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Abbotsbury, 47 Aberdare, Glamorganshire, 23, 97 Ackland, Rodney, 205, 242N.5 Africa, 27, 41–2, 58, 231N.3, 232Nn.4 and 13 Abbotsbury, 47 Bertram Rota, 149 Aberdare, Glamorganshire, 23, 97 Best, Philip, 132–4, 135, 238n.2 Ackland, Rodney, 205, 242n.5 Bewick, Thomas, 193 Africa, 27, 41–2, 58, 231n.3, 232nn.4 Birron, Dusky (character), 57, 64, 110 and 13, 233n.2 Blackpool, 136, 137, 141, 142, 143, 157, Agate, James, 91 238n.6 Albert Bonniers Förlag, 182 Blackwood, Algernon, 210 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Blake, William, 69, 105, 142, 149, 194 Through the Looking-Glass, 182, 184 Bone, Sir Muirhead, 122Botticelli, 58 Allan Wingate, 182 Bowen, Elizabeth, 184, 186, 188 Alphabet and Image, 240n.3 Boxer Rising, 24 Anderson, Dr Webb, 27 Boy-Emperor (of China), 30–1 Ardizzone, Edward, 114 Boy in Darkness (novella), 25, 85, 196, Arlen, Albert, 92 212, 215 Artists’ Benevolent Fund, 220 Boy’s Own Paper, 50, 51 Arts Theatre, 92, 217 Bracken, Brendan, 153 Arundel, 131; Castle, 107, 126 Brewers’ Society, 83, 191 Au Chat Noir, 63, 79 Bridge, Tony, 11, 67, 74, 227, 235nn.5, 9 Auden, W. H., 92 and 10 Austin, Paul Britten, 209, 242n.1 Bridie, James, 92 Aylesford Priory, 219 Britten, Benjamin, 215 Bromley, 23, 233n.3 Bailey, Hilary, 7 Brook, Peter, 87 Baker, John, 153 Brophy, Brigid, 195 Bakker, Dr J. G., 52 Brophy, John, 195, 205 Balzac, Honoré de, 97; Contes Brown, Dr William, 161 Drolatiques, 223 Browning, Tod, 212 Banks, Iain, 189, 228 Bruce, Janna, 192, 233n.4 Banstead, 224 Bunyan, John, 81 Barbara, Countess of Moray, 90–1, Burgess, Anthony, 7 236n.3 Burpham, 107, 115, 116, 126, 172, 227 Baron Münchausen, 197 Barquentine (character), 86, 144, 168, Café Royal, 60, 113, 121, 193 187 Caldecott, Oliver, 5–7 Batchelor, John, 12, 103 Campbell, Roy, 89 Batsford, 157, 176 Canton, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30 Battersea, 94, 105, 107, 109, 197, 237n.2 Capek, brothers, 67 Beckingsale, Elsie Laura, 37, 43, 233n.3 Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor, 38, Bellgrove (character), 52, 216 50, 57, 80, 108, 110–11; Belsen; see Bergen-Belsen publication and destruction, 115, Bentley, Nicholas, 114 119; reprinted with colour, 183; in Bergen-Belsen (concentration camp), yellow, 227 126, 178–80, 204 Carr, Matty (mother-in-law), see Matty Gilmore Davies, Rhys, 96 Carroll, Lewis, 182 Davies, Robertson, 186 Carey, Joyce, 197, 214 Davis, Bette, 164 Castle Press, 111, 197, 241n.5 Day, Dinah, 198 Central School of Art, 201, 213, 222 Deaconess House, 24 Chance Bros, 162 de la Mare, Walter, 92, 104–5, 144 Changi (prisoner-of-war camp), 181 de la Mare, R. H. I., 210 Changsha, 29 Dent, 224 Chapman and Hall, 57 Derleth, August, 186 Chapman’s Circus, 74 Devius, Old Man and Sally Chatto and Windus, 83, 104, 106, 114, (characters), 216–17 115, 119, 136–7, 141–4, 147, 156, Dickens, Charles, 81, 85–6, 187, 239n.3 157, 159, 163, 165, 167, 168, 238n.4, Dickey, Edward, 122, 123, 124, 150, 239n.2 152–4 Chefoo, China, 36 Directorate of Camouflage, 235n.7 Chelsea, 142, 167, 174, 178, 192, 201, Disney, Walt, 111 223, 225, 238n.2 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Stevenson), 192, Chelsea Barracks, 144, 146 195, 223 Christie, Agatha, 206–7 Donne, John, 149 Christmas Commission, A (radio play), Drake, Burgess, 105, 233n.3 214, 242n.3 Drake, Eric, 43; at Eltham, 48, 49–52, Chronicle (of the London Missionary 53, 62; and the Sark Gallery, 64, 66, Society), 35 68, 69, 71, 72, 109; on Mervyn, 70, Churchill, Sir Winston, 108–9, 164 71; on members of the Sark group, Clark, Sir Kenneth, 113, 122, 123, 124, 72, 74; 75, 81, 82, 86; on Maeve, 95; 150 on the ‘voluptuous curve’, 148; war Clitheroe, 150, 151, 203, 239n.4 career, 163, 177; remarries, 192; Cobo, Guernsey, 70 233–4n.4, 234n.3, 235nn.2 and 5 Codron, Michael, 217 Drake, Lisel, 67, 68, 75, 157, 233n.4 Collis, Maurice, 173–4, 197, 240n.6 Drawings by Mervyn Peake, 201, 203–4, Contemporary Art Society, 108, 237n.1 216 Continental Book Company, 182 Drawings of Mervyn Peake, The, 112, 228 Coombs, Frank, 72, 75, 235n.8 Drayson, Major-General A. W., 41–2 Coote, Colin, 152 Drayton Gardens, Chelsea, 60, 223–5 Cresset Press, 197 Dusky Birron, The (character and story), Crisp, Quentin, 164–5, 209, 242n.1 57, 64, 110 Croydon, 24, 34; College of Art, 49, 55 Cruikshank, George, 193 Edgware Road, 112 Edinburgh, 22, 205; College of Art, Dame of Sark, 68, 75 235n.3; University, 21, 35, 93, Darlington, W. A., 218 231n.3 Dartford, 131, 132, 135, 136 El Greco, 213 David Copperfield, 81, 86 Eltham College, 21, 35, 41, 47–9, 51, 52, 70, 196, 233n.2, nn2 and 3, 234n.3 Gibson, Dr MacLean, 27, 28 Embankment Gardens, 201 Gillingham, Kent, 131 Empress-Dowager (of China), 30 Gilmore, Dr (father-in-law), 93, 96, 102 Epstein, Jacob, 63, 114 Gilmore, Maeve (wife), 59, 79, 89; goes Evans, William (Bill), 63, 79, 89 out with Mervyn, 93–6; personality, Everyboy’s Annual, 41 94–5; tells anecdotes about Mervyn, Eye of the Beholder, The; see A Christmas 95, 110, 113, 116; 136, 148, 179, 192, Commission 211, 218; in Germany, 96; Eyre and Spottiswoode, 115, 167, 171, engagement, 100; tours Continent, 175, 184, 185, 196, 202, 220, 222, 101; as painter, 94, 96, 101, 106, 112, 226 113, 114; poems to and about, 104–5; Eyre, Frank, 120 easily impressed, 104, 105, 108; ‘Book of ’, 105; mixed feelings on marriage, Faber and Faber, 157, 210 102; evolution of Fallowell, Duncan, 242n.4 relationship with Mervyn, 106; looks Farrell, J. G., 188 after Mervyn, 106, 220, 222, 223–6; Fenby, Charles, 177 honeymoon, 107; domestic Field, R. N., 69 incompetence, 107–8; feelings on Field, Rachel, 164 sale of drawings, 108; visits Sark, 109; 55 Woodcote Road, 47, 208, 209, 219, and family finances, 110–11, 198, 222, 223 202, 204, 219, 220, 222, 223, 226; in Flay (character), 43, 86, 129, 135, 137, Mervyn’s works, 111, 112, 174, 203; 139, 146, 156, 157, 187, 188 jealous, 112; and Mrs Epstein, 114; Flooding, 29, 36–7 gives birth to Folio Society, 195, 223, 224 Sebastian, 116, Fabian, 151, Clare, For Mr Pye – an Island (radio play), 215, 192; receives bicycle, 131; on TG, 219 136; in Blackpool, 137, London, 141, Fraser, Antonia, 241n.6 144, Stratford-upon-Avon, 113, 142; Freaks (film), 212 encourages Mervyn to go to post-war French, Sue, 222 Germany, 177; on book reviewers, Fribourg, Switzerland, 96 185; on Wallington, 209; on Mervyn’s Friern Barnet, 224 trip to Yugoslavia, 211; and Titus Frye, Northrop, 85 Alone, 220; writes A World Away and Fuchsia (character), 34, 94, 128, 129, edits Mervyn’s work, 228 135, 137, 138, 139, 151, 185 Gilmore, Matty (mother-in-law), 93, Fuller, Kay, 193, 195 101, 102, 107, 142 Gilmore, Ruth (sister-in-law), 101, 115, Gannon, Alex, 72, 75 142 Gardner, Diana, 92–3, 101–2 Glassblowers (paintings and drawings), Germany, 84, 96, 99, 101, 109, 178–80, 162–3, 172, 173 241n.4 Glassblowers, The (poems), 162, 202, Gertrude, Countess of Groan 206, 216, 239n.4 (character), 82, 85, 114 Glebe Place, 174, 181 Gogh, Vincent Van, 61, 73 Hong Kong, 27, 28, 102, 241n.5 Golding, William, 212 Hounds of Tindalos, The, 163 Gormenghast, 34, 35, 43, 81, 129, 164, Household Tales (Grimm), 167, 171, 175, 187, 192; typed by Hilda Neal, 197; 176 delayed publication, 202; Hsiang river, 23, 25 adaptation, 215, 220, 228, 242n.1, Hughes, Shirley, 210 243n.9 Hughes, Ted, 87 Gormenghast (place), 25; and flooding, Hunan province, China, 22–3, 24, 26, 37; 52, 80; on the name, 86–7, 95; 30, 33 inspiration for, 107, 127–8; and army Hurry, Leslie, 109–10, 237n.4 kitchen, 135, 137, 138, 139; rooftop Huxley, Aldous, 83 view of, 143; and Gothic, 95, 187, 188, 189, 207, 219, 221, 228, 242n.4 Imperial War Museum, 172–3, 237n.2 Gothic novel, 95, 185–8, 211, 212, Insect Play, The, 67, 91, 92 239n.5 Isle of Sheppey, 132, 134 Goya, 120, 213 Grange, The, 204, 207, 208 Jamieson, Kirkland, 89, 236n.2 Greene, Graham, 128; and TG, 166–9, Jane Eyre, 187 171, 176 Jerrold, Douglas, 167–8 Grey Walls Press, 201 Jimson, Gulley (character), 197, 215 Grieg, Albert, 24–6 Joad, C. E. M., 157, 159–61, 239n.1 Grimm, brothers, 167 John Murray (publisher), 184 Grome, John, 174–5, 204–5 John, Augustus, 70, 121 grotesque, 59, 61, 79, 80, 86, 98, 119–20, Jolly, Joan, 60 124, 133, 174, 234n.5 Jones, Langdon, 6 Grosvenor School of Art, 69 Jowett, P. H., 122 Guernsey, 51, 65, 70, 74, 192 Judah, Aaron, 215 Hankey, S. Africa, 27, 232n.11 Keats, John, 149, 194 Hankow, 22, 23, 28, 30, 33, 126 Kensington, 23, 201 Hassall, Christopher, 108 Kestelman, Morris, 214 Hathaway, Sibyl (Dame of Sark), 68, 75 Kipling, Rudyard, 43 Hengchow, 23, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 34, Kite (character), 217 102, 232n.7 Kiukiang, 22 Hepworth, Barbara, 64 Knight, Esmond, 91, 206, 236n.4 Hester Road, 93–4, 105, 113 Kuling, 21, 22–3, 26–7, 30, 33, 39, 44, Hitler, Adolf, 108, 125, 131, 141, 153, 71, 75, 232nn.7 and 8 179 Hobhouse, Henry, 184 Laing, Allan M., 175 Hogarth, William, 194 Lake District, 238n.6 Hole, Christina, 157, 176 Le Chalet, 191 Holloway Hospital, Virginia Water, 218, Leech, John, 193 220 Leicester Galleries, 113, 114, 121, 147 Letters from a Lost Uncle, 38, 80, 190, Moorcock, Michael, 222, 226 192, 195–6, 197, 215 Moray, Lady, 90–1, 236n.3 Lewis, C.
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