Among the Bohemians (70 page)

life in Chelsea,
101

personal squalor,
203
,
205

Gauguin, Paul,
110

Gautier, Théophile,
147
,
154
,
275

George V, King: wears beard,
148

Gertler, Mark:

in Café Royal brawl,
158

in Cassis,
233

celebrates Armistice,
256
–7

colours,
144

death,
25
,
282

Dorothy Brett helps with chores and cleaning,
205
,
217

dress,
134
,
151

eating habits,
177–8

at Garsington,
56
,
261

grows hair long,
147
,
149

mimicry,
263

in Paris,
229

poverty,
18
,
24–5
,
28–9

relations with Carrington,
24–5
,
57
,
177

wild behaviour,
274

Gill, Eric:

declines education for daughters,
91

deplores convenience food,
181

dress,
140

incestuous practices,
51–2

and modern house design,
105

sculpture in Golden Calf club,
266

water supply,
177

wears beard,
149

Clothes
,
139–40
,
149

Gill, Mary:

cooking,
177

marriage,
52
,
60

Gilman, Harold,
268

Gimson, Ernest,
105

girls
see
women

Gladstone, Margaret,
74

Golden Calf club
see
Cave of the Golden Calf club

Goldring, Douglas:

on liaisons with black men,
49

on Mary Butts’s flat,
108

‘new morality’ and sexual freedom,
40

on poverty,
23–4

Gone Abroad,
235

The Nineteen Twenties
,
57

Gomme, Lionel (‘Tiger’),
49

Gore, Spencer,
266

Gosse, Sir Edmund:

patronage to younger authors,
19

Father and Son
,
96

Gough, Sylvia,
258
,
274

Grahame, Kenneth:
The Wind in the Willows
,
221
,
245

Grand Tour, the,
222

Grant, Duncan:

camping,
172

celebrates Armistice,
256

collecting,
111

criticised by
Daily Sketch
,
117

in
Dreadnought
hoax,
145

dress,
136

at Garnett’s party,
259

at Garsington,
261

ignorance of cooking,
179

interior decoration,
113–15
,
117–18

in later years,
287

relations and child with Vanessa Bell,
28
,
44

sexual activities,
44

subsidised by Keynes,
17

and Vanessa’s servant troubles,
208

visits Nan Hudson and Ethel Sands,
219

Graves, Nancy (
née
Nicholson):

affair with Phibbs,
44

caravan holiday,
243

and children’s upbringing,
76–7

and domestic demands,
214

interior decorating,
114

marriage relations,
42
,
214

runs shop,
1–2

Graves, Robert:

borrows horse-drawn van,
243

on children’s upbringing,
76

complexities of love life,
42–4

on Edith Sitwell’s sewing,
218

later years in Mallorca,
285

lives abroad,
233

party-going and -giving,
259
,
263

strives for independence,
1–2

Gray, Cecil,
271

Gray, Stewart,
189–90

Great Missenden: ‘Farmhouse School’,93

Gresham’s school,
90

Grigson, Geoffrey,
16–17

Group Theatre,
47
,
288

Guevaro, Alvaro (‘Chile’),
114
,
258

gypsies,
128–32
,
201
,
223
,
242
,
244

‘Gypsy’ (Chelsea hostess),
122
,
250

Gypsy Lore Society,
242

Haig, Margaret,
74

hair styles:

men’s,
147–8

women’s,
149–50
,
152

Haire, Dr Norman,
51

Hale, Kathleen:

Augustus John employs,
17
,
39

on ‘Badger’ Moody,
156

cooking facilities,
177

dislikes term ‘Bohemian’,
277

on Dorelia’s cooking,
170

dressmaking,
143–4

favours Bertorelli’s restaurant,
185

forbidden to cuddle children,
96

housework,
217

interior decorating,
113–14

on John children,
70

later years and death,
288

laundry,
216

living conditions,
206

marriage to McClean,
61

nostalgia for own room,
101
,
103

on parties,
262

poverty and inadequate diet,
29–30
,
188
,
190

reacts against parental home interior,
103

sells hair,
11

sexual behaviour and lovers,
34

Stewart Gray inhabits basement,
189n

takes hashish,
276

zest for life,
265

Orlando
books,
61

A Slender Reputation
,
30

Hall, Radclyffe:
The Well of Loneliness
,
48

Ham Bone club,
266–7

Ham Spray (house),
44
,
170–1
,
170
,
212

Hamnett, Nina:

alcoholism,
265
,
274
,
281

bawdiness,
39–40
,
263

and Anthony Powell,
28

celebrates Armistice,
256

character and career,
19–21

cooking,
189

death,
281

descent into squalor,
206

disillusionment with Paris,
6

dress,
156

earns money,
13
& n

employs charladies,
209

excited by working class men,
49

in Fitzrovia,
272

in Gargoyle Club,
268

goes hatless,
150

illustrations,
184
,
256
,
289

in libel cases,
21

loses virginity,
33

nakedness,
142

at parties,
264–5

patronises Eiffel Tower restaurant,
268

poverty,
2
,
19–21
,
29
,
186–7

visits Anna Wickham,
218

visits Russia,
227

Viva King helps in later years,
284

wears hair short,
149

Is She a Lady
?,
265

Laughing Torso
,
265

Hamur, Haraldur (‘Iceland’),
270

Harlequin nightclub, Beak Street (Soho),
53
,
266

Harper, Allanah,
28
,
252

Harris, Frank,
33
,
266

hashish,
275–6

hats,
150

Healthy and Artistic Dress Union,
138

‘Helen, Auntie’,
21–2

Heseltine, Bobby (
née
Channing; ‘Puma’),
62
,
270
,
273
,
281

Heseltine, Philip (‘Peter Warlock’):

affair with Viva King,
62–3

in brawl,
270

at Café Royal,
270–11

dispenses hashish at party,
276

dresses up,
263

nakedness,
142–3

suicide,
63

Hichens, Robert:
The Green Carnation
,
200

Higgens family (Charleston servants), I97n

Higgens, Grace,
210

Higgens, John,
210

Higgens, Walter,
210

Hillier, Georgiana,
61

Hillier, Tristram,
61
,
63
,
202

Holroyd, Michael,
xiv
,
245
,
286

homes
see
furniture and interiors

homosexuality:

legalised between consenting adults,
40

and parties,
262

popular hostility to,
47–8

prevalence,
45–6

Hooper, Kenneth,
64–5

Hope–Johnstone, John,
91–2
,
131
,
161
,
238–9
,
258

Horridge, Mr Justice,
64

Housemakers’ Society,
105

houses
see
furnishing and interiors

housework,
179–80
,
191–3
,
194–7
,
195
,
199–200
,
207–8
,
210–12
,
216–20

Howard, Brian,
169
,
243
,
259
,
268

Huddleston, Sisley,
257

Bohemian Literary and Social Life in Paris
,
230

Hudson, Nan,
112
,
219

Hudson, W.H.:
Hampshire Days
,
129

Hunt, Violet:

affair with Ford Madox Ford,
225