Among the Bohemians (74 page)

shoes
see
footwear

Sibbett, C.J.,
14

Sickert, Walter:

at Chelsea Arts Club,
145

draws Quentin Bell,
162

dress,
151

friendship with Nina Hamnett,
20

patronises Eiffel Tower restaurant,
268

scandalised by hatless Nina Hamnett,
150

simple–life,
171–2

Sitwell family:

entertaining,
261

travel abroad,
233

Sitwell, (Dame) Edith:

dress,
144
,
157

Gertler mimics,
263

sewing,
218

upbringing,
78

Sitwell, (Sir) Osbert:

breakfasts on pineapple and melon,
171n

celebrates Armistice,
256–7

and dress,
151

on Golden Calf club,
266

interior decoration,
117

Roger Fry entertains,
181–2

on Viva King,
284

Slade School of Art, The:

dress at,
151–2

women’s hair style at,
149

slimming,
165n

smells,
203–4

Smith, Dodie: I
Capture the Castle
,
181

Smith, Lady Eleanor: novels on gypsy life,
244

smoking (tobacco),
154–5

social life:

and Bohemian camaraderie,
249–54

conventional,
251–2

Soho, London: restaurants in,
184–5

Soviet Union
see
Russia

Spencer, Gilbert,
134

Spencer, Hilda
see
Carline, Hilda

Spencer, Stanley:

and formal dress,
134–5

home life,
214

marriage,
61

settings for paintings,
118

Spender, Inez (Stephen’s first wife),
62

Spender, (Sir) Stephen:

family’s view of career as poet,
7

and first wife’s infidelity,
62

on interior decoration,
118

on neckties,
150

view of love,
64

Spottiswoode, Jane:
Christabel Who
?,
192–3

Sprott, Sebastian,
213

Stables, Gordon:
Leaves from the Log of a Gentleman Gypsy
,
242

Star
, The (newspaper),
159

Steer, Philip Wilson,
145

Steiner, Rudolf: schools,
87

Stephen, Adrian,
145
,
172

Stevenson, Robert Louis,
223
,
244

Stopes, Marie:

and informal dress,
138

opens birth control clinic,
58

Married Love
,
40

Strachey, James,
114

Strachey, Julia:

at Bedales school,
86

ignorance of food and cooking,
180

Strachey, Lytton:

Carrington keeps house for,
212–13

and Carrington’s cookery,
171
,
175

celebrates Armistice,
256

death,
281–2

dress,
150–1

at Garsington,
56
,
261

Gertler mimics,
263

hair style,
147

helped by Harry Norton,
18

ignorance of cooking,
179

openness about sex,
33

sexual proclivities,
44
,
46
,
50–1

supports Carrington and Ralph Partridge,
24
,
44

visits Jarvis shop with Carrington,
123

Strachey, Marjorie,
92–3

Strachey, Oliver,
261

Stravinsky, Igor,
46

Strindberg, Frieda,
266

Studio Club, the,
266

Stulik, Rudolf:

at Eiffel Tower restaurant,
183
,
268–9

patronage,
18

Summerhill school,
89–90

Sutton, Peggy,
254

table manners,
166

Taylor, Geoffrey,
249

Tchelitchew, Pavel,
227

Tennant, David:

alcoholism,
274

parties,
273

starts Gargoyle Club,
18
,
268

Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron,
45

Thackeray, William Makepeace,
147

Theosophists,
174

Thomas, Caitlin (
née
Macnamara):

cooking,
180
,
189

dislike of housework,
216

dress,
137

drinking and wild behaviour,
272–4

in Gargoyle Club,
268

keeps house for Dylan,
214

lets room from father,
205

life after Dylan’s death,
283

makes shirts for Dylan,
143

meets Dylan,
272

poverty,
8–9
,
11
,
17
,
26
,
101

Double Drink Story
,
283

Thomas, Daniel (tailor),
135

Thomas, Dylan:

cooking incompetence,
180

death and legend,
283

disparages fake artists,
277

dress,
137
,
143
,
152

drinking,
274

frequents pubs,
271–2

in Gargoyle Club,
268

lives in squalor,
200

poverty and improvidence,
2
,
8–9
,
17
,
26
,
29
,
101

promiscuity,
39

Royal Literary Fund declines help to,
19

sponges on Augustus John at Eiffel

Tower restaurant,
269
,
272

takes shirts from friends,
215

Thomas, Edward,
173–4

Thornycroft, Agatha, Lady
(née
Cox),
36
,
85
,
137–8

Thornycroft, Elfrida,
73

Thornycroft, Sir Hamo,
36

Thornycroft, Joan,
73
,
138

Thornycroft, Rosalind
see
Baynes, Rosalind

Tidmarsh,
170
,
212

time,
174–5

tobacco
see
smoking

Todd, Ruthven,
16–17
,
20

Tolstoy, Count Lev: vegetarianism,
73

Tomlin, Garrow,
246

Tomlin, Stephen,
262

Tonks, Henry,
145

tourism,
235–6

Transcendentalists,
174

transvestism
see
cross-dressing

travel,
221–37
,
248

Tree, Beerbohm,
15

Tree, Sir Herbert,
28

Tree, Iris:

adopts exotic decorative style,
106–7

on children’s upbringing,
73

dress style,
151
,
289

dressmaking,
144

enjoys Italian food,
167

later years and death,
288–9

laundry,
216

patronises Eiffel Tower restaurant,
268

social life,
28
,
252–3

takes hashish,
276

Tree, Maud, Lady,
28

Tree, Viola,
263

Trevelyan, Julian,
232
,
237
,
275

Troubridge, Laura, Lady,
14
,
195

tuberculosis,
198

underwear,
139

Uppingham school,
83

urbanism,
126

Valda, Jessica,
270

Valéry, Paul,
160

van der Post, Sir Laurence,
282

Varda, Janko,
232

Varda, Mrs (Bookshop proprietress),
263

Vegetarian Society,
172

vegetarianism,
172–4

Vesey, Rudolph,
262

Victoria, Queen,
48

Vorticists,
113

Voysey, Charles Francis Annesley,
105

Wadsworth, Edward,
18

Warlock, Peter
see
Heseltine, Philip

Warner, Sylvia Townsend,
48

Watts, George Frederic,
139

Waugh, Alec,
24

Waugh, Edna
see
Clarke Hall, Edna

Waugh, Evelyn:

caravan holiday,
243

dress,
151–2

education,
84

on homosexuality,
47

interior decorating,
113

on partying,
273

on sandal–wearers,
141

stays at Renishaw,
171n

visits Gwen Otter,
109

A Little Learning
,
83–4

Vile Bodies
,
258

Welfare State,
281

Wells, H.G.:

on Soho life,
185

Ann Veronica
,
27
,
35–6
,
152

West, (Dame) Rebecca,
218

Wey, Francis,
4

Whistler, James McNeill,
145

White, Betty,
255

White, Ethelbert,
255
,
258
,
263

White, Vivien,
69–70
,
91

Wickham, Anna,
217–18

Wickham, Michael,
151

Wilde, Oscar,
45–7
,
57
,
138
,
225

Williams–Ellis, (Sir) Clough,
165

wine-drinking,
171

Wissett Lodge, Suffolk,
115
,
202

women:

admitted to Chelsea Arts Club,
266n

and advance to emancipation,
59