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Aberdeen Standard, The, 89, 100 Beerbohm, Max, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 23, Acton, Harold, 9 58, 82, 83, 195, 198, 199 Adam, Kenneth, 52 and camp, 28–29, 36, 53–54 Adams, Jad, 226 and cosmopolitanism, 17, 36 Adorno, Theodor, 204 and Decadence, 29–30 Aesthetic Movement, 59 and detachment, 53 aestheticism, 4, 5, 16, 72–73 and Kipling, 31–32 Agathocleous, Tanya, 205 and modernism, 45–49 Alcock, Caterina Bower, 22, 155, 170, 172–75 and nostalgia, 26–27, 34, 36, 39, 40, 41, 53–54 influence on Beresford Egan, 155, 175, 177, and pacifism, 44 185 and post-Victorian Decadence, 18–19, 27–29, works: Baudelaire, 173 54 De Sade, 173–75 and the Boer War, 30–31 Policeman of the Lord, The, 172 and World War I, 32–34, 41–42 “Satirist Among Us, A”, 172 BBC broadcasts, 19, 27–28, 49–54 Sink of Solitude, The, 162–64, 169–70 politics, 44–45 Alford, Norman, 220 popularity in the twentieth century, 43–44, Allan, Maud, 6 54–56 Allen, Paul, 188 works: “Advertisements”, 51–52 Allison, Jonathan, 224 Christmas Garland, A, 32 Anderson, Amanda, 13–14, 77 “Dandies and Dandies”, 33 Anstruther-Thomson, Clementina, 72 “Defence of Cosmetics”, 29 Antonielli, Arianna, 225 “Enoch Soames”, 27, 41, 42 Arnold, Matthew, 14, 77 “Ghosts” exhibition, 1 Arthur of Brittany, 93 Happy Hypocrite, The, 30 “Letter to the Editor”, 30 Bach, Johann Sebastian, 79 “London Revisited”, 50 Baker, Michael, 164 Mainly on the Air, 28, 54 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 45 Mirror of the Past, The, 27, 28, 36–41 Barnes, G. R., 52 “Peep into the Past, A”, 30 Barres,´ Maurice, 75 Poets’ Corner, The, 32 Baudelaire, Charles, 157, 158, 173, 186 Rossetti and His Circle, 25–26, 34–36, 42–43 Bax, Clifford, 123, 146, 147 Second Childhood of John Bull, The, 30–31 Beardsley, Aubrey, 1, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 17, 120, “Small Boy Seeing Giants, A”, 27 148, 151, 156, 186, 199 Some Persons of the Nineties, 1–3 influence on Beresford Egan, 21, 153, 154, “Speed”, 52 158–61, 166–68, 173, 174, 179–82, 184 Survey, A, 44 Beardsley, Mabel, 148 Zuleika Dobson, 29, 46 Beaumont, Matthew, 120 Behling, Laura, 162, 230 Beer, Gillian, 63, 213 Behrman, S. N., 39

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Bell, Clive, 55 and ephebophilia, 89, 90, 95 Bell, Vanessa, 49 and post-Victorian Decadence, 88–89, 90, Benkovitz, Miriam, 96, 99, 100 116–17 Bennett, Arnold, 42 and socialism, 90, 91–92, 99–101, 106, 113 Benson, Robert Hugh, 96 class politics, 85, 86–90, 91–99, 105, 116, 117 Billiani, Francesca, 82, 216 poverty, 95–97, 104, 105 Billing, Noel Pemberton, 6 reception, 88–89, 97, 102–03, 113–14, 116–17 Billyard-Leake, Edward Whaley, 113 style, 106 Blaikie-Murdoch, W. G., 2 works: Desire and Pursuit of the Whole, The, Bland, Hubert, 90, 101 98 Blavatsky, Helena, 122 Don Renato, 116 Boer War, 30 Hadrian the Seventh, 88, 90–92, 98–99, Boni, Albert, 11 100–01, 103, 115 Book-Collector’s Quarterly, The, 106, 108 Hubert’s Arthur, 88, 93–94, 95, 102 Borst, William, 55 Nicholas Crabbe, 101 Bowser, Rhoda, 139 photography, 85, 89, 94 Breen, Margaret, 168 Toto stories, 92 Bridges, Robert, 141, 142 Towards Aristocracy, 89, 93, 96 Bristow, Joseph, 17, 196, 198 “Unforgettable Experience, An”, 100 Brittain, Vera, 163 Venice letters, 87, 90, 95, 97–98, 114, 115–16 Brockington, Grace, 213 Weird of the Wanderer, The, 102 Bronsman, Catharine, 177 Cravan, Arthur, 6 Brophy, Brigid, 10 Crook, Paul, 63 Brown, Horatio, 96 Cross, Victoria, 189 Bruce, Kathleen, 54 Crowell, Ellen, 195, 220 Burdett, Osbert, 2, 13 Crowley, Aleister, 118–19, 123 Burger,¨ Peter, 204 Cullen, Tom, 110, 112 Burgh, Hubert de, 93 “Cult of the Clitoris” trial, 6, 170 Burke’s Landed Gentry, 111 Butler, Judith, 199 dandyism, 4, 9, 11, 17, 22 Butts, Mary, 85, 86–87, 88, 104, 105 Danson, Lawrence, 14, 29, 34, 36, 39, 45 Darwin, Charles, 71–72 Cambridge Heretic Society, 84 Deane, Seamus, 128 camp, 4, 16, 17, 19, 28–29, 198–99 Debelius, Margaret, 202 Campbell, Lady Gertrude Elizabeth (Blood), 139 Decadence, 3, 4–5, 10, 13, 16, 59, 87, 88, 89, 98, Canning, Richard, 202 103, 108, 117 Cape, Jonathan, 162 and cosmopolitanism, 13–14 Carpenter, Edward, 89, 90, 93, 94, 99 and detachment, 4, 16–18, 22, 76, 154 Caton, R. A., 172, 173, 179 and femininity, 166, 182, 184 Cecil, David, 30, 32 and queer theory, 200 Champion, Henry Hyde, 90, 99–101, 114 post-Victorian, 3–4, 5, 6, 11, 22–23, 24, 156, Churchill, Winston, 55 194–95, 197, 198, 200 Cloud, Yvonne, 43 Deer, Patrick, 230 Cohen, Ed, 199 Dellamora, Richard, 67, 82, 95, 168, 230, 235 Colby, Vineta, 66, 217 Denisoff, Dennis, 28, 29, 166, 201 Constable, Liz, 201 detachment, 77, 135 Corvine Society, 20, 88–89, 99, 102–03, 109, Devereux, Felicity, 192 113–14 Dick, F. J., 122 and conservatism, 102–03, 114, 116–17 Dickens, Charles, 103 Corvo, Baron (Frederick Rolfe), 4, 12, 15, 17, 20, Dickinson, G. Lowes, 66 85–86 Dixon, Joy, 129 and altruism, 98–99 Doan, Laura, 168, 230, 231 and Catholicism, 85, 100 Dollimore, Jonathan, 199 and collaboration, 101–02, 105 Douglas, James, 162, 164, 169, 170 and Decadence, 87, 90, 92, 106 Douglas, Lord Alfred, 6, 10, 107, 148, 177, 196

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Douglas, Sholto, 109 Fox, Charles Masson, 87, 95, 97 Dowling, Linda, 223 Franke, Damon, 217 Dowson, Ernest, 139 Fraser, Hilary, 62 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, 141 Freedman, Jonathan, 4, 75 Freud, Sigmund, 61, 66 Eagleton, Terry, 224 Fry, Roger, 45 Earle, David, 178 Eastham, Andrew, 203, 204 Gagel, Mandy, 211 Egan, Beresford, 15, 17, 21–22, 23, 200 Gagnier, Regenia, 87, 88, 89, 95, 98, 117, 156, and “sexual inversion”, 162, 164–70, 184, 193 220, 230 and cosmopolitanism, 156–58, 162, 193 Galsworthy, John, 42 and post-Victorian Decadence, 153–55, 156, George, Lloyd, 112 161, 162, 174, 177, 182 Gide, Andre,´ 178 and same-sex desire, 175, 179, 182, 184, 193 Gielgud, John, 195 and South Africa, 155, 156–61, 188, 189–92 Gloeden, Wilhelm von, 94 and the female dandy, 184–85, 186, 187, 188, Goodrich, Lloyd, 43 189–91 Gosse, Edmund, 42 and World War I, 188–89 Gould, Warwick, 136, 152, 225, 226 and World War II, 192 Grayson, Victor, 112 collaboration with Caterina Bower Alcock, Green, Martin, 9 155, 162–75, 193 Greene, Graham, 55 works: Baudelaire, 173 Gregory, Lady Augusta, 138 But the Sinners Triumph, 153, 154, 177, 184–85, Gregory, Maundy, 110–13, 114, 116 187–92 and class identity, 110–13 cartoons for the Rand Daily Mail, 158–59 and conservatism, 111–12 Courtesan, 166 and the Corvine Society, 88–89 De Sade, 153, 172, 173, 175 Grossman, Alan, 123 Epilogue, 192 Gwynn, Stephen, 44 Epitaph, 157 Gyles, Althea, 15, 17, 20–21 illustrations for the works of Pierre Louys,¨ and animal rights, 143–44 177–84 and Ireland, 140–41 John Bull and the Muse, 171 and Irish Decadence, 120, 135, 146, 152 Policeman of the Lord, The, 154, 162, 172 and Leonard Smithers, 119, 133, 136–39, 145, Pollen, 154, 177, 184–87 146 Sink of Solitude, The, 154, 155–56, 161–71, 178 and occultism, 121–31, 135, 144 South African tourism advertisements, 158–61 and post-Victorian Decadence, 120, 121, 136, Eliot, George, 77 152 Eliot, T. S., 45, 195 and socialism, 143 Ellis, Edith Lees, 135 and the concept of martyrdom, 119–20, 121, Ellis, Havelock, 172 123, 129, 131, 132, 135, 136, 138, 140, 141, English Review, The, 83 142–43, 145–46, 152 Equinox, The, 118 and World War I, 141–43, 145, 152 Evangelista, Stefano, 82, 216 belief in reincarnation, 126–28 representation in the works of Fabian Society, 90 twentieth-century women writers, 119, 120, Farjeon, Eleanor, 21, 132, 147–48, 151 121, 147–51 Farr, Florence, 146 reputation at the turn of the century, 119, 146 Feldman, Jessica, 204 works: “Child’s Christmas Carol, A”, 144 Fennelly,L.W.,224 cover for Yeats’s Poems, 119 Firbank, Ronald, 9–11, 17, 196, 197–98, 199 cover for Yeats’s The Secret Rose, 119, 123–25, First Edition Club, 104, 114 129, 130, 140 Fletcher, Ian, 146, 152 cover for Yeats’s The Wind among the Reeds, Forster,E.M.,10, 195 119 Foster,A.E.Manning,141 Deirdre, 126, 140 Foster, John Wilson, 131 “Farm Hand, The”, 142–43

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Gyles, Althea (cont.) Jerome, Jerome K., 100 “From Rosamor Dead to Favonius for Whom John, Augustus, 55 She Died”, 145 John, King, 93, 94 “Holy War, The”, 141–42 Johnson, Pamela, 87 “How the Prince of Peace Came Back”, Joyce, Simon, 204, 206 144–45 Joynson-Hicks, William, 154, 161, 162, 164, 168, illustrations for Wilde’s “The Harlot’s 169, 170, 172 House”, 119, 136–38 Knight upon the Grave of His Lady, The, Kandola, Sondeep, 213 126 Kaye, Richard, 134 Letters to Children about Drawing, Painting, Kearney, Richard, 121, 142 and Something More, 143 Keen-Hargreaves, Harry and Jack, 111 “Love-Child, The”, 145 Khan, Noshee, 141 “Mary Magdalene”, 145 Kiely, Declan, 123 Pilgrimage, 127–28, 143 Kipling, Rudyard, 31–32, 141 “The Song of the Seine: To the Court of Kirchknopf, Andrea, 206 Kings”, 145 Kitchin, George, 45 “To Ireland”, 140 Kohlke, Marie-Luise, 206 “Winter”, 144 Kronenberger, Louis, 33, 54 Woman without a Soul, A, 133–34 Kucich, John, 206

Halberstam, Judith (Jack), 199, 231 Labour Party, 88, 90, 100, 103, 116 Haldane, J. B. S., 58 Laity, Cassandra, 204 Hall, N. John, 30, 209 Lane, Christopher, 205 Hall, Radclyffe, 21, 161, 162–66, 168–70, Lane, John, 1, 103 188 Le Bon, Gustave, 66 Hardie, Keir, 101 Le Gallienne, Richard, 3, 13, 103 Hardy, Thomas, 141 Lee, Vernon, 4, 5, 7, 15, 17 Harland, Henry, 1 aestheticist theory of the subject, 60–61, 72, Harris, Susan, 131, 132, 146 73–74, 79, 80, 81–82 Harrison, Austin, 83 and aestheticism, 72–73, 82 Hekma, Gert, 231 and collecting, 74 Hemingway, Ernest, 45 and cosmopolitanism, 17, 64, 75–78, 84 Henry III, 93 and detachment, 75–78, 80 Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, 122–23, and Freud, 61 128 and Germany, 64–65, 67, 69, 79 Hobson, Harold, 55 and interwar social sciences, 60, 61, 63–72 Hoffer, Sheryl Denise, 224 and music, 79–82 Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 135 and Nordau, 67 Hokusai, Katsushika, 157 and post-Victorian Decadence, 18, 19, 57–61, Holland, Vyvyan, 10, 103, 109, 195 82, 84 Hollinghurst, Alan, 195–99 and Wilde, 67 Housman, Laurence, 194 and World War I, 57, 59, 63–71, 74, 76–77, Howard, Brian, 9 79, 81 Hugel,¨ Friedrich von, 68 critique of patriotism, 74–77 Hutcheon, Linda, 23, 29, 52 marginalia, 61–63, 64, 65, 66, 68–70, 71 Huysman, Joris-Karl, 98 paciﬁsm, 69, 74, 82, 83 psychological aesthetics, 72 Irish nationalism, 121, 128, 131–32 works: “Bach’s Christmas Music in England and Germany”, 79 Jackson, H. J., 62 Ballet of the Nations, The, 74 Jackson, Holbrook, 1, 31, 200 Belcaro, 72 James, Henry, 53 “Bismarck Towers”, 65 James, Norah, 170 “Deterioration of Soul, The”, 67 Jamison, Anne Elizabeth, 204 Gospels of Anarchy, 62, 72, 73

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“Heart of a Neutral, The”, 76–77 Mirbeau, Octave, 135 Miss Brown, 73, 82 modernism Music and Its Lovers, 72, 79–82 and cosmopolitanism, 77 Proteus, or the Future of Intelligence, 57–58, and Decadence, 12 72, 81, 84 and Victorian literature, 15–16 “Sense of Nationality, The”, 75 Montfort, Simon de, 93 Renaissance Fancies and Studies, 59 Moore, George, 53, 138 Satan the Waster, 57, 59, 62, 69, 74, 77–78, 83 Moore, T. Sturge, 109 Leighton, Frederic, 36 Morley, Christopher, 33 Leslie, Shane, 109, 113–14 Morris, Jane, 34, 40 Letissier, Georges, 198 Morris, William, 39, 93, 143 Leverson, Ada, 7–8, 10 Muddiman, Bernard, 2, 3, 119 Love at Second Sight, 8 Munro, Craig, 230 Tenterhooks, 8 Munthe, Axel, 149 Lewis, Wyndham, 12, 16, 45, 107, 109 Murphy, J. Stephen, 197 Linklater, Andro, 229 Murray, Alex, 11, 203 Liveright, Horace, 11 Livesey, Ruth, 205 Nazimova, Alla, 7 Llewellyn, Mark, 24 Nelson, James G., 139 Lord God of Battles, 141 Neo-Victorianism, 23–24 Louys,¨ Pierre, 177–78, 182 Nesbit, Edith, 90, 101 and same-sex desire, 178 neurasthenia, 66–67 works: Aphrodite, 178, 179 Nicolai,G.F.,69–72 Cyprian Masques, 182–84 and Darwin, 71–72 Songs of Bilitis, 179 paciﬁsm, 69, 70 Love, Heather, 198 Nordau, Max, 66, 67 Lubitsch, Ernst, 7 Luckhurst, Roger, 199 O’Brien, Conor Cruise, 224 Lynch, Bohun, 3, 33, 43–44 occultism, 120 and apocalypticism, 120, 128–31 MacCarthy, Desmond, 55 O’Donnell, William H., 128 Mackenzie, Compton, 147, 148–49, 194 Ogden, C. K., 83 Mackenzie, Faith Compton, 21, 119, 148–51 Olivier, Laurence, 195 MacLeod, Kirsten, 11 Omega Club, 45 Magna Carta, 93 Ouida, 184, 189 Maltz, Diana, 205 Owen, Alex, 128 Mao, Douglas, 204 Marcus, Laura, 222 Pater, Walter, 1, 13, 17, 18, 60, 188, 189, 191 Marrot, Vincent, 109 and detachment, 14 Marshik, Celia, 170 inﬂuence on Vernon Lee, 19, 58–60, 72, 73, Martin, Augustine, 129 74, 75–76, 77–79, 80, 81 Mathers, S. L. MacGregor, 123, 128 works: Marius the Epicurean, 59 Matthews, (Charles) Elkin, 11 Plato and Platonism, 59 Maxwell, Catherine, 212 Studies in the History of the Renaissance, 59, Mayfair & Town Topics, 111, 112 75, 173 McBride, Henry, 43 Peace News, 192 McDonald, R. C., 225 Peacey, Seton, 156, 172 McLaren, Moray, 27, 49–50 Pearson, Karl, 166 McMahon, Gary, 28 Pelling, Henry, 99 McWilliam, Rohan, 23 Pennell, Elizabeth, 2, 12 Medd, Jodie, 6 Pennell, Joseph, 3 Meynell, Francis, 109 Pirie-Gordon, Charles Harry Clinton, 96, 102, Mill, John Stuart, 77 109, 111 Millard, Christopher, 114–16 Playne, Caroline, 65–69 Mills, Stephen, 206 and Germany, 67–68

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postmodernism, 23, 28, 29, 52 Smalley, Philips, 7 Potolsky, Matthew, 4, 201, 205, 212 Smith, Logan Pearsall, 57 Pound, Ezra, 45 Smithers, Leonard, 119, 132, 136–39, 145, 146 Praz, Mario, 212 Snodgrass, Chris, 179 Price, Clair, 54, 55 Sontag, Susan, 29, 199 Pulham, Patricia, 212, 213 Stein, Leo, 61 Punch, 7 Stephensen, P. R., 163–64, 166, 172 Stetz, Margaret, 206 Queensberry, Marquess of, 1, 196 Strachey, Lytton, 45, 56 queer theory, 199–200 Suess, Barbara A., 224 Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 39, 173, 184, 189 Rand Daily Mail, The, 158, 174 Symons, A. J. A., 16, 85, 103–09, 114–16 Ransome, Arthur, 2 and class anxiety, 103–04 Repington, Charles a` Court, 42 and connoisseurship, 104, 106–07, 115 Richard I, 93 and post-Victorian Decadence, 107–08, 115 Richards, Grant, 109 and the Corvine Society, 12, 20, 88–89, 109 Ricketts, Charles, 8–9 and the Sette of Odd Volumes, 103, 104–06 Robbins, Ruth, 212 class anxiety, 109 Robinson, Bonnie, 227 conservatism, 107, 116 Rops, Felicien,´ 157 works: Anthology of Nineties Verse, An, 11–12, Rosenman, Ellen, 162, 230 107 Rosenthal, Donald, 94 Frederick Baron Corvo, 104–06 Ross, Robert, 115 Quest for Corvo, The, 85, 86, 87, 97, 99, Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 18, 25–26, 34, 36, 39, 40, 110–11, 114–16 184 Select Bibliography and History of the Books of Roth, David, 96 the Nineties, with Notes on their Authors, 107 Rowlandson, Thomas, 157 Symons, Arthur, 9, 133, 136, 138, 139–40 Ruehl, Sonja, 169, 230 Symons, Julian, 103, 107, 108, 115 Ruskin, John influence on Althea Gyles, 143 Teukolsky, Rachel, 204 influence on Vernon Lee, 73 Theosophy, 122, 126, 129, 143 Russell, Bertrand, 55–56 Today and Tomorrow series, 57–58, 83 Russell, George (Æ), 122, 127, 131 Tontiplapho, Betsy Winakur, 212 Trotter, Wilfred, 62, 63–65, 80, 81 Sadoff, Diane, 206 and Germany, 64, 65 Salmon,C.V.,51 and herd instinct, 65 Sappho, 168, 169, 179 Troubridge, Una, 164 Sassoon, Siegfried, 54 Turner, Reggie, 32 Savoy, The, 129 Schaffer, Talia, 184 Union of Democratic Control, 66 Schoonraad, Murray and Elzabe,´ 230 utopianism, 120–21 Schreiner, Olive, 107 Schultz, Gretchen, 178 Van Vechten, Carl, 11 Scoble, Robert, 218 Verlaine, Paul, 189 Sedgwick, Eve, 199 Vicinus, Martha, 164, 230 Sette of Odd Volumes, 103 Villon, François, 189 Shaw, George Bernard, 18, 58, 62, 83 Vogeler, Martha S., 217 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 141 Sherard, Robert, 119 Walkowitz, Judith, 166 Sherry, Vincent, 15 Walkowitz, Rebecca, 204 Siddal, Elizabeth, 34, 40 Walsh, James, 98 Simmel, George, 66 Waugh, Evelyn, 42, 55 Sinfield, Alan, 199 Waugh, Thomas, 219 Sitwell, Osbert, 10 Weber, Lois, 7 Sitwells, 9, 10 Weeks, Donald, 100

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Weir, David, 11, 204 Willis, Irene Cooper, 66 Wells, H. G., 28, 83 Wine and Food Society, 106, 108 West, Rebecca, 19, 28 Woodhouse, Adrian, 166, 231 Whitehall Gazette and St. James Review, 111, 112 Woolf, Leonard, 55 Wilde, Oscar, 1, 4, 6–7, 9, 11, 12, 17, 33, 67, 99, Woolf, Virginia, 16, 46–49 107, 115, 136, 156, 175, 177, 184, 189, 194–95, World War I, 32 196, 199 Wright, Patrick, 213, 216 and cosmopolitanism, 13 and the concept of martyrdom, 134–35 Yeats, William Butler, 4, 53, 118, 119, 127, 132, film adaptations, 7 136, 138–39, 146 influence on Althea Gyles, 20, 120, 132–35, and occultism, 122–23, 128–31 136, 140, 145, 146, 147, 148, 150, 152 and the concept of martyrdom, 130–32 influence on Beresford Egan, 153, 154, 157, belief in reincarnation, 128 174, 184, 186, 192 influence on Althea Gyles, 20, 120, 128, 132, influence on Max Beerbohm, 30 136, 146, 147, 152 influence on queer theory, 199 works: Cathleen ni Houlihan, 132 influence on Ronald Firbank, 10 Countess Cathleen, The, 132 works: “Ballad of Reading Gaol, The”, 169, “Of Costello the Proud, of Oona the 194, 196 Daughter of Dermott and of the Bitter “Decay of Lying, The”, 60 Tongue”, 125 De Profundis, 196 “Rosa Alchemica”, 125, 129–31 “The Harlot’s House”, 119, 136 “Symbolic Artist and the Coming of Importance of Being Earnest, The, 196 Symbolic Art, A”, 122, 125–26 Picture of Dorian Gray, The, 133, 134, 173, Secret Rose, The, 129–31, 140 186 Speckled Bird, The, 128 Williams, Harold, 109 Trembling of the Veil, The, 122, 138 Williamson, G. C., 104 Yellow Book, The, 4, 7, 10, 29, 86, 153