Fatal Glamour (52 page)

28
Ibid., 2.5.38.

29
Ibid., 2.3.28, 2.10.82.

30
Woolf,
Letters
, 1:463.

31
Jacques Raverat to Ka Cox, Gwithian [?April 1911], in possession of Val Arnold-Foster.

32
Gwen Raverat to Ka Cox, “Wednesday” [?April 1911]; Jacques Raverat to Ka Cox, “Monday” [May? 1911], in possession of Val Arnold-Foster.

1
Hale,
Friends and Apostles
, 112.

2
Raverat, Memoir, 3.17.

3
Ray Costelloe married Oliver Strachey; her sister Karen married Adrian Stephen.

4
Woolf,
Letters
, 1:450, 1:466.

5
LRB
, 296.

6
See Delany, “The Death of a Beautiful Man: Rupert Brooke in Memory and Imagination.”

7
Woolf,
Letters
, 1:446.

8
Ibid., 1:461. Woolf herself was “the Goat” to her sister Vanessa, who was “Dolphin.”

9
Bertrand Russell to Lady Ottoline Morrell, 25 May 1911, Henry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas.

10
Woolf,
Letters
, 1:446, 1:461.

11
The Germans were Dudley's future wife, Annemarie von der Planitz, and her sister Clotilde “van Derp,” a professional dancer.

12
SOL
, 89, 91.

13
LRB
, 310 (misdated; should be ?30 May), 291.

14
Gwen Raverat to Frances Cornford, [March 1911], 11 Nov. [1910], private collection.

15
LRB
, 304 (misdated; ?11 July 1911), 305.

16
SOL
, 100, 105.

17
LRB
, 333.

18
Woolf,
Letters
, 1:475.

19
Feri Békássy and Gordon Luce became Apostles in January 1912. Frank Bliss and Ludwig Wittgenstein followed in November 1912. Rupert was out of the country for both elections.

20
Raverat, Memoir, 3:16–17.

21
Ibid., 3:25–6.

22
Hale,
Friends and Apostles
, 163.

23
Ibid., 129; James Strachey to Lytton Strachey, 18 Aug. 1910,
BL
.

24
L. Strachey,
Letters
, 227. Lytton continued his assessment of Noel with: “A great fish-wife's mouth, which it might be nice to ram one's prick into . . . mais enfin – I could hardly be interested.”

25
Holroyd,
Lytton Strachey
, 547; James Strachey to Lytton Strachey, 12 Sept. 1910,
BL
.

26
Holroyd,
Lytton Strachey
, 466.

27
Hale,
Friends and Apostles
, 180.

28
Woolf,
Carlyle's House
, 8.

29
Michael Hastings, conversation with the author, citing Noel Olivier as source, 1984.

30
Woolf,
Letters
, 1:476.

31
Rupert Brooke to J.M. Keynes, 22 Aug. 1911,
BA
.

32
Skidelsky,
John Maynard Keynes
1:259; Woolf,
Letters
, 1:477.

33
J.M. Keynes to Duncan Grant, 6 June 1910,
BL
. Keynes rented a house at Burford, in the Cotswolds, for August and September 1910.

34
Rupert Brooke to Ka Cox, ?16 Sept. 1911,
BA
.

35
LRB
, 318.

36
Ibid., 307 (misdated; should be 13 Sept. 1911).

37
Rupert Brooke to Ka Cox, ?29 Feb. 1912,
BA

38
LRB
, 320, 323.

39
Ibid., 313.

40
Woolf,
Moments of Being
, 174.

41
J.M. Keynes to [James Strachey?], 19 Oct. 1911,
BL
.

42
SOL
, 141.

43
Ibid., 147.

44
Ibid., 151.

45
Rupert Brooke to Ka Cox, ?29 Feb. 1912,
BA
.

46
Rupert Brooke to Ka Cox [28 Nov. 1910],
BA
.

47
Hale,
Friends and Apostles
, 217–19.

48
James Strachey to Lytton Strachey, 1 Nov. 1912,
BL
.

49
Hassall,
Rupert Brooke
, 292.

1
It is possible that the poem was a response to his affair with Elisabeth van Rysselberghe earlier in 1911.

2
Frances Cornford to Gwen Raverat, [?18 Aug. 1912],
CUL
.

3
Woolf,
Letters
, 1:378. When war began, Lamb qualified as a doctor and served with the Inniskilling Fusiliers. He was gassed, and awarded the Military Cross.

4
Holroyd,
Lytton Strachey
, 505.

5
Rupert Brooke to Ka Cox, “Thursday,” ?29 Feb. 1912,
BA
.

6
Rupert Brooke to Ka Cox, “Saturday noon” [?14 Dec. 1912],
BA
.

7
The room did not become available because Leonard married Virginia Stephen instead of returning to Ceylon.

8
J.M. Keynes to Duncan Grant, 31 Dec. 1911, 5 Jan. 1912,
BL
.

9
Rupert Brooke to Ka Cox, ?29 Feb. 1912,
BA
.

10
Hale,
Friends and Apostles
, 260.

11
“The Obelisk has done me in, but eventually I'll subdue it.” Henry Lamb to Lytton Strachey, “Thursday” [4 Jan.? 1912],
BL
. Lamb's frequenting of brothels may have contributed to Virginia Woolf's account of prostitution in
Jacob's Room
.

12
Holroyd,
Lytton Strachey
, 472.

13
Henry Lamb to Lytton Strachey, 6 Jan. 1912,
BL
.

14
Holroyd,
Lytton Strachey
, 473.

15
Ibid., 473.

16
SOL
, 157.

17
He was also able to write coherently about other things. For example, he sent a long analysis of G.K. Chesterton's social views to Elisabeth van Rysselberghe, 3–5 Jan. 1912.

18
LRB
, 671.

19
In contemporary terms, Rupert's diagnosis might be that he was in an acute episode of a longstanding bipolar disorder. But both his mania and his depression had a specific content belonging to the cultural obsessions of 1912 rather than 2012.

20
Rupert Brooke to Ka Cox, “Tuesday noon” [?27 Feb. 1912],
BA
.

21
Suetonius reported the rumour that Caesar was “every woman's husband and every man's wife.”

22
Brooke,
John Webster
, 161–2, 99.

23
Rupert Brooke to Ka Cox, “Wednesday” [?April 1912],
BA
.

24
Brooke,
John Webster
, 102.

25
Craig,
Nerve Exhaustion
, 8, 21, 23, 79.

26
Rupert Brooke to E.J. Dent, 11 March 1912,
BA
.
Aber etwas langweilig
: but rather long drawn out. The Master of Magdalene was Stuart Donaldson.

27
Trombley,
‘All That Summer She Was Mad,'
186. When Daphne Olivier had a breakdown in 1915 she got the same treatment from Sir Henry Head: a course of “stuffing” lasting six weeks.

28
LRB
, 333.

29
Ibid., 335.

30
LRB
, 334; Rupert Brooke to Ka Cox, [24 Jan. 1912];
LRB
, 339.

31
Rupert Brooke to Ka Cox, 25 Jan. 1912,
BA
.

32
Keynes prints this letter but omits this phrase in
LRB
, 347.

1
He also would set the opening scene of
The Waste Land
in Munich, where summer arrives over the Starnbergersee. See Firchow,
Strange Meetings
.

2
Hale,
Friends and Apostles
, 170.

3
Rupert Brooke to Ka Cox [14?, 31? March 1912],
BA
.

4
Rupert Brooke to Ka Cox, “Friday evening” [1 March 1912],
BA
.

5
Hale,
Friends and Apostles
, 220.

6
Rupert Brooke to Ka Cox [26 Feb., early March 1912],
BA

7
Rupert Brooke to Ka Cox [?27 Feb., 3 March 1912],
BA
.

8
Hale,
Friends and Apostles
, 228.

9
Keynes omits this passage in
LRB
, 365. On “Tuesday morning” [?2 April
1912] Rupert wrote to Ka, “I enclose a letter. Don't tell V. Keep it.” This was probably Virginia's reply, now lost. Ka visited Virginia at Asheham in April.

10
SOL
, 157–8.

11
Hale,
Friends and Apostles
, 230.

12
Hassall,
Rupert Brooke
, 333.

13
Rupert Brooke to Jacques Raverat [?26 March 1912],
BA
.

14
Rupert Brooke to Ka Cox [?24 March, ?28 March 1912],
BA
.

15
Rupert Brooke to Ka Cox [?22 Mar 1912],
BA
.

16
Gwen Raverat to Ka Cox [?27 March, 31 March 1912], in possession of Val Arnold-Foster.

17
Jacques Raverat to Ka Cox [April 1912], in possession of Val Arnold-Foster.

18
Gwen Raverat to Frances Cornford [?Aug. 1912],
BL
.

19
Oatine was a brand of face cream.

20
Rupert Brooke to Ka Cox [30 March 1912],
BA
;
LRB
, 367.

21
Rupert Brooke to Ka Cox [?1 April 1912],
BA
.

22
LRB
, 370.

23
Rupert Brooke to Ka Cox [?16 March 1912]; Keynes omits this phrase in
LRB
, 366.

24
Cathleen Nesbitt, interview with the author, May 1981.

25
Woolf,
Letters
, 1.497.

26
LRB
, 372.

27
Hale,
Friends and Apostles
, 247. A 6.35 mm Webley pistol could be bought at the Army and Navy Stores for two guineas.

28
Rupert Brooke to Brynhild Olivier [end September 1912], Eton College Library.

29
Woolf,
Letters
, 1:495.

30
Rupert Brooke to Ka Cox [?18 April 1912],
BA
.

31
LRB
, 377.

32
Hale,
Friends and Apostles
, 241.

33
Rupert Brooke to Brynhild Olivier, [19 April 1912], Eton College Library.

34
On 5 June Virginia wrote to Noel Olivier, “you must congratulate me upon my engagement to Leonard Woolf – the strange black Jew –.” Rupert's comment, to Ka, was “Woolf is, after all, a Jew” (Keynes omits this passage in
LRB
, 376).

1
SOL
, 167–8.

2
LRB
, 378.

3
Brooke,
Prose of Rupert Brooke
196. Rupert changed the details: it was May, not April, and the lake was north of Berlin, not south.

4
Hale,
Friends and Apostles
, 240–2. “Propose to by letter”: in February
1911 James had received an invitation to tea containing an outline of the sender's penis, cut from tissue paper.

5
Rupert Brooke to Ka Cox [?24 April 1912],
BA
.

6
Rupert Brooke to A.E. Popham [?June 1912],
BA
; Hale,
Friends and Apostles
, 243.

7
Hale,
Friends and Apostles
, 246–7.

8
Hilton Young, an Eton and Trinity man, was the editor of the
Morning Post
. He figured in one of Geoffrey Keynes's emendations. Keynes printed “Hilton is with Alfred in the Black Forest”; what Rupert wrote was “Hilton is buggering Alfred in the Black Forest.”
LRB
, 390.

9
LRB
, 380.

10
Ibid., 386.

11
Hale,
Friends and Apostles
, 245–6.

12
Ibid., 232.

13
Known to its clientele as “Café Megalomania,” it closed in 1915. The building was destroyed by the
RAF
in 1945.

14
Orwell, “Inside the Whale,” 117.

15
LRB
, 389.

16
Woolf,
Beginning Again
, 18–19.

17
SOL
, 194.

18
In a letter to Bryn on 12 June, Rupert refers to “your Lawrence man,” which suggests that she had met him when he came to visit Edward Garnett at The Cearne. In 1915 Lawrence told Bunny, “The Oliviers and such girls are wrong . . . You have always known the wrong people” (
Letters
1:321–2). In his novel
Mr Noon
, Lawrence targeted the Neo-pagans as “that ephemeral school of young people who were to be quite, quite natural, impulsive and charming, in touch with the most advanced literature . . . the spoiled, well-to-do sons of a Fabian sort of middle-class, whose parents had given them such a happy picknicky childhood and youth that manhood was simply in the way” (
Mr Noon
, 255–7).