbent postures’,
Complete Poems
, pp. 179, 542.

  
56.
   BD2, p. 8.

  
57.
   
SL
, p. 658.

  
58.
   
TWG
, p. 243.

  
59.
   
SL
, p. 66.

  
60.
   
TWG
, pp. 247–8. In l.2 Burnett has, incorrectly, ‘whom I once knew’ (
Complete Poems
, p. 227)

  
61.
   Charles Baudelaire,
Les Épaves
(1866).

  
62.
   See Graham Chesters, ‘Larkin and Baudelaire’s Damned Women’, in James Dolamore
(ed.),
Making Connections: Essays in French Culture and Society in Honour of Philip Thody
(Bern: Peter Lang, 1999), pp. 81–92.

  
63.
   The original names of the characters remain unaltered in the second novella.

  
64.
   
TWG
,
pp.
168–75.

  
65.
   BD2, p. 8.

  
66.
   
TWG
, p. 181.

  
67.
   Ibid., p. 184.

  
68.
   Ibid.

  
69.
   Ibid., p. 188.

  
70.
   Ibid.,
p.
223.

  
71.
   Ibid., pp. 229–30.

  
72.
   To Amis, 7 September 1943. Not in
SL
.

  
73.
   Interview with the
Observer
,
RW
, p. 51.

4: Nothing So Glad (1943–5)

    
1.
   Ruth Siverns, ‘Philip Larkin at Wellington 1943–1946’,
AL
1 (April 1996), pp. 4–5, at p. 4.

    
2.
   David Gerard, ‘Wellington Walkabout’,
AL
8 (October 1999), pp. 27–30, at p. 30. ‘Glentworth’ still stands.

    
3.
   
SL
, p. 85.

    
4.
   To Sutton, 22 March 1944. Not in
SL
.

    
5.
   
RW
, pp. 31–5.