Index Adams, Henry, 32 Barnardo, Dr Thomas John, 147 Aeschylus, 191 Barzun, Jacques, 228 Albaret, Celeste, 66, 71 Baudelaire, Charles, 194 Aldiss, Brian, 92–8: The Brightfount Diaries, Bayley, John, 107 93; Shouting Down a Cliff, 93; The Beale, Thomas, Natural History of the Sperm Twinkling of an Eye, 97; When the Feast Is Whale, 206 Finished, 98 Beatles, The, 70 Aldiss, Margaret, 94–8: ‘My Health’, Beaton, Cecil, 154 97–8; The Work of Brian W. Aldiss, 97; Beattie, Ann, 79 see also Manson, Margaret Beaumont, Frances, 144 Alexander the Great, 195 Beebe, William, 30 Alighieri, Dante, 27 Bell, Quentin, x Amis, Kingsley, 95, 108 Bellows, Henry, 220 Archimedes, 89 Benson, E. F., 150 Armstrong, Karen, 194–5 Bentley, Richard, 210, 211, Armstrong, Neil, 30 212, 214 Arnold, Matthew, ‘Dover Beach’, 23 Berg, A. Scott, 142 Auden, W. H., 124; Poets of the English Berg, James L. ed.: Conversations with Language, 27 Christopher Isherwood, 118; The Isherwood Auel, Jean, 110 Century: Essays on the Life and Work of Austen, Jane, Persuasion, 23 Christopher Isherwood (with Chris Freeman), 118 Bach, Johann Sebastian, 70 Bergen, Candice, 28 Bachardy, Don, 114–27: Christopher Berger, John, 196 Isherwood: Last Drawings, 126; Stars in My Bernays, Anne, The Language of Names, Eyes, 125; see also Isherwood, 142, 145 Christopher Berryman, John, 195 Bachardy, Ted, 114, 116 Bierce, Ambrose, 142–3 Bachelder, Frances H., The Bonaparte, Napoleon, 31, 104 Iron Gate, 109 Boothby, Robert, 161 Back, Barbara, 155, 157 Boswell, James, Life of Johnson, 27 Bainbridge, Beryl, 38 Bottomley, Horatio, 100 Baker, Florence, 30 Bradbury, Malcolm, 3–12 Baker, Sharon, 97 Brazzi, Rossano, 28 Barnard, Robert, A Talent to Deceive: an Brewster, Dr John, 207, 208, 209, 210, Appreciation of Agatha Christie, 181–2 216, 218 230 INDEX 231 Bridges, James: Urban Cowboy, 124; The Clark, Kenneth, 162 China Syndrome, 124 Clark, Mary (Topsy), 102, 103 Brookfield, Ernest William, 46–7, 53 Clift, Montgomery, 122 Brookfield, Norman, 47, 53 Collins, Cecil, 198 Brooks, Ellingham, 149 Colt, Susannah, 71, 72, 75–6 Brotherton, Mary, 21 Connolly, Mrs Cyril, 196 Brown, Jerry, 115 Core, Dr Donald, 179 Browne, J. Ross, 204 Corso, Gregory, 191–2 Browne, Sir Thomas, 204 Cotton, Joseph, 122 Bucknell, Katherine, 116, 121 Coventry, F. H., 14 Burke and Wills, 30 Coward, Noël, 156: Blithe Spirit, 50 Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 16, 17 Cox, Sidney, Those Who Want to Write, 109 Burton, Richard, 31 Craft, Robert, 119 Burton, Sir Richard, 31 Craighead, Robert, 210 Byron, Lord (George Gordon), 131 Craik, George Lillie, The New Zealanders, 206 Byron, Robert, Road to Oxiana, 195 Dana, Richard Henry, Jr, 206 Cade, Jared, Agatha Christie and the Eleven Dannay, Frederick, 144 Missing Days, 179, 181 David, Elizabeth, 166 Callimachus, 191 Davies, Robertson, 227 Camelot, 103 Degeneres, Ellen, 124 Carlyle, Thomas, 71, 86, 100 Deighton, Len, The Ipcress File, 101 Carow, Edith Kermit (Mrs Theodore Dickens, Charles, 61, 66, 100, 181–2: Roosevelt), 32, 33, 35 The Mystery of Edwin Drood, 182 Carter, Jimmy: Everything to Gain, 111; Dickinson, Emily, 103 Living Faith, 111 Donne, John, 86, 87, 88, 139: ‘I am Carter, Rosalynn, Everything to Gain, 111 two fools, I know’, 86–7 Caskey, Bill, 115, 116 Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 131 Cassirer, Reinhold, 136 Dowson, Ernest, 194: ‘Cynara’, 98 Caws, Mary Ann, ‘A Double Allegiance’, Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, 176 173–4 Drabble, Margaret, 37–9, 141: The Oxford Chaplin, Geraldine, 156 Companion to English Literature, 38; Chatterjee, Niladri, 123, 124 A Summer Bird-Cage, 40 Chatwin, Bruce and Elizabeth, 195 Duran, Gustavo, 196 Chesterton, G. K., 229 Durbin, Deanna, 14 Child, Julia, 186 Durrell, Laurence, The Alexandria Christie, Agatha, 105, 176–83: Death on Quartet, 33 the Nile, 183; ‘The Edge’, 182; Murder in Duyckinck, Evert, 212–13 Mesopotamia, 183; The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 177, 182; Murder on the Orient Edel, Leon, 28 Express, 183; The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans), 4, 28, 177; The Mystery of the Blue Train, 177, 31: Middlemarch, 22 180, 183; Unfinished Portrait, 182; Who Eliot, T. S., 131, 199: The Waste Land, Killed Ackroyd? (serial), 177; see also 131; Four Quartets, 132 Westmacott, Mary Eliot, Vivienne, 131 Christie, Archie, 177, 178, 179, 180, Eluard, 191 181, 182–3 Christie, Rosalind, 183 Fadiman, Anne, 67–76 Clare, John, 192 Falter, John, 78 232 INDEX Farmiloe, Tim, 56 Golding, Eileen, 49 Fast, Jonathan, 109 Golding, Judy, 50 Faulkner, Estelle, x Golding, William, 44–55; Darkness Visible, Faulkner, William, x 52; ‘Fable’, 51; Free Fall, 48; The Fenwick, Arthur, 158 Inheritors, 52; Lord of the Flies, 50, 51, 52; Fischer, Ernst, 191 The Pyramid, 54 Fitzgerald, Edward, 21 Gosse, Edmund, 17 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 8, 10, 11, 31, 66, Gosse, Philip Henry, 17 131, 184: Tender Is the Night, 8 Greene, Graham, 137, 161 Fitzgerald, Zelda, 8, 10, 66, 131: Save Me Grigson, Jane, Mushroom Feast, 166 the Waltz, 8 Grimm, The Brothers, 70 Fleming, Ann, 150 Fletcher, John, 144 Hall, Donald, x Foster, Richard J., 110 Halperin, John, Trollope and Politics, 56 Foucault, Michel, 167 Hamilton, Andrew, 200 Fowles, Elizabeth, xi Hardy, G. H., 57 Fowles, John, xi Hardy, Thomas, x–xi, 17, 41, 64, 191: Fraser, Antonia, 42 Jude the Obscure, x, 41; Tess of the Frayn, Michael, 42 D’Urbervilles, x Frere, Alexander, 161 Harper, Fletcher, 209, 210 Freud, Sigmund, 8 Harris, Julie, 116 Frink, Elisabeth, 198 Harrop, A. J., 13, 14, 15, 16, 17: The Frost, Robert, 112, 191, 224–5, 227: Amazing Career of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, ‘Apple-Picking’, 224; ‘Birches’, 224; 16; New Zealand after Five Wars, 14; ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’, 224; Touring in New Zealand, 13 ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Harrop, Ann Barbara, 14: ’Meet you at Evening’, 224 the station’, 14; see also Thwaite, Ann Fuller, Roy and Kate, 100 Hastings’ Encyclopedia, 166 Fussell, Betty, My Kitchen Wars, 188 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 11, 202, 207, 215 Gama, Vasco da, 30 Hawthorne, Mrs Nathaniel, 11 Gansevoort, Peter, 215, 220 Haxton, Gerald, 157–9, 161 Garis, Lilian and Howard, 109, 112: see Hayford, Harrison, ‘Unnecessary also Hope, Laure Lee Duplicates’, 203 Garis, Roger, My Father Was Uncle Heard, Gerald, 115 Wiggily, 109 Heche, Anne, 124 Gerald, Michael C., The Poisonous Pen of Hemingway, Ernest, 11, 184: The Garden Agatha Christie, 180 of Eden, 11; A Moveable Feast, 162 Gifford, Emma Lavinia (Mrs Thomas Hemingway, Mary, 11 Hardy), x–xi, 64 Henry the Navigator, Prince, 30 Gill, Gillian, Agatha Christie: the Woman and Hoadley, John C., 216 Her Mysteries, 181, 182 Hoadley, Kate, 216, 218 Gissing, George, 57 Hockney, David, 123, 125 Gladstone, William, 22 Hogarth, Catherine, 66 Godwin, William, 38 Hogarth, William, ‘The Distressed Poet’, Golding, Alec and Mildred, 48, 49 65–6, 73, 75 Golding, Ann, 44–55; ‘Life in a large Holmes, Richard, 42 family’, 50 Holroyd, Michael, 42–3, 141: Lytton Golding, David, 49, 50 Strachey, 37; George Bernard Shaw, 38 INDEX 233 Holt, Henry, 72 The Humbler Creation, 59; An Impossible Holt, Susannah, 71–2, 75–6 Marriage, 59; The Last Resort, 59; The Homer, Iliad, 111; Odyssey, 111 Unspeakable Skipton, 59 Hooker, Edward, 117, 119 Johnson, Samuel, 27, 131, 138 Hooker, Evelyn, 118–19; ‘The Jones, Ethelwyn Sylvia (Sue), 146, 148, Adjustment of the Male Overt 157–8 Homosexual’, 117 Jong, Erica, 109 Hope, Laure Lee (Lilian McNamara Jowett, Benjamin, 20 Garis), The Bobbsey Twins, 110 Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 189, 193, Kafka, Franz, 89–90 194, 199 Kallman, Chester, 119 Horace, 191, 194, 198, 199: Ars Kaplan, Justin, The Language of Names, Poetica, 191 142, 145 Howells, William Dean, 225 Kelly, Gerald, 149 Hoyer, Linda Grace, 77–8, 81–3: Kennedy, Ted, 72 Enchantment, 78, 81; The Predator, 78n, 81 Kenyon, Jane (Mrs Donald Hall), x Hudson, Rock, 122 King, Billie Jean, 165 Hughes, Ted, 66, 141 Kingsmill, Hugh, Made on Earth, 38 Hunt, Violet, 146, 157 Kipling, Mrs Rudyard, 86 Hutchinson, Mary, 66 Kott, Jan, 27 Huxley, Aldous, 115, 124, 228 Kropotkin, Alexandra (Sasha), 146, 157 Isherwood, Christopher, 114–27: Lansing, Catherine Gansevoort, 220 Christopher and His Kind, 115; Conversations Larkin, Philip, 15, 195 with Christopher Isherwood, 118; Diaries, Lawrence, D. H., 31 Volume One, 1939–60, 118; Down There on Lear, Edward, 18, 19, 20–1, 198 a Visit, 115, 117, 121; The English Leavis, F. R., 60–1: The Significance of Woman, 121; Frankenstein: the True Story C. P. Snow, 60 (teleplay with Don Bachardy), 124; Lee, Alice, 32 Goodbye to Berlin, 114, 116 (stage Levi, Peter, 189–201: Art, Faith and Vision adaptation: I Am A Camera, 116, 123; (TV series), 190, 198; A Bottle in The musical adaptation, Cabaret, 123); Shade, 199; Canticum, 196; Death is a A Meeting by the River (stage adaptation Pulpit, 193, 196; Five Ages, 197; The with Don Bachardy), 124; Mr Norris Flutes of Autumn, 190, 197; Foxes Have Changes Trains, 114; October (with Don Holes (TV), 198; Fresh Water Sea Water, Bachardy), 124; A Single Man, 121; The 192; The Gravel Ponds, 189–91; Greece – World in the Evening (with Don the Black Years (TV), 198; Guide to Greece Bachardy), 116, 117, 118, 121; by Pausanias (trans.), 195; The Head in ‘A Writer and His World’, 115 the Soup, 197; The Hill of Kronos, 195; Isherwood, Richard, 118 Horace: a Life, 199; The Light Garden of the Angel King: Journeys in Afghanistan, 195; Life James, Henry, 19, 32: The Ambassadors, is a Platform, 196; A Private Commission: 27, 28 New Verses by Shakespeare, 198–9; Private James, P. D., 103 Ground, 197; Selected Poems by Yevgeny Jaws (Peter Biskind), 102 Yevtushenko (co-trans.), 190; Water Jennings, Elizabeth, 189 Rock and Sand, 192 Jesse, Matilda, 19 Lewis, C.