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Authors: Virginia Nicholson

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celebrates Armistice,
256
cooking,
182–3
experience of servants,
209
on Koteliansky,
215n
sits darning with Katherine Mansfield,
218
wish to visit Paris,
229
and women’s role,
59
zest for life,
265
Today We Will Only Gossip
,
164
Campbell, Lady Colin:
Etiquette of Good
Society
,
105
,
109
,
132
,
154
,
166
Campbell, Gordon,
256
,
273
Campbell, Marjorie,
257
Campbell, Mary (
née
Garman):
affair with Vita Sackville–West,
48–9
attends parties,
259
and children’s upbringing,
80–1
,
97
marriage,
53
,
60
parties,
273
poverty in early marriage,
22–3
survives husband,
283
Campbell, Mrs Patrick: on propriety in love–making,
55
Campbell, Roy:
appearance and dress,
160
attends and holds parties,
259
,
273
and children’s upbringing,
80
decline and death,
282–3
and deodorant advertisements,
204
drinking,
274
on French food,
168
on importance of intensity,
279
life in Wales,
22–3
marriage,
53
,
60
repelled by homosexuals and lesbians,
47–8
requests money gift from Sibbett,
14
on Stewart Gray’s diet,
189
travel abroad,
233
,
236
The Georgiad
,
49
Campbell, Tess and Anna (Roy’s daughters): upbringing,
80–1
camping,
172
Cannan, Gilbert,
263
Mendel
,
149
,
157
caravan life,
242–3
,
243
,
245
Carline family,
201
Carline, Hilda (Stanley Spencer’s wife),
61
,
214
Carpenter, Edward:
dress reforms,
141–2
and homosexuality,
45
on house design,
106
and simple life,
171
utopianism,
200
Civilization
:
Its Cause and Cure
,
142
Carrington, Dora:
artistry,
212–14
attends parties,
258–9
celebrates Armistice,
256
collects objects,
123–4
cookery,
167
,
170–1
,
174
,
175
,
177–9
,
181
death,
26
,
281–2
dislikes contraceptives,
57
drawing,
170
,
213
dress,
153
,
157
at Garsington in First War,
56
goes hatless,
150
hair style,
149
John Nash’s infatuation with,
62
keeps house for Strachey,
212–13
,
220
and Mark Gertler,
24–5
,
57
marriage to Ralph Partridge,
24
,
50–1
murals,
113
poverty,
24
relations with Strachey and Partridge,
24
,
44
,
50
sexual liaisons,
50
,
285
trains domestic cooks,
175
wine-loving,
171
wish to live in cottage,
126
Casati, Luisa, Marchesa,
84
,
268
Cassis, France,
232–3
,
234
Cave of the Golden Calf club, London,
266
Cave of Harmony club, London,
46
,
212
,
266–7
Cavendish Hotel, Jermyn Street,
253
Cézanne, Paul,
167
chaperones,
54–5
,
279
Charleston (house), Sussex:
baths and bathing at, I97n,
205
and Bohemian lifestyle,
29
children’s upbringing at,
72
,
76
,
92
education at,
92–3
exotic collection at,
111
interior decoration,
115
,
118
,
127
Keynes subisidises,
17–18
parties and entertaining at,
261
refrigerator installed,
177
servants,
197n
,
210
see also
Bell, Vanessa
chastity,
56–7
Chatterton, Thomas,
4–5
,
9
Chelsea,
251
Chelsea Arts Ball,
145
,
262
Chelsea Arts Club,
145
,
266
Chelsea Palace Theatre,
153
Chesterton, Mrs Cecil,
211
children:
upbringing,
67–82
,
96–8
,
97
,
98
,
249
see also
education
;
schools
Chiquita (model),
131
,
270
Clarke Hall, Edna (
née
Waugh):
domestic demands on,
191
,
214
dress freedom,
131
interior furnishing,
123–4
marriage,
60–1
treats Gwen John,
10
Clarke Hall, William,
60–1
,
191
class (social):
differences,
6–7
taboos broken,
49
cleanliness and hygiene,
197–207
,
216
,
218–19
see also
laundry
Clifford, Mrs W.K.,
225
Clive, Mary,
107
,
252
clothes
see
dress
Club des Haschichins, Paris,
275
clubs,
266–8
cocaine,
275–6
Cocteau, Jean:
and opium–eating,
275
partnership in Le Boeuf sur le Toît,
235
in Toulon,
232
at Villefranche,
233
Cole, Horace:
in Café Royal brawl,
158
in
Dreadnought
hoax,
146
patronises Eiffel Tower restaurant,
268
Colette,
248
colour prejudice,
50
Colum, Mary,
159
commuting,
222
Connolly, Cyril:
appreciates good talk,
261
and Bohemian life-style,
211
,
227
employs cooks,
175
in Gargoyle Club,
268
later years,
285
travels abroad,
237–8
The Rock Pool
,
234
Connolly, Jean,
211
contraception,
57–8
conversation,
261–2
Conybear, Mrs (Beatrice Campbell’s servant),
209
cookery
see
food and eating
cooks (servants),
174–6
Cooper, Lady Diana (
née
Manners):
lacks education,
84
social life,
28
on socio-sexual constraints,
55
Corea, Benjamin,
186–7
,
270
cosmetics,
154
country life,
125–6
Cox family,
137
Cox, Agatha
see
Thornycroft, Lady
Crab Tree club,
266–7
Craig, Edward Gordon,
36
,
64
Cross-dressing,
153
Crowder, Henry,
50
Crowley, Aleister,
21
& n,
277
Cunard, Maude Alice (‘Emerald’), Lady,
50
,
117
Cunard, Nancy:
bangles,
154
death,
288
drinking,
274
praises Eiffel Tower restaurant,
183
,
268
sexual liaisons with black men,
49–50
social life,
28
,
252–3
Viva King helps in later years,
284
Currie, John,
147
,
158
Daily Mirror
.
on Graves’ shops,
1
Daintrey, Adrian,
56
,
249
dancing,
257–8
,
258
Dancing Times
, The,
258
Dane Court (school),
94
Davenport, John,
269
David, Elizabeth,
167
Davies, W.H.:
Edward Garnett helps,
18
Autobiography of a Super-Tramp
,
240
Defence of the Realm Act (1914),
226
Deghy, Guy and Keith Waterhouse:
Café Royal
,
269
Delafield, E.M.: Provincial Lady,
154
Dennison, Christabel,
192–3
,
205
,
214
,
217
Derain, André,
118
,
167
Desborough, Ethel, Lady,
117
Desnoyers, Fernand:
Chansons parisiennes
,
275n
Devas, Anthony,
16
,
139
,
205
,
287
Devas, Nicolette (
née
Macnamara):
attitude to money,
15
on Augustus John’s view of dress,
156
on Dorelia’s interior decorating,
118
,
121
dress,
139
on Dylan Thomas legend,
283
education,
91
in later years,
287
lives in squalor,
200–1
personal hygiene,
205
upbringing,
15
,
81–2
,
97
Diaghilev, Serge:
aesthetic,
106–7
,
127

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