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Authors: Lara Feigel
‘split consciousness’:
HS, ‘Psychologie des Exils’.
‘Peter’s zest’:
HS,
DaB
, p. 124.
‘France conquered’: HS, diary, 25 June 1940 (HS NLV).
‘never yet so despondent’:
HS, diary, 8 August 1940 (HS NLV).
‘exactly how I felt’:
HS,
DaB
,
p. 76 (PdeM’s broadcast quoted here).
‘The SS will march’:
ibid.,
p. 115.
‘It is horrible and unbearable’:
HS, diary, March 1938 (HS NLV).
‘At night I dreamt that’:
HS, diary, 24 June 1938 (HS NLV).
‘The Czechs are betrayed’:
HS, diary, 30 September 1938 (HS NLV).
‘if we ever experienced’:
HS,
DaB
,
p. 120.
‘avoid treating as enemies’: in Cesarani and Kushner (eds),
The Internment of Aliens in Twentieth-Century Britain
(London: Routledge, 1993),
p. 83.
‘In Britain you have’: ibid., p. 87.
‘It’s always a stroke’:
HS to PdeM, 7 October 1939 (HS PdeM).
‘I have a fascinating idea’:
PdeM to HS, October 1939 (HS PdeM).
‘very charming little’:
PdeM to HS, 9 November 1939 (HS PdeM).
‘what the PEN club’:
HS,
DaB
, p. 107.
‘Some of you are exiles’:
PEN News
, February 1939.
‘don’t fuss’:
HS,
DaB
,
p. 105.
‘I am so happy’:
HS, diary, 23 April 1940 (HS NLV).
‘beautiful, green’:
HS,
DaB
,
p. 127.
‘hesitant courtesy’:
see HS,
DaB
,
p. 110.
‘whether it makes one happy’:
HS,
Anna und Anna
(Wien: Kremayr & Scheriau, 1989), p. 68.
‘
chez nous
syndrome’:
HS, ‘Psychologie des Exils’.
‘A small village square’:
HS,
Return to Vienna
,
6 February.
‘Exile is an illness’:
HS, ‘Psychologie des Exils’.
‘back in Vienna’:
HS,
Return to Vienna
,
31 January.
‘War, she thought’:
HG,
Caught
(London: Harvill Press, 2001),
pp. 119, 46.
‘Nature tapped out’:
EB,
HoD
,
ch. 8.
‘You’d always keep’:
GG to VG, 7 August 1927 (GG HRC).
‘Twelve years later’:
there is some controversy about the dating of the beginning of the affair. According to Norman Sherry (in
The Life of Graham Greene
(London: Pimlico, 2004–5), vol. 2, pp. 19–20) it started at the beginning of the war (information based on a statement by Malcolm Muggeridge). Richard Greene (
Graham Greene, A Life in Letters
(London: Little, Brown, 2007), p. 102) suggests that it started earlier, based on Greene’s remark that the affair was four years old in 1942, but most of the evidence confirms Sherry’s view.
‘I miss you so much’:
GG to VG, 30 August 1939 (VG Bod).
‘There’s one thing’:
GG to VG, 4 September 1939 (VG Bod).
‘Dear love’:
GG to VG, 6 October 1939 (VG Bod).
‘I mean, not pub’:
VG to GG, 1 December 1939 (VG Bod).
‘You are a kitten’:
GG to VG, 3 November 1925 (GG HRC).
‘a lot of stars’:
VG to GG, 13 December 1939 (VG Bod).
‘rather affectionately’:
ibid.
‘in a physical sense the marriage’:
VG interview in Sherry,
The Life of Graham Greene
, vol. 2, p. 208.
‘Clearly, Graham did not have the same’:
arriving in Freetown in 1943, Greene was immediately on the lookout for ‘French letters’, lamenting that they were unexpectedly hard to acquire. Evidently he had managed to obtain them in London (see Sherry,
The Life of
Graham Greene
,
vol. 2, p. 138).
‘it always worked’: GG,
HoM
, book 1, part 1, ch. 1viii.
‘it is so awful’:
VG to GG, 3 January 1940 (VG Bod).
‘Darling darling one’:
GG to VG, 4 January 1940 (VG Bod).
‘You wouldn’t see much’:
VG to GG, 19 January 1940 (VG Bod).
‘pretended to Vivien’:
see Sherry,
The Life of Graham Greene
, vol. 2, p. 25.
‘my love, you are a saint’:
GG to VG, 7 November 1925 (GG HRC).
‘square and small’:
VG interview in Sherry,
The Life of Graham Greene
, vol. 2, p. 25.
‘a person who’:
Muggeridge interview in ibid.,
vol. 2, p. 23.
‘find their own way’:
GG,
HoM
,
book 2, part 1, ch. 3i.
‘happy, small, rather’:
David Low interview in Sherry,
The Life of Graham Greene
, vol. 2, p. 22i.
‘From the first raid’:
GG interview in ibid., vol. 2, p. 60.
‘Just look at that pair’: David Low interview in ibid., vol. 2, p. 51.
‘devoted’:
Muggeridge interview in ibid., vol. 2, p. 23.
‘a special act of penitence’:
Malcolm Muggeridge,
Chronicles of Wasted Time
, vol. 2:
The Infernal Grove
(London: Collins, 1973), p. 105.
‘rather heartbreaking’:
GG to Marion Greene, undated (
A Life in Letters
,
p. 104).
‘in tears on the edge’:
VG interview in Sherry,
The Life of Graham Greene
,
vol. 2, p. 64.
‘It’s sad because’:
GG to Mary Pritchett, 18 March 1941 (
A Life in Letters
).
‘a large mortgage’:
see Muggeridge, diary, 13 January 1949, Malcolm Muggeridge,
Like it was: the Diaries of Malcolm Muggeridge
, ed. John Bright-Holmes (London: Collins, 1981).
‘simply felt relieved’:
GG interview in Sherry,
The Life of Graham Greene
,
vol. 2, p. 64.
‘To the great scandal’:
HY to Anthony Powell, 23 August 1928 (in Jeremy Treglown,
Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green
(London: Faber, 2000), p. 77).
‘falling in love by correspondence’:
see HG,
Pack My Bag
(London: Vintage, 2000),
p. 159.
‘all agreed as to her beauty’:
see Treglown,
Romancing
, p. 85.
‘a stupendous intellect’:
HY to Evelyn Waugh, 11 April 1939 (Evelyn Waugh archive, HRC).
‘We had been married’:
HG, ‘Before the Great Fire’,
Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green
(London: Harvill, 1993).
‘the saving grace’:
HG,
Pack My Bag
, p. 80.
‘even resumed the sexual’:
see Treglown,
Romancing
,
p. 310.
‘It seems so
gauche
’: Dig Yorke quoted in HY letter to Mary Strickland, 25 November 1939, in ibid., p. 138.
‘the most brilliant feyness’:
Venetia Murray, interview in Treglown,
Romancing
,
p. 161.
‘tall, and holding herself’:
Stephen Spender,
World Within World
(New York: Modern Library Classics, 2001), p. 156.
‘Goronwy had visited’:
see EB to Isaiah Berlin, 23 September 1946 (Isaiah Berlin archive, Bod).
‘takes an ell’:
Louis MacNeice,
The Strings Are False
(London: Faber, 1965),
p. 168.
‘Henry concealing the meetings from his wife’:
see Treglown,
Romancing
, pp. 127, 309.
‘a goal to get back to’:
HY to Rosamond Lehmann, 11 September 1940 (RL KC).
‘Yes, it
was
the core’:
Rosamond Lehmann to HY, 15 September 1940, in Treglown,
Romancing
,
p. 309.
‘Rosamond herself later claimed’:
Lehmann told her biographer Selina Hastings that she had not gone to bed with Yorke and also that nothing had happened with Rees at Bowen’s Court (see Selina Hastings,
Rosamond Lehmann
(London: Vintage, 2003), pp. 215, 172).
‘one of the few disinterested’:
Rosamond Lehmann to HY, undated, in Treglown,
Romancing
, p. 127.
‘war is entirely’:
HY to Rosamond Lehmann, 9 January 1941 (RL KC).
‘it’s like swimming’:
Rosemary Clifford to HY, 25 August 1940, in Treglown,
Romancing
, p. 135.
‘Have I told you I miss you?’:
Rosemary Clifford to HY, 25 August 1940, in ibid., p. 135.
‘You are now old enough’:
HY in ibid., p. 132.
‘back in the Lansdowne’:
Ann Glass to HY, 28 February 1941, in ibid.,
p. 134.
‘How wonderful they seem’:
HG,
Pack My Bag
,
p. 39.
‘Darling, This is very’:
Rosemary Clifford to HY, 8 November 1940, in Treglown,
Romancing
,
p. 135.
‘gorged with love’:
HG,
Caught
,
p. 47.
‘hunting for more farewells’: ibid.,
p. 61.
‘the bloom, as’: ibid.,
p. 70.
‘everyone’s longing’: ibid.,
p. 107.
‘like the crack’: ibid.,
p. 116.
‘silly thing with Hilly’:
HY to John Lehmann, 11 May 1943 (John Lehmann archive, HRC).
‘DON’T COME UP’:
HY in Treglown,
Romancing
,
p. 138.
‘hanging limp to door handles’:
HG,
Caught
, p. 46.
‘a new year’s turn’:
HY, draft typescript of
Caught
(HY archive).
‘high bare Italianate house’:
EB,
B’s C
,
ch. 1.
‘an eternal luminousness’:
EB,
HoD
,
ch. 9.
‘be some good’:
EB to Virginia Woolf, 1 July 1940,
The Mulberry Tree: Writings of Elizabeth Bowen
, ed. Hermione Lee (London: Vintage, 1999).
‘As far as Churchill’:
see Clair Wills,
That Neutral Island
(London: Faber, 2008),
p. 116.
‘Ireland can be dementing’:
EB to Virginia Woolf, 1 July 1940 (
The Mulberry Tree
).
‘childishness and obtuseness’:
EB, report, 9 November 1940,
Notes on Eire, Espionage Reports to Winston Churchill, 1940–2
, Aubane Historical Society, ed. Jack Lane and Brendan Clifford, 3rd edn.
‘a race inside a race’:
EB interview by three writers, 1959 (EB HRC).
‘screen of trees’:
EB,
The Last September
(London: Vintage, 1998),
ch. 3.
‘kept the country’:
EB, preface to
The Last September
(
The Mulberry Tree
).
‘This country’:
EB,
The Last September
,
ch. 3.
