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INDEX
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Ackerley, Joe, 62, 233
aestheticism, 52, 113
American lecture circuit, 206
antisemitism, 209
Apostles society, 19, 59–60, 63, 171, 175, 233
arrests, 85, 203
art Bloomsbury style, 19–20
exhibitions, 20, 45, 89, 90
Ashmolean Museum, 92
Asquith, Margot, 74
Baddely, Hermione, 88
Baird, Sandy, 220
ballet, 78, 91, 94
Bankhead, Tallulah, 94
Banting, John, 54, 86, 220, 221
Barnes, Djuna, 208
Barney, Natalie, 208, 211
Bath and Bottle Parties, 8
Beardsley, Aubrey, 113
Beaton, Cecil appearance, 119–20, 122, 127
photography, 6, 63, 120, 121, 126
social life, 55, 93–94
staying with Oswald Mosley, 206
Virginia Woolf on, 107–8
Bedford, Sybille, 222
Beerbohm, Max, 3, 129
Begbie, Harold, 111–12, 184
Bell, Angelica, 186
Bell, Clive on Bloomsbury Group, 28
character, 29
First World War, 25, 26
on Gargoyle Club, 89
Gordon Square home, 46
habits, 8, 96–97
letters to Lytton Strachey, 29
marriage, 4, 19
Memoir Club, 175
Omega Workshops, 22
parties, 80
promotion of art, 22
relationships in general, 34, 186, 221
writing, 93, 97, 230
on Young Bloomsbury, 5
Bell, Vanessa artwork, 60, 72, 81, 230
Bloomsbury influence, 21
character, 29
exhibitions, 89
Gordon Square home, 4, 46, 78
on Lytton Strachey, 18–19
marriage, 4, 19
Memoir Club, 175, 176
relationship with Duncan Grant, 26, 33–34, 37
social gatherings, 178–79, 181, 183, 185
Bevan, Aneurin, 204
Bingham, Henrietta appearance, 48
arrival in England, 2
parties, 1–2, 5
relationship with Kirstein, 2, 79
relationships in general, 68, 80, 144, 147
sexuality, 10
Birrell & Garnett (bookshop), 2, 3, 47, 49, 51, 173
Birrell, Frankie, 47
bisexuality, 95–96, 211
Bloomsbury interior design, 71, 72, 78, 81, 86, 151
as place for experimentation, 7
see also Fitzroy Square; Gordon Square
Bloomsbury Group characteristics, 12–13, 28, 49
reputation, 3, 20, 28
bookshops, 2, 3, 46–47, 49
Boothby, Bob, 211, 224–25
Bowra, Maurice, 56, 108
Brenan, Gerald, 137, 145, 147, 148
Brewer, Joseph, 207, 222
Bright Young Things aestheticism, 52
parties, 112
“Bright Young Things,” 5
Britt, Bobby, 85
Bunny, see Garnett, David “Bunny”
Bussy, Dorothy, 140, 159, 163
Bussy, Simon, 140
Cambridge University, 59–60, 61, 63
Carrington, Dora artwork, 32, 35–36, 37, 68, 136, 150, 153, 230
background, 34, 38
character, 35
death, 161, 228, 229
film, 128
joins Bloomsbury Group, 32
on Julia Strachey, 140–41, 164
marriage, 39–40
parties, 87, 93
relationship with Lytton Strachey, 34, 35–37, 44–45, 229
relationships in general, 68, 143
Slade friends, 44
on Tomlin, 161
on Wilsford Manor, 127–28
censorship, 10, 183–84
Chappell, Billy, 94
Charleston Farmhouse, Sussex, 26, 34, 60, 136, 146, 232
Chatto & Windus, 48, 173
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (Strachey), 162–64, 231
Church, Richard, 200
club culture, 85, 88, 191 see also Cranium Club; Memoir Club
Coates-Trotter, Prue, 154
Cochran, Charles B., 1
Colette, 100, 208, 233
Coming Struggle for Power, The (Strachey), 223–24
Connolly, Cyril, 43–44
Conservatives, 73
conversion therapy, 10, 114–16, 130–31
Costelloe, Karin, 46, 82, 83, 177
Costelloe, Ray, 140, 152
Courtauld, Samuel, 90
Coward, Noel, 105, 187–88
Cranium Club, 169–74
Criminal Law Amendment Acts, 77
cross-dressing, 8, 79
Crossman, Richard, 224
cruising, 86
dance/dancing arrests for, 85
clubs, 91
Julia Strachey, 139–40
Davidson, Angus, 62, 65, 79, 93, 144, 151, 152, 155
Davidson, Douglas, 62, 64, 65, 73, 93, 94, 101
Davidson, Malcolm, 62, 64, 65
Debenham, Alison, 160
Debenham, Audrey, 157
Debenham, Ernest, 158
Debenham, Gilbert, 155, 157–58, 160, 161
den mothers, 21
divorce, 222
Dobson, Frank, 49, 146, 173
Dos Passos, John, 208
Douglas, James, 184, 185
Draper, Muriel, 208, 209, 210, 224
Economic Consequences of the Peace, The (Keynes), 5, 45
effeminate, cult of, 112–13, 119–20, 197
elections of 1929, 214–15
Elizabeth and Essex (Strachey), 93, 97, 100, 207, 230
Elkin Mathews (booksellers), 54
Ellis, Havelock, 183
Eminent Victorians (Strachey), 5, 27, 43–44, 230
Ewing, Max, 209, 210
exhibitions, 5, 20, 45, 89, 90
Fairbanks, Douglas, 74
family of choice, 20, 31
fancy-dress, 92–93, 121–22, 125–27
farm labour, 26, 27, 32, 34
fascism, 205, 221
film, 128, 206
First World War, 4–5, 25–29, 33
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 208, 213, 216–17, 227
Fitzgerald, Zelda, 208, 216–17
Fitzroy Square, 19
Ford, Brinsley, 159
Forster, E. M. Cambridge University, 59
Cranium Club, 170
First World War, 25
Maurice, 59, 62
Memoir Club, 175
nickname, 21
parties, 86
pre–First World War success, 4, 21
relationships in general, 62
Fouque, Yvette, 211
Freud, Sigmund, 2, 10, 20, 94, 203
Fry, Roger on Grant, 45–46
Memoir Club, 175
Omega Workshops, 22, 27
promotion of art, 4, 20, 22, 159
Gargoyle Club, 8, 55, 88, 89–90, 92, 95, 221
Garland, Madge, 9, 190, 220
Garnett, David “Bunny” background, 33
birthday party, 79–80
bookshop, 3, 47
character, 32
Cranium Club, 169–70, 171, 172–73, 174
joins Bloomsbury Group, 32
Lady into Fox, 48
leaves Charleston, 38
marriage, 47
meets Tomlin, 48
nickname, 32
relationship with Grant and Bell, 33–34
relationships in general, 144, 155
on Tomlin, 231–32
Garnett, Ray, 47, 48
Garnett, Richard, 47
Garsington Manor, 26, 51–52, 111, 150
Gathorne-Hardy, Eddie appearance, 54–55
background, 52, 54
conversion therapy, 115
parties, 179
Gathorne-Hardy, Robert, 52
gender nonconformity, 77
General Strike, 69, 203
Gertler, Mark, 34
Gielgud, John, 187
Gollancz, Victor, 224
Gordon Square, 6, 12, 17, 46
Grant, Duncan appearance, 82, 147
artwork, 2–3, 46, 65, 73, 90, 93, 117, 164, 230
at Bingham and Kirstein party, 1
character, 29
first solo exhibition, 5, 45
First World War, 26
Gordon Square home, 4, 46, 78
Memoir Club, 175
parties, 89, 90
performances, 78
relationship with Angus Davidson, 65
relationship with Eddy Sackville-West, 117
relationship with Garnett, 32, 33
