Baker, Joe, 249–50
Baldrey, Mrs (RH’s godmother), 7
Baldwin, Nurse, 344–5
Baldwin, Oliver, 197
Baldwin, Stanley, 200, 215
Balfour, Gerald, 88, 100, 111, 118
Ballou, Robert (US publisher), 245
Bankhead, Tallulah, 130–1, 136, 156, 167
Barker, Lilian, 218
Barnet, Revd Mr (of Rye), 252
Barney, Natalie: and Romaine Brooks, 122; in Florence, 124; lesbian social life, 125, 147, 222; RH visits in Paris, 135, 261, 276, 290; depicted in The Well of Loneliness, 160; privileged social position, 167; Compton Mackenzie satirizes, 171; on French Riviera, 234, 284; and RH’s relations with Evguenia, 279; criticizes fascism, 303
Bath, Hubert, 43
Batten, Cara see Harris, Cara
Batten, George, 33–9, 41, 43, 48, 58, 96; death, 50–1, 80
Batten, Mabel Veronica (née Hatch; ‘Ladye’): relations with RH, 33–5, 40–4, 47–53, 559, 65, 74–9, 85, 273, 314; background, character and amours, 35–9; Sargent portrait of, 39, 136, 213; diaries, 47, 51, 62, 67, 85, 99; Catholicism, 48, 54; ill-health, 55, 57, 66, 79; in Great War, 60–1, 65–6; injured in motor accident, 61–2, 66; edits RH’s stories, 65; will, 65–6, 80, 101; and RH’s attachment to Una, 74–6, 78; Una Troubridge usurps, 74, 124, 302; death, 79–81, 85–6; RH seeks spiritualist contact with, 86, 88–93, 95–6, 99, 155, 243; and accusations of immorality against RH, 106, 108–9; RH’s posthumous devotion to, 116, 118, 124, 136, 169, 238; RH dedicates The Unlit Lamp (Octopi) to, 126, 132; and RH’s theories of inversion, 155; and RH’s The Well of Loneliness, 159; Una ceases anniversary tributes, 358
Beach, Sylvia, 214, 222
Beauclerc, Helen, 148
Begley, Revd Walter, 6, 24–5
Bell, Mr & Mrs Hamilton, 60
Bell, Quentin, 198
Bell, Vanessa, 186
Benn, Mr (friend of Evguenia), 335–6
Bennett, Arnold, 173–4, 183, 185, 206, 221
Benson, E.F, 241–2, 325
Benson, Monsignor Hugh, 241
Bertha (parlourmaid), 244, 247, 249
Besant, Annie, 55, 67
Birkett, Norman (later 1st Baron), 198–9, 204–8
Birley, Dr, 217
Biron, Sir Chartres: tries and condemns The Well of Loneliness, 180, 183, 191–3, 199–212, 214, 237, 250; Cape publishes, 249
Black Boy (house), Rye, 238, 240, 245, 252–4
Bloomsbury Group, 186
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 38
Bodkin, Sir Archibald, 180, 191, 200, 204, 214, 217–18
Bonaventura, Father, 174, 193, 238, 240, 247, 249, 252, 255, 257
Bourdet, Edouard: La Prisonnière, 147
Bourke, Edward, 36, 38, 42
Bourne, Mabel, 240, 249, 253, 258, 280
Bradley (chauffeur), 143, 146
Brandt, Carl (US literary agent), 170, 189
Braun, Father Wendelin, 257
Breeds (Rye builder), 243
Breslau (German cruiser), 72
Brewster, Henry, 118
Brittain, Vera, 173
Brogli, Princesse de, 284
Brooks, Romaine: paintings, 52, 122; invites RH to Capri, 122, 124; RH meets, 122; lesbian social life, 125; and RH’s The Forge, 126–7, 135; RH and Una give fancy-dress ball for, 130; portrait of Una, 132; privileged social position, 167; Compton Mackenzie satirizes, 171; and suppression of RH’s Well of Loneliness, 198; on French Riviera, 234, 284; RH visits in Paris, 261; visits RH at Sirmione, 266; absent in USA, 276; in Italy after war, 369
Bruce, Miss (nurse), 131
Buchel, Charles, 159, 370
Buck, Pearl S., 317
Bullock, Molly, 252
Bumpus, John and Edward (publishers), 32, 42, 49
Burnelones, Sir Edward, 69
Burroughes-Burroughes, Dorothy (‘Budge’), 122, 135, 137
Bushell, Judge Hyman, 222–3
Butes, Alfred, 196
Butt, Sir Charles Parker, 14
Cameron, Julia Margaret, 206
Cape, Jonathan (publisher): publishes The Well of Loneliness, 168, 170–2, 187, 208; and campaign to ban Well of Loneliness, 175–6, 178–81, 183–4, 191–2, 195, 218, 220; summoned, 193, 203; increases RH’s royalties, 214; relations with RH, 237; and RH’s The Master of the House, 245; RH attacks, 246, 249
‘Career of Mark Anthony Brake, The’ (RH; story), 63–4
Carnarvon, Catherine, Countess of, 344–6
Carolina, Maria, 320
Carpenter, Edward, 187
Carpenter, William Boyd, Bishop of Ripon, 187
Carpenter’s Son, The see Master of the House, The
Caruth, Harry, 31
Caruth, Jane see Randolph, Jane
Cassell (publishers), 135–6, 141, 144
Casson, (Sir) Lewis, 148
Chains see Forge, The
Chamberlain, Neville, 315, 320, 324
Chambers, Dorothea, 33, 40
Chaplin, Olive, 305, 314
Chapman’s pet shop (London), 253
Cheattle, Dr, 61
Chesterton, G.K., 147
Cheyney, Mr (of Rye), 252
Child, Dr Armando, 344, 346, 357, 360, 375, 377
Chip Chase, Hadley Wood, Middlesex, 101–2, 104, 115–16, 118, 120–1
Chivers, Mr & Mrs (Lynton hotel keepers), 329–30
Churchill, Dr Stella, 197
Churchill, (Sir) Winston S., 72–3, 200, 330, 333
Clarendon, Edward Hyde Villiers, 5th Earl of, 42, 67
Clarendon, Emma, Countess of (née Hatch; then Bourke), 36, 42, 47, 50, 67, 80
Clark, Miss (RH’s secretary), 139, 146
Clarke, Dolly (née Diehl; RH’s cousin): RH’s affair with, 31–3, 40–1; allowance from RH, 44, 66; marriage, 44, 51; RH maintains relations with, 47, 55, 58–9; in Great War, 60–1; children, 66, 85, 93; RH stays with, 79, 85; disagreements with Una Troubridge, 98; attends RH’s psychic reading, 100; in Malvern with RH, 314
Clarke, Jacqueline (Cara Harris’s daughter), 85
Clarke, Robert Coningsby, 40, 43–4, 51–2, 60
Clermont Tonnerre, Duchess of, 147, 221
Cochran, (Sir) Charles B., 253
Cockburn, Sir Alexander James Edmund (Lord Chief Justice), 201
Cocteau, Jean, 284
Cole, Mrs (schoolteacher), 17
Colefax, Sibyl, Lady, 40
Colette, 147–8, 167, 221, 233, 261, 284; Chéri (adapted by Una Troubridge), 238, 240, 242
Collingwood, Father, 248
Collins, Dr Joseph, 227
Collins (publishers), 126
Connolly, Cyril, 174
Conran, Dr, 247
Cook, James, 191
Corsini, Maria, 369
Coster, Howard, 130, 246
Coventry, Cicely, 119
Covici, Pascal, 213, 220, 223–4
Covici-Friede (US publishers), 213, 220, 224, 229–30, 310
Coward, (Sir) Noël, 129–30, 159, 187, 240, 242
Craig, Edy, 240–1, 254, 305, 314
Crichton-Miller, Dr Hugh, 71, 74, 77, 88, 94, 97, 100, 101–4
Cripps, Etheline, 131, 366–7
Cripps, Roy, 366
Cummings, Dr, 248
Cunningham Code, The (RH; unfinished novel), 134
Curtis, Dr Montague, 147, 249, 258, 280
Cust, Robert Henry, 194
Daily Express, 176, 179, 213, 239
Daily Herald, 184, 221
Davies, Peter, 368
Davison, Emily, 52
Dawson, Bertrand Edward, Viscount Dawson of Penn, 337, 340
Dennett, Mary Ware: The Sex Side of Life, 223
Dickens, Charles: Our Mutual Friend, 201
Dickie (maid), 144, 147
Diehl, Edwin Otley (RH’s maternal grandfather), 8
Diehl, Mrs Edwin Otley (RH’s maternal grandmother): relations with RH, 6, 8–10, 16, 18, 27, 30, 47; death, 50
Diehl, William (RH’s uncle), 31
Doubleday (US publisher), 144, 169, 171
Douglas, James: attacks The Well of Loneliness, 175, 176–9, 183, 189, 196, 205, 207, 213–14, 368; attacks D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow, 202;
Douglas, James-contd lampooned in The Sink of Solitude, 219–20; commends RG’s The Master of the House, 246
Dowling, Dr, 238
Dowson, Sir Oscar, 368
Drake, May, 121
Dreiser, Theodore, 228
Dresser, Marcia van, 242
Duncan, Isadora, 55
Dywell, Mr (hairdresser), 139
Ede, James Chuter, 368–9
Eden, Anthony (later 1st Earl of Avon), 311, 315
Edge, Gladys, 197
Edward VII, King (formerly Prince of Wales), 33, 37, 39, 50
Edward VIII, King (later Duke of Windsor), 297
Egan, Beresford, 220,
