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Authors: Lara Feigel
âif she greatly':
RM,
WMW
, chs 2, 3.
âabout dust-heaped': ibid.,
chs 5, 6.
âNew ruins':
RM,
Pleasure of Ruins
(London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1953),
p. 454.
âI can't think':
RM,
WMW
,
ch. 2.
âDay of wrath': ibid.,
chs 7, 23.
âWe are in hell': ibid.,
ch. 23.
âVery soon trees':
RM,
Pleasure of Ruins
,
p. 454.
âbroken habitations':
RM,
WMW
,
chs 5, 18.
âseized, bound': ibid.,
ch. 31.
âMake your way':
RM, âIn the Ruins',
Spectator
, 18 November 1949.
âsharp sense of':
RM, âThe First Impact of
The Waste Land
', Braybrooke (ed.),
T. S. Eliot: A Symposium for his Seventieth Birthday
(London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1958).
âSlim, elegant and twenty-three':
RM,
WMW
,
chs 2, 34.
âglitter of good': ibid.,
ch. 2.
âI am within':
RM to David Ley, 15 April 1949 (RM TC).
âdispossession of the':
RM,
Pleasure of Ruins
,
pp. 362â3.
âa country of ruins':
EB,
B's C
,
pp. 15, 17.
âinextricably mixed':
RM,
Pleasure of Ruins
,
p. 1.
âthe darkly ruinous': ibid.,
pp. 9, 20, 23.
âstupendous past': ibid.,
pp. 40, 84, 165.
âenjungled, engulfed': ibid., pp. 454â5.
âhow a young lady':
Hamilton Johnson, in Constance Babington Smith, introduction to Rose Macaulay,
Letters to a Friend
.
âIf you were in England':
RM to Hamilton Johnson, 30 August 1950 (
Letters to a Friend)
.
âThe people I love most':
RM to Hamilton Johnson, 28 September 1950 (
Letters to a Friend
).
âPartly my difficulties':
RM to Hamilton Johnson, 28 October 1950 (
Letters to a Friend
).
âdidn't feel jolly':
RM to Hamilton Johnson, 10 November 1952,
Last Letters to a Friend 1952â1958
, ed. Constance Babington Smith (London: Collins, 1962).
âtook up with the':
RM,
ToT
,
chs 7, 20, 14.
âlast little Byzantine':
RM to Hamilton Johnson, 8 July 1954 (
Last Letters to a Friend
).
âan old dream':
RM
, ToT
,
chs 8, 25.
âis exciting': ibid.,
ch. 25.
âa book I have':
RM to Rosamond Lehmann, 11 September 1956 (RL KC).
Â
âI have an':
RM to Jean Macaulay, 22 March 1955 (RM TC).
âshe would not':
RM to Hamilton Johnson, 1 October 1956,
Last Letters to a Friend 1952â1958
, ed. Constance Babington Smith (London: Collins, 1962).
âI can't not be':
RM to Rosamond Lehmann, 11 September 1956 (RL KC).
âwit and brains':
RM,
ToT
,
ch. 24.
âthe long years':
RM to Hamilton Johnson, 9 January 1951,
Letters to a Friend 1950â1952
, ed. Constance Babington Smith (London: Collins, 1961).
âscattered, adrift':
RM,
ToT
,
ch. 25.
âA kind of shining':
RM to Hamilton Johnson, 25 May 1951 (
Letters to a Friend
).
âher ice-blue eyes':
Rosamond Lehmann, âThe Pleasures of Knowing Rose Macaulay', in Constance Babington Smith,
Rose Macaulay: A Biography
(London: Collins, 1972).
âunable to put':
RM to Jean Macaulay, 17 March 1958 (RM TC).
âWhat on earth':
RM, in Anthony Powell, âThe Pleasures of Knowing Rose Macaulay', in Babington Smith,
Rose Macaulay
.
âBut we have all':
Rosamond Lehmann, âThe Pleasures of Knowing Rose Macaulay', in ibid.
âI had immense hope':
EB interview by three writers, 1959 (EB HRC).
âshe told William Plomer':
EB to William Plomer, 6 May 1958,
The Mulberry Tree: Writings of Elizabeth Bowen
, ed. Hermione Lee (London: Vintage, 1999).
âwas the last in which':
CR, diary, 22 January 1957 (
LCW
).
âWe
are
a family':
EB, âBowen's Court', 1958,
People, Places, Things: Essays by Elizabeth Bowen
, ed. Allan Hepburn (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008).
âE and I came home':
CR, diary, 8 May 1956 (
LCW
).
âdependence on home':
EB, âThe Idea of the Home', undated (EB HRC).
âit really would break':
EB to CR, 18 June 1958 (
LCW
).
âThe trouble is':
CR, diary, 23 June 1958 (
LCW
).
âI suppose it's':
EB to CR, 21 July 1958 (
LCW
).
âa clean end':
EB, afterword to
B's C
,
p. 459.
âMy darling, my darling':
EB,
A Time in Rome
(London: Vintage, 2010),
ch. 5.
âHere we have':
EB,
B's C
,
p. 377.
âGuests invited for dinner':
this and much other information in this paragraph comes from an interview conducted by the author with Anthony Felix de Mendelssohn.
âFor the first time':
PdeM to HS, 4 May 1957 (HS PdeM).
âYou have systematically':
PdeM to HS, 31 August 1963 (HS PdeM) (originally in German).
âour life is too short':
HS to PdeM, 25 October 1963 (HS PdeM) (originally in German).
âher ultimate return to Vienna':
see afterword to
Return to Vienna,
trans. Christine Shuttleworth (Riverside, California: Ariadne Press, 2011).
âVery long black':
Evelyn Waugh to Nancy Mitford, 16 May 1951,
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh
, ed. Charlotte Mosley (London: Sceptre, 1997).
âreally very nice':
Christopher Isherwood, diary, 10 May 1948,
Diaries Volume One: 1939â1960
(London: Chatto & Windus, 1996).
âlivid light':
Nancy Mitford to Evelyn Waugh, 18 May 1951 (
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh
).
âa diatribe of':
James Lees-Milne,
Fourteen Friends
(London: John Murray, 1996),
p. 130.
âa shared fondness':
Michael Scammell,
Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic
(New York: Random House, 2009),
p. 495.
âA man falls':
HG, âFalling in Love',
Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green
(London: Harvill, 1993).
âmust meet some time':
HY to Mary Keene, 21 March 1947 (private collection).
âa very good':
HY to Mary Keene, 9 December 1957 (private collection).
âbeyond words wonderful':
HY to Matthew Smith, 4 December 1950 (private collection).
âdeepest sympathy':
HY to Matthew Smith, 21 January 1958 (private collection).
âis to become':
Rosamond Lehmann, âAn Absolute Gift',
Times Literary Supplement
, 6 August 1954.
âDarling. I've read':
HY to Rosamond Lehmann, 30 August 1954 (RL KC).
âThe dark eyes':
Cynthia Koestler,
Stranger on the Square
(London: Hutchinson, 1984),
p. 221.
âOnly the other day':
HG, âFor Jenny with Affection from Henry Green' (
Surviving
).
ânothing, I believe':
CR, diary, 11 June 1961 (
LCW
).
âI had that':
CR, diary, 24 December 1968 (
LCW
).
âI do believe':
CR, diary, 24 May 1973 (
LCW
).
âI shall never':
CR, diary, 14 June 1973 (
LCW
).
âI am never':
CR, diary, 30 July 1973 (
LCW
).
âI think of you':
CW to GG, 13 December 1975 (GG BU).
âWhat a vast amount':
CW to GG, 18 May 1978 (GG BU).
âready to take on':
HG, âBefore the Great Fire' (
Surviving
).
âIn February 1965':
see GG,
A World of my Own: A Dream Diary
(London: Penguin, 1993), pp. 39, 50.
âExistence during the war':
EB, review of Angus Calder's
The People's War
(
The Mulberry Tree
).
Allain, Marie-Françoise,
The Other Man: Conversations with Graham Greene
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984)
Allen, Walter,
As I Walked Down New Grub Street
(London: Heinemann, 1981)
Babington Smith, Constance,
Rose Macaulay: A Biography
(London: Collins, 1972)
Beaton, Cecil,
Self-Portrait With Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton
, ed. Richard Buckle (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979)
Beckett, Francis,
Firefighters and the Blitz
(Wales: The Merlin Press, 2010)
Birkett, Jennifer,
Storm Jameson: A Life
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
Bowen, Elizabeth,
A Time in Rome
(London: Vintage, 2010)
— A World of Love
(London: Jonathan Cape, 1957)
—
Bowen’s Court and Seven Winters
, introduction by Hermione Lee (London: Vintage, 1999)
—
Collected Impressions
(London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1950)
—
Collected Stories
, introduction by Angus Wilson (London: Vintage, 1999)
— Listening In: Broadcasts, Speeches and Interviews by Elizabeth Bowen
, ed. Allan Hepburn
(Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010)
—
Notes on Eire, Espionage Reports to Winston Churchill, 1940–2
, Aubane Historical Society, ed. Jack Lane and Brendan Clifford, 3rd edn
— People, Places, Things: Essays by Elizabeth Bowen
, ed. Allan Hepburn (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008)
— The Heat of the Day
, introduction by Roy Foster (London: Vintage, 2008)
— The Last September
, introduction by Victoria Glendinning (London: Vintage, 1998)
—
The Mulberry Tree: Writings of Elizabeth Bowen
, ed. Hermione Lee (London: Vintage, 1999)
— The Shelbourne
(London: Vintage, 2001)