George Orwell: A Life in Letters (101 page)

Flaubert, Gustave,
15
, 152

Flèche
,
La
,
153

‘Fletcher’,
227,
228

Fletcher, Margaret,
250,
255
,
366, 370,
389
, 3
90, 422, 425;
and see
Nelson, Margaret

Fletcher, Robin,
315
, 366, 370, 389,
389
, 390, 440

Flower, Desmond,
108

flying bomb, 221,
423

Fontaine
,
224
, 225, 274, 444

Foot, Michael, xii, 296,
296
,
300
, 380
, 470

Foreign Office, 453, 480,
480

Forster, E.M.,
43
, 195, 212, 213,
215
, 409

‘Forty Years On’, 26,
26
,
52

For Whom the Bell Tolls
, 297, 301

Fowler, H.W., 48,
49
, 447

Fox
,
The
,
289
, 325

France/the French, 72, 81, 120, 123, 126, 138, 1
51, 153, 155, 157, 179, 184, 187, 204,
214
, 222,
225
, 242, 261, 262, 272, 274, 285, 286,
287
, 288, 290, 2
97, 298, 299, 300, 301, 308, 310, 337, 3
53, 384, 391, 392, 394,
404
, 417, 420, 460 (French
et passim
)

Franco, Gen. Francisco, 31, 69, 70, 87, 108, 109, 1
29, 137, 138, 156, 190, 232, 285, 4
17, 460

Frays College, 3, 25,
45

Freedom Defence Committee, 348, 382;
Bulletin
,
363

Freedom Press, 291,
426

‘Freeman, John’, 221

Freeman, Richard Austin, 444,
444

French Foreign Legion, 157

French Morocco:
see
Morocco

Friends of Durruti, L: 227;
228

Fuller, J.F.C.,
203

fungus, 16, 17

Fyfe, Theodore,
21

Fyvel, Tosco,
514
;
L: 460; 183, 419,
421

Galapagos Islands, 33

Galsworthy, John, 101

Gandhi, Mahatma, 190, 232, 400,
400
, 402,
404
, 456, 474

‘Gandhi in Mayfair’, 224,
225

Gardner, Frank,
148

Garnett, Richard, 19,
19

Garrigill, 251,
255

gas masks, 121, 126,
127

General Election, 123, 133, 134,
139

prospects for, 131, 132
, 136, 138, 163

George, Duke of Kent, 44,
45

George, Daniel, 221,
230
,
235

‘George Orwell: Nineteenth Century Liberal’,
328
,
331

Germans/Germany,
75
,
83
, 88, 97,
122
, 126, 131,
132
, 153, 155, 164, 168,
171
,
173
, 180
, 187, 189, 191, 203, 209–9, 232, 233
, 242, 246, 263, 264, 265,
266
, 272, 276, 284, 285, 286, 291,
292
,
293
,
300
, 302, 303, 305,
306
,
309,
310
,
311,
312
, 331, 341, 343, 354,
383
, 454, 458, 464,
471
, 474, 479,
489
, 481
et passim

Gerrard’s Cross,
22,
23

ghost seen, x, 12

Gibraltar, 133, 137

Gillie, D’Arcy, 454,
459

gin, 421

Girl’s Own Paper
,
51

Giroux, Robert, 452, 453

Gissing, George, 375, 399, 408, 413, 414, 439,
467, 470, 484

Glasgow,
73
,
101
,
282, 313, 31
6, 320, 322, 323, 348, 351, 352, 366, 368, 370,
375, 379,
390
, 403, 482, 485

Glengarrisdale, 361

Glimpses and Reflections
, 101

Glorious
,
HMS,
71
, 184

Goalby, Margaret M.,
L: from
Jennie Lee, 68; xv

goat(s), 59, 64, 67, 112, 115, 118, 125, 128, 129, 1
30, 141, 143,
144
, 147,
184
;
and see
Muriel

Golden Country, the, 222

Gollancz, Victor,
514
; L: 47, 78, 86,
173, 344, 349, 350; 3, 10,
15
, 31
, 39, 41–2,
42
, 43,
47
, 49, 56, 68, 81, 85,
87
, 88, 89, 102, 107, 115, 140, 169, 172,
172–3
, 1
74, 176, 206, 207, 211,
211
, 225, 230, 394, 403,
404
,
409
, 454, 460
, 492

contract with, 167–8, 228–9, 231, 233, 234,
234
, 235,
235
, 236, 240, 269–70
, 332,
333
,
341
, 342, 344–5,
345
, 349, 350

has treated him well, 168, 269,
351

Gorachek, Vladimir,
480

Gorer, Geoffrey,
514
;
L: 61, 88, 106, 174, 175, 287;
43
, 105, 469

L: from
Eileen, 128;

Gottwald, Klement,
395

Govaerts, Bert, 79

Gow, A.S.F.,
515
; L: 304; 63

GPU
(Soviet secret police), 152

Grandchildren of the Ghetto
,
452

‘Grandeur et decadence du roman policier anglais’,
244
,
444

Graves, Robert, 44

Great Gatsby
,
469

Great Morning
,
402

Greece,
45
,
266
,
380

Green Line buses, 105,
105

Greene, Graham, 412, 460

Greenwich, 77, 102, 161, 166, 188,
188, 237

‘Greystone’, 221,
242
, 254,
255
, 261

groundnut scheme, 375

Groves, Ernest William Hey, 70,
71

Gryazovets,
292

Guderian, Heinz,
203

Guimaraens, Phyllis, 96,
98

Gulliver’s Travels
,
320
,
330

Haileybury, 158

Hairmyres Hospital, xv, 282, 375, 378,
391
, 398, 416,
419

Haldane, J. S., 19

Haldane, Lord,
159

Haliborange, 141

Hall, Colonel, 5,
5

Hall, Peter,
341

Halpern, Ada,
356

Hamish Hamilton, 270

Handley Cross
, 467

‘Hanging, A’, 55

Harcourt, Brace, 281, 283, 288,
333, 369, 394, 399, 431, 447, 453, 48
1

Harefield house:
see
‘Ravensden’

Harper’s, 39, 211, 270

Harper’s Bazaar
,
435

Harrison, Son, Hill & Co., 331,
332

Harrow School,
26

Haslemere, 36

Hatchett (old), 74,
75
,
125, 142, 161, 165

Hatherley, Karen,
83

Hawley-Burke, Dr and Mrs Noel, 10

Hayes,
3, 16, 133

Hearn, Lafcadio, 33,
34

Heart of the Matter
,
The
,
413

Heaton, Nell, 253,
256

Hebrides,
255
, 270, 290, 298, 310, 443, 482;
and see
Jura

Hemingway, Ernest, 80, 297, 301

Henderson, Alec, 125

Henderson, Arthur,
125

Henlein, Konrad,
122

Henley-on-Thames, x, 444

hens, 59, 67, 95, 115, 123, 125, 131, 143, 149, 150
, 158, 176, 351, 366, 387, 397, 408

Heppenstall, Rayner,
515
; L:
52, 81, 177, 237, 313, 325, 338; x,
23
,
45
,
53
,
54
,
105
,
238
,
276
,
290,
314
,
326
,
336,
339
, 460

Heretics
,
The
,
323,
3
23

Higenbottam, Sam, 57, 58

Hill, M.D., 304,
306

Hilton, James,
481

Hindi, 3,
41

Hitler, Adolf,
58
,
70,
122
, 123, 133, 138, 164,
189, 191, 201, 232, 233,
237
, 285,
464

Hogarth Press, 140

Hogben, Lancelot, 427,
427

Hogg, Quintin, 137, 145,
145

Holdaway, N.A., 82,
83

Holden, Inez,
515
; L: 299; xiv,
206
,
235
, 249, 385, 463, 467

holidays,
7
, 15, 16, 25, 26, 257, 408, 443, 469, 487

holidays abroad banned,
385

Hollis & Carter,
229
, 230

Hollywood,
267
, 331

Holy Communion, 20–1

Homage to Catalonia
,
xi, 31, 32,
41
,
74
,
79,
82
,
85
,
93
,
98
,
10
4, 105,
106
, 130, 169,
183
, 211, 246, 297, 318,
319
,
320
,
332,
345
,
478, 489,
490

Home Guards, 115,
181
, 188, 192, 204, 206, 30
5

Homer, 483

Hood, Thomas, 450,
451

Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 225,
225

Hopkinson, Tom,
245
, 285,
286

hop-picking, 3, 13, 47

Horace, 16

Horizon
, 172, 174, 175,
176,
177
, 178, 181, 186, 201, 213,
214
,
224
, 224, 353, 357, 478, 484;
et passim

horoscope, x, 237–8,
238