Index

Abbess of Crewe, The, 172-3, 174 Browne, Thomas, 92, 93, 102 About Chinese Women, 103 Bruno's Dream, 28 Abrams, M. H., 7 Burgess, Anthony, 167 Accidental Man, An, 31-3, 38 Adler, Renata, 166 Captains and the Kings, The, 191, A lbatross and Other Stories, The, 211-15,217 90-2,94 Carleton, William, 183 Andersen, Hans, 101 Cecil, David, 154 Aspects of the Novel, 70, 74, 155 Change for the Better, A, 86, 87-9, Auden, W. H., 168 95 Austen, Jane, xi, 191 Charterhouse of Parma, The, 41 Chesterton, G. K., 156 Bachelors, The, 164 Children of Violence, 6 Bainbridge, Beryl, xvi 'Choice, The', 95 Balkan Trilogy, The, xv, 39-58 Christie, Agatha, xiv, 110, Ballad of Peckham Rye, The, 120 163-4 'Cockles and Mussels', 91 'Basement Room, The', 164 Cold Country, The (radio plays), Beckett, Samuel, 101 81,100-1 Beerbohm, Max, 153-4, 161, 176 Comforters, The, 155-9, 176 Bell, The, 21 Compton· Burnett, Ivy, 158, 165, BellJar, The, 84, 99 170 Bennett, Arnold, 131 Conrad, Joseph, xi Bird of Night, The, 82-3, 94 Country Girls, The, 182-3 Bit of Singing and Dancing, A, 'Custodian, The', 97 95-7 Black Prince, The, 35-7 Bowen, Elizabeth, 183, 215 Dickens, Charles, xi, 86-7 Briefingfor a Descent into Hell, Dr Faustus, 94 2-5.10 Do Me a Favour, 84-6, 89 Brontes, the, xi, 155: 170, 191 Donleavy,J. P., 20 218 Index 219

Drabble, Margaret, xii, 130-52, Ginger Man, The, 20 174,215 Girls in Their Marn·ed Bliss, 183, Garn"ck Year, The, 131-2, 136-7 185 Ice Age, The, 130-2, 138-9 Girls of Slender Means, The, Jerusalem the Golden, 131-2, 135 166-7,171 Millstone, The, 131-6, 139-45 Girl With Green Eyes, 184 Needle's Eye, The, 135, 138, 145 Glass of Blessings, A, 69, 70, 73 Realms of Gold, The, 133-4, Glendinning, Victoria, 167, 176 145-51 'Gods, the Gods, The', 170 Summer Bird· Cage, A, 130-1, Golden Bough, The, 174 133, 135, 139 Golden Notebook, The, 2, 6 Waterfall, The, 131, 133-4, 137, Great Fortune, The, 39-48 139: children as a thematic Greene, Graham, 156, 164, 175 and moral focus, 137ff.; feminist issues, 133-6; Hardy Thomas, xi, 143 imagery, 148-50; literary; Hardey, L. P., 175 roots, 130-5 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 131 Review of Spark's The Takeover, Heaney, Seamus, 180 174-5 Henry and Cato, 16,27,35 Dnver's Seat, The, 159, 169 Hill, Susan, xv, 81-103, 215 Albatross and Other Stories, The, Eckley, C., 179, 181 90-2: 'Albatross, The', Edgeworth, Maria, 183 90-1, 94; 'Cockles and Eliot, George, xi, xiv, 25, 145, 191 Mussels', 91; 'Friends of Miss Middlemarch, xiv Reece', 91; 'Somerville', Mill on the Floss, The, 131, 134 91-2 Eliot, T. S., 163, 166, 168, 171, 174 Bird of Night, The, 82-3, 94 Enclosure, The, 82, 84-5, 92 BI~ of Singing and Dancing, A, Endgame, 101 95-7: 'Bit of Singing, etc.', End of Summer, The, 100 95; 'Custodian, The', 97; Eustace and Hilda, 175 'How soon can I leave?', 96; Excellent Women, 63, 66-7, 70, 73 'Peacock, The', 96-7 Change for the Better, A, 86-9, Fairly Honourable Defeat, A, 28-31 95 Fanfarlo, The, 155 Cold Country, The (radio plays), Fire and the Sun, The, 16 81,100-1: Cold Country, First World War, xiv, 193ff. The, 100-1; End of Flight from the Enchanter, 21 Summer, The, 100; Lizard Forster, E. M., 70, 74, 93, 155, 167, in the Grass, 100 171 Do Me a Favour, 84-6, 89 Four· Gated City, The, 1-3, 5 Enclosure, The, 82, 84-5, Frazer, Sir James, 174 92 Fn·endsandHeroes, 45,51-3,54-8 Gentlemen and Ladies, 'Friends of Miss Reece', 91 86-7,89 I'm the King of the Castle, Garn"ck Year, The, 131-2, 136-7 88-90,94 Gaskell, Elizabeth, xi, 87, 99 In the Spnngtime of the Year, Gates, The, 191, 199-205,217 97-9, 102 Gentlemen and Ladies, 86-7, 89 Land of Lost Content, The, 82 220 Index

Hill, Susan-cont. Unsuitablejobfora Woman, An. Strange Meeting, 82, 86, 92-5, 106-7, 110, lIS, 124-5, 102 128: characterisation, 119ff.; Stnp jack Naked, 101-2: awards the detective hero. 111-19; won, 81; humanist tradition indebtedness to D. Sayers, in her work, 81-105; 115, 128; setting, 105-10 imagery, 82ff.; metaphysical and passim v. feminist concerns, jane and Prudence, 62, 64, 66-70, 81-105; polarisation of male 75-4,76 and female qualities, 81-105 jerusalem the Golden, 151-2, 155 Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 166, Johnson, R. Brimley, xvi 172 Johnston. Jennifer. xiv, 191-217 Hothouse By the East River, The, Captains and the Kings, The, 171-2 119,211-15.217 'House of Fiction, The', quoted, Gates, The, 191, 199-205, 217 155, 161, 165--4, 170 How Many Miles to Babylon?, How Many Miles to Babylon.p, xiv, xiv, 191, 195-9, 205-6, 217 191,195-9,205-6,217 Oldjest, The. 191, 199-205,217 'How soon can I leave?', 96 Shadows on our Skins, 191, 205-11,217: isolation and a self-contained world, Ice Age, The, 150-2, 158-9 191-217; the storytelling 'Idiot Boy, The', U8 format, 192-217; temporal 'I Had a Future', 181 considerations. 192, 203-11 I Hardly Knew You, 184, 187-8 Joyce, James, 172, 189 I'm the King of the Castle, 88-90, 94 Kavanagh, Patrick, 181. 185, 184-5 'Innocence', 184-5 Keats, John, 145 Innocent Blood, xv Kemp, Peter, 157, 160-1, 165, 169, In the Springtime of the Year, 170 97-9,102 Kermode, Frank. 155, 161, 163-4, Italian Girl, The, 19 170 Kiely, Benedict, 185 Kristeva, 105 James, Henry, xi, 92, 95 J., James, P. D., xiv, 104-29 Landlocked,2 Black Tower, The, 108, 110, 112, Land of Lost Content, The, 82 114, 116, 118-19. 122. Lawrence, D. H., xi, 22, 170, 186 125-7 Leavis, F. R., The Great Tradition, Cover Her Face, 105, 110, 112, xi 115,120-1 Les Liaisons Dangereuse, 22 Death of an Expert Witness, 109, Lessing, Doris, xv, 1-15,215 114,117,119,127-8 Briefingfor a Descent into Hell, Innocent Blood, xv 2-5,10 Mind to Murder, A, 107, 112-U, Children of Violence, 6 121-2 Four-Gated City, The, 1-5.5 Shroud for a Nightingale, 107-8, Golden Notebook, The, 2, 6 112, 116, 117-18, 125-4 Landlocked,2 Unnatural Causes, 11 0-11, 11 5, Memoirs of a Survivor, The, 2, 4, 117,119.122-5,128 15 Index 221

Lessing, Doris - cont. Mind to Murder, A, 107, 112-13, Summer Before the Dark, The, 121-2 4-15: cataclysmic view of Mrs Dalloway, 85 the future, 1-15; energy, Moers, Ellen, xi, 153 9-10; influence of Jungian Murdoch, Iris, xiv, 16-38 therapy, 13; spiritual and Accidental Man, An, 31-3, 38 psychic evolution to a higher Bell, The, 21 state of consciousness - Black Prince, The, 35-7 transpersonality, 3, 7-8ff. Bruno's Dream, 28 Less Than Angels, 62, 64-5, 69, 70, Fairly Honourable Defeat, A, 75-6,77 28-31 Levant Trilogy, The, 58n., 59 Fire and the Sun, The, 16 Life's Little Ironies, 143 Flight from the Enchanter, 21 Lizard in the Grass, 100 Henry and Cato, 16,27,35 Loitering with Intent, 176-7 Italian Girl, The, 19 Lolita, 35 Nice and the Good, The, 25-7 Lonely Girl, The, 183-4 Red and the Green, The, 24 Love Object, The, 184 Sacred and Profane Love Lurie, Alison, 5, 11 Machine, The, 33-4, 37 Sartre, Romantic Rationalist, 20 'Macao', 168 Sea, The Sea, The, 31 Malkoff, Karl, 164 Severed Head, A, 21-4, 28, 38 Mandelbaum Gate, The, 167-8, Sovereignty of Good, The, 20 172 Under the Net, 20 Mann, Thomas, 1,94,175 Unicorn, The, 17, 25 Manning, Olivia, xv, xvi, 39-59 Unofficial Rose, An, 24 Balkan Trilogy, The, xv, 39-58: Word Child, A, 34-5: concern Great Fortune, The, 39-48; with upper middle class Spoilt City, The, 43, 48-54; manners, 21-4; use of the Fn·ends and Heroes, 45, 51, 'enchanter' figure, 20, 28, 52-3, 54-8 30, 32-3; use of the Gothic, Levant Tnwgy, The, 58n., 59; 18, 19,20,33; theme of affinities with Orwell, 41; guilt, 27; 'moral muddles affinities with Stendhal, 41, and muddlers', 16-38; as a 50; characterisation, 43ff.; philosophical novelist, the importance of place, 16-38; her 'reversals', 17, 39-58; a weakness in the 19, 22, 24, 27, 33; influence trilogy, 56 of The Underground Man, MasefieldJohn, 155 34-5 Max, 154 'Mystery of Job's Suffering', 157 Memento Mon·, 159, 161-3, 170 Needle's Eye, The, 135, 138, 145 Memoirs of a Survivor, The, 2,4, 13 Newman, John Henry, 153, 155-6, Meredith, George, xi 176 Middlemarch, xiv Nice and the Good, The, 25-7 Millet, Kate, 65-6 Night, 184-6 Mill on the Floss, The, 131, 134 No Fond Return of Love, 63, 65-7, Millstone, The, 131-2, 133-6, 70,73-6 139-45 Not to Disturb, 170-1, 172 222 Index

Novel Now, The, 167 Some Tame Gazelles, 64, 67, 70-2, 74-5, 77 Sweet Dove Died, A, 67: fiction O'Brien, Edna, xv, 179-90,215 misrepresenting life, 61-79; Country Girls, The, 182-3 love idealised in fiction, Girl With Green Eyes, 184 61-79 Girls in Their Married Bliss, 183, 185 Quartet in Autumn, xiii, 62-3, 70, I Hardly Knew You, 184, 187-8 77-9 Lonely Girl, The, 183-4 Love Object, The, 184 Realms of Gold, The, 133-4, Night, 184, 186 145-51 Pagan Place, A, 189: importance Red and the Green, The, 24 of childhood and memory, Rhys, Jean, xi, xvi, 91, 215 179-89; the confessional Richardson, Dorothy, xi, xii mode, 187-9; her treatment Robinson, 159-61 of sex, 186-9 Rodgers, W. R., 180 O'Bnen, Edna, by C, Eckley, 179, Room of One's Own, A, xiii, 61 181 O'Brien, Flann, 182 Sacred and Profane Love Machine, O'Connor, Flannery, 156, 161 The, 33-4, 37 Ohmann, Carol, 159 Sandcastle, The, 21, 24 Oldjest, The, 191, 199-205,217 Sartre: Romantic Rationalist, 20 'On First Looking into Chapman's Sayers, Dorothy, xiv, 113, 128, 156 Homer', 145 Scarlet Letter, The, 131, 140 Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, The, 157 Scott, Sir Walter, xi Orwell, George, 41 Sea, The Sea, The, 31 Second World War, xv, 39-59, Pagan Place, A, 189 165-6,171 Passage to India, A, 167 Severed Head, A, 21-4, 28, 38 'Peacock, The', 96-7 Sexual Politics, 65-6 Plath, Sylvia, 84, 99 Shadows on our Skins, 191, 205-11, Poor Mouth, The, 182 217 Prime of Missjean Brodie, The, Shah, Idries, 3 164-6, 167, 172 Showalter, Elaine, xi Proust, Marcel, 153, 160, 189 Shroud for a Nightingale, 107-8, Public Image, The, 168-9 112, 116-18, 123-4 Pym, Barbara, xiii, xvi, 61-80, 215 Sinclair, May, xi Excellent Women, 63, 66, 67, 70, Smith, Stevie, 163, 170 73 Snow Queen, The, 101 Glass of Blessings, A, 69, 70, 73 'Somerville', 91-2 jane and Prudence, 62, 64, Somerville and Ross, 183 66-70, 73-4, 76 Some Tame Gazelles, 64, 67, 70-2, Less Than Angels, 62, 64-5, 69, 74-5,77 70,75-6,77 Sovereignty of Good, The, 20 No Fond Return of Love, 63, Spark, Muriel, xiv, 153-78 65-7, 70, 73-6 Abbess of Crewe, The, 172-3, Quartet in Autumn, xiii, 62, 63, 174 70,77-9 Bachelors, The, 164 Index 223

Spark, Muriel-cont. Takeover, The, 173-5. 176 Ballad of Peckham Rye, The, Tern·tonaIRights. 168-70. 175 163-4 Thackeray. William M .. xi Comforters, The, 155-9, 176 Time of the Angels, The. 19-20 Driver's Seat, The, 159, 169 Fanfarlo, The, 155 Under the Net. 20 Girls of Slender Means, The, Unicorn, The. 17, 25 166-7, 171 Unnatural Cawes. 11 0-11. 113, Hothowe By the East River, The, 117.119.122-3.128 171-2 Unoffidal Rose, An. 24 Loitenng with Intent, 176-7 Unsuita blejob for a Woman, An. Mandelbaum Gate, The, 167-8, 106-7. 110, 113. 124-5. 128 172 Updike. John. 176 john Maseji"eld (and other non- fiction), 155 Ward. Mrs Humphry. xi Memento Mon·, 159, 161-3, 170 Waste Land, The. 163, 170-1. 174 'Mystery of Job's Suffering', 157 Waterfall, The, 131. 133-4. 137. Not to Disturb. 170-1. 172 139 Prime of Missjean Brodie, The. Waugh. Auberon. 176 164-6,167.172 Waugh. Evelyn. 157. 175 Public Image, The. 168-9 Wescott, Roger. 6. 7. 8 Robrnson. 159-61 White. Antonia. xvi Takeover, The. 173-5. 176 White. John. 4. 6 Ternton"al Rights. 168-70. 175: White. Phyllis Dorothy, see P. D. affinities with Beerbohm, James 153. 161; Catholicism. Wilde. Oscar. 154 156-9. 164-5. 172. 174; Wimsey. Lord Peter, 113-14 cinematic techniques. 160. Women Novelists 170 and passim; 'dandyism'. change in status 1960s and 1970s. 153-77; death in the later xi, xii novels. 169ff. creation of male characters. xiv. SPark, Mun·el 16-38.191-217 biography by Derek Stanford. creation of microcosm. xv and 155-6. 159-60. 164 passim critical study by Peter Kemp. 157, detective fiction. 104-29 160-1.163.169-70 First World War. 193ff. study by Karl Malkoff, 164 problems and frustrations. xii. Spoilt City, The. 43. 48-54 179-90 Stanford, Derek. 155-6. 159-60. problems of old age. 77-9 164 Second World War. 39-58. Stendhal. Marie-Henri Beyle. 41, 50 165-6.171 Strange Meetrng. 82. 86. 92-3. 102 sexual dimensions of women StnpJack Naked. 101-2 characters. xv. 179-90 Sufies, The, 3 themes emerging from Sufism. 2-4. 8. 11. 12. 15n.9 experience. xii. 130-52 Summer Before the Dark, The. 4-15 willingness to confront Summer Bird-Cage, A. 130-1. 133. cataclysmic questions, xv. 135. 139 1-15 Sweet Dove Died, A. 67 Women Novelists, The. xvi 224 Index

Woolf, Virginia, xi, xii, xiii, 157, Word Child, A, 34-5 163, 191 Wordsworth, William, 138, 155 Mrs Dalloway, 85 Wreck of the Deutschland, The, 166 review in TLS, xvi Room of One's Own, A, xiii, 61 Yeats, W. B., 95,161,167,188